Other myrmecophiles eat the food supplies of ants, and a few eat ant eggs, larvae, or pupae.
Before I can stop him, he asks, "And how did you like the ant eggs?"
Flying ants (the mere mention of which makes her mouth water), for example, or the first ant eggs of the season fried with chilies.
There was a food, ant eggs, that Lynx enjoyed more than any other.
Lynx and her sister were foraging for food when Lynx came upon the pile of ant eggs.
I must eat them,' she said, picking up all the ant eggs, 'because the time might be long until I find such a thing again.
The larvae feed on ant eggs, and probably also the larvae.
They command a high price in Mexico, where edible flies and ant eggs are highly prized.
When this happens, the caterpillars usually eat all the ant eggs and larvae, eliminating the colony.
With no more ant eggs to feed on, the caterpillars starve to death.