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Old 14-01-2008, 09:22 PM
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Re: How many insects?????

Aren't insects just incredible! I remember reading somewhere about the number of springtails that exist, but widely go un-noticed. There is something like 300 million to 1.4 billion per acre of the earth's surface. Don't quote me on that. Now are you scared by how outnumbered we are?

A useless fact to bore people with at parties: The oldest fossil of an insect found so far is 400 million years old is a springtail.
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