What do ants eat?

Introduction References & Edit History Related Topics

Images

A group of reddish ants surrounds and works together to carry a dead insect across the forest floor.

Several ants walk among clusters of yellow-green aphids on a fuzzy plant stem, tending the aphids and collecting honeydew.

Leafcutter ants walking in a line along a branch, each carrying a piece of green leaf above their heads.

What do ants eat?: Media

Images

A group of reddish ants surrounds and works together to carry a dead insect across the forest floor.

Worker ants

A swarm of ants cooperating to collectively move a dead insect on the forest floor.

© Forest71/Dreamstime.com

Several ants walk among clusters of yellow-green aphids on a fuzzy plant stem, tending the aphids and collecting honeydew.

Tending their herd

Herder ants tending aphids on a plant stem. The ants guard the aphids in return for...

© Natalia Miachikova/Dreamstime.com

Leafcutter ants walking in a line along a branch, each carrying a piece of green leaf above their heads.

Leafcutter ants

A column of leafcutter ants (Acromyrmex species) carrying leaf fragments...

© davemantel—E+/Getty Images