DAILY NO. 11 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five insects & bugs objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 11, 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 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.
Answer: an Atlas moth wingspan measures 27 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an American football at 28 cm.
Atlas moths have some of the largest wings of any insect.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an Atlas moth wingspan when it sits beside an American football — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a monarch butterfly measures 10 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hamburger at 10 cm.
Monarchs migrate as far as 4,000 km on a 10 cm wingspan.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a monarch butterfly when it sits beside a hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a giant centipede measures 30 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, an NBA basketball at 24.3 cm.
Scolopendra gigantea hunts bats in mid-air, plucking them from cave ceilings.
Common miss: players tend to compress a giant centipede when it sits beside an NBA basketball — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a honey bee measures 1.5 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a leafcutter ant at 1.3 cm.
A worker weighs about a tenth of a gram and cruises at 25 km/h.
Common miss: players tend to compress a honey bee when it sits beside a leafcutter ant — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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