image: This shows (B) Blue worker after autothysis triggered by grasping the termite with tweezers and (C) Blue worker after removal of the blue crystals (placed next to it). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 27, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jan Šobotnik at Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic, and colleagues was titled, “Explosive Backpacks in Old Termite Workers.” view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of <i>Science</i>/AAAS]