Do ants eat honey?

Question

I heard that ants doesn't eat honey. Please confirm it for me.

Answer 1

They are not prepared to eat honey, for they will be glued to it.
This is natural, because honey in Nature is a product of bees, and they keep it safe from predators before humans learnt how to take profit of it.

Answer 2

Do Ants Eat Honey

Answer 3

The diet of ants varies from species to species, but in the UK they mainly eat small invertebrate animals of about their own size, and the occasional vertebrate corpse. They will also eat some fruits, and are very partial to sugary substances.
Some ants keep 'herds' of aphids much in the same way as we keep cows. They will place the aphids onto the stem of various plants, such as a rose bush, and allow them to feed off the sap within. A hungry ant will stroke the aphid on the back with its antennae which will then produce a drop of a sweet substance known as honeydew, which ants are very partial to. In return the ants will take care of the aphids and protect them from predators, and sometimes provide them with shelter within the ant nest. Examples of ant species that do this are the common black garden ant Lasius niger, and the red ant species Myrmica.

If you place a teaspponful of honey on the floor next to an ant nest in the winter months (when for some ants food becomes more difficlut to get) you will notice how within a few mintues the ants have swammed the honey and will eat it all.

Answer 4

Most ants and wasps (Hymenoptera) seek out sweet liquids in late summer and autumn to survive the winter. This is why you will find yellow jackets trying to enter your can of pop, and you'll always find ants at a picnic. Some species of ants are similar to farmers who raise livestock, but instead of raising cows, they tend to aphids, and instead of farming for milk, they farm for honeydew, a sweet excretion produced by the aphids as they feed on plant sugars. Several species of ants survive almost exclusively on this. If the opportunity for honey arose, I don't know of a single ant species that would pass it up. Honey is very energy rich, and because it is liquid, it is easy for the ants to transport back to the nest, and ready to be eaten, it doesn't have to be processed like dead insects, or leaves (leaf-cutters for example).

I hope this answers your question!

Answer 5

There are several kinds of ants that will hunt for sweets of any kind, such as fruits, spilled sugar or honey, in the wild or in the kitchen. One kind of ant is known as the honey ant because it drinks so much nectar from flowers that it accumulates sweetness in its abdomen. some native tribes eat these ants as candy.

Here is a photo of an ant eating honey.
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2893525290049513994mJtled

;-D I like sweets myself, but I don't want to eat honey ants thank you very much!

Answer 6

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i suppose theoretically you're right IF YOU think that ants are good to eat~~~ but realistically...i would buy some new honey & let the ants have their treat as well.

Answer 7

If ants went after honey, bee hives would be invaded. I believe ants go after honeydew, the sweet excretion of aphids.

Answer 8

Yes they do.
I kept bees last year and one of my hives had so many little ant visiting it that they actually started nesting uner the lid of the hive.
Honey is pure sugar..you bet they eat it.

Answer 9

Ants probly eat any kind of food!

Answer 10

I am sure that they eat honey. They eat anything sweet that they find.