A wasp, attracted to food, dispenses with a vexing ant by grabbing it, flying backward and then dropping its cargo.
Credit: J. Grangier and P.J. Lester/Biology Letters 2011
A kind of wasp that often flees from scary, acid-spraying ants turns out to have a strong move of its own.
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