Interesting ant fact...

[Nicos]

Did you know that there are an estimated one quadrillion ands in the world????

( do you know what one quadrillion is????)).......

Embery, Joan with Ed Lucaire. Collection of Amazing Animal Facts. 1983. "Scientists estimate that there are one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) ants living on the earth at any given time." one quadrillion ants

[HeyWayne]

Can they be more specific - one quadrillion and three would be more believeable.

[Nicos]

Ahh...but look at the date- 1983!!! ( only just noticed that!)..that's 26 years ago..imagine how many there are now!!!

[Nicos]

looks like in 2006 there were 100x that!

...and 340 ants per leaf.....

Number of Ants in the world vs. Number of Leaves@Everything2.com

[Nicos]

YouTube - Worlds Biggest Ant Hill AMAZING

[Nicos]

It's a hard life being a male....

Spluch: The largest ant in the world

[FionaH]

Nicos you have way too much time on your hands today

[Nicos]

Nicos you have way too much time on your hands today

I don't want to do the vacuuming

[FionaH]

I don't want to do the vacuuming

ok that sounds reasonable
If you are really bored you could nip over to new shoots and peruse my potato question

[scarey55]

Did you know that there are an estimated one quadrillion ants in the world????

I reckon there's at least three quarters of them in my garden

[Nicos]

We have a couple of nests in our field- but then we have the lovely green woodpecker nipping in for breakfast , lunch and evening meal!!!

[scarey55]

Ooh, how lovely. Does he fancy a holiday in the middle of France do you think?

[HeyWayne]

I don't want to do the vacuuming

Imagine how long it would take to vacuum 1 quadrillion ants.

I wonder if they listen to music...

[FoxHillGardener]

I wonder if they listen to music...

Ant Music, perhaps?

Can't beat a poor 80s music gag, eh Wayne

[Nicos]

Imagine how long it would take to vacuum 1 quadrillion ants.

Someone has already though of that!!!...

nourishing obscurity: [buddhism] vacuuming ants better than squashing them