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What Animals Eat Ants?

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The proper question is "What animals eat ants?" Some might immediately think of the anteater, but it turns out that there are plenty of animals that eat ants.

• Parasites
  • Worms - [Ant infected by an ant nematode] or roundworm. Imagine an ant filled with a 2cm roundworm!
• Other Insects
  • Other Ants
    • Fire Ants
    • New World Ants
  • At lion larvae, or "Doodlebugs" - These insects live in the sand
  • Flies eat ants
  • Spiders
    • Ant Eating Spiders - Euryopis - http://www.tightloop.com/ants/euryopis.htm
    • Black widows
    • Lynx spiders
    • Jumping spiders
  • Mites
• Insectivorous fish like to eat fish, that is why some fishing lures look like an ant.
• Lizards
  • Collared lizards
  • Fence lizards
  • Horned lizards
  • Snakes
    • Blind snakes
• Birds
  • Any insectivorous bird will eat ants
  • flickers
  • grouse
  • sparrows
  • starlings
  • wrens
• Mammals
  • anteaters - http://www.havasu.k12.az.us/starline/akeller/anteater.html
  • Bears eat insects, including ants
  • Coyotes
  • People like to eat the kinds of ants that store sugar like the Honey Ants
    • Aborigines
• Fungal infections
  • Ants can be infected by fungus. Some kinds of fungus are sold to control the spread of imported red fire ants.

Other sources for what eats ants:

• http://www.tightloop.com/ants/whatEatsAnts.htm

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2. Cicada
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