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Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/02/ants-new-york-city-streets-eat-human-food from http://gizmodo.com/urban-ants-are-adapted-to-junk-food-1695802506Free food for the ants.

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

It would be interesting to know if these urban ants are somehow physiologically different from those eating traditional wild foods, and if they develop pathologies from a diet of "junk food"?

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

That would be a nice study. Do you think, they could get fatter than the ants with a natural food.

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

Tetramorium sp. E (mentioned in the study) regularly devours chips, bread, cheese curls, etc. I place down for them. They seems to enjoy the more greasy foods in the potato chip and snack category....

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

It's the butter in those cookies, WeatherAnt. Yum!

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

Doctorant wrote:It's the butter in those cookies, WeatherAnt. Yum!Now, I am hungry for those cookies (not Internet types).

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Re: Ants on New York City's streets survive on junk food and meat, study finds

By the way, bits of junk food often make pretty good bait even for country ants, just as a way to bring them out and see what's around. They can be followed home to nests from bait, too.

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Doctorant wrote:By the way, bits of junk food often make pretty good bait even for country ants, just as a way to bring them out and see what's around. They can be followed home to nests from bait,...

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I have already tried cheese and bacon on my ants. Some like it and some not.

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