Scientists Set First Complete Ant-Thology

Whether you're looking for white ants, fire ants or carpenter ants, the first complete database of the world's 11,000 known ant species can help you out. Scientists say antbase.org is a unique resource for scholars, ecologists or anyone interested in myrmecology―the scientific study of ants. "The project is unique in its scope, " said Donat Agosti, a Swiss scientist and Cairo-based research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. With ants, scientists have a lot to keep track of. Ants are the most common life form on earth. Though tiny, their combined weight is greater than that of the combined weight of all humans. Ted Schultz, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, said the ant database was "really valuable." He said that because ants were exceptionally good "bio-indicators," environmental experts could use the data to check if an entire ecosystem is healthy, based mostly on its ant population.

不管你要找白蟻、火蟻還是木匠蟻，第一個收羅了世界上已知所有11,000種螞蟻的完整資料庫都可以幫你解決難題。科學家們說，antbase.org網站為學者、生態學家和所有對蟻學――研究螞蟻的科學――感興趣的人提供了獨一無二的資源。駐開羅的美國自然史博物館副研究員、瑞士科學家多那特

Oh my god..11,000 kinds of ants...is that even more than the kind of people?

上帝呀，11，000種螞蟻。。那是不是比人的種類還多？

hehe, quite amazing right?
but, it's a truth

呵呵，很令人吃驚對吧？
但這是個事實