<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 January 2012 17:42, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cool passage Stuart! Well done, me lad.<br>
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If 1/5 of land based biomass, perhaps the formicidae family is the biggest fraction of all land based biomass, assuming we restrict the competition to the animal kingdom. <br></blockquote><div><br>I take, and share, the "philosophical" angle, but am perplexed about the plausibility of the specific figure. <br>
<br>This would also mean that ants' biomass alone would beat all other insects together (termites, locustes, flies, mosquitoes, fleas, butterflies, bees, etc.) hands down by orders of magnitude...<br></div></div><br>-- <br>
Stefano Vaj<br>
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