Sugar ants are attracted to fruit, sweets, spills, stains, other food and are usually found in your kitchen, pantry, and food containers. So how did you get them inside? Well they can bubble up from sandy soils or sometimes sugar ants are not content to only live outside and they invade and become bothersome situation for homeowners. These ants can gnaw through paper, cardboard, or even plastic containers to feed on and pollute food that they are in. When you have these guys they attract other pests, such as spiders and centipedes, into homes. They don’t sting but they do bite when disturbed, the bites are not painful but can cause allergic reactions.