DAILY NO. 50 · 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 November 10, 2026 puzzle ran from a ladybird beetle at 1 cm to an Atlas moth wingspan at 27 cm — about 27× apart, drawing on insects & bugs. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a ladybird beetle is about 1.3× smaller than a leafcutter ant.
Answer: Large Dragonfly — 12 cm. A large dragonfly measures 12 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a hamburger 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 hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mosquito — 1.5 cm. A mosquito measures 1.5 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a honey bee at 1.5 cm.
Only the females bite; the whine is the wingbeat, hundreds of times a second.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a mosquito when it sits beside a honey bee — 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 1.3× as big as the reference, a ladybird beetle at 1 cm.
Leafcutters routinely carry many times their own body weight.
Common miss: players tend to compress a leafcutter ant when it sits beside a ladybird beetle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: Atlas Moth Wingspan — 27 cm. An Atlas moth wingspan measures 27 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a laptop computer at 35 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 a laptop computer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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