As can seem at first sight, the smallest insect is the tiny front sight the drosophila flying over fruit in the summer. But, in comparison with some microscopic insects, the drosophila appears as the giant.
Insect, smaller, than amoeba
Microscopic wasp of a megafragm, in the ratio sizes, tinier, than unicell amoeba or paramecium caudatum. She belongs to a sort of trips – tiny insects whose size does not exceed length one millimeter. Some representatives of this sort tinier. The size of a megafragma is 200 micrometers, it is all the 5th part of millimeter. But this wasp – the third least insect on the planet.
Bug perokrylkaTreats group of coleoptera. By right it is considered the smallest bug on the planet. Its size, depending on a look, fluctuates ranging from 0.3 up to 1 millimeter. Their pads are so small that seem not dismembered. Bugs of a perokrylka usually live no more than 1 year, but some are capable to survive without food for 10 years. Their larvae eat mushrooms or a humus. Live mainly in the damp environment.
The smallest spiderThe least representative of arachnoid lives on the coast of the Western Africa. Its size is only 0.37 millimeters. Scientists called to its stalemate a digu and carried to family of Simfitognatny spiders. The first copy was found in a moss at the height more than 600 meters above sea level.
At this little spider the brain is so big that the nervous tissues departing from it are located even at it in legs.
Small antsCopies of ants of a type of Leptotoraks whose size did not exceed 3 millimeters were found in the American State of Ohio. They live groups on 50-100 individuals and can accommodate in one acorn or nut. It is interesting that a uterus of these ants gets into colonies of other types and is attached to a uterus of owners.
Little hunterA smaller insect lives in Central America. This is the parasitic equestrian of a dikopomorf. Males of these insects there are less females, their length is 0.14 millimeters. Length of their short moustaches exceeds length of all body. Live and parasitize on eggs of larger insects. According to calculations of scientists, nervous system of these insects consists of 7400 cages while at ordinary flies or bees this indicator is measured by hundreds of thousands.
Males of a dikopomorfa have no wings and are absolutely blind. They are guided only on smells.
Champion Alaptus
Alaptus magnatimus is the smallest insect of the planet today. Length of his body does not exceed 0.12 millimeters. Treats group of parasitic equestrians. Lives on eggs and larvae of larger insects.