I've never been quite sure what a 'billion' is - seems to mean different things to different people. A thousand million - 1,000,000,000? or ten million - 10,000,000? or two million - 2,000,000.
Quite a lot
obviously but we need to know ...
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Originally Posted by JeffH  Insects are one of the many subjects about which I know very little 
Earlier this evening I caught a bit of BBC 1's "One Show" and they had quite a long feature on cockroaches.
Their in-house expert (who's name escapes me) commented that there are ONE AND A HALF BILLION insects for every human on the planet - that's a mind-bogglingly huge number - can it possibly be true?
Jeff
PS. Apologies if there's no such word as 'mind-bogglingly' - but you know what I mean |