One major reason dead ants attract live ants to the location is to investigate precisely what caused the death.
Since live ants will always carry and bring the corpse to their hive, they will alert the entire hive to come to the location.
And they are able to identify the location because of the chemicals (pheromones) emitted by the dead and – which is a natural process that occurs when an ant dies.
So, if you thrash the ants to kill them, you are more or less inviting many other ants to the location.
Where do ants carry their dead?
Ants will remove their dead nestmates to keep all others in the hive healthy.
They will usually carry the corpse to put them in a dead ant pile located far away from their colony.
Dead ants are unhygienic as they attract various microorganisms to the location.
This can eventually cause the entire hive to die off sooner or later.
Other live ants, therefore, remove their killed members from the place and take them to the “midden” they created.
Midden is basically an ant dumpster in the form of a structure they built to dispose of waste, including their deceased members.
What happens when a queen ant dies?
A Queen Ant plays a significant role in the entire hive.
And its death will obviously mean a lot for other members as she is the one who is responsible for reproduction, laying the eggs, and running various other things smoothly.
Just like a mother in a family.
However, like with most other ants, her death will mean that her corpse will be carried off to the burial ground called midden.
The death of a queen ant will also mean that the hive will now be in danger because the ant population will no longer be able to grow.
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