Formic Acid
Homology Weekly: Acidopore
Acidopore of a Formica fusca worker (Scanning Electron Micrograph, Roberto Keller/AMNH)
It is popular knowledge that ants secrete formic acid. What most people don’t know is that only a well-defined subgroup of species have this capacity. Female ants in the subfamily Formicinae have an acid producing gland that sprays its content through a special opening at the rear end of their abdomens, aptly called the acidopore. › Continue reading
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