9.20.2022

And for every picnic?

Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth. The number is so big it’s ‘unimaginable.’

Put another way: If all the ants were plucked from the ground and put on a scale, they would outweigh all the wild birds and mammals put together. For every person, there are about 2.5 million ants.

[From The Washington Post (paywalled) via Apple News.]

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