Thursday, October 27, 2011

World's Largest Bee

I looked up the largest bee from the last post, and it turns out Alfred Wallace discovered it in the 1800s in a Malaysian archipelago. It has a wingspan of 2.5 inches!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Animal Extremes

Go big or go home! Some big insects in here.

P.S. Not sure of this sources accuracy...

Carabidae eats Amphibians

Voracious larvae of two recently discovered beetles can latch onto frogs, toads, and other amphibians many times their size, then devour them. How the bugs entice their prey and survive their attacks, however, wasn’t known until now.