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View submission: xkcd 1338: Land Mammals
I know that the total biomass of all ants alone is approximately equal to humans. And ants are far from all insects. I think bacterial biomass is something like 99% of the Earth's biomass, too. Remember that the ocean is essentially a 3d soup of them, but that doesnt count if only looking at the land.
EDIT: [Holy shit, I was wrong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology%5C)#Global_biomass[1]). All hail the great queen[2], who is merely a puppet of the little ones.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology%5C)#Global_biomass
2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352483/
Comment by blue_2501 at 06/03/2014 at 05:35 UTC
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As (not) illustrated in hover text.