Ants Prefer Sugar and Oil Over Other Nutrients in Tropical Forests, Study Finds

The decline of insect populations has attracted worldwide interest in times of global warming and changing environments, but we have only rudimentary knowledge about the biodiversity and abundance of insects in the high mountains in tropical regions. Even what nutrients limit insects in nature is still not well understood. This knowledge is important because of the increasingly frequent climatic extreme events that change the availability of food resources.


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