Department of Entomology & Nematology 
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0620
The University of Florida Book of Insect Records names insect champions and documents their achievements. Each chapter deals with a different category of record. Those who are interesting in augmenting or improving this collection of insect records are invited to contribute. Policy concerning copyright and more information about UF's Book of Insect Records is found below.

Newest chapter: Largest Eggs

In the Table of Contents below, records are listed in the order in which they were added. They are also indexed by subject, and author.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Fastest Flier  T. J. Dean
Chapter 2 Greatest Host Range  Richard A. Worth
Chapter 3 Longest Diapause Marcos R. de Faria
Chapter 4 Most Tolerant of Cold Jason P.W. Hall
Chapter 5 Most Tolerant of Desiccation Kerri Schwarz
Chapter 6 Shortest Generation Time Tang Li
Chapter 7 Smallest Eggs Varsovia E. Cevallos
Chapter 8 Most Spectacular Mating  Doug Sieglaff
Chapter 9 Fastest Wing Beat  C.W. Scherer
Chapter 10 Least Specific Sucker of Vertebrate Blood L. M. A. Okedi
Chapter 11 Longest Insect Migration Christopher Tipping
Chapter 12 Longest Life Cycle  Yong Zeng
Chapter 13 Most Instars B.R. Sojack
Chapter 14 Most Parental Sharing of Brood Care Kevina Vulinec
Chapter 15 Resistant to Most Insecticides Barbra Larson Vasquez
Chapter 16 Shortest Sexual Life Cycle  Likui Yang
Chapter 17 Lowest Lifetime Fecundity Bianca Cecilie Nygård
Chapter 18 Highest Lifetime Fecundity  Henning Brueland
Chapter 19 Adapted to Greatest Depths A.A. Akers
Chapter 20 Least Oxygen Dependent Andy Rasmussen
Chapter 21 Most Heat Tolerant Van Sherwood
Chapter 22 Most Saline Tolerant  Dina Richman
Chapter 23 Most Toxic Venom W.L. Meyer
Chapter 24 Loudest John M. Petti
Chapter 25 Greatest Host Specificity G.H. Schneider
Chapter 26 Largest Parasitoid Brood  Juan Manuel Alvarez
Chapter 27 Largest Swarm Hussein Sanchez-Arroyo
Chapter 28 Most Spectacular Batesian Mimicry  Mark Salvato
Chapter 29 Greatest Bioluminescence Hazel C. Levy
Chapter 30 Largest David M. Williams
Chapter 31 Largest Blood Meal K. E. McKenzie
Chapter 32 Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span Hugo L. Kons, Jr.
Chapter 33 Longest Deanna Branscome
Chapter 34 Longest Adult Life Ramazan Cetintas
Chapter 35 Longest Regularly Repeated Migration J. Akers Pence
Chapter 36 Most Polyandrous Hector Cabrera-Mireles
Chapter 37 Shortest Reproductive Life Craig H. Welch
Chapter 38 Smallest Adult Jerry E. Gahlhoff, Jr.
Chapter 39 Fastest Runner Thomas M. Merritt
Chapter 40 Largest Eggs Salvatore Vicidomini


Chapters arranged by SUBJECT
Most tolerant
   of heat (Chapter 21)
   of cold (Chapter 4)
   of desiccation (Chapter 5)
   of oxygen deficiency (Chapter 20)
   of salinity (Chapter 22)
   of depth (Chapter 19)
Most spectacular
   mating (Chapter 8)
   Batesian mimicry (Chapter 28)
Fastest
   wing beat (Chapter 9)
   flier (Chapter 1)
   runner (Chapter 39)
Longest
   individual (Chapter 33)
   lepidopteran wing span (Chapter 32)
   regularly repeated migration (Chapter 35)
   migration (Chapter 11)
Largest
   blood meal (Chapter 31)
   individual (Chapter 30)
   swarm (Chapter 27)
   eggs (Chapter 40)
Smallest
   eggs (Chapter 7)
   adult (Chapter 38)
Most prolonged
   diapause (Chapter 3)
   adult life (Chapter 34)
   life cycle (Chapter 12)
Briefest
   adult life (Chapter 37)
   generations (Chapter 6)
   sexual life cycle (Chapter 16)
Most numerous
   parasitoid brood (Chapter 26)
   offspring (Chapter 18)
   instars(Chapter 13)
   vertebrate hosts (Chapter 10)
   plant hosts (Chapter 2)
   male mates (Chapter 36)
Fewest
   offspring (Chapter 17)
   hosts (Chapter 25)
Miscellany
   loudest (Chapter 24)
   most toxic venom (Chapter 23)
   greatest bioluminescence (Chapter 29)
   most parental sharing of brood care (Chapter 14)
   resistant to most insecticides (Chapter 15)


Chapters arranged by AUTHOR
A.A. Akers Chap. 19 Adapted to Greatest Depths
Juan Manuel Alvarez Chap. 26 Largest Parasitoid Brood
Deanna Branscome Chap. 33 Longest
Henning Brueland Chap. 18 Highest Lifetime Fecundity
Hector Cabrera-Mireles Chap. 36 Most Polyandrous
Ramazan Cetintas Chap. 34 Longest Adult Life
Varsovia E. Cevallos Chap. 7 Smallest Eggs
T. J. Dean Chap. 1 Fastest Flier
Marcos R. de Faria Chap. 3 Longest Diapause
Jerry E. Gahlhoff, Jr. Chap. 38 Smallest Adult
Jason P.W. Hall Chap. 4 Most Tolerant of Cold
Hugo L. Kons, Jr. Chap. 32 Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span
Hazel C. Levy Chap. 29 Greatest Bioluminescence
Tang Li Chap. 6 Shortest Generation Time
K. E. McKenzie Chap. 31 Largest Blood Meal
Thomas M. Merritt Chap. 39 Fastest Runner
W.L. Meyer Chap. 23 Most Toxic Venom
Bianca Cecilie Nygård Chap. 17 Lowest Lifetime Fecundity
L. M. A. Okedi Chap. 10 Least Specific Sucker of Vertebrate Blood
J. Akers Pence Chap. 35 Longest Regularly Repeated Migration
John M. Petti Chap. 24 Loudest
Andy Rasmussen Chap. 20 Least Oxygen Dependent
Dina Richman Chap. 22 Most Saline Tolerant
Mark Salvato Chap. 28 Most Spectacular Batesian Mimicry
Hussein Sanchez-Arroyo Chap. 27 Largest Swarm
C.W. Scherer Chap. 9 Fastest Wing Beat
G.H. Schneider Chap. 25 Greatest Host Specificity
Kerri Schwarz Chap. 5 Most Tolerant of Desiccation
Van Sherwood Chap. 21 Most Heat Tolerant
Doug Sieglaff Chap. 8 Most Spectacular Mating
B.R. Sojack Chap. 13 Most Instars
Christopher Tipping Chap. 11 Longest Insect Migration
Barbra Larson Vasquez Chap. 15 Resistant to Most Insecticides
Salvatore Vicidomini Chap. 40 Largest Eggs
Kevina Vulinec Chap. 14 Most Parental Sharing of Brood Care
Craig H. Welch Chap. 37 Shortest Reproductive Life
David M. Williams Chap. 30 Largest
Richard A. Worth Chap. 2 Greatest Host Range
Likui Yang Chap. 16 Shortest Sexual Life Cycle
Yong Zeng Chap. 12 Longest Life Cycle

More about UF's Book of Insect Records

Preparation of chapters
Before 1999, chapters were written by graduate students in an insect ecology course at the University of Florida, except for two chapters prepared by graduate students at University of Bergen, Norway. The editor and two student referees reviewed each chapter. Authors revised and resubmitted their chapters, which were then either accepted or returned for further revision. Chapters were limited to 1,500 words, including a brief abstract.

Now chapters are solicited from anyone interested in researching an insect record and lengthier chapters are permitted. What is required is good scholarship and a willingness to augment or improve the content of the Book of Insect Records.

Contributed chapters and nominations for new chapters or for new champions for old chapters should be sent to—

Thomas J. Walker
Editor, UF Book of Insect Records
Department of Entomology & Nematology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620

FAX: 352-392-0190
E-mail: tjw@ufl.edu

Publication of chapters
Completed chapters are put on the World Wide Web as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents in which the user's browser controls the document's format by referring to markup tags. Through 1999, they were also desktop published and put on the Web as PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, which can be viewed and printed with a free reader exactly as desktop published.

Copyright and permitted uses
As provided by copyright law, each chapter in this book is copyrighted by the author as of the date of first publication. Notice of copyright is at the end of each chapter.

For noncommercial use, the chapters in this book may be freely reproduced and distributed in part or in whole provided the source is cited. The suggested citation for a chapter is—

[author's name]. [year (see publication date at end of chapter heading)]. [chapter title]. Chapter [n] in University of Florida Book of Insect Records, 2001. http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/.

The suggested citation for the entire work is—

Walker, T.J., ed. 2001. University of Florida Book of Insect Records, 2001. http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/.

For commercial use of a single chapter, contact the author. For commercial use of all chapters or any group of chapters, contact the editor. Any royalties from commercial use of a single chapter will accrue to the author. Any royalties from commercial use of two or more chapters will accrue to the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida.