"Asian Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) can carry weights of more than 100 times their own body weight whilst upside down on a smooth surface. To do this, they have incredibly sticky pads on their feet. However, this does not stop them from running quickly across such surfaces."
i used to love draw ants when i was a kid. i had this cute children's encyclopedia which had really pretty cartoon images of ants that i loved to replicate. perhaps that's why i still have an aversion to killing insects, cos when you are used to seeing them zoomed in, with their big eyes and their complex exoskeletons, it's hard to then step back and imagine them as anything less than one of God's beautiful and amazing creations (and by the way i firmly believe in evolution, but that's another story, for another time).
do you know how heavy 500mg is? it's the weight of a vitamin pill. now imagine that vitamin pill moving slowly across the ceiling, suspended in the jaws of an ant. freaky!
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Ant's are just so cool, that something that small could move somthing that big. Amazing.
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