DAILY NO. 20 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five insects & bugs objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 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.
The October 11, 2026 puzzle ran from a mosquito at 1.5 cm to a giant centipede at 30 cm — about 20× apart, drawing on insects & bugs. The pair furthest apart was round 5: a praying mantis is 1.3× as big as an apple.
Answer: Giant Centipede — 30 cm. A giant centipede measures 30 cm (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Scolopendra gigantea hunts bats in mid-air, plucking them from cave ceilings.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a giant centipede when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Large Dragonfly — 12 cm. 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: Mosquito — 1.5 cm. A mosquito measures 1.5 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a leafcutter ant at 1.3 cm.
Only the females bite; the whine is the wingbeat, hundreds of times a second.
Common miss: players tend to compress a mosquito when it sits beside a leafcutter ant — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Atlas Moth Wingspan — 27 cm. 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: Praying Mantis — 10 cm. A praying mantis measures 10 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an apple at 8 cm.
A mantis can turn its head almost all the way round, which few insects manage.
Common miss: players tend to compress a praying mantis when it sits beside an apple — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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