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What food should I feed ants?

Ants are insects with social living habits, belonging to the order Hymenoptera. The external appearance of ants is divided into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen, and they have six legs. They are generally small in size, with colors such as black, brown, yellow, and red. Their body walls are elastic, smooth, or have fine hairs. Their mouthparts are chewing-type, and their upper jaws are well developed. Their antennae are knee-shaped, with very long pedicels, 2 to 3 segments at the end that are enlarged, and the entire antennae are divided into 4 to 13 segments. Their abdomen is knot-shaped. They can be winged or wingless. The distance between their front legs is large and comb-shaped, and they are used by the horn cleaner to clean the antennae. Worker ants are small in size, about 2.8 mm long, and their whole body is brown-yellow. A single ant can only be easily found by careful observation. Both male and female ants are relatively large. Their abdomen is fat, with a brown-yellow head and thorax, brown-yellow in the front half of the abdomen, and brown-brown in the back half. Male ants are about 5.5 mm long. Female ants are about 6.2 mm long. Common ants in indoor environments include small yellow house ants.

Most ants are omnivorous and eat everything. There are many types of ants, with more than 11,700 known species in the world and more than 600 confirmed species in China. Not all species have the same food preferences. Feed it with sugar, honey or oily foods.

Insect experts divide most ant species into two categories based on their diets: sugar-loving ants and fat-loving ants.

Sugar ants like to eat sugar, honey and all sweet things, while grease ants like grease and grease-rich foods. Sugar or grease is a very typical way to distinguish North American ants. But if you go to South America or Central America, you will find that in addition to sugar and grease, the ants here are more greedy and more brutal. They often feed on rodents, chickens, pigs and even goats.