Scientists discover new suicide bomber ant in Borneo

News24xx.com -  From the research that did by biologists, they discovered a new species of ant that explodes when it gets angry – coating its enemies with a sticky glue. And after other enemies died, the ants will take its body to become their food.

The named  of the ant is Colobpis.  That suicide bomber ant was discovered in the forest in Borneo. 

Scientists have named the ant explodens for its bizarre behaviour.

When threatened by other insects, the ants can rupture their own bodies by violently contracting their abdominal muscles until they split. The explosion causes the ant’s immediate death and releases a sticky, toxic yellow liquid they produce from enlarged glands behind the jaw.

It is one of 15 new species of exploding ants that has been found by researchers from the Natural History Museum Vienna. But exploding is not the only unusual behaviour that the ants show.

Ants were first recorded exploding in 1916, but no new species of exploding ant had been described since 1935. And Colobpis is the new species.

 

 

 

 

 

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