Ants and Beetles are SUPER STRONG,
Even compared to other animals outside insects
Like Gorillas, but even then Gorillas are nowhere near as strong as those insects when it comes to pound for pound despite having much more muscle mass
I always thought that it had something to do with the insect’s anatomy or the shape of the object they’re carrying which led me to believe they could somehow redirect the force applied to them, there’s just so many variables going on, it’s so interesting but I never got a clear answer.
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you can largely thank the square cube law for that. The basic rule of this law is that as you scale an object up or down, its volume, and by extension its weight, increases or decreases faster than its surface area. In very ELI5 terms, this means smaller organisms proportionally are stronger, lighter, and more resilient to falling or getting swatted, assuming they have the same body structures.
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