DAILY NO. 32 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five insects & bugs Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 23, 2026 puzzle ran from a ladybird beetle at 1 cm to a Goliath beetle at 11 cm — about 11× apart, drawing on insects & bugs. The pair furthest apart was round 5: a mosquito is 1.5× as big as a ladybird beetle.
Answer: Ladybird Beetle — 1 cm. A ladybird beetle measures 1 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a leafcutter ant at 1.3 cm.
One ladybird can eat several thousand aphids in a lifetime.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a ladybird beetle when it sits beside a leafcutter ant — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Leafcutter Ant — 1.3 cm. A leafcutter ant measures 1.3 cm (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a honey bee 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 honey bee — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Monarch Butterfly — 10 cm. 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: Goliath Beetle — 11 cm. A Goliath beetle measures 11 cm (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a large dragonfly at 12 cm.
Among the heaviest insects alive — the larvae can reach 100 g.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a Goliath beetle when it sits beside a large dragonfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mosquito — 1.5 cm. A mosquito measures 1.5 cm (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a ladybird beetle at 1 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 ladybird beetle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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