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Viewers on social media rushed to poke fun at the photo of ants piling debris around a poison trap to outsmart their captor.

An ant bait contains a mixture of food and a slow-acting poison that worker ants—the ones you see out and about—collect and bring back to the colony to share.

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Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost 8 kg in jail and is suffering an illness that could be some sort of slow acting poison, his spokeswoman said.

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with severe stomach pain in jail that could be some sort of slow acting poison, his spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Sticky traps probably won’t solve an infestation, but bait stations can stomp out a small one, though it might take a week because they dispense slow-acting poison.

“Our theory is that they are gradually killing him, using slow-acting poison which is applied through food,” Navalny ally Ruslan Shaveddinov told The Guardian on Friday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is grappling with a mystery ailment in jail that could be some sort of slow acting poison, as he has lost 8 kg in ...

Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with a mystery ailment in jail that could be some sort of slow acting poison and has lost 8 kg in weight in just over ...