Largest insect egg
- Who
- Malaysian stick insect
- What
- 1.3 centimetre(s)
- When
- 01 January 0001
The largest egg laid by an insect belongs to the 15-cm (6-in) Malaysian stick insect Heteropteryx dilitata and measures an immense 1.3 cm (0.5 in) in length; this makes it larger in size than a peanut.
Some insects, notably mantids and cockroaches, lay egg cases which are much larger-but these contain as many as 200 individual eggs.
Malaysian stick insect's body length: 150 mm, weight 40 g, lifespan: 12 mths, discovered: 1798.