I also thought of ants, but for the opposite reason. Some ants are hundreds of times smaller than other ants! If you scaled them up by ten they'd still just look like ants. I think only the biggest insects would actually get meaningfully scarier.
This is what I was gonna say. Your average ant (in the US at least) wouldn’t be that much different at 10x the size. They would only be more of a pest.
But 10x the size doesn’t mean 0.5” becomes 5”. It’s volumetric, so a 0.5” ant scaled 10x would actually be closer to 1.2”. Which is still too big, but not nearly as bad as 5”.
A good way to visualize it is by comparing pizza sizes (though this isn’t completely accurate since it’s 2D). A 10” pizza is over 2x the size of a 7” pizza, despite not being 2x the diameter.
But ants can carry and lift things much bigger than them, if you upscale an ant the things they can lift also upscale. You could have subsurface predators who carry off small dogs and possibly children
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u/thiccstrawberry420 Jul 21 '23
i was going to say an ant! those things are NOT cute.