KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Worker ants (sterile, wingless females) generally find food for the queens (who lay the eggs), reproductive males and young in their colony. Worker ants often forage for food at night (between sunset and midnight) in the spring and summer, traveling up to 100 yards from their nest to find food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Worker ants, or scouts, will leave their nest (colony) in search of food. When they do so, they lay down pheromones or chemicals in order to find their way back to the nest. They will walk quite far from their nests in some cases, using their antennae or other senses to find a suitable food source.

Detailed explanation-3: -Individual foragers base their decision to forage on information received from nestmates (social information). Transmission of information can be in the form of direct physical interactions such as antennation or indirect exchange of information such as laying of pheromone trails.

Detailed explanation-4: -Borax / Boric acid Place the baited borax or boric acid near a place where you’ve seen lots of ants. This can be along an ant trail, close to an entry point into your home, or next to an anthill. Let foraging ants carry the bait back to their colony.