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Reply to comment by svarogteuse in Can insects get food poisoning? Can an ant throwup? by marcoroman3
From the crop right before the midgut.
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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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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Reply to comment by daysofbreeze in How hard were ancient arthropod exoskeletons? by TrillCozbey
I thought chitin is more on the soft side and mixing it with other appropriate proteins makes it stronger.
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