Will an antants eat another ant?

Answer 1

It depends on the kind of ant. Some kinds of ants are fierce meat eaters; they will actually go out and fight and kill ants in other colonies, generally ants of another species, and carry them back to eat or to feed to their larvae. Some kinds of tiny ants will burrow next to the burrows of larger species of ants. They will rush in to the larger burrows to carry away the eggs and larvae of the larger ants to their nests in the smaller burrows. There the large ants can't get at them. Then they will eat the eggs and larvae that they collected. Some kinds will eat their own colony mates when they die.

However, some other kinds of ants mostly eat plant material, seeds and so on. Such ants are not much inclined to eat meat as a rule and if any of their colony mates die, they simply leave the corpses on their garbage dumps.