article_snippet: Streetwise urban ants from New York have developed a taste for the kind of diet frequently chosen by Streetwise urban ants from New York human neighbours.
article_snippet: The same was not true of more genteel ants that frequent leafy park areas.
article_snippet: The scientists tested more than 100 ants representing 21 species from dozens of sites in the Big Apple.
article_snippet: These are ants eating our garbage, and this may explain why pavement ants are able to achieve such large populations in cities.'
article_snippet: The scientists tested more than 100 ants representing 21 species from dozens of sites in the Big Apple.
article_snippet: The scientists, whose findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, discovered one street-living ant that turned its antennae up at human food.
article_snippet: Instead, one street-living ant that turned its antennae up at human food appeared to divide one street-living ant that turned its antennae up at human food time between subterranean nests and foraging in the branches of city trees. '
article_snippet: we wanted to learn more about why some ant species are able to live alongside we, on sidewalks or in buildings, while other species stay on the outskirts of human development," says Dr Penick, .