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Why Do Ants Bite?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Why Do Ants Bite?

In ant colonies, it became kind of like too hard for everybody to go to a larva to get fed. So there was these feeder ants who stuff all that food into their social stomach and they just spit it out. It's like the opposite of what you see birds and some other animals doing where the parents regurgitate the food. You never know what you're going to get in an ant world.

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