Nutritional and functional biology of exudate‐feeding ants

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Stable isotope methods in biological and ecological studies of arthropods (2007, background): “…Wissel & Fry, 2005), despite the uncertainties inherent in the methodology discussed above and in a number of publications, which question the use of a ‘typical’ mean enrichment across trophic levels (McCutchan et al., 2003; Ruess et al., 2004; Spence & Rosenheim, 2005; Cook & Davidson, 2006).”
The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function. (2013, background): “…a peritrophic matrix (Lehane, 1997); among these groups are most sap-feeding Homoptera (order Hemiptera), many species of beetles (order Coleoptera; Nardi & Bee, 2012), and ants (order Hymenoptera) that specialize on nectar or honey dew (liquid feces of sap-feeding insects; Cook & Davidson, 2006).”
Description of a simple synthetic diet for studying nutritional responses in ants (2008, unknown): “Some species of ants are predominantly insectivorous, some granivorous, some fungivorous and that many others feed to a considerable extent on the sugary excreta of Homoptera (review in Wheeler and Bailey,1920; Stradling, 1978; Cook and Davidson, 2006).”