A close up photograph of an ant’s face has gone viral on social media this week as the high definition image showed the ant’s face to be something straight out of a horror movie.

The photo of the basic carpenter ant was captured by Lithuanian photographer Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas.

The photo was honored with distinction in Nikon’s 2022 Small World Photomicrography Competition.

“Image from a horror movie? Nope. That’s the very real face of an ant,” Rebekah McKendry, PhD, tweeted. “An ant. Now you have to think about that all night.”

Image from a horror movie? Nope. That’s the very real face of an ant.
An ant.
Now you have to think about that all night. pic.twitter.com/HOWLTlnfJ1

— Rebekah McKendry, PhD (@RebekahMcKendry) October 17, 2022

The Washington Post reported last month that there are estimated to be 20 quadrillion ants on earth, or 20,000 trillion.

To put that into perspective, for everyone one person on earth, there are an estimated 2.5 million ants.

The report said that the total estimated biomass of the ants on earth is approximately 12 megatons of dry carbon, which is greater than the estimated mass of all the wild birds and mammals on earth combined.

“No, this isn’t some alien monster out of a horror movie, this is an actual photograph of an ant using a magnifying lens,” Dr. Yasir Qadhi tweeted in reaction to the photo. “Sleep well, my friends, and appreciate the blessings of size that your Lord has given you over this!”

“This is why you don’t scroll before bed,” Matthew Ghoult, writer at Motherboard, tweeted.

Librarian Megan Rosenberg tweeted, “My husband showed this to me last night & I felt almost irate that I now know this horror.”

“I can see this being the inspiration for a new horror movie creature,” activist Darry Wharton-Rigby tweeted.

The upcoming move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten conference for both UCLA and USC does not have much support, according to Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff.

At Pac-12 basketball media day, Kliavkoff said that he has spoken to more than 100 people associated with the two schools, and none of them were in favor of the move to the Big Ten. 

"I have yet to talk to anyone in the UCLA and USC community who’s in favor of the move," Kliavkoff said Wednesday, according to the LA Times. "I will say that I probably hear from folks who are not in favor, not surprisingly."

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The move for both schools is scheduled for 2024, though UCLA’s departure from the Pac-12 is cloudier than USC’s. 

While USC is a private school and can come and go as they please, UCLA is a public institution and part of the University of California system. Due to this fact, the University of California regents are able to scrutinize UCLA’s move to the Big Ten and its impact on the other California school in the Pac-12 – UC Berkeley.

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In September, Kliavkoff sent a letter to University of California system regents alleging that the move would impact UCLA financially. 

He reiterated his feelings on the topic on Wednesday. 

"We believe between the travel and the coaches’ salaries and some of the other expenses you incur when you join the Big Ten," Kliavkoff said, "the small delta in the media rights deal [between the Pac-12 and the Big Ten] will be more than offset. We stand by those numbers."

In August, the Los Angeles Times reported that there may be a way for the UC regents to block UCLA’s departure from the Pac-12. 

"All options are on the table," regent John Perez said after an August regents’ meeting, according to the LA Times. 

"All options are on the table," Perez repeated, "up to and including that. … We’re going to look at what all the different options look like and then the board will assert itself in terms of what its desired outcome is."