She watched the ants attack a small shrew, moving with one mind to overpower and strip it of its flesh.
Even so, another red ant could then attack the undefended legs.
On detecting a P. alcon larva the wasp enters the nest and sprays a pheromone that causes the ants to attack each other.
Holt had asked the prop manager to test the ants' ability to bite and witnessed the alarm when the ants attacked the man.
At the school Jim and Karen create a mixture that can kill the ants, but while they work, ants attack the school.
Ms. Frederickson's field observations showed that the ants attacked saplings of other species, injecting the leaves with formic acid.
"They actually attack plants in the same way that other ants in this family would attack another insect," she said.
It blasts open the ants' nest and all the ants attack the dragon.
By the time we had discovered what had happened, the ants were attacking the entire collection, swarming over the snakes within their gauze-covered boxes.
The gist of it, however, was that the ants were attacking.