ant.dew: Ant honeydew data
Description
Wright et al. (2000) examined behavior of red wood ants (Formica rufus), a species that harvests honeydew in aphids.
Worker ants traveled from their nests to nearby trees to forage honeydew from homopterans. Ants descending trees were laden with food and weighed more, given a particular ant head width, then unladen, ascending ants.
The authors were interested in comparing regression parameters of the ascending and descending ant to create a predictive model of honeydew foraging load for a given ant size.source
Wright, P. J., Bonser, R., and U. O. Chukwu (2000) The size-distance relationship in the
wood ant Formica rufa. Ecological Entomology 25(2): 226-233.Details
Data approximated from Fig. 1 in Wright et al. (2002)