Sergiy Barchuk
- Dandelions
- 2025
- photograph
- courtesy of the artist
During combat, exploding ants87 burst into a toxic bright yellow glue, sacrificing themselves as a last line of defense.88, 89
- Colobopsis explodens
- The ants have built-in weak points. By contracting their abdominal muscles, they rupture their bodies to release the venom in their mandibular glands.
- Laciny et al., 2018