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StupidPencil t1_iz6g54u wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can insects get food poisoning? Can an ant throwup? by marcoroman3

Note that ants and other social insects do have an ability to regurgitate stomach content to share it with other nestmates. It's called trophallaxis. It effectively allows nutrients and other biochemical to be freely distributed throughout a whole colony, acting kinda like a circulatory system.

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svarogteuse t1_izen9ob wrote

Regurgitate from the stomach or from some other organ? Honey bees regurgitate from the honey crop which is located higher in the digestive tract than the stomach.

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StupidPencil t1_izf7fxf wrote

From the crop right before the midgut.

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The most extreme example is probably honeypot ant.

I think it probably share many similarities with bees and wasps since they all belong to Hymenoptera.

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