Adult common black ants and adult wasps can feel attracted to sugared goods, pastry, cakes, ice cream, juice etc. To ants sweet foods are simply a substitute for aphid excrement. When wasps bring meat to their larvae in the nest, the larvae secrete drops of sweet liquid to them. When the nests disintegrates in the late summer wasps are seek food in luscious fruits and – as everyone knows – in sweets, which are not intended for them.
Biologist at Statens Skadedyrslaboratorium
Author of:
"Pests in House and Home"
"Bed Bugs - Bites, Stings and Itches"
"Food Pests"
"Husets dyreliv" (Insects Around the House - Only danish)
"Skadedyr i træ" (Timber Pests - Only danish)
"Stuefluen" (Common Housefly - Only danish)
"Pests in House and Home"
"Bed Bugs - Bites, Stings and Itches"
"Food Pests"
"Husets dyreliv" (Insects Around the House - Only danish)
"Skadedyr i træ" (Timber Pests - Only danish)
"Stuefluen" (Common Housefly - Only danish)
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