"cause of there taste receptors, and everyone likes sweet stuff."

So I have been wondering, for months, ever since they drowned in my honey bottle, why do ants like sweet things? I Googled it and found the first response was a Yahoo Answers! question:


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Why do ants like sweet food?
I have always wondered why ants like sweet things, why not sour or spicy?
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To ants, the sweet scent is the strongest, therefore they are attracted to sweet foods...
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Anonymou...
Why do humans like sweet things better than sour/spicy?
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Anthony G
cause of there taste receptors, and everyone likes sweet stuff.
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Click Me!!!
Mostly all insects eat for the natural sugars found in foods, hence "sweet" food. Also it naturally attracts them too it.

Ps by ther way, why would you need to know this??? lol
Just curiosity??? jk
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C.Putty
because ants are so spicy,YOU ROCK
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GinaBina16 ♥ ツ
idk. why do we like sweet, sour and spicy foods? maybe ants do like sour and spicy foods.
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Elly M
Because sugar is high in energy. If ants have to forage for food, the higher amount of energy in one carry-size piece, the better. Spices, citrus, etc (things ants tend to avoid) have less nutritional value for them.

When ants eat leaves and other plant matter the energy they gain from the it is the starchy sugars that the plant produces for itself. This is somewhat similar to normal household sugar, so it follows that ants would go for the sugar before the curry.
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Boo
We have an influx of ants at the moment with all the rain hanging about.
Funnily enough the two things on our house they seem most attracted to are peanut butter & tissues (they eat holes in them) how strange is that???
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ragaekas...
as they like fish fingers
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