The relative availabilities of complementary resources affect the feeding preferences of ant colonies

By A. Kay. 2004

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Description of a simple synthetic diet for studying nutritional responses in ants (2008, unknown): “…an individual level in response to changes in the nutritional composition of available foods, colony demography and larval growth is not known (but see Kay, 2004) Such an understanding would provide an important extension to models of collective behaviour and to the study of nutritional ecology.”
Colony-level macronutrient regulation in ants: mechanisms, hoarding and associated costs (2010, background): “…stores of lipids; Blanchard et al. 2000) may prompt foraging behaviour, and attractiveness of an encountered food item may be affected by the perceived relative availability and/or abundance of food items (Stein et al. 1990; Hahn & Wheeler 2002; Kay 2004), and their novelty (Howard et al. 1996).”
Nutritional imbalance in an extreme generalist omnivore: tolerance and recovery through complementary food selection (2006, background): “…food mixing in a wide range of organisms, namely insects (Cohen et al. 1987; Bernays et al. 1994; Behmer et al. 2002; Raubenheimer & Simpson 2003; Kay 2004; Sinia et al. 2004), spiders (Mayntz et al. 2005), crustaceans (DeMott 1998; Cruz-Rivera & Hay 2000; Jones & Flynn 2005), molluscs (Pennings…”