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The workers in the nest carry out all the tasks required to keep the nest in good order and cleanliness. Below you can see one of the workers looking after the larvae and also the cocoons. (see Figure C).

In nature these ants search for flower nectar and for what is poetically known as "honey dew"but which is actually a sticky, sweet secretion produced by aphids or greenfly. When garden ants get into the house it will soon be seen that they are particularly attracted to sweet substances, such as drops of jam or scraps of cake. As soon as one ant has found the food source, he then returns to the nest at the same time laying a pheromone(scent) trail, once back at the nest the ant can communicate with the other ants by tapping them with it's antennae and also by feeding them with some of the contents of it's crop. The next thing you know the whole nest is at the site where you dropped that jammy spoon. (see Figure D)

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