I released a spider today and after launching it from about six feet up, which was about 72 times its height, I started to wonder about this.
EDIT: Took out a typo. I didn’t think anybody would care or notice but you know, Reddit.
In: Biology
They don’t. They are so light that their terminal velocity (the fastest they can fall due to air resistance) is lower than the speed it would require to hurt them. You can drop an ant from a sky scraper and it would be pretty much fine. There is such little mass that the forces they feel when hitting the ground can’t really do significant damage.
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