User:IHeartMyrmecology

Something i Have always wondered....

How many of the average Lasius niger ant, the common garden ant found on the British Isles, it would take to carry a human being.

The common ant can take 10 times its own weight

the average ant weighs 0.0003 g

I, myself, weight 50 kg = 50 000 g

Therefore, 5 000 g worth of ants is needed to hold my weight

5 000 / 0.0003 = 16 666 667 (rounded to the nearest whole number)

Hence, 16 666 667 ants are needed to carry my 50 kg weight.

The average ant is 3 mm in length

16 666 667 X 0.03 = 500 000.01

This proves that if all the ants that were required to carry me all stood in a line, then they would produce a line of approx 500 000 metres long = 500 kilometres = 310.6856 miles