Attacus atlas is named for Atlas, the Titan of Greek myth who held the sky — a reference to its scale, not its weight.

Bed bugs have been documented in human shelters for at least 3,500 years — fossilized specimens have been recovered from a 3,500-year-old Egyptian site.

The dragonfly lineage is 300 million years old — Carboniferous ancestors had 70 cm wingspans, the largest flying insects in history.

Ancient Egyptians revered the dung beetle as Khepri, god of the rising sun — observing that the beetle 'rolls the sun across the sky' the way it rolls its ball.

The species was only described in 2001 — found in karst caves in central Laos by Senckenberg Museum arachnologist Peter Jäger.

The 'birdeater' name comes from a single 1705 illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian showing one eating a hummingbird in Suriname — three centuries of branding from one watercolor.