‘You Are What You Eat’ Ants, Literally

Mohammed Babu, a 52 year old scientist from South India, discovered that the ants living in his vicinity have transparent bellies. The discovery was actually made by his wife who spilled milk in the kitchen later on found that the ants drinking them are turned into white. Babu, being a scientist took on the challenge and prepared different colored sugar syrups and placed the droplets on paraffin sheet in his garden.

Babu only gets few minutes after placing the droplets to take photographs, after which it was too crowded to take perfect snaps. He also discovered that these ants prefer light colored drink like yellow and green over dark. You can also witness this in the image below; ants would only go to dark colored syrups like red and blue once the light colored ones are fully occupied.

Via DailyMail