DAILY NO. 7 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five insects & bugs objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 7, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: a large dragonfly measures 12 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
Dragonflies catch their prey on over ninety per cent of attempts, the best hit rate of any predator.
Common miss: players tend to compress a large dragonfly when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Goliath beetle measures 11 cm (length / span), which is 1.4× as big as the reference, a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm.
Among the heaviest insects alive — the larvae can reach 100 g.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Goliath beetle when it sits beside a chocolate chip cookie — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an Atlas moth wingspan measures 27 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an NBA basketball at 24.3 cm.
Atlas moths have some of the largest wings of any insect.
Common miss: players tend to compress an Atlas moth wingspan when it sits beside an NBA basketball — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a giant wētā measures 10 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hamburger at 10 cm.
One of the heaviest insects on Earth — a large female outweighs a sparrow.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a giant wētā when it sits beside a hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a leafcutter ant measures 1.3 cm (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a mosquito at 1.5 cm.
Leafcutters routinely carry many times their own body weight.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a leafcutter ant when it sits beside a mosquito — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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