Insect Chemical Warfare Insect Chemical Warfare Insects have many enemies, including birds, lizards, small mammals, spiders and most dangerous of all, other insects. In order to put off attackers, insects have many different defenses.
Some insects use weapons.
Others rely on flight, concealment, motion, armor, and even grotesqueness. Some really interesting insects use powerful chemical warfare. Bees, wasps and many ants have powerful stings. Some of the poisonous chemicals they inject into attackers can be very painful. Some ants can fire an acid fluid from their rear ends.