New ant species located.

New pirate ant species found in the Phillipines “Cardiocondyla pirata sp.” I also just found a great FaceBook page for Zookeys. It got me to thinking about how many species have been located and how many they think are still undiscovered. So I went to the source of all known things – “The Encyclopedia Smithsonian”

• “At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.”

• “Conservative estimates on new species suggest that this figure is 2 million, but estimates extend to 30 million, yet unknown.”

So keep an eye out in your backyard or while hiking, because you never know when you might walk across a new species. Read the info from the The Encyclopedia Smithsonian, it is fascinating.