Do the large red ants eat and attack the tiny red ants? I don't see that happening?

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Answer: Most often some ant clonies will have different castes (social rankings) in their colonies. For example in many colonies, there exist soldiers workers and the queen, each of thse are different sizes. More often than not, we see the soldiers as much larger individuals which dont quite resemble the workers thus we assume they are different when they are actually the same species and are actually working together as a team. Ants of different colonies will however make a meal of different species or even just different colonies of the same species. Ants are typically foragers in most temperate regions and many of those species seem to avoid confrontation, but, species like the army ants, bulldog ants, and slave maker ants capture and often kill other ants for food, and why not, in terms of density, ants are one of the absolute most abundant animals on the planet....there are no slim pickin's in the ant world. Hope this answers your question!

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