"One important worker task is colony defense. In some bees, ants, and wasps, the worker sting has backward-pointing barbs that lodge in an at- tacker’s flesh. The sting then detaches (“sting autotomy”) from the worker, who dies (Hermann 1984)."
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‘’’Adam Tofilski’’’ Preemptive Defensive Self-Sacrifice by Ant Workers (november 2008) vol. 172, no. 5 the american naturalist
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