Footage shows a greater banded hornet locked in a battle with weaver ants in Singapore on November 20.<br /><br />The hornet (vespa tropica) was set upon by the army of ants after it landed on the branch of a tree where they had been nesting. <br /><br />Their dual ended with the wasp eventually succumbing to the painful bites and sprays of formic acid from the ants. It was then carried away back to their nest.