How do ants detect food?
Understand the Problem
The question is asking about the methods ants use to find food, which includes their sensory mechanisms and communication strategies.
Answer
Through smell and pheromone trails.
Ants detect food primarily through their sense of smell, using odor receptors located on their antennae. They also follow pheromone trails left by other ants.
Answer for screen readers
Ants detect food primarily through their sense of smell, using odor receptors located on their antennae. They also follow pheromone trails left by other ants.
More Information
Ants have an exceptional sense of smell due to their abundance of odor receptors, which are even more numerous than in many other insects.
Sources
- How do ants detect food - Terminix - terminix.com
- How do ants know where there is sugar? - Reddit - reddit.com
- How Do Ants Find Food? - YouTube - youtube.com
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