Ants

Ants Do ants rule the world? An estimated ten thousand trillion strong worldwide, ants weigh roughly the same as all of humanity. This is what E.O. Wilson thinks, who has studied ants all his life and written many books and papers on them. Although the 12,500 known species compose only 1.4% of the world’s insect species, their share of the collective body weight is easily 10 times greater. []