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Fire Ants Falling to Acid-Covered Crazy Ants (1 of 5)

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Fire Ants Falling to Acid-Covered Crazy Ants (1 of 5)

image: Tawny crazy ant are standing on cricket leg, expressing detoxification behavior. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 Feb., 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Edward LeBrun at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Chemical Warfare Among Invaders: A Detoxification Interaction Facilitates an Ant Invasion." view more 

Credit: [Photograph by Lawrence Gilbert]


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