#fairyflies

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

The fairyfly is an incredibly dangerous wasp...if you happen to be a miniscule barklouse egg. This species is a kind of parasitoid wasp, and male fairyflies spend their entire lives inside their host egg. Since their home is so small, they themselves are the smallest known insect in the world at only 0.127 mm (0.005 inches) long!

(Image: A fairyfly (Dicopomorpha echmepterygis) by John Huber)

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[futurebird]

trapped in a puddle, thwarted by surface tension

I've gone on about how tiny fairywasps (aka fairyflies) are before, but I just found out that there are aquatic fairywasps (Caraphractus cinctus) who remain submerged for days.

... they are so tiny they must find a plant stem to exit water: surface tension being a force they cannot overcome!

The surface of a puddle is an impenetrable boundary between worlds. Plant stems are portals.

Somehow their tiny little minds can contain all the responses needed to navigate these challenges.

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[blazeclaw12]

Fairyflies are some of the most amazing animals on the planet. These tiny wasps with an innocent sounding name have dark intentions. See these minuscule insects (The smallest being 0.139 mm long) are parasitoids. A parasitoid insect is an insect which lays it’s eggs on another organism. Fairyflies are a special group of parasitoids since they lay their eggs on the eggs of other insects. The fairyflies are known to have existed since around 100 MYA in the early cretaceous.

[afirefairy]

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[afirefairy]

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AF chegando.. e os nervos dos cosplayers à flor da pele!! Normalmente nós cosplayers ficamos muito animados, e não é atoa! Afinal o evento é onde iremos expor nosso trabalho duro para fazer o cosplay (alem de ficarmos imaginando como vai ser *u*)

Para quem ainda não viu os dias ou então na o sabe o lugar, aqui vai:

Uma dica para quem quiser encontrar outros cosplayers ou então tirar um moonte de fotos de cosplays, eu indico ir nos finais de semanas (13,14,20 e 21) já  que terá concursos entre outras coisas!! 

Aparentemente o local desse ano nao vai ter tantas escadas como o AF no ano passado! Saias e saltos altos agradecem ushasuhasu

Se alguém ver um grupo de cosplayers de Hora de Aventura, sou eu e meus amigos \o/ Eu vou de Fionna!! E teremos um Finn, um Jake, uma Cake, a Marceline, a Jujuba, a Princesa de Fogo e o Marshall (ainda precisam confirmar). Já a Alice-chan vai de Miku junto com sua amiga de Gumi de Matryoshka!!

Ahh.. Mal posso esperar para o AF desse ano!

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[obscureref]

A newly discovered fairyfly has been tagged with the beautifully evocative name Tinkerbella nana.

Fairyflies are tiny parasitic wasps and include many of the smallest known insects. Just how small are these guys?

So how small can an insect be? Huber and Noyes conclude, rather convincingly, that no insect smaller than 150μm in length would be capable of flapping flight and none under 125μm could completely lift their body off the substrate and effectively ambulate. Females of a mymaridclosely related to the new species, Kikiki huna, at 158-190μm, are thus effectively at the lower limit for a flighted insect, and the male of Dicopomorpha echmepterygis at that for normal walking.

(Source: The Guardian)