sweets
you
by the smell
they dont perfer anything, they will go after it just as fast regardless if it is a snicker or an oreo.
well ants loves dry things like sugar,cake and many other dry sweets sometimes ants fight and when one enemy dies they might eat it.there are many foods that ants may like.
by the smell
Sugar for more species as more are sweet eaters, however if you want to play it safe, there are what they call dual choice baits for ants that like sweets and those that prefer proteins all in one.
Red ants bite people and also like to eat sweets but black ants only bite on skin but very slowly and does not itches very much and most imp it also bit on faces
They do not have wins only flying ants have wings because they did them to fly around if they need to
Ants use smell to identify sweets even if they are kept in tins if there is any residue of the food on the outside of the container. When ants find food they send signals to other ants and they will come to the food source.
Ants in my house *do* go after my nori. They LOVE it and swarm bags of it quickly if left open.
Ants have a far better sense of smell than humans do, and they can find things by smell even if they are out of sight.