At what point do small bugs take damage from falling?

Question

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

Answer 1

While this question is marked with a biology tag the answer really is more about physics. Lightweight objects tend to have slow terminal velocity. A bug isn’t very dense.

Now, in a vacuum, on the other hand, the answer would be different, assuming you could find a bug that doesn’t need air to live and wouldn’t just die from the vacuum alone.