Sugar ants are large ants with orange-brown bodies, black head and mandibles. These ants are also known as banded sugar ant. Sugar ants got this name due to their liking for sugar but they eat other foods as well. The species of sugar ants differ in size, colors and shapes. Sugar ants are found commonly every where in Australia. The most common places where you can find these ants include – woodlands, forests, and heaths etc.
These ants build their nest in numerous different places like - roots of plants, between rocks, in the soil holes in wood, twigs of trees and shrubs, in soil and in sugar etc.
Generally they don't harm humans but if they are provoked then they do by spraying acid from their abdomens. These ants don't have stings like other ants. Sugar ants produce eggs during late spring to early autumn which turn into new queens and alates.
