Have you ever wondered how many ants there are per human? Unless you’re reading this on an ant farm, probably not. But seeing as I was bored and have nothing better to do, I decided to do some research and find the answer to this mind-numbing question. Apparently, there are 2,248,000 ants per human. How did I find this out?
Ants are a very common and widespread insect that can be found anywhere in the world. However, despite their ubiquity and global distribution, there is still a lot to learn about these tiny creatures.
The number of ants per human depends on where you live. In some areas of the world, ant colonies are so large that they have been compared to cities with millions of residents. In other regions, there may only be a few hundred ants living in your home or yard.
Ants are social insects that live in colonies consisting of different types of workers (soldier ants, queen ants) and larvae. Each colony has one queen ant who lays thousands of eggs every day. The larvae grow into adult workers who look after the queen’s offspring until they mature into adults themselves. The workers perform all kinds of tasks such as collecting food for their community or defending against predators such as birds and spiders.
How Big Is 20 Quadrillion Ants?
Twenty quadrillion ants are a lot of ants. In fact, it’s such a large number that it’s difficult to conceptualize what twenty quadrillion means.
To put things in perspective, let’s consider the following: if you were to lay out all twenty quadrillion ants end-to-end, they would stretch around the earth more than 10 times (that is, if you laid them out in a single line). And if you laid all twenty quadrillion ants out side by side (instead of end-to-end), they’d cover the entire surface area of our planet.
If you wanted to count from 1 to 20 quadrillion on your fingers and toes, it would take approximately 3 million years. and that’s assuming that you had an unlimited supply of digits.
How Many Ants Equal the Weight of a Human?
There are approximately 10,000 ants in a single colony. An average colony consists of around 100,000 ants. While some species of ants are much smaller than others, the average weight of an individual ant is approximately 1/10th of a gram.
If we multiply these numbers together, we can calculate that one colony is equal to about 1,000 grams or 2.2 pounds. Now we need to compare this figure with the weight of a human being. The average adult male weighs about 70 kilograms or 154 pounds, while the average female weighs closer to 60 kilograms or 132 pounds.
Multiplying these figures by 2 gives us our final answer: one ant colony weighs about 270 kilograms (600 pounds). This means that if you were to stand on top of a hill filled with ants from head to toe and you fell into their nest below (which would probably be pretty unpleasant), then your weight would be equivalent to that which they had lifted up into the air.
Of course, this is assuming that all of them were lifting at once… which seems unlikely given how weak most ants are individual.
How Big Is the Biggest Ant Ever Recorded?
The biggest ant ever recorded was a Titanomyrma giganteum, or “giant desert ant”. It lived in the early Cretaceous period, about 100 million years ago. At that time, the Sahara Desert was still wet and swampy, and the ant lived in small colonies near the banks of rivers.
Titanomyrma giganteum ants were between 2 and 5 cm long (0.8–2 inches). They had thick bodies, powerful jaws, and large eyes. They could lift objects that were 50 times their own weight.
Scientists aren’t sure why Titanomyrma giganteum grew so large, it may have been because they lived in a hot climate where food was scarce. Giant ants today are found only in tropical regions like Africa and South America where there are few predators around to eat them (or at least not many).
Do Giant Ants Exist?
Giant ants are real. They are, in fact, a lot more common than you might think. In fact, there are several species of giant ants that live throughout the world.
Giant ants are known by many different names: bulldog ants, driver ants, leafcutter ants, and army ants. These names all refer to different species of giant ants that share certain characteristics.
The largest of these species is the driver ant (Dorylus sp.), which has been known to grow up to 2 inches long. Driver ants can be found throughout tropical regions of the world and have been observed destroying other insects and animals as large as mice or birds.
Another well-known type of giant ant is the leafcutter ant (Atta sp.). The leafcutter ant is named for its habit of cutting leaves into small pieces with their jaws and carrying them back to their nests where they feed on them together as a colony.
In Conclusion,
The conclusion of this study is that there are more ants than humans. In fact, the numbers are so staggering that it’s almost impossible to comprehend. There are 1,000 times more ants than there are humans on Earth.
There is also evidence that these estimates may be low: scientists have found evidence of a colony of ants in Australia that is estimated to be at least 100 million years old, and the current number of humans on Earth is estimated at only 7 billion. That means that for every human on Earth today, there were about 100 million ants living when dinosaurs roamed the earth.