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Are common house ants cannibals?
On Aug 21, 9:01 am, Donita Luddington wrote:
Are ants cannibals? A huge trail of ants (many hundreds) was on my kitchen counter last night so I sprayed them with vinnegar (I was out of windex so I used vinnegar instead). Being late, and wishing the vinnegar to discourage new foragers, I retired for the evening. Much to my chagrin, another, even larger swarm of Argentine ants had taken over my counter top, this morning - and the dead ants seem to have disappeared. I was surprised. So, I sprayed 'em again and left the area for a while. Sure enough, yet another swarm replaced the second, and I noticed some carrying away the dead bodies of their camerades. My question..... Are ants cannibals or did the inadvertant pickling entice them to cannibalism? In my experience they are cannibals. I have seen them eat horn worms, crickets and a snake. Let me say for the record all of these were Outside, not inside. MJ |
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