Which one eats furniture, termites or red ants, which eats corpses?

There are many types of ants. Due to their different living habits, they have different impacts on humans, as follows:

Those that are directly harmful to humans:

Like fire Fire ants are pests native to South America. When humans or animals mistakenly step on their nests, they will swarm in groups and are extremely aggressive pests. It can kill people; according to Xinhua News Agency, South American fire ants have caused disasters in the United States. This kind of ant has no natural enemies.

In China, there were reports of fire ants being entrained in imported wood and appearing at the Shanghai port for the first time.

There is also a kind of ant that is directly harmful to humans called carpenter ants. It bites wood, but it does not eat the wood but only makes nests. It is harmful to houses and forests. The degree of damage is second only to Termites, (by the way, termites are not the same type of insects as ants. Termites belong to the order Isoptera, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. In English, termites are called termites).

In addition, ants are directly harmful to humans. It's harmful because it spreads diseases.

Indirectly harmful to humans:

For example: ants like to eat sugary food, and the tail hairs of aphids (pests) secrete sugar, which is a good food. Ants protect aphids, kill ladybugs (beneficial insects) that eat aphids, and sometimes move aphids to young branches and leaves, making it easier for aphids to find food, just like we raise cattle and sheep. Because they protect pests, they are beneficial to humans. Indirectly harmful.

Has nuisance to humans:

Because its appearance causes nuisance to humans, some taxonomists classify ants as nuisance insects.

As for the benefits to humans, ants remove our discarded food, debris, insect corpses, etc., and they are an important part of the biological chain