Re: Why does ants pick up finger nails?

Date: Fri Feb 16 11:08:07 2001
Posted By: Elsa Cade, Secondary School Teacher, Biology, University of Lethbridge
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 982125649.Zo

Message:


yes for food. It depends on the ant species. Finger nails are not inedible 
to an ant.  Finger nail material is organic. And as you said they have a 
high protein content.  Some ants will scavenge for organic material and chew 
it up into smaller bits and other ants will collect organic material  upon 
which they will grow a fungus.  Then the fungus is eaten by the colony.

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