Smallest insect filmed in flight Date: May 25, 2011 Source: Wageningen University and Research Centre Summary: Scientists have taken high-speed camera footage of parasitic wasps with about a one ...

More than 100 children enjoyed a lively and educational encounter with bugs — including a 23-year-old tarantula named ...

New record and remeasuring of Scydosella musawasensis Hall, 1999 (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae), the smallest known free-living insect. ZooKeys , 2015; 526: 61 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.526.6531 Cite This Page : ...

image: This is the smallest known free-living insect, Scydosella musawasensis. view more Credit: Dr. Alexey Polilov. The long-lasting search and debate around the size and identity of the World's ...

According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the smallest insect in the world is the Dicopomorpha echmepterygis or fairyfly. The fairyfly is a type of wasp and is only 0.005 inches long.

Some of the strongest creatures on Earth are also the smallest! Meet the tiny U.S. insect that can lift over 1,000 times its own weight. Scientists are amazed by its super-strength, which allows ...

So perhaps it's fitting the bug is now on record as the owner of the tiniest insect genome ever sequenced. At just 99 million base pairs of nucleotides (DNA's building blocks), the midge's genome ...

The smallest insect is a species of featherwing beetle, with the particular specimen that created a buzz in the world of entomology isolated from fungus in Columbia back in 1999.