Desert Locust

Locusts are the most destructive insects. The desert locusts is the most destructive of them all. Although they are only 4.5-6cm long, they can eat their body weight in food every day. One ton of locusts, a fraction of a swarm, can eat the same amount of food in one day as around 250 people.

Female Malaysian Stick Insect

Female Malaysian stick insects lay eggs measuring 1.3cm larger than a peanut! Insects, such as cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger than this, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.

Male Goliath Bird-eating Spider

The world largest known spider is a male Goliath bird-eating spider. In an expedition it was found that it has a legspan of 28 cm as big as a dinner plate! or mabye bigger!

Atlas Moth

With a wingspan of 30cm , the atlas moth is the biggest recorded moth. it can often be mistaken for a bird.

North American Polyphemus Moth

The larva of the North American Polyphemus moth eats an amount equal to 86,000 times its own birthweight in the first 56 days of its life. for a human, this would mean an average baby eating 273 tonnes of food in the first 56 days of its life.

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