… and give each one square meter, then this crowd will occupy an area of 75 square kilometers on the planet's surface (highlighted on the Earth map with a red square). There are such calculations.
And imagine, with this …
… there are more than two tons of insects for every person.
Insects survived five massive natural disasters and turned out to be more tenacious than tyrannosaurs. The estimated number of insect species living on the planet ranges from 3 to 30 million species.
Insects survived five massive natural disasters and turned out to be more tenacious than tyrannosaurs.
The estimated number of insect species living on the planet, according to various estimates, ranges from 3 to 30 million species. There are approximately 250 million individuals for each person.
Science currently knows about a million species of insects. From 3 to 10 thousand new species are described annually. Most of the discoveries are made in the least-studied and most insect-rich tropical regions. Thus, insects are the largest group of organisms living on Earth. There are more of them than other animals and plants combined.
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Scientists believe that insects were the first living creatures on Earth to appear, which lived on the planet 400 million years ago. Since then, they have survived five massive natural disasters and proved to be more tenacious than Tyrannosaurs.
On average, mosquitoes bite every inhabitant of the Earth about a hundred times a year. A person is able to endure more than a hundred bites, but in people with hypersensitivity to allergens, even one insect bite can cause death. The most dangerous are stings of honey bees, hornet wasps, gadflies and bumblebees.
80% of insect species are herbivorous, 15% are predators, 5% are bloodsuckers and corpse eaters. Those insects that feed on plants consume 25-30% of the world's harvest every year. Scientists examined the stomachs of mosquitoes caught around populated areas and found that 80% of these insects feed on the blood of domestic animals.