What would happen if every species of arthropod grew five times bigger overnight?

Yeah i think nearly all would die, isn’t it impossible for them to get that big under the current atmosphere? Even if that isn’t the case, what massive bee can pollinate a regular flower? All the ants wouldn’t be able to get back underground unless somehow the whole physical ant colony grows.Etc, etc. Then you’d have the mass extinction of the other recent thread. Plus huge piles of dirt when massive ants expanded underground throwing soil everywhere. And a ton of trees would explode when beetles and such inside them expanded. Probably falling on and killing a bunch of humans and other mammals.

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Hopefully they’d all become easier to ID? Features would be more visible.

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I don’t ever want that to happen :grimacing:

I wonder how much honey a honey bee could make if it was 5 times larger? And can you picture the wasps! Every one would be freaking out, well except for me… All I would want to do if get a photo…

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It was once a reality, right? Huge dragonflies and millipedes did exist. They were much larger than five times present sizes.

New seafood restaurants would probably start popping up everywhere! It would be the new “hamburger” or “chicken”… if humans were able to survive it.

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most would die very quicky. in short, this is a similar scenario to vanishing overnight, just messier.

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There was once a millipede as long a small car.

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