I have quite a lot of flying insects coming to my balcony plants, and they routinely fly into the window because of the reflection (I assume). There seems to be no breaking involved, just flying into the window at full tilt. Afterwards the bees sometimes hover for a sec., like in a daze.
Does crashing into a window damage an insect or is the armour and antennae so sturdy that it’s not a problem?
In: Biology
Except for extreme circumstances and very high speeds: no real damage. The reason for that is the relationship between size and weight.
Take a normal car and a RC toy car. If both hit a wall chances are that the normal car will be damaged, while the RC toy car will just work fine with mostly a scratch, if anything at all. Insects are actually so small that hitting something does not have the same impact (pun intended) compared to a far bigger object.
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