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This question shows the pervasiveness of insects in the natural world.

Question:

How many insects are there in the world?

Answer:

There are 10 quintillion (or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual bugs on earth at any given moment. Insects outnumber humans 200,000,000 to 1. Expressed another way, there are 14 human pounds per acre while there are 400 insect lbs. per acre.

-- Dr. C. Mike Smith