I once camped in an area which turned out to be about 100 yards from a head-high ant nest. Not fire ants, but eastern Oregon red-and-black ants. Fortunately there was nothing to attract them in the tent, but I was very happy that we were in a closed, carefully zipped up but netting tent and not sleeping in the open under a tarp!

I suspect that if there had been any food in the tent, they'd have chewed it up pretty thoroughly.

One argument for scouting the neighborhood before setting up camp….