We have the Parenthesis disease in our literature , too ; and one may see cases of it every day in our books and newspapers : but with us it is the mark and sign of an unpracticed writer or a cloudy intellect , whereas with the Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of the presence of that sort of luminous intellectual fog ...
6) The total ant population makes our 7 billion look weak. In their Pulitzer-prize winning book The Ants, researchers Bert HÃ¶lldobler and Edward O. Wilson estimate that there are upwards of 10,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time.
Ants. An estimated 20,000 species of ants exist in the world. All ants live in colonies and have a structured social system, with different castes-worker, soldier, queen and drone-all of which carry out specific tasks for the colony.Only the queen and the males she mates with on her maiden flight will reproduce.All the workers and soldiers are sterile females.ll ants live in colonies and have a structured social system, with different castes-worker, soldier, queen and drone-all of which carry out specific tasks for the colony. Only the queen and the males she mates with on her maiden flight will reproduce. All the workers and soldiers are sterile females.