The Council of Thirteen

[Chad32]

Seeing how the Yeerks are winning becaue the Andalites are too spread out, I'd say there are more controllers than Andalites. Much of Yeerk technology is stolen, so they can't get too far ahead of the Andalites in terms of force.

[voodooqueen126]

I would guess the population of Andalites is about 20 million (the population of Australia)
Hosted Yeerks: 35 million

[Azguard]

so do you think the Yeerks left the planet with that many or repopulated itself? cuz that second option would mean they reproduce pretty quickly...

[voodooqueen126]

I guess since 3 yeersks=thousands of spawn, possibly, but still it would involve dying.
so i guess half and half.

[Chad32]

I don't remember if it's stated how many grubs are produced, but I'm sure most Yeerks aren't in a hurry to propogate the species.

[MoppingBear]

i think the books mentioned hundreds spawning from one mating, but most species who produce that much dont have a high survival rate.  when visser one said the population of earth was 6 billion, her superior seemed very shocked, so id guess that the yeerk population numbers in the millions, maybe a billion counting all the ones in the pools on the home world.

[Azguard]

a species that needs Kadrona rays. i just find that interesting. at the rate they breed they could probably go on forever!

 i think with their new technology, they'd lose fewer Yeerks when they're born?