The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
ISBN: 9781925713763
Published by Scribe Publishers on 2020
Genres: Natural Science
Pages: 355
Format: Paperback
I’ve just finished a chapter called “Tracing the Ant’s Path” about antbirds in Costa Rica, and while the birds themselves are fascinating, as is their behaviour, I was absolutely enthralled by the seething fan-shaped mass of tens of thousands of army ants boiling across the forest floor … I’m having flashbacks to old MacGyver episodes and then I read about E.O. Wilson’s story about living in Mozambique, and how he used to allow the army ants there to sweep through his critter-infested house; just “go away and have a cold drink somewhere” for a few hours and then come home after the army had passed through, massacring and taking with it every animal it finds, to a house “that has been perfectly cleaned for you”.
Sorry antbirds; the ants stole the show in this chapter.
Talk about an “all natural and totally organic” approach to pest control! 😀
Exactly – though that he did it every so often makes me wonder just how ‘ramshackle’ his house was. Yeesh.