Peacock spiders are 4–5 mm long — smaller than a grain of rice — but their courtship choreography is more elaborate than most birds'.
TINY (1-2 mm) parasitoid flies with distinctive 'HUMP-BACKED' THORAX (diagnostic for family Phoridae, the 'hump-backed flies'). Despite small size, devastating impact on fire ant populations.
Adults are 4 mm wingspan — EXTREMELY TINY moths rarely noticed by humans. Larvae are 3-4 mm with reduced legs adapted for the leaf-mining lifestyle.
She is one of the SMALLER NA DRAGONFLIES — 2-3 cm body length, 5-6 cm wingspan. Small size makes the intricate wing patterns particularly striking at close range.
Trichogramma wasps are TINY — 0.3-0.8 mm long, SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF SAND. Among the smallest Hymenoptera in the world.
Females are only 3-4 mm body length — much smaller than the more familiar orb-weaving spiders, but construct one of the most elaborate web architectures in NA spider biology.
The eastern amberwing is one of the SMALLEST DRAGONFLIES in North America — 2-2.5 cm body length, about the size of the loop in a paper clip.
