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"By testing crazy ant secretions, the researchers found that the life-saving substance was actually formic acid from the crazy ants’ own venom."

That quote reminded me of "The Ant" by Ogden Nash, which ends:

Would you be calm and placid

If you were full of formic acid?

Formic acid, whose name comes from the Latin word for ant, formica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formic_acid

So yeah, Formic acid means "Ant acid" really, and that's what hurts.

Weird, I took an antacid and it was good.

*eyeroll :)

Veering off-topic, your quote reminds me of Tom Lehrer's "Who's Next":

We'll try to be serene and calm

When Alabama gets the bomb.