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| 01: Fastest Flyer
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Insect flight, Desert locust, Helicoverpa zea, Dark Sword-grass, Deer botfly, Austrophlebia costalis, Hybomitra hinei
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Yes
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 02: Greatest Host Range
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Fall webworm, Gypsy moth, Japanese beetle
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Yes
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 03: Longest Diapause Among Insects
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Prodoxus y-inversus / family: Prodoxidae, Tardigrade, golden buprestid beetle (Buprestis aurulenta / see also), wheat-blossom midge (Cantarinia tritici / family: Cecidomyiidae), Sitodiplosis mosellana (see here) / subfamily: Cecidomyiinae
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Yes
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 04: Most Tolerant of Cold
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Polypedilum vanderplanki (see also Cryptobiosis).
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 05: Most Tolerant of Desiccation
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 06: Shortest Generation Time
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 07: Smallest Eggs
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 08: Most Spectacular Mating
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 09: Fastest Wing Beat
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 10: Least Specific Sucker of Vertebrate Blood
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 11: The Longest Migration
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 12: Longest Life Cycle
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 13: Most Instars
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 14: Most Parental Sharing of Brood Care
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 15: Resistant to Most Insecticides
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 16: Shortest Sexual Life Cycle
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 17: Lowest Lifetime Fecundity
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 18: Highest Lifetime Fecundity
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 19: Adapted to Greatest Depth
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 20: Least Oxygen Dependent
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 21: Most Heat Tolerant
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Sahara Desert ant
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 22: Most Saline Tolerant
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 23: Most Toxic Insect Venom
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Pogonomyrmex maricopa
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 24: Loudest
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 25: Greatest Host Specificity
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 26: Largest Parasitoid Brood
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Polyembryony
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 27: Largest Swarm
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 28: Most Spectacular Batesian Mimicry
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Papilio dardanus. See also this.
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 29: Greatest Bioluminescence
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 30: Largest
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Largest organisms#Insects (Insecta)
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 31: Largest Blood Meal
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 32: Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span
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Attacus atlas
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 33: Longest
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Phobaeticus serratipes
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 34: Longest Adult Life
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 35: Longest Regularly Repeated Migration
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 36: Most Polyandrous
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 37: Shortest Reproductive Life
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unknown yet
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No
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No (verify:1, 2, 3)
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No
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| 38: Smallest Adult
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Dicopomorpha echmepterygis
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 39: Fastest Runner
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American cockroach
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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| 40: Largest Eggs
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Carpenter bee
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No
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Yes (verify:1, 2, 3)
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Yes
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