Do ants eat their dead?

There are 11,880 species of ants in the world. Some species of ants are herbivores, in other words they will eat leaves and plants. These species of ants do not eat other ants of their own species and colony. Other species of ants are highly aggressive and eat just about anything they can find even a person. A species such as this would have no problem eating another member of its colony that died. In sofar as the more common ants such as carpenter ants if their colony has stored up plenty of food they probably would not be driven by desperation to do so and take the body to bury it as has been stated.

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Do ants eat their dead?

What do ants do with their dead?

They seem to pick up their dead compatriots. Do they eat them?

Since I used bait with borax to successfully rid my house of ants, I'm hoping that ants from neighboring colonies eat the dead so it continues to kill.

Yes they are eaten by them. Some species of ants, the queen will eat a drone for taking to long to get food.

What's really fun is to put a bit of butter on a live ant and watch his 'friends' try to carry him away to the dead pile! Dead ants give off buteric acid when they die which seems to signal the other ants that there's ant for supper!

No, they bury them.

yes, they do.

they eat everything...