By 
Murry Gans
 | 
TED-Ed Original

Why are there so many insects?

If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us there's no doubt that humans would lose. There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects on earth outnumbering humans by more than a billion to one. So what's their secret to success? Murry Gans details the reasons behind insect abundance.

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