Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.

Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.
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Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Welcome to the Great Blue Marble Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.
The firefly is nocturnal
(active at night). Fireflies
emit light by the oxidation
of luciferin. The animated
firefly image shows the
light coming from a firefly.		 Insect Superlatives The firefly is nocturnal (active at night). Fireflies emit light by the oxidation of luciferin. The animated firefly image shows the light coming from a firefly.
What is the largest insect? What is the heaviest insect? What is the longest insect?
What insect has the largest or longest wingspan? What is the smallest insect?
I am a lady bug. Welcome to the Insect Garden. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect sounds, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, ladybugs, and dragonflies.
There are several different ways of measuring the size of an insect, however we consider the largest
insect to be the bulkiest and in this case the champion insect is the Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon)
from South America, the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick. There is a
serious challenge for heaviest insect in the world in the form of the New Zealand, True Wetas, for
instance a gravid female Deinacrida heteracantha can weigh as much as 70 grams. Another competitor
for the title is the extremely rare South American Longhorn Beetle Titanus giganteus. These giants can
be over 16cms in body length, not including the antennae. Other longhorn beetles are nearly as long
and may look bigger because of their longer legs like the Xixuthrus heros from Fiji. Another beetle,
Dynastes hercules is also well known for reaching 16cms in length, although it is not nearly as heavy.
The longest insect in the world is the Stick-Insect Pharnacia kirbyi, the females of which can be over
36cm long. Some living lepidoptera have wingspans as great as 32cm and an area of over 300 sq. cm.

There are an incredible number of very small insects in the world, far more than there are giants.
Many beetles are less than one millimeter in length, and the North American Feather-winged Beetle
Nanosella fungi at 0.25mm is a serious contender for the title of smallest insect in the world. Other
insect orders which contain extremely small members are the Diptera (True Flies) and the Collembola
(Springtails). There are many small Hymenoptera, especially in the Superfamily Chalcidoidea, such
as the Fairy Flies, of the family Myrmaridae, of which Alaptus magnanimus at 0.21mm long was once
thought to be the smallest insects in the world, however another Hymenopteran parasite now holds the
record. Megaphragma caribea from Guadeloupe measuring out at 0.17 mm long is now probably
the smallest known insect in the world.
Did You Know?
Insects are a member of the class Insecta, and phylum Anthropda.
Insects have an external skeleton. Most animals, including humans, have an internal skeleton.
Insects are the largest group of all living creatures. More than 1,000,000 species are known.
Animated tiger butterfly. Insects are a member of the class Insecta, and phylum Anthropda. Animated monarch butterfly. Butterflies are an insect of the division Rhopalocera, of the order Lepidoptera. Animated monarch butterfly family. The monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico. Animated tiger butterfly. The monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico. Animated monarch butterfly. Insects are the largest group of all living creatures. More than 1,000,000 species are known. Animated tiger butterfly. Insects are a member of the class Insecta, and phylum Anthropda.
Did You Know?
The monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico.
Butterflies are an insect of the division Rhopalocera, of the order Lepidoptera.
The butterfly is also a swimming stroke, named for the gracious movement of the butterfly.
Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated dragonfly. Dragonflies (member of Odonata) generally fly near water, feeding on insects they catch in flight. Animated mosquito. The mosquito is a two-winged fly of the family Culicidae. Animated mosquito.The female mosquito has a needlelike mouth for puncturing the skin of animals to suck blood. Animated pink rose. Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated yellow rose. Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers.
Did You Know?
The mosquito is a two-winged fly of the family Culicidae.
The female mosquito has a needlelike mouth for puncturing the skin of animals to suck blood.
Some mosquito bites can transmit serious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
Dragonflies (member of Odonata) generally fly near water, feeding on insects they catch in flight.
Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated monarchs resting on red roses. The monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico. Animated honey bee. Bees are numerous throughout the world, and belong to the order Apoidea. Animated monarch butterfly resting in the dandelions. Insects have an external skeleton. Most animals, including humans, have an internal skeleton. Our garden features flower animations including animated roses and animated sunflowers.
Did You Know?
Bees are numerous throughout the world, and belong to the order Apoidea.
Bees are a four-winged insect, capable of producing wax and honey.
Bees are invaluable to man in the pollination of food crops.
Animated sunflowers. Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated red rose. Our garden features flower animations including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated honey bee and flower. The honeybee's food consists of nectar, and the pollen from flowers and plants. Animated wasp hovering. The sting of the female and worker wasps is mortal or paralyzing to other insects. Animated white rose. Our garden features animated flowers including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Our garden features flower animations including animated roses and animated sunflowers.
Did You Know?
The honeybee's food consists of nectar, and the pollen from flowers and plants,
which honeybees can make into honey. Bees are closely related to wasps and ants.
The sting of the female and worker wasps is mortal or paralyzing to other insects.
Animated daisies. Our garden features flower animations including animated roses and animated sunflowers. Animated grasshopper resting beside mushrooms. Grasshoppers are mainly nocturnal, or active at night, and are plant-eating insects. Animated grasshopper. Grasshoppers are leaping insects of the suborder Saltatoria, and are related to locusts. Animated mantis walking. Mantises are Orthopterons, an order of insects that include grasshoppers and crickets. Animated mantis grabbing. Insects are the largest group of all living creatures. More than 1,000,000 species are known. Animated mushrooms. Our garden features flower animations including animated roses and animated sunflowers.
Did You Know?
Grasshoppers are leaping insects of the suborder Saltatoria, and are related to locusts.
Grasshoppers are mainly nocturnal, or active at night, and are plant-eating insects.
Mantises are Orthopterons, an order of insects that include grasshoppers and crickets.
Great Blue Marble has animated ants. Ants are of the order Hymenoptera. Animated ant with an apple. There are many species of ants and they are widely distributed. Animated ant with an orange. Ants show a highly developed social organization and complex behavior patterns. Animated ant with a leaf. Many ants exhibit parental care, carrying food to their larvae, and cleaning and guarding nests. Animated ant with a pear. There are many species of ants and they are widely distributed. Great Blue Marble has animated ants. Ants are of the order Hymenoptera.
Did You Know?
Ants are of the order Hymenoptera. There are many species of ants and they are widely
distributed. Ants show a highly developed social organization and complex behavior patterns.
Many ants exhibit parental care, carrying food to their larvae, and cleaning and guarding nests.
Great Blue Marble has ant animations. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.Great Blue Marble has ant cartoons. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.
Great Blue Marble has bee cartoons. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Great Blue Marble has bee cartoons. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies. Looking for Animations? Click here to go to the Animation Factory. Over 500,000 animations. Opens a new window. Great Blue Marble has monarch butterfly animation. The Insect Garden features insect animations, insect images, insect cartoons, insect facts, insect superlatives, and flower animations. Insects include butterflies, bees, wasps, mantises, ants, mosquitos, and dragonflies.
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