Apparently not if they survived their bunker prison.
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Most ants are omnivores, not just a few are carnivores. The ants in this case however, they really acted as cannibals:
businessinsider.de/international/how-ants-escaped-nuclear-weapons-bunker-survived-on-cannibalism-2019-12/?r=US&IR=T
Abandoned Soviet era Polish bunker became site of a wood ant colony that set up within it. Some worker ants, out on their daily food run, accidentally fell into a room below their path and became trapped. They couldn't walk the room's ceiling to get to the vent hole that they had fallen through. Those that didn't die from the fall, were forced by necessity, to uncharacteristically eat those that died. Over the years, this second, queenless and offspringless colony, of exclusively worker ants, survived on the steady rain of clumsy foragers who succumbed to the fall. There were about a million ants in that room, in an anthill they'd made from dirt on the floor, when scientists discovered them. The scientists put a 9 foot plank in place, that led from the floor to the previously unreachable vent. By the time they came back, a few months later, the ants had "escaped". The end.
businessinsider.de/international/how-ants-escaped-nuclear-weapons-bunker-survived-on-cannibalism-2019-12/?r=US&IR=T