After dismissing both cat-ant and catsect, he remembered that someone who studies ants is called a myrmecologist.

He is an entomologist who studies ants, but to the public he is known for sociobiology, biodiversity and conservation.

I've been studying ants today.

The researchers studied leaf-cutter ants in and around São Paulo, Brazil, where surface temperatures at midday in summer can rise above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

They locked the front door to the museum and spread both documents out on the counter, then hud- dled together like children studying ants.

"Studying ants," Tommy said.

His enthusiasm for studying ants was virtually limitless and largely financed by wealth he inherited from an aunt, Ms. Dadourian said.

In the summer of 1877, he travelled to Texas to study agricultural ants.

To go crazy with emotion, studying eye-level ants.

I was not all that interested in watching an English ant go about its daily routine, but my third graders who study ants would have been delighted.