The Jungle Nymph Stick is one of the heaviest insects. In Malaysia they are often kept by people who feed them guava leaves and use the droppings to make tea. Living scorpions reflect ultraviolet light and can glow with an eerie greenish colour when exposed to UV light, no matter what colour they appear under normal lighting conditions. The atlas moth, one of the largest silk moths, can be mistaken for a medium-sized bat when flying. The female yellow jacket wasp lays both fertilized and unfertilized eggs.
Female workers develop from the fertilized egg and male drones develop from the unfertilized egg.
Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica. The eggs of walking stick insects are among the largest in the insect world. Some eggs are more than eight millimetres long. Did you know that . . . A big male can weigh up to 100 grams.