How can small bugs and worms live under heavy rocks and other large objects without getting crushed?

Question

How can small bugs and worms live under heavy rocks and other large objects without getting crushed?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Typically because underneath the heavy rock is something softer that they can take though.

If you put a worm on hard concrete, and then places a heavy rock on top of it, the worm would get crushed.

But. You place the warm on comparatively soft dirt, and then put the rock on it, the worm is pushed down into the dirt and then crawls into it, so in this case the weight of the rock isn’t on the insect, it’s on all of the dirt. That the insects then dig tunnels through/crawl through.