Rainbow Ants

[boofredlay]

@unknownuser said:

The saying 'you are what you eat' is true for these insects as stunning pictures show their abdomens changing colour as they sip on sugar drops.

Father of three Mohamed Babu set up the photographs after his wife, Shameem, showed him some ants had turned white after drinking spilt milk.

He gave the creatures the brightly coloured sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating.

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[Rich O Brien]

That's nuts

[mitcorb]

Evidently from these images the ant's stomach can expand to the walls of the abdomen, compressing everything else?