Edward Stephon, age 7, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, for his question:

Which flying insect has the biggest wings?

Two giant moths claim this title. But neither of them flutters around our neighborhood. One is the atlas moth of India. This is a brownish, velvety moth and the female is a little bigger than the male. When she was a caterpillar she was four inches long and measured one inch around the middle. Later she became a chrysalis, almost four inches long. When the atlas moth hatches from her chrysalis, she dries her velvety wings and spreads them wide. They may measure ten inches or even twelve inches from side to side. The atlas moth has the widest wing span in the insect world. But in Australia lives the hercules moth    who claims to have the largest wings in the insect world. They are not quite as wide as those of the atlas moth. But they are longer and there are more of them. So we have to award the Largest Wings title to the brownish hercules moth. Her four velvety wings cover about one hundred square inches, which is a square that measures ten inches on each side.