eli5 – How do ants know where there is sugar?

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How do ants know I’ve dropped a piece of candy in my room and gather their squad to eat it when there were no signs of ants previously? Do they smell that there’s sugar? Even so, how? The world seems so huge to them to know where to scout

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How do YOU identify sugar? You taste it.

And if you were starving with your homies and you suddenly found sugar, wouldn’t you tell your homies?

Ants have no magical homing device, they just send thousands or even millions of ants out to scout for food and if they happen to bump into it, they consume it.

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