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May I have a fun bug fact of your choosing?

Ants are the most numerous insect in the world! That’s not really surprising. 

However...springtails, which are hexapods but not insects, outnumber even ants considerably. In some areas, there are as many as 100,000 individuals per square meter of soil, or more! That’s a lot of friends. And they live all over the world, including areas that are uninhabitable by most living things, like Antarctica.

The earth has about 148,940,000,000,000 square meters of land...that’s a lot of places for springtails to live 😳

Let’s admire one...

Fuzzy! Orchesella villosa by pierrebornand

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