The Food Source

The food source what do carpenter ants and fire ants eat is not same. Almost of people find the carpenter ants from the hole of tree or woods, they will guess that the carpenter ants eat woods. However, they do not. For the damage woods can cause a more moisture environment, so carpenter ants like to live inside. The real food what the carpenter ants interested. Usually, carpenter ants eat dead insects, termites also come a food for them. In home, sugar is popular source for eating. Carpenter ants like sweet food like honey. Also, that eat meat and fat food. These are most common food for carpenter ants. However, this species may not cause the disease for human. Then, for fire ants, the damage from them is terrible. The same thing likes carpenter ants, fire ants always live in holes, woods and homes. They also like sugar food. But in order to satisfy more their nutrition need, they always have to eat plants and animals. Fire ants in food web is a predator. Their food reference includes plants, organisms, invertebrates, microscopic and vertebrates. For plants, they can kill the young corn then the seeds cannot be grow up. For insects, fire ants can prey many different life stage of various insects. They eat termites, flea larvae and cockroach eggs, etc. Although most animal is bigger than fire ants. However, the force of fire ants is large. Once they bite the animal, like reptiles, birds, rodents, and deer fawns, the skin is come to decay. They will nest in one place inside the animal until they die. Therefore, the fire ants eat some food that the carpenter ants also eat, other food source will cause a problem in nature.