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Can insects and spiders survive higher falls than humans because of their size?
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How are insects good for us?
its all a food chain, for example an ant is kinda useless, but a spider may eat that, then that spiders predator needs him to survive. the process keeps on going higher and higher until it eventually comes to humans.
Why do cockroaches survive a nuclear bomb?
The radiation LD50 of most insects is far higher than the LD50 of mammals.
What makes a arachnid a arachnid?
well arachnids all have eight legs and can't have wings
What insects can survive the atomic bomb?
None if directly exposed to thermal flash or blast. Almost any if only exposed to the radiation. The LD50 for ionizing radiation is much higher in insects than it is in mammals.
Which is common household pest capable of surviving a nuclear attack?
Most insects have a far higher LD50 for ionizing radiation than any mammal, but its a myth that cockroaches will survive nuclear war.
Why would cockarocahes survive a nuclear blast?
Insects have higher LD50 for radiation exposure than mammals. LD50 is defined as the dose of something toxic that results in 50% fatality in the exposed group. However insects would have similar problems to mammals surviving the thermal effects.
Does vacuum kill ants?
In my research for this question I found this article discussing insect mortality in rough (50mbar) vacuum:http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-abstract&issn=0022-0493&volume=096&issue=04&page=1100It cites some other articles that go deeper into the matter.This is what I learned from the article and from anecdotes by coworkers (I work in a physics lab - we often need to evacuate stuff and sometimes insects have crawled into our experiments):Most insects do not survive for long in vacuum. For higher temperatures they survive for shorter periods (I would guess this is because of a higher metabolism rate at a higher temperature). They do not explode or anything, but rather just die. If you expose them to a vacuum for under a minute, they may still live.I have not found anything specific to ants, but my best guess is that they would die after spending a minute in vacuum.However, there are some insects that survive vacuum because they can go into a sort of "hibernation state":http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/09/tardigrade-space.htmlI do not know the effect of vacuum on ant eggs. My guess is that they survive longer in a vacuum than adult ants.
What Five differences between the spider and the ant?
A big difference is spiders have 8 legs and ants have 6.spiders have 2 body parts and ants have 3.spiders have 2 mouth parts ants have 1 also most siders spin webs ants dont and last sipeders dont have antannaes like ants do
Why is the allele for albinism is present at a lowere frequency than the allele for pigments?
Because the pigments have higher possibility to survive because of their color of skin/fur they could have an easier camouflage and the albinos cant survive that easy.
How does spiders get oxygen?
Unlike vertebrates such as ourselves, insects do not have lungs with which to draw in air; instead they have organs called spiracles, which passively admit air into their bodies. Because insects are small, compared to vertebrates, they have a higher ratio of surface area to volume, and are therefore easier to oxygenate.
Why do catfish survive in low-oxygen levels better than trouts?
it is because catfish can survive in low-oxygen levels. Trout survives at higher oxygen levels
Are spiders friendly?
Spiders will react to defend themselves. If you are not endangering a spider, it will most likely not hurt you. Spiders and lower forms of life do not experience the kind of emotions we humans do. As the first respondent replied, they react by instinct for defense. They do not have the capability of a higher level of thought which vengance requires, like us supposedly higher life forms. Spiders are incapable of vengance.
