Educational Litter

Early last week, on the way to swimming at Sparks, I saw a green lollipop sitting on its wrapper by the stairs. Little black ants were crawling all over it. I thought that was odd. Normally when I see a group of ants they swarm a bread crust and carry away crumbs. These ants were coming and going from the candy without carrying anything away (or so I thought at the time). I passed the same candy again on Saturday morning and noticed that it was considerably smaller. I thought it highly unlikely that the ants were just eating the candy so i checked online and found I was right. Ants can store food in the crop in their abdomen while bringing it back to the nest.