"I didn't ant-icipate (forgive me ) the style of "The Antics of Ant," but I enjoyed the drawings," says biologist, naturalist, and author E. O. Wilson.

This collection of funny, clever, and sometimes dry cartoons remained a secret, hidden between pages of academic and scientific documents, for nearly five decades. Jane Margaret Bowles was a biologist and ecologist with a lifelong passion for poetry, humor, and sketching plants and animals. After her death, these four sets of ant drawings were discovered-one of which appeared on the reverse side of a typewritten plant physiology essay....