{
  "name": "The smallest insects beside single cells and a hair",
  "desc": "The rows drawn on the comparison chart: the smallest insects, single cells, a human hair and the naked-eye line, with low and high values in micrometres, qualifier, source and reading level; cell, hair and eye rows copied unchanged from this site's shared tables",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/insects/smallest-insect/",
  "from": [
    "media/smallest-insect-records.csv values; media/cell-sizes.csv and media/reference-objects.csv (shared files, read only)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Insect lengths: Mockford EL 1997 (abstract), https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/90.2.115; Huber JT, Noyes JS 2013, CC BY 3.0, https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.32.4663; Polilov AA 2015, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.526.6531; Polilov AA 2017, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175566; Farisenkov SE et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04303-7 (retrieved 2026-10-25)",
    "Single cells: Velho Rodrigues MF, Lisicki M, Lauga E 2021, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252291; Piegari G et al. 2019, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00404; Marshall WF et al. 2012, CC BY 2.0, https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-101 (as listed in this site's cell-sizes.csv; retrieved 2026-10-25)",
    "Hair and naked-eye line: Li C et al. 2023, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.28.11.116501; de Jong PTVM 2024, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-022-02180-6 (as listed in this site's reference-objects.csv, where the naked-eye sizes are computed; retrieved 2026-10-25)"
  ]
}