What is the name of the acid in an ant's sting?

Q. What is the name of the acid in an ant's sting?
Answer: Formic acid
Notes: The most common species of black ant in the United States is the black carpenter ant, which delivers a small amount of formic acid through its jaws as it bites. Formic acid is also found in stinging nettles and the bites and stings of other insects.

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