RE: Largest Insect in the World
December 6, 2011 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 1:57 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Largest insect ever known to have lived, Meganeuropsis permiana, an extinct order of giant dragon flies, it weighed 450 grams or 1 pound:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1Z5_frqW26w/Sg...ropsis.jpg
The largest creepy crawly ever known to have lived on land, Arthropleura, and extinct species of millipede, the largest of which was 6 feet long and weighted about 20 lbs:
http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledvi...eura_1.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1Z5_frqW26w/Sg...ropsis.jpg
The largest creepy crawly ever known to have lived on land, Arthropleura, and extinct species of millipede, the largest of which was 6 feet long and weighted about 20 lbs:
http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledvi...eura_1.jpg
