THE HORDE
BUG DENSITY
Estimated ratio of insects to humans is 200 million to 1, 40 million insects per acre of land, estimated 400 lbs. of insects per acre in the USA, compared to 14 lbs. of humans.
Pedigo, Larry P. 1999. Entomology and Pest Management, Third Edition.Prentice Hall. P. 1.
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry-red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the ice-cap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole, and no keels shall cut the waters, nor wheels turn in mills, when all cities shall have long been dead and. crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the very last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, representing the sole survival of animal life on this our earth, — a melancholy “bug.”
W. J. Holland. 1919. The Moth Book. A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America. Doubleday, Page & Co. p. 445.
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