Quiz over. It's an ant's leg.
But it's not just ant leg. That goo all over the floor? That's the liquid it secretes that helps it climb walls. Now scientists at Cambridge University have come up with a way of turning it into a lubricant, which means you can repel bugs by stopping them from clinging onto stuff.
The creatures behave "like someone with wet feet in the shower" reckons a university spokesman.
Full story here. Complete with video of an insect that looks like its drunk and trying to climb a lamppost in the town centre at chucking out time.
'mazin.
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