Winter Ant Secretes Poison (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Winter Ant Secretes Poison

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A native winter ant in the act of trying to apply a drop of the whitish toxin it can secrete from its abdomen onto an Argentine ant. The angle of the photograph distorts the relative sizes of the two species, which are roughly the same size.

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Trevor Sorrells

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