What If Humans Won the War Against Ants?

What if every ant on Earth declared war on humans... and we actually won? Twenty quadrillion ants. Fire ants that short out traffic lights. Army ants that build bridges out of their own bodies. A supercolony 6,000 km long. Humanity strikes back with Operation Big Boot, and on Day 90 the counter hits zero. Then the second war begins. The world starts to smell, termites eat our houses, the ground turns hard, forests stop growing back and food prices triple. The only hope left is hiding under a nine-year-old's bed. Real facts in this story: - There are about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, roughly 2.5 million for every person (Schultheiss et al., PNAS, 2022) - Fire ants are drawn to electrical equipment, and they survive floods as living rafts - Army ants build living bridges with their own bodies - Europe's Argentine ant supercolony stretches about 6,000 km, from Italy to Portugal - A driver ant queen can lay 3–4 million eggs a month, and some ant queens live almost 30 years - Leafcutter ants have farmed fungus for millions of years - Antarctica has no native ants - Farmers in southern China used ants to protect citrus trees around 304 AD - About 11,000 plant species rely on ants to spread their seeds - Scientists have described over 14,000 ant species Would you declare war on the ants? Tell me in the comments. #whatif #ants #animation