“Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants” at the South Florida Museum

“Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants”

“Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants”. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition will remain on view in the Museum’s East Gallery through Oct. 9, 2011, before it continues on its 15-city national tour through 2015. Bradenton is the second stop on the exhibition’s schedule. Access to the exhibition is included with general admission to the Museum.

Small yet abundant, with complex and wildly diverse lifestyles, ants are everywhere, living lives mostly hidden from our view. What if we could see into their world . . . on their level? What would we learn? What parallels could we draw between them and us? With the aid of a macro lens and the insights of ant expert and photographer Dr. Mark Moffett, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History present the world of ants in “Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants.”

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