They will eat anything sweet.
Sugar and Honey
well i did a project with cane sugar, powered cane sugar, brown sugar, and splenda. the ants liked the powered sugar the best.
other insects and sugar
honey ants do lay eggs
Technically, in some way some ants do puke. Honey ants, which store honey for the rest of the colony, regurgitate honey to feed the other worker ants. Regular worker ants, carpenter ants, and multiple other kinds of ants do not puke.
Ants are not typically attracted to cat food because they are more interested in sugary substances. They are more likely to be drawn to sweet foods like sugar or honey.
Honey pot ants have a lage store of honey in its abdomen, the total size of the ants is about the size of your thumb, but only fatter. They also taste very good if you chew it.
only sugar ants
Well sugar is used to make what some of the ants eat MORE enjoyable.
You might ask yourself - '' Why don't ants eat chocolate? Its sweet like honey and sugar...''To find out the answer you need to look at what sugar consists of. The main ingredient is cocoa which is a bitter plant seed which to milk and sugar are added to to make chocolate. You see if ants eat one little bit of the cocoa seed they'll die because their guts are just way to gentle to handle the bitterness of cocoa...
An ants favorite snack is probably honeydew, it can be found on most trees.
Ants can smell sugar from up to 20 feet away.