On the tiny scale of these organisms, it seems the forces that matter are clearly different, because the mass scales down faster than the surface area. Forces proportional to mass (gravity) fall off quicker than others (air resistance, electrostatic charge).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...

Denmark comes to mind, with an abnormally high infection rate. Then there be all the other worms. Had I time to consider things before it happened, I might have elected to stay unborn. Just too many worms for me to take this place seriously.

it's the general counterintuitive wierdness of reality that in.cases like this looks almost intentional as a, niener, niener!, wrong again!from evolution and whatever constuites our place in it