All ants have the ability to bite with their mandibles. The pain ... they are almost synonymous with the Southern United ...

Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings ... For example, ants have a variety of biological defenses. Fire ants bite and sting with a venom called solenopsin.

Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...

but the mathematical model the researchers developed to capture the rapid-fire event showed otherwise. That model suggested that the split ensures that the stress on the joint between the mandible and ...