What if an ant becomes size of human?

An ant scaled up to human size would still be trying to use spiracles to breath, but their surface area would no longer be sufficient to obtain enough oxygen from the air, and the ant would suffocate. Even if you could deal with this problem, the ant's legs would have suffered from the scaling issue too.
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How strong would an ant be if it was the size of a human?

Ants have been documented to be able to carry up to twenty times their own body weight. If a human could lift twenty times their body weight that would be about 4,000 pounds.
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How fast would an ant be if it were human sized?

The fastest ant in the world could hit 200 meters per second—if it were as big as a human | Science | AAAS.
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Can ants lift a human?

No, ants cannot lift up humans. They can lift a lot, as you know but only items in which the mass can be balanced. The mass of humans is far outside a mass area that could be balanced by an ant and the overall weight of even a child would crush an ant, as you probably already know.
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Do ants feel pain when you squish them?

As far as entomologists are concerned, insects do not have pain receptors the way vertebrates do. They don't feel 'pain,' but may feel irritation and probably can sense if they are damaged. Even so, they certainly cannot suffer because they don't have emotions.
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Can you crush an ant?

It is advised not to squash ants, doing so will only release pheromones and trigger more ants to come to the location and cause more trouble to you and your family.
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What insect can lift a human?

The insect world is famous for its Olympian power-lifters, but the horned dung beetle (Onthophagus Taurus) takes the gold. A mere 10 millimeters long, the beetle can pull up to 1141 times its own body weight-the equivalent of an average man lifting two fully-loaded 18-wheeler trucks.
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Could giant ants exist?

The most probable scenario is that a combination of ecological and environmental factors would have determined the body size of insects. The existence of giant insects it's part real and part fiction. For many of you, it will be relief that the existence of insects as big as elephants is almost an impossible fact.
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What if bugs didn t exist?

Food chain collapse

It takes 200,000 insects to raise a swallow chick to adulthood. Insects also break down plant matter and help recycle nutrients into the soil. Without any insects at all, most bird and amphibian species would be extinct in two months.
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How many ants would lift a human?

It would take several hundred ants to pick up each pound of the person. So you'd need to know the person's weight and then multiply that by 200 to 300 ants.
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Can A ant carry up to 5000 times my body weight?

In the Journal of Biomechanics, researchers report that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000 times the ant's weight.
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What body weight can ants lift?

According to different estimates, ants can carry 10 - 50 times their body weight, or maybe even more!
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How many ants would it take to lift an elephant?

It takes 14,250,000,000 ants to equal an elephant's weight. It takes 1,485 ants to equal the height of a giraffe. It takes 4,950,000,000 ants to equal a giraffe's weight.
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Who is stronger ant or elephant?

But, attention, I'm going to unveil the secret of nature – in the animal kingdom, the ant`s specific force on one unit of weight is much bigger than that of an elephant. Along with the ability in skillful management it allows the anthill to build well-composed social structures that are ideal in productivity.
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Do exploding ants exist?

Colobopsis saundersi, synonym Camponotus saundersi, is a species of ant found in Malaysia and Brunei, belonging to the genus Colobopsis. A worker can explode suicidally and aggressively as an ultimate act of defense, an ability it has in common with several other species in this genus and a few other insects.
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Were ants alive with dinosaurs?

Ants existed but were relatively uncommon about 90 million years ago, when dinosaurs were moving closer toward extinction. About 50 million years ago, not long after the dinosaurs became extinct, the ant populations suddenly flourished.
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Can ants live in human brain?

The message warns that people should never eat in bed or leave sweets or other foods near their beds at night, lest ants be attracted and then use their ears as a passageway to their brains. However, the story is a hoax.
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What bug has a human face?

Catacanthus incarnatus, otherwise known as the man-faced stink bug featured at "Field Camp" A new bug at Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium is stopping visitors in their tracks with its coloration that looks exactly like a human face!
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What is the most brutal insect?

The Red Imported Fire Ant

Although an individual fire ant cannot kill an individual, “they are known to be one of the most aggressive insects that exists,” Rivers says. “They will actually chase you. They're among the top 10 threats to agriculture because they will destroy anything in their path.”
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What is the strongest bug alive?

Dung Beetle

Relative to its size, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect in the world but the strongest animal. It can pull over 1,000 times its own body weight. If a human being were that strong, he or she would be able to pull six fully loaded double-decker buses all at the same time.
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Do ants take revenge?

FORGET Spartacus – you need look no further than an ant colony for a slave mutiny. Some ant species raid colonies of smaller species, killing the queen, scaring away worker ants and stealing larvae.
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Does killing an ant attract more?

Killing ants will, definitely, attract more ants because the dead ants release pheromones that attract or rather alert, nearby ants.
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Do ants get sad when another ant dies?

Turns out ants don't really mourn or grieve or even have graveyards for the same reasons we as humans do. It all comes down to chemicals and smells and pheromones.
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