RE: Some species of ants and termites perform suicidal altruism where they explode to protect the rest of the colony from an intruder

[mobbs]

I'm confused how I could have no heard of exploding ants in all my years obsessed with learning about them. They're just so damn diverse!

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[valth]

Yeah, they are an extremely diverse family, so I can see how it would be easy to miss out on some of the interesting ones, especially when you consider how messy the taxonomy can be for certain genera can be as well.