Sugar Ants
There is a specific ant called the Sugar ant, but that ant is found only in Australia. The Australian Sugar ant is quite large measuring up to nearly an inch in length. More commonly, people refer to any ant that has glucose in its diet as a sugar ant.
There are many ants that fall into the sugar-eating ant category including pavement ants, Pharaoh ants, Argentine ants and even Carpenter ants. Sometimes ants will eat what ever foods they can find and if sweets are available, then sweets will be on the menu for that day. Other times, those same sweet-eating ants would not give a pile of sugar the time of day if they feel the need to eat protein-based foods.
Before you decide to use poison ant baits you should remember that most ant
 Banded Sugar Ant |
It doesn’t take much to feed an ant so good sanitation does not mean a quick sweep of the broom and that’s it. If you don’t want ants you’ve got to totally clean up your messes.