Deadly insects include many of the so called arthropods (which basically means they generally don’t have a backbone, their skeletons are on the outside and their bodies are usually made up of various segments).
Insects come in an amazing variety of shapes and sizes and although many of them can be considered safe to humans there are quite a number of deadly ones too, including some species of scorpion, although not all. Many have six legs and eyes that have more parts to them compared to humans and other animals which are appropriately called ‘compound’ eyes.
Some are deadly because of their poisons and others because they carry and transmit disease from one living being to another, usually through feeding on our blood.
One of the deadliest disease transmitting insects is the tiny Mosquito
They can be quite difficult to avoid and once bitten you may become quite severely ill unless you have taken approroate precautions before going into a mosquito inhabited area. The deadliest disease we get from the mosquito is Malaria. The mosquito jabs into the victim’s skin and injects its saliva and this is how the malarial parasites travel into the victim’s blood and thrive, causing malaria.
Another contender is the high jumping flea
These tiny, almost imperceptible insects often reside amongst the fur and feathers of various birds, grazing animals and our own domestic pets. They can jump vertically much higher than their own size and also feed on blood. They are known to have spread the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages which killed thousands and which was transmitted from rats to us humans at that time. getting a bite from a flea these days doesn’t often result in death but it can cause a rather nasty and very itchy allergic reaction.
Another quite common insect that could prove to be deadly is the humble BumbleBee
Left to itself a bee will not normally sting us humans, since to sting usually means death for a bee. Killer Bees however can and do often attack at the slightest provocation. Their poisonous stings inject strong poison into their victims and this often results in painful swelling. For some people an anaphylactic (shock) reaction can lead to breathing difficulties and ultimately death.
The Deadly TseTse Fly
This flying insect is found in mainly in Africa and, like the mosquito, is also a blood sucker. It is a transmitter of the serious disease known as sleeping sickness.
Top 10 Deadliest Animals on the Planet
1. Mosquito. Now most of these bites from these little pests cause you to itch, but some carry and transfer malaria. As a result, more than two million people a year fall victim to these deathly insects.
Worlds Deadliest Spider: Brazilian Wandering Spider, Banana Spider
The world’s deadliest spider, the Brazilian Wandering Spider, was found in a bunch of bananas in a Whole Foods Store in Tulsa, Oklahoma. See photos and a video below. Brazilian Wandering Spider.
Amazing Facts About Arthropods
There are more than 900000 known species of insects in the world.
It is not ladybugs that have the stinky smell if a predator, etc. messes with it, it is the beetle, which looks just like a lady bug only it is a darker color orange.