I apologize if this has already been posted but why are they able to keep their body stilll and not get tired while other animals would struggle. Also evolutionarily speaking wouldn’t that be unfavourable as it would make them an easier target.
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It’s VERY evolutionarily favorable to stay still when your body coloring provides excellent camouflage, which is what most insects and animals have. A lot of predators are attracted to movement.
As for how, a lot of it has to do with insect size. As an animal increases in size, the surface area to attach muscles is squared, but the weight is cubed. An insect of 2x length (size) has 4x muscle power but must lift 8x body weight. So basically, insects are so small that it’s almost no effort for them to support their body weight.
Many of them (ants for example) carry many times their body weight because they just have enough muscles to do that. So those muscles are not stressed at all to just “lift” the insect and keep it upright for a long time.
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