Why ants don't like pure honey?

Ants eat honey. Ants eat anything with calories from carbohydrates and protein.

@dpworkin But most people said that ants don’t like pure honey. Some even proved that their home-made honey are all ants-free.

Ants will infact eat honey. Pure or not.
It is an Urban Legend started by ants somewhere. They are getting smarter.

Yep, I just threw out a container of ‘pure’ organic, locally grown honey because it was full of ants from a loose lid on the jar.

So in other words most website that said ants don’t like pure honey are all misleading?
I believe they too,at least have already proven this theory themselves(It’s quite controversial).
I know different species of ants eat different food but I just not sure if this has something to do with this theory.
Another fact is that ants don’t invade bees colony for the sweetness of honey in nature.

Maybe I should give it a try myself.

@Doctor_D

Maybe it is subjective depending on certain species of ants of which there are many.

The ants in question in my honey jar were the extremely minute little black ants..whatever species they are.

Much smaller than the regular black ‘piss ants.’ for lack of a more scientific name.

What do you mean with “pure honey”. Is there any unpure honey?

“Pure” meaning that NOTHING is put into it. Even “organic honey” have some substances added into the honey to make it taste better.

The one thing that I have heard about honey is that it does not decay, meaning that there are no microorganisms that eat it. I don’t know about ants.

i’ve just done a test of my own at home. my drop of honey on the table is still as it is, not attacked by the ants. usually my ants would attack anything on the table, from sugar stuff to even plain water. i’m in Asia and my honey is from here too. Maybe its different in the US.

“Unpure” honey usually has sugar in it. “Pure” honey doesn’t. I guess ants just aren’t attracted to “pure” honey even if it is sweet. Otherwise, I should think that bee hives would have a problem with ant-invaders, no?

I have just made a test, I put two drops of pure honey that I had brought from the forest newly harvested, one is being swarmed by ants but they are all trapped and glued to it, another drop in the same kitchen remains as it is, no ants around it , I did this because I believed the Theory that “ ants don’t like honey” just because they are stuck to it. Many times I bought pure honey, and when it was attacked by ants , I must have misunderstood that my pure honey was fake, as a matter of fact, it was pure. The truth sets me free from all doubts now. My name is SO Phirun I am living in Cambodia.

One day in our kitchen was infested with ants after a party the night before and I look over at our honey container and was surprised to see not even one ant was on or in the honey jar, why? It was a new jar of honey.

^^^ Was it still unopened, no scent of honey maybe?

It’s true, ants do not go near pure honey. They only invade modified honey or honey mixed with sugar. I think it’s because they can smell the DNA of bees in pure honey and know it belongs to another group of insects, hence they do not invade it.