Strength of Crickets

Re: Strength of Crickets


How big a cricket?

What type of cricket, an American Cricket, or a European Cricket?

A young cricket or an old cricket?

Bah I googled many variations of the question and kept getting results for the game of cricket

Yeh, me too.

The Google results are better if you use "crickets" instead of "cricket".

Rosbourne, the strength of a house cricket?

If no one here knows, who should I ask?

I'm sorry, I don't know the approximate strength of a house cricket. I suppose if you really want to get this answered you would need to define the question in more detail.

For example, how much force can the rear leg of a house cricket exert (I don't know). Or, how hard can a cricket cling to a piece of grass while someone is trying to pull him off (I don't know).

Okay. How much force can the hind legs of a house cricket exert, in pounds per squre inch? I read somewhere that with a swift kick, a cricket can exert serious damage to the admonen of a rival insect.

I read that most insects can lift or pull 6x their own body weight. Is that true for crickets?

How much damage can the hind legs of a cricket do? Can a crikcet break something by kicking it?

Fighting Crickets:

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/crickets/field/index.html

Yes, Grasshopper. Size and strength are relative. The cricket can break anything weaker than itself.

That's not reallyt answering the question. How strong would a person's legs be if they had the transferred leg strength of a cricket?
Would he be able to break walls with his legs?

If you transferred the leg strength of a cricket to a human (a human of "average size") he or she likely wouldn't have enough strength in the legs to stand up, never mind kicking down walls.

I disaggree. Crickets legs are poswerful enough to do damage to the thorax of a larger insect, and they have to be powerful in the cricket can jump at least 20x times its owm body length.
Their leg muscles are more highly developed than a human being's.

That was satire, Boss . . . you're missing the proportionality issue. Compare the size of a cricket to the size of a human being. You continue to ignore the issue of proportionality.

I was watching animal planet one day-I think the scientist explained that crickets are able to jump such long distances in realtion to their body length is because their legs are layered with muscle. They showed what a human begs legs would look like if it had as many muscles as a cricket's leg.
Crikcets store up energy in their legs and relaes it like a spring.
I would think if a cricket is capable of inflicting seriously bodily damage tot he thorax or abdomen of a larger insect, that they are capable of inflicting other kinds of damage with their legs.

Serioulsy. if human beings had the proportionate leg strength of a cricket, could they use their legs to break a wall or some other object with great force?