Aspartame-based Sweetener as a Strong Ant Poison: Falsifying an Urban Legend?

Information about the usability of artificial sweeteners, mainly aspartame, for controlling pest ants has spread widely in the internet. With a laboratory experiment we tested the effect of an aspartame based sweetener on the mortality of the black garden ant Lasius niger, a common pest ant in kitc...

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Main Authors: Jouni Sorvari, Marja-Katariina Haatanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2014-09-01
Series:Sociobiology
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/598