Project ManhattANT: European ants are now living it up in New York

Kennett looking for the newcomer ant species in Times Square. Photo: Rebecca Senft/Samantha Kennett/dpa

When Samantha Kennett went looking for the Lasius emarginatus – the two-coloured path ant – in New York in spring, it didn't take long to find them.

"We found them everywhere," says Kennett, who is doing a Master's in Urban Ant Ecology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.