How does an ant find food?

Answer 1

ants are really close to their family's the way they communicate is that they talk with there antennas and when the find food they leave a sent that makes a trail to be able to go back where they found the food the first time.

Answer 2

Ants show other ants where the food is by making a path with a chemical they secrete. Usually a scout will return to the nest while laying this chemical, and it will prompt several ants to help collect food, from experiments I have conducted, the ants seem to lay a more concentrated trail depending on how good the food is, using soft mints, the ants seem to turn up in the several dozens to crack open the shell and gobble up all the minty goodness inside.

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Answer 3

They use their senses smelling, tasting and touching, but especially their antenas.

Answer 4

Ants uses its antenna to smell the sweet. depend on the concentration it senses the sweetnessof the food--Revathi

Answer 5

Varies with species. I think that it's mainly ferimones, but I think it can also be vibrations, antenas, etc.

Answer 6

Ants communicate, mostly, with chemical stimuli as odorous pathways.

Answer 7

Antennae and pheromones account for ants be able to communicate and smell. Antennae pick up odors. Chemicals called pheromones tell other ants about dangers, directions and reproduction.

Answer 8

They communicate by talking to each other

Answer 9

using smell molecules known as pheromones