Why would ants cover up liquid Terro with sand/dirt?

Ja asked:


Put some liquid Terro down and the ants took the sand or whatever from burrowing in the walls and piled it on top of the liquid. Why would they do that? The other ant colonies around my apartment didn’t do that.

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