What is the largest insect?
1 Answer
It can depend on how you measure in the insect: weight, wing span, or length.
Explanation:
The giant walking stick from Southeast Asia is the longest variety, growing to as long as about 2 feet in length.
The Atlas moths are bird-sized insects are considered the largest moths in the world. They are so big that their cocoons are occasionally used as purses in Taiwan.
The total area of their wings can measure more than 60 square inches and their wingspans can measure at least 1 foot in length
Matching them is the largest butterfly called Queen Alexandra's Birdwing with a wingspan of more than 1 foot.
The heaviest may be the Titan beetle, The largest known beetle in the Amazon rain forest and one of the largest
insect species in the world.
They can grow up to 6 1/2 inches in length.
