That's some pretty awesome stuff! It's amazing the things that exist in the world that we never notice. Thanks for the link.
I do have one quibble with a commonly held myth, though.
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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
Others include the Jerdon's jumping ant. It can leap up to four inches, the equivalent of 225ft in human terms.
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Proportional comparisons make leaping insects look good, but the reason they can leap that far is their tiny size. Strength goes up relative to muscle mass, but weight goes up as a cube. Double the size of the grasshopper and you double his strength, but he now weighs eight times as much (if my math is right, and it probably isn't, but he still weighs a lot more than twice what he did). Look at how far an elephant can jump.
If that ant was the size of a human, he would probably still only be able to jump four inches, if that.