if insects were human size would they wipe human civilization and make us there slaves?

Answer 1

They would jack us up for all the times we stepped on their cousins and sprayed them. The human populatin would fail.

Answer 2

Insects have an ectoskeleton, which can not grow to our size, so this is never going to be an issue.

Ecto- A Greek-derived prefix meaning external. SKELETON. In most animals, and indeed in plants, the shape could not be maintained without a thickening and hardening of certain parts to form a support for the whole. These hardened parts are called the skeleton because they dry up and remain after the rest of the body has disappeared.

In animals the skeleton is usually, and in higher animals always, rendered more rigid and permanent by the deposit in it of lime salts, thus leading to the formation of bone. Sometimes, as in most of the lower or invertebrate animals, the skeleton is on the surface and thus acts as a protection as well as a framework. This is known as an exoskeleton. In the higher or vertebrate animals there is an internal or endoskeleton and the exoskeleton is either greatly modified or disappears.

The Lobster is the largest and strongest of our living exoskeleton creaturs, and the heavy shell is supported by the sea's bouyancy.
On land the title goes to the Goliath beetle - belongs to the scarab family, which contains more than 30,000 species.

Some Paleontologists have discovered fossils of some infamous beetles (cockroaches) that were far bigger during the Jurassic period than they are today. Scientists aren't really sure why they were bigger back then (wasn't everything?), but it may have had to something to do with the warmer climate. Our Earth today has warm, tropical zones only around the equator, but during the Jurassic and Triassic periods temperatures around the globe were Much warmer.

If it was the warm climate that contributed to the large size of the ancient species, we may be seeing larger species of beetles appearing as global warming continues. They may even be evolving as we speak. However, even these giants were still much smaller than we are as a species.

Answer 3

Size does not matter. It is the brain which is important. As the humans are more intellectuals than insects, it can not wipe human civilization and make their slaves.

Answer 4

Greetings! I will give everyone here a motto I dreamt up years ago, and applies to those who are Anti-Nature: "Earth: Love it, or Leave it!" We need to worry more about Quasars, and SuperNovas, than this beneficent Rock we are currently infesting. There have been Gamma Ray Bursts lately in our Galaxy that, if they had been near to us, we would not be having this discussion. As far as my take on "Mother Earth", I subscribe to the belief that all Things are part of a "Web of Energy" that spans the Cosmos, but that each separate element of the Cosmos (Suns, Planets, Galaxies, Gravity Wells), has its own, particular Energy Signature, and is therefore distinct as a Being. Your "belief system" is as valid as any, but I do know where you are going when your Lights go out: Into the Arms of the Great Mother Earth. There to Slumber, a Dreamer, part of the Dream, `till it is your Time to join us all again, pulled from The Womb of The Mother, wet an` wigglin`-and when your butt is spanked, you will cry, and cry, and cry-just like you are doing now! Poor thing. Poor thing. Give the little Baby a Binky! It will be alright! Mommy loves ya`! /!\

Answer 5

It would take decades, perhaps centuries for insects to grow to human size. So, it's not something we would need to worry about anyway even if it COULD happen.

Answer 6

They are very strong but we have the ability to reason and think and figure out ways to rid ourselves of them.

No animal has the reasoning to force humans into slavery.

Answer 7

I doubt it, we're way smarter that them, and far more merciless. We'd wipe 'em out of exhitance, with chemical (and/or other) weapons.

And then to liven up the party up we'd probably eat them, or sell their carcasses on eBay.

Answer 8

They would overwelm the world because there's trillions of them. They would eat us, the vegetation and each other.

They wouldn't make us slaves, because they can't think

Answer 9

considering that most insects have incredibly small brains with probably incredibly low IQ's I doubt if they could ever figure out how to enslave us. In fact, I doubt if they even know what enslavement is.

Answer 10

yes. without weapons, the human race is perhaps the weakest as far as self defense throughout all the world/