Ants and Salt (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Ants and Salt

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Ants far from the coast are more attracted to a dilute salt (NaCl) solution than to a more concentrated sugar solution, probably because plant-eating ants in salt-poor inland areas are salt-starved.

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Stephen P. Yanoviak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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