title: Town ants: the beginning of John Moser’s remarkable search for knowledge
abstract: John C. Moser's career spans over 50 years, and his research has focused on understanding the biology of town ants (Atta texana) and phoretic mites and other associates of ants and pine bark beetles.His approach to developing methods for the control of these pests has been to understand more completely the biology of these organisms.This research approach has established Moser as an internationally recognized expert in leaf-cutting ant biology and as a premier authority on phoretic mites and oth