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Ant problem
Suppose your house (say, the one I'm living in now) has an ant problem. Suppose you toss some food out and the ants get to it. The ants take your food back and turn it in to more ants. How many more ants?
Energy conversion across trophic levels in the food chain is around 10%, an ant in this part of the world weighs around 0.2mg, and a typical apple weighs around 300g.
So... if the ants eat the whole apple, they can use it to make 150,000 more ants. Fucking ants.
Energy conversion across trophic levels in the food chain is around 10%, an ant in this part of the world weighs around 0.2mg, and a typical apple weighs around 300g.
So... if the ants eat the whole apple, they can use it to make 150,000 more ants. Fucking ants.