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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Fairyfly Wasp

Dicopomorpha echmepterygis

About

The smallest known insect in the world at just 0.139 mm in length. Males are blind, wingless, and smaller than some single-celled organisms.

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Did You Know?

Males of this species are smaller than a paramecium β€” they are blind and wingless, existing solely to mate with sisters before they even leave the host egg.