2007-04-10 12:00:28 · 4 answers · asked by Basketball Rocks 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
If you mean the smallest bird egg, then that is (logically enough) produced by the smallest bird. The Mellisuga Hellenae hummingbird produces eggs less than a millimetre long and 0.2 grams in weight (link 1).
If you mean the smallest egg of any species... well, those get really, REALLY small. The smallest sea star egg, for example, is so small that it's hard to measure its size: about a hundred millionths of a metre long (link 3).
Compared to that, insect eggs are huge! The smallest insect egg is produced by a parasitic fly, the Zenillia pullata. It's about two hundredths of a meter long (link 2). You could line up several hundred of those sea star eggs along that span!
2007-04-10 12:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Smallest Egg - living = Vervain Humming bird Mellisuga minima = the size of pea "
2007-04-10 12:13:44 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs.Sizemore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the eggs of the nits that children usually pick up from school in their hair or some types of spiders.
2007-04-10 12:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by Alwyn C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ants. wait do they lay eggs?
2007-04-10 12:09:42 · answer #4 · answered by Dawn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋