Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence (Does It Fart Series, 1)

by Nick Caruso

One species, Lomamyia latipennis, has a particularly ingenious way of stunning and killing its prey: it farts on them. The larva raises its tail toward the termite’s head and releases a potent allomone (a chemical that affects termite behavior) which paralyzes the termite and, ultimately, kills it.