Why don’t we all know what formic acid spray looks like?

You’ll find the answer to the question above in the words of a photographer, quoted below.

We found a series of clear images of wood ants spraying formic acid, with a small discussion of wood ant behavior, by a photographer, whose description of the photographic experience was almost more amazing than his photographs:

In order to capture the action, [the photographer] set up his camera on a tripod, ensuring the sun was behind the ants, which had built a nest on a log.

‘I then tapped the log and lifted my hand up and started taking photographs,’ he said.

‘I didn’t see it when they were squirting the acid but when I looked back at the images, the sun had captured the droplets.’

It seems most of us do not have the capability of a camera lens to really see an image in great clarity and with the necessary close-up enlargement.

You will find these many beautiful images of the formic acid spraying and the rest of this article at dailymail.co.uk.

To read an expert’s discussion of ant physiology and why ants spray formic acid, in lay language, visit the next page.