Honeydew amino acids in relation to sugars and their role in the establishment of ant‐attendance hierarchy in eight species of aphids feeding on tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)

By J. Woodring, Robert Wiedemann, M. Fischer, K H Hoffmann, W. Völkl. 2004

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Aphid–ant mutualism: how honeydew sugars influence the behaviour of ant scouts (2010, background): “In this respect, ant scouts are able to detect melezitose at very low concentrations on contact (Schmidt, 1938) and to respond intensively to honeydew or water solution containing this trisaccharide (Schmidt, 1938; Kiss, 1981; Völkl et al., 1999; Woodring et al., 2004).”
Honeydew production and honeydew sugar composition of polyphagous black bean aphid, Aphis fabae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on various host plants and implications for ant-attendance (2005, background): “In a recent study on the hierarchy of antattendance in eight species of aphids feeding on tansy (Woodring et al., 2004) it was demonstrated that a combination of the sugar richness of the honeydew excreted by the aphid (rate of honeydew production × total sugar concentration in the honeydew)…”