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Much has been made of the tremendous loads insects can carry in relation to their body mass. You see "science" articles that claim if only ants were as big as people, they could lift buildings, and so on.
Many insects have certain mechanical advantages. The ant's jaws, for example, are structured for force. Fleas have a special springy protein, called resilin, that allows them to made huge leaps.
Most of the amazing strength of insects, however, is strictly a function of the square-cube rule. Being so much smaller than humans, insects' relative strength is very great because as size decreases, mass shrinks by the third power but strength only by the second.
Think of it this way: Muscles are kind of like ropes. If you had a 1/2 inch rope and a 1 inch rope, the one inch rope, being twice as thick, would have four times the cross-sectional area, and so would be four times as strong - BUT - if it were twice the length as well as twice the diameter, it would be EIGHT times as heavy.
An animal that was 1/100th as long as a man would only by 1/10,000th as strong (100 x 100), but it would only weight ONE MILLIONTH (100 x 100 x 100) as much so relative to its size,it would one hundred times as strong.
If people could be as small as ants, we'd be just about as strong, relatively speaking.
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