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. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring. A midge fly holds the record, with a wing beat of 1046 times a second. They attach one end of a string to a stick and the other end to the beetle's body or horn.