Ants cleaning their nest (IMAGE)

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Ants cleaning their nest

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Ants clean their nest box with formic acid. Special paper that turns pink on contact with acids was used to see when and how much formic acid the ants spray.

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Christopher Pull

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