Ant / Insect Facts
•When combined, all ants in the world weigh about as much as all human beings.
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•In the Amazon rainforest, ants and termites make up nearly 1/3 of the total animal biomass. 
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•About 9,500 species of ants are known.  Scientists believe at least twice as many species of ants have yet to be discovered.  
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•There are one million trillion (1018) insects alive at any moment.
–One percent of these are ants. 
–There are ten thousand trillion (1016) live ants at any moment.
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•Hφlldobler, Wilson, Journey to the Ants, Harvard University Press, 1994.