While the ant doesn’t literally explode, it makes the ultimate sacrifice by ejecting a toxic liquid capable of killing the threat – but also causing the ant’s heroic demise.
The mechanism is deployed by minor worker ants as a last resort if its defensive stance of raising its posterior doesn’t warn off the enemy. The ant then actively ruptures its body wall to secrete the deadly sticky yellow goo from their enlarged glands.
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