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there are many ants in the honey vs there are much ants in the honey

The correct phrase you want here is "There are many ants in the honey." The use of "many" is appropriate when referring to countable nouns like ants. On other hand, "much" is used with uncountable nouns, not countable ones.
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there are many ants in the honey

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use "many" when referring to countable nouns like ants. This indicates a large number of individual items.
  • I mean there's so many ants in my eyes and there's so many TV's, microwaves, radios,
  • See, I've caught many ants.
  • Poor health and too many ants... the plagues of Brazil are.
  • Poor health and too many ants... the plagues of Brazil are!
  • I'm sure there are no ants in our kitchen.
  • We have hundreds of different varieties of ants in this country.
  • - There's only one girl ant in the whole family.
  • She's a very small ant in my kingdom.
  • See, we have the best-fed ants in the neighborhood.
  • So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.
  • And Mayor Gainey is as annoying as fire ants in your drawers.
  • In 1980, there were more than 600 million Indiana brown ants in that forest.
  • I don't want to be a pain, but I've still got ants in my kitchen.
  • Mr. Ants-in-his-pants over here has a serious history with gambling.
  • Just like when you were a little boy, your mother used to say you had ants in your pants.
  • So I want to show you a clip of Aphaenogaster desert ants in Professor Stephen Pratt's lab carrying an object.
  • Subaru's got ants in it again.
  • And I've been working for the past 20 years on a population of seed-eating ants in southeastern Arizona.
  • The contested product is, inter alia, intended for use as an insecticide against ants in commercial kitchens.
  • I... you know, I played the ant in Antz, the lesser known of the ant movies.

there are much ants in the honey

This phrase is incorrect. "Much" is used with uncountable nouns, not countable ones like ants.

Avoid using "much" with countable nouns. Instead, use "many" to indicate a large number of individual items.
  • There are much more interesting books out there.
  • There are much more intelligent sources out there.
  • There are much, much better things to do with me.
  • There are much better gods than me.
  • There are much bigger things at stake here than your marriage.
  • Besides, there are much better things to negotiate.
  • But there are much more serious issues if we consider food allergies.
  • But there are much more pressing matters we need to discuss.
  • There are much nicer places to get a drink.
  • I'm just saying there are much more interesting things that we could do.
  • But there are much wider applications for the technology if I had the money and time to explore them.
  • I don't understand why you people are picking on my friend, Howard, when there are much more serious security threats to pursue.
  • There are much worse videos than this, by the way, which I have taken out, but...
  • But then, I discovered that there are much worse things than me.
  • The world is so big, there are much more things to be done.
  • Scientific reports prove that there are much more effects on climate change than the pure CO 2 emissions.
  • For example, there are much greater problems and worse risks associated with drilling for oil there than elsewhere.
  • Mr President, there are much better and far more reasons to support the British Government, but let me come to my subject.
  • I also think there are much more serious issues that should be occupying those reasons, I consider it my duty to abstain from voting.
  • I know Mr Ferri feels very strongly about commitology but it seems to me there are much broader issues.

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