Puzzle Description:

Hardly "Mega", Megaphragma Caribea - also called fairyfly - is the world's smallest wasp. And insect. And animal. Full grown it is 0.1 to 0.17 mm. That's smaller than some single-celled bacteria.

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 21, 2010 [SPOILER]

So cute!
https://evolutionnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/fairyfly.jpg

Thanks for a wonderful entry!!!

That was difficult, but really cool. It took me a while before I realized it was some sort of insect. Very nicely done.

very nice image. Where does it live?

Color solving starting along the bottom row took me a long way before I resorted to basic line solving to do the rest. Really neat puzzle and not overly difficult for such a nice result.

great puzzle. well done!

Great puzzle. Where did you find a microscope that output in Paint-by-number puzzles? <-:

Wonderful image and a great solve!

Thanks, all.

Beth, it is from Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean, but there are tiny wasps all over the world. A closely related wasp Trichogramma is found basically everywhere.

These tiny wasps lay their (many) eggs *in* other insects' eggs.

Craig, the resolution can go pretty high, but it takes too long to develop those pictures. ;)

excellent puzzle.

Thanks, Telly.

Oh my gosh, what an awesome puzzle! I love the image, and the idea of a fairyfly that is real, and so tiny, that's amazing. Thanks for a very fun puzzle. I like how you incorporated the green to make it solvable.

Thanks, Teresa. I learned about these guys a few years ago. It really is amazing that you can get a fully-functioning higher animal in the space of a large bacterium.

The green went through several permutations in order to make it so.

That is a great image! It was a fun solve and a very rewarding at the end. Interesting story.

Thanks, BlackCat.

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