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the smallest flying animal is the bee hummingbird

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No. There are unicellular organisms which are much smaller.

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What is the world's lightest insect?

It is actually the Blood sucking banded louse (male)


What animal has the smallest brain?

Actually it's the fruit fly.


What small bug looks like a flea but isn't a flea?

Gnats are very small insects that fly around and look like a flea. Despite their similar appearance, they are not actually fleas.


What is the weight of fairy fly?

The "fairy fly," actually a species of parasitic wasp, battles with a near relative for the title of World's Tiniest Insect. With the upturn of an even more diminuative subspecies, the fairy fly is again in the lead with a body length of 0.14 millimeter. Few field scales have the precision to weigh this little sucker, but we can make an estimate based on another insect: the ant. Ants and wasps are closely related, so they share the same general form, although the fairy flies are on the delicate side even given their tinyness. Ants vary greatly in body size, with the biggest jumbos standing in the same relative proportions to their itsy cousins as elephants do to housecats, but we can pick one species, the carpenter ant, which is 6 millimeters long (about halfway across your little fingernail) and 3 milligrams in weight (the standard 325-mg aspirin tablet is about 370 milligrams, counting the filler). OK, now as the carpenter ant is 42 times longer that the fairy fly, its mass is something like the cube of that (42 x 42 x 42). Divide that number into 3 milligrams and you get 40 nanograms. However, side-by-side pictures of ants and fairy flies shown the former to be quite a bit more robust. A reasonable estimate would put the fairy fly at 25 nanograms.


Is a fly a furry animal?

A fly is an insect, which means it isn't an animal at all. Flies do have hairs coating their body, so one actually could say they are furry and be half correct.

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What is the smallest and fastest animal?

The smallest animal that you can see is a Megaphragma caribea, also known as the Fairy fly. The fastest animal on earth by flying is the Spine-tailed Swift (106mph).The fastest animal on land is the Cheetah (70mph). I hope I helped! :-)


What is the world's lightest insect?

It is actually the Blood sucking banded louse (male)


What is the smallest living creature?

if you want the smallest living animal, it's the amoeba, its classified under protozoa in the animal kingdom


What is fact about fairy flies?

Fairy Flies are born adults Fairy Flies are the smallest insect Fairy Flies can fly through the eye of a pin Fairy Flies can swim Fairy Flies aren't actually flies they are wasps


What animal has the smallest brain?

Actually it's the fruit fly.


If the tooth fairy flew around the world how far would she have to fly?

No one knows, only God and the Tooth Fairy. She'd probably have to fly more than a billion kilometers.


What small bug looks like a flea but isn't a flea?

Gnats are very small insects that fly around and look like a flea. Despite their similar appearance, they are not actually fleas.


Smallest insect in the world?

if you are looking for a Hink-Pink the answer is Wee bee.


Can you fly in Animal Crossing wild world?

no but you can have a cape


Is there an Action Replay code to fly in Animal Crossing Wild World?

There is no such code.


How do you get the fly catcher in Animal crossing wild world?

nook will sell it in his shop.


How can you tell if you're a fairy?

You Can Fly You Have Wings and You Have a Wand.