2008-01-22

The Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

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The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

Japanese Giant Hornet (vespa mandarinia japonica)

It's the size of your thumb and it can spray flesh-melting poison.
Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata)

It's a full inch long, it lives in trees and thus can and will fall on you to scare you away from its hive--the one you didn't know was there, because it's in a fucking tree. Before it does this, it shrieks at you.
Africanized Honey Bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
They give you half a second of being too close before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up and empty the entire hive--tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of angry, angry bees.
Army or Soldier Ant (Eciton burchellii)
There are reports of animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and shredded by them.
Bot Fly (family oestridae, genus and species varies)
The larvae can grow anywhere in your body, it just depends on where the eggs wind up.

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