Due to the slow speed and the ant’s strong exoskeleton which braces it for impact, they do not suffer any damage from falling at any height and the impact would have been the same as if it had fallen a few centimetres. …

With a height of 1,250 feet, Elvita Adams wasn’t the first person who decided to leap from the Empire State Building. There have been over 30 suicide attempts from the famous New York City skyscraper with most of them being successful.

Items that are more aerodynamic or heavy, such as a ball point pen or bowling ball, may be able to cut through the air better. Both items, Bloomfield said, if dropped from the Empire State Building, would hit the ground at close to 210 mph.

They are tiny creatures and they hardly will feel the pain , moreover it hardly takes some microseconds to die . But if u kill an ant intentionally for fun or whatever reason may be , it is immoral .

People should not kill mosquitoes but allow them to take “blood donations”, a French animal-rights activist has said. Mr Caron, who counts himself as an “anti-specist”, said animal lovers should allow the insects to bite, except in Africa, where they would risk catching malaria.

Myth 3: If You Let a Mosquito Finish Biting You and Fly Away, You Won’t Have Pain or Itch from the Bite. Because of what happens when a mosquito lands on your skin, the quicker you can get rid of it, the better off you’ll be.

Without mosquitoes, plant growth could be affected. Wiping out mosquitoes would also wipe out a group of pollinators. Only some species feed on the blood of humans and animals, and even in those species, the females are the only ones sucking blood.

Unlike mosquitoes, they usually get the picture and stay away. 🙂 It’s a misconception that vegans are opposed to any killing. They are opposed to unnecessary suffering of sentient beings, but if a bear should attack you, by all means do what you can to survive. No, I don’t intentionally kill insects.

Yes I have and yes I will kill roaches, mice, rats,mosquitos and any other vermin who may be bringing disease into my home or make conditions unsanitary. How does that differ when being vegan? I have never once had a cow, chicken, pIg sheep or goat try to enter my home or my yard.

The simple answer is: no. Insects are technically animals (they belong to largest phylum of the animal kingdom, arthropods); vegetarians don’t eat animals; so vegetarians don’t eat bugs.

Yes, there are vegetarian spiders out there. According to National Geographic, the first known vegetarian out of 40,000 species of spider was the Bagheera kiplingi, or Central American jumping spider. While the jumping spider sometimes eats insects or larvae, plants comprise the bulk of its diet.

The trees employ ants as bodyguards and it pays them with shelter inside hollow thorns, and nutritious nodules called “Beltian bodies” that grow from its leaves. B. kiplingi has learned to steal these delicacies from the ants, and in doing so, it has become the world’s only (mostly) vegetarian spider.

These tiny, dazzling spiders are 100 per cent real — and scientists have just discovered another five species and sub-species in Western Australia. They’re called peacock spiders and self-described “peacock spiderman” Jurgen Otto has spent years discovering and photographing them.

Like other spiders peacock spiders possess venom and they use it to kill their prey, small flies, moths and other insects. For humans though they are completely harmless.