So…Insects don’t get hurt after falling from heights?
Two reasons. One is the insect exoskeleton, which provides them considerable protection. Think of it as a suit of armor, except the armor is your skin and your skeleton combined and you don’t have any bones inside you. The other is their small size: in addition to air resistance, they actually have to deal with air viscosity. Insects don’t fall through the air so much as they sink in it. The forces they experience upon impact with the ground end up being less than what you experience. You’ll have to ask a physicist to prove that mathematically, but it’s basic Newtonian stuff.
Bonus: Some ants can actually glide when they fall off tall trees, and direct their descent so they crash into the tree trunk instead of landing on the ground!
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