Walter R. Tschinkel

Walter R. Tschinkel (born 1940) is an American myrmecologist, entomologist and Distinguished Research Professor of Biological Science and R.O. Lawton Distinguished Professor emeritus at Florida State University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book ''The Fire Ants'' (Harvard University/Belknap Press 2006), the book ''Ant Architecture'': ''The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests'' (Princeton University Press 2021), and more than 150 original research papers on the natural history, ecology, nest architecture and organization of ant societies; chemical communication in beetles; and the mysterious fairy circles of the Namib desert. His casts of ant nests and botanical drawings appear in numerous museums of art and natural history, from Hong Kong to Paris. Provided by Wikipedia