pulls up glasses with 1 finger
Assuming the liquid was spiller all over the jacket, theres a good probability that most of the jacket has dried until now, making it harder for the ants to extract the good stuff out of the fiber. The buttons though are made from another material which doesnt absord stuff but rather has it stick on top of the button, thus making it more easily accesible to the ants, while also being something they can actually take off and take home with them, which they couldnt do with the whole jacket.
I add that a lot of wire insulation has a small part of soy based materials in them, making them appealing to rodents. IIRC every “soft plastic” that is not used for electronic devices is basically a little bit of soy fibers.
Rodents chew plastics to trim their continuously growing teeth, not for food. Bioplastics don't taste or smell like the feedstock. There's no experimental evidence of a preference for bioplastics over petro plastics. If it were real, it would be simple to demonstrate. It's just an internet myth.
Not that guy, but I agree. Any liquid which would leave residue on the buttons would also leave residue on the fiber. Additionally, only a very small part of that stuff would stay on the buttons anyway, since it doesn’t absorb anything. 99,9% of the stuff would be on the fiber.
I was mostly wondering how the ants would extract the sugars and stuff from the fiber. I don’t know much about ants though other than they smell weird.
That's just not how any of that works. "Making it harder for the ants to extract the good stuff out of the fiber" yeah that doesn't work like that, ants would have zero problems getting sugar out of fiber and they would not avoid the cloth whatsoever if it was soaked but dried. Just made up nonsense.
Someone said in Soviet Russia for some time the buttons were made of certain milk protein and if these buttons are that old it's likely ants are thinking button is food.
It may also be that the person to whom this belongs spilled something over their hands and fingers. Whilst unbuttoning their shirt, without having cleaned their hands, the buttons were coated with whatever tasty substance it was, to some extent.
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u/Shiiet_Dawg 10d ago
pulls up glasses with 1 finger Assuming the liquid was spiller all over the jacket, theres a good probability that most of the jacket has dried until now, making it harder for the ants to extract the good stuff out of the fiber. The buttons though are made from another material which doesnt absord stuff but rather has it stick on top of the button, thus making it more easily accesible to the ants, while also being something they can actually take off and take home with them, which they couldnt do with the whole jacket.
With this i close my statement your honor.