Edgar,
That's interesting.
I see that it may take as much (long) as three days for the distasteful Oleic
acid to form after an ant's death.
The ant bodies I saw being carried back to the anthills were bodies of ants
recently killed in battles with ants of other colonies. The battles and their
casualties are what made a high flux of bodies being carried back even at all
noticeable to me, in my observations of this going-on.
I've seen this behavior in colonies in NJ, and in AZ, in both large red and
black and colonies, and in colonies of the small brown ants.
Maybe an ant body just a short time after killing is indeed palatable food;
otherwise, I don't know why ants would bring them to the anthill and down
inside, as they visibly do.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Most ant species, particularly the ones we are most exposed to, do not
> practice cannibalism -
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