are ants attracted to sugar more or salt?
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sugar & grease is what ants are usually attracted to.\n\nput out a potato chip & watch them go wild (it's the grease in the potato chip that they are after)
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No they do not follow the same path. They follow a pheromone trail path set by a forager ant. The ensuing ants will reinforce that path until the food finishes. Yes they know where they are going, as they will also follow the strongest and shortest pheromone trail path.\n\nAlso, through the observation of the sudden infestation of my house with literally hundreds of ants (probably its winter). They find sugar traces in my toilet sink (I was doing some soda and mentos experiment there) :P, and a box of opened cereal at the top of my fridge.\n\nDestroying a path of ants seem to work poorly, as they still continue... they seem to operate much more actively in the day and communicate with other ants with increasing frequency when they are in the trail. Ant poison (chemical but toxic food for ants, which they will feed the queens with) seems to work a few years back and my current batch of ants seem to be taking the bait...
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Ants have highly notable evolutionary mathematical instincts - just observe their colonies, chemically-organized behavior, and communal actions (e.g. marching, hunting, defending, etc.) as ONE creature.  They often build multilayer interlocking bridges (many times out of their own bodies), for instance, for other ants to cross over - suggesting that their geometrical instincts and architectural abilities are at least 3D)   ... However, if you like to "suppose" that they possess mathematical "reasoning", then why simply limit yourself to dimensional worlds?   ... Why not suppose that a first ant geometry can describe anomalously Transdimensional worlds, as well?   ... See, it pays to think like an ant, or at least a mathematician!   lol
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Actually, ants have been shown to suffer no ill effects when dropped from ANY height. Their terminal velocity is not sufficient for them to sustain injury.
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Little Black Ant\n\nLittle Black ants are very small and black, two nodes, with workers all one size, similar to the Pharaoh Ant. Found throughout the U.S., but most often in the east. One of the more common house-infesting ants, Little Black Ants nest in wall voids and under carpets. May build outdoor colonies under rocks, logs, debris and forage to indoor food sources along baseboards and carpet edges. Likes sweets, fats, oils.
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it depends on what sort of nutrition an ant hive is lacking.  sugar provides quick energy and nutrition for adult workers, but doesn't provide enough fats and protein for a hive that is tending a new brood of larvae.\n\ncheese is a good source of fats and protein, and also contains some sugar.  it is also more aromatic than most sugars, and so the ants can detect it from farther away.\n\npeanut butter is another good all purpose bait to use for ants, and also for almost all mammals.
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Ants are particularly misunderstood.  People like to think they are at least a little intelligent and highly cooperative, but in reality everything they do, all the way down to the determination of which caste they will be in, is government by innate reactions to different chemical pheromones.  They're totally mindless, but have evolved brilliantly, to the point that some species actively wage war on other species and even enslave them.  There is another species that lives in the Far East and builds earthen towers at the entrance of the colony to act as levees during monsoon season.
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Sugar causes the body to produce insulin and this leads to the storage of excess calories as fat.  Sodium doesn't have much to do with fat at all.
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Ants have varying food sources AND they go through various lifecycles where they eat different things at different times of life.\n\nYes, they do usually go back to their nest and leave a chemical scent trail so the others can get back to where they found the food source.\n\nIt's possible that wood in the floor by the toilet or urine that hasn't been cleaned up, yet is attracting it.
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bees are most attracted to brightly colored flowers with a strong scent.\nso i would say the colorfull ones!
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ants are considered "ectotherms"...and thus take on the temp of the environment they are living in.  If it is warm, they are warm.  If it is cold, they are cold. (Cold blooded is an ancient term and outdated.)
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Apart from the reactions you will get when you dissolve glucose in water, which are mostly reversible when you crystallize the glucose, and the reactions when you dissolve salt in water (formation of a water molecule "coat" aka complex around the sodium ion), there will be no reaction between glucose and salt. \n\nSolubility of either compound will be reduced somewhat by the presence of the other compound. The addition of salt to an over-saturated glucose solution might start a crystallization process, but any over-saturated sugar solutions are hard to crystallize. Look at breakfast sirup or honey for an everyday occurrance.
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Ants do not have feelings.  Science has verified by functional MRI and earlier brain ablation studies, that "feelings" originate from distinct locations in the vertebrate brain.   It is known that ants do not have a centralized nervous system (aka: a brain).  Instead of a brain, they (along with other arthropods like spiders, scorpions, crabs and lobsters, for example) possess clumps of ganglia (a collection of neuronal cell bodies) which are distributed down the length of their bodies which integrate neuronal feedback from external receptors (chemoreceptors, for example, on their antennae).  They can communicate to other ants by chemical signals and can see light because they have photoreceptors within their compound eyes.  These signals get processed by the closest ganglia, and this is the extent of their neuronal function.  The mammalian brain, on the other hand, sends all of its signals to one distinct location- the brain- where they get processed and thus we have what we call thoughts and feelings.  Insects have a very primitive, less evolved nervous system than that of mammals, though.  Since they lack the physical machinery where thoughts/feelings originate from, they physically cannot produce thoughts/feelings, therefore.
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None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
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Well there are different types of ants good for different things.\nFire ants are excellent scavengers, they can strip an animal down to the bones overnight thus eliminating the decomposing carcass. \nThat is just one example.\nAll ants of course are a food item for other animals which helps with our food cycle.\nThen there is always the example they show us by working tirelessly to help out the whole community, they are an excellent example of how a socialist society should work together to survive.
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the spiny ant eater or echidna is a member of prototheria and eats ants. It has a long snout and a long, sticky tongue. Whereas an armadillo has eight or nine bands, belongs to class metatheria and can fold itself up.
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They produce chemicals that are poisonous/unpleasant tasting (milkweed)\nOr produce chemicals that attract predators of the plant-eating insect\n\nThey grow thorns or spikes or itchy hairs (greenbriar)\n\nThey have a symbiotic relationship with ants who do the protecting (acacia trees)