Empire of the Ants
by H. G. Wellsliterary work· published 1905
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"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about an explorer who is dispatched to South America to investigate reports of intelligent ants destroying a colony. A 1977 film, Empire of the Ants, was loosely based on Wells' story, which also inspired the 1974 film Phase IV. "The Empire of the Ants" features a Brazilian captain, Gerilleau, who is ordered to take his gunboat, the Benjamin Constant, to assist the inhabitants of the town of Badama, in the "Upper Amazon", "against a plague of ants". Accompanying him is a Lancashire engineer named Holroyd, from whose point of view the story is (for the most part) told. They find a species of large black ant that has evolved advanced intelligence and has used it to make tools and organize aggression.
Adaptations (1)
Empire of the Ants was adapted into a 1977 film.
Empire of the Ants1977 · film · 89 min · dir. Bert I. Gordon · IMDb ↗A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
