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Then .. how do ants become poisonous?
They eat even tinier frogs.
Frogs and ants all the way down
I mean, it's gonna depend on the specific ant species. Some ants don't sting at all. Some ants only have formic acid. Some ants' venom tickles. Some ant venom can kill you.
But to quote Wikipedia for one of the latter, the Jack Jumper ant:
It then goes on to list all kinds of those compounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant#Venom
I don't have much deeper knowledge than that, but at that point, it might as well be a mixture of some compounds that they ingest and some that they produce from simpler compounds. At the very least, they would need to ingest appropriate atoms/molecules in some form, like for example nitrogen, which is contained in relatively many of those compounds.