Walter R. Tschinkel

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Walter R. Tschinkel
Born	15 September 1940
Alma mater	Wesleyan University
Occupation	University teacher
Awards	Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Academic career
Fields	Entomology, myrmecology, Ant
Institutions	Florida State University (1970–)

Walter R. Tschinkel (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.