2007-02-14 05:37:26 · 8 answers · asked by Green Eyes 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Fairyflies (the family Mymaridae) are tiny, slender wasps in the Chalcidoidea that include the smallest of all insects.
2007-02-14 06:35:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairyflies are tiny wasps (family Mymaridae) that are probably the smallest of all insects. In Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, a Costa Rican species that parasitizes the eggs of other insects, the males may be no more than 0.139 mm in length. Their tiny bodies, neatly packaged with complete digestive, reproductive, respiratory, and circulatory systems are actually smaller than a single-celled paramecium.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text01/smallest.html
2007-02-14 13:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by Vango 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fairy flies are tiny wasps (family Mymaridae) that are probably the smallest of all insects.
In Dicopomorpha echmepterygis,a costa Rican species that parasitizes the eggs of other insects,the males may be no more than 0.139 mm in length.
Their tiny bodies neatly packaged with complete digestive,reproduction,respiratory and circulatory systems are actually smaller than a single celled paramecium.
2007-02-14 13:57:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's smallest insect is the fairy fly, only 0.2mm long
2007-02-14 14:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by Da Answer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A type of parasitic wasp.
Source- http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/chap38.htm
2007-02-14 13:43:04 · answer #5 · answered by Rhea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mymarid wasps. They are less than 0.4 mm in length.
2007-02-14 13:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by nicensweetnurse 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not sure about fairy flys but dust mytes are very small ive seen as many as six on a single hair of a house flys eyebrow and that is small.
2007-02-14 14:18:44 · answer #7 · answered by Tony N 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's found in Borneo
2007-02-14 13:40:22 · answer #8 · answered by Ramani 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋