Most DANGEROUS Bugs Around The World!
311Most DANGEROUS Bugs Around The World!
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10. Africanized Honey Bees
When you think of Honey Bees you probably think of the cute bumblebees that potter around your back garden with butts and legs laden with pollen. While Africanized Honey Bees do look a lot like their calmer cousins, their attitude is a lot worse, and they’re incredibly dangerous.
The species exists because, back in 1956, a Brazillian scientist bought some African Honeybees to South America, to try and breed a more productive strain of bee. But they escaped and crossbred with European honeybees, and the resultant hybrid species weren’t to be trifled with.
They spread across the south and north American regions and quickly became notorious because of how they defend their hives. They respond to disturbances in their colonies much more quickly than normal bees, and in much greater numbers with a whole lot more stinging. This angry bee activity has led to several hundred people passing on due to Africanized honey bee stings.
9. Fleas
Fleas are really the worst kind of pest. They annoy your pets, and they can be pretty annoying and even dangerous for you too. As a flea is chowing down on your vital fluids they may be passing diseases through their saliva. The biggest example of this? Oh, only the Bubonic Plague.
We usually blame rats for spreading the plague, but in actual fact, it was the little flea parasites that they brought along with them. The illness brought the end of almost one-third of the population of Europe in the 1300s, and that’s primarily because of fleas that picked up the infection from rats and then jumped to a human host, summarily infecting them as well.
8. Brown Recluse
I see a lot of these lists that have spiders like the Tarantula, who is really a little cutie unless you annoy them, and the Black Widow, who won’t bite unless seriously provoked. The Brown Recluse is the spider that freaks me out the most.
This spider is found across the midwest and is also sometimes referred to as the Violin or Fiddleback spider because of the violin-shaped marking along its back. They’re a pretty rare spider, but their bites can cause some seriously crazy wounds.
Again, the brown recluse wont actually bite down on you unless it’s seriously aggravated, and is usually quite happy to live alongside humans eating the flies and other insects that annoy us so much. But if a recluse gets trapped against your skin, then they’ll lash out and sink their fangs into your skin. The bite is painless at first, but later becomes red and swollen and tender. In some cases the venom will eat away at the skin, causing a necrotic lesion, which is literally the venom rotting away your skin and flesh.
7. Bullet Ant
The sting of the bullet ant has been described by many as the worst pain known to man. It’s native to the western rainforests of south America, and is in fact the largest insect in the world, reaching up to over an inch in length. As with most insects that pack a painful punch, the bullet ant is actually fairly docile toward people, and won’t use its sting offensively. If you do manage to anger one though, it will deploy its mighty stinger defensively.
The pain of the bullet ant sting will rip through your whole body. You’ll start shaking, sweating, and your heart rate will spike. If the stinger gets stuck and the ant pumps more venom into you than usual, or if you get stung by more than one at once, you’ll pass in and out of consciousness, and your whole world will be filled with pain for hours.
One group of people know about the bullet ant sting better than anyone else. The Satere-Mawe of Brazil use them as part of their warrior initiation rights, and will allow teenage gloves to wear bullet ant filled gloves for 10 minutes, forcing them to endure the pain.
6.Asian Giant Hornet
If you travel to quite a few Asian countries, then you better watch out for the Asian Giant Hornet, one of the most dangerous flying insects on the planet. Vespa Mandarina lives all over Asia, from Taiwan to Mainland China, throughout Southeast Asia and further west into India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. But, if for some reason you’re actively seeking them out, you’re going to want to travel to the mountains of Japan.
The reason the Asian Giant Hornet is so dangerous is that its stinger has no barbs. In animals like a bee, the barbs on their stingers will cause them to break off, leaving them embedded in the skin.