Alexis is a Greek name meaning defender or helper.. It is derived from the Greek word 'alexo,' meaning to defend or to help.. Although technically a separate name, Alexis is often used alongside Alexios, which is one of its derivatives.
So an colony of 50 ants will only eat about 1 gram of food per day (50 ants x 2 miligrams each), and they will harvest about 37 grams or 1.3 ounces of food and material each day.
Ants might possible have the most diverse diet in all of the animal kingdom. Ants will literally eat almost anything. There are over 12,000 species of ants, and while an individual species of ant may have a relatively limited diet, collectively their diet is incredibly diverse.