Eli5 how can insects survive a slap from humans, a creature that’s gigantic compared to them

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Eli5 how can insects survive a slap from humans, a creature that’s gigantic compared to them

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It’s hard to crush small things in general. It’s hard to focus the force into something hard and tiny, your soft meat kinda just flops around it instead of transferring a lot of force to the thing.

If you hit a tiny seed in mostly won’t do anything, you have to squeeze it between things to crack it. A lot of bugs are small, Have a hardish shell and are flat like the seed. Your hand don’t focus much energy into it