Why aren’t all community and commercial trash skips containing food waste overridden with ants?
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Because the companies that collect trash do it on a pretty regular basis. It’s not like the food sits there for a month.
Why do you believe there are no ants at a garbage dump?
Also dumps cover the waste with a layer of soil to contain smell and deter birds(and ants too maybe?) If guess that layer of dirt over the rubbish keeps insects from quickly moving inm
Most trash skips are in industrial environment…are not in ant environment, and even if they are when the garage truck comes to collect the trash…. Well there goes half the colony.
Also the further ants have to travel the more they expose themselves to other insects and predators. Making a long line from the skip to the nest is not ideal for most ant nest especially smaller nests.
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