Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified. Carbohydrate addicts, will do anything for carbs. It is all the ants, not like one species, but all of them, like carpenter ants or fire ants.