Top 10 most dangerous insects in the world

Being bigger is not always better, stinging of many insects can cause many deadly diseases. Some insect bites may result in result in death without proper treatments. Followings are list of most dangerous insects in the world.


Bullet Ant

Bullet ant is the largest of all ant families in the world. They mainly live in rain forests of Nicaragua and Paraguay. Bullet ant named after their harsh sting. It is believed to be the victim will feel same pain as that of short by bullet. In fact the sting by a bullet ant is 30 times more painful than of sting by wasp and honey bees.

The one inch sized bullet ant also called as ’24 hour ant’ by locals because one full day pain followed by it’s sting. Each bullet ant colonies contain hundreds of members. They usually make nest at base of large trees. Bullet ants also release unpleasant odor once they found any predator. If that trick won’t drive predators away they attack together with powerful sting.

Bot Fly

The larvaes of bot flies are internal parasites of mammals. Unfortunately the dangerous larvaes also live beneath human's skin and makes horrible effects. The human bot flies are mainly found across central and South America. Myiasis known parasite infestation makes severe changes in skin tissues. The young female bot fly laid eggs within skin of mammals, also inject into the bodies of mosquitoes for distribution. The larvaes penetrate though skin and lives in sub dermal zones of skin for more than 60 days. The patients can also feel the movement of larvae beneath their skin. Once larvae development gets complete it leaves out of the body.

Fleas

Fleas are external parasites that used to suck blood from bodies of humans, birds, reptiles, wild and domestic animals. The fleas make itching spots on skin of hosts, both in humans and other animals. Fleas reproduce very quickly and only has size of tip of a pen. Every female fleas lays 2000 eggs within their life span.

There are 2000 known species of flies. Young fleas can consume blood more than 15 times of their total body weight. The flea bites on human body result in red bumps, commonly found around waist, knees and elbows. The bite of fleas are very itchy and it may lead to infection.

Fire Ants

There are 285 different species of fire ants are in the world. The aggressive species make painful sting on humans and animals repeatedly. The white pustule caused by fire ant sting last for weeks. Their venom also leads to several skin problems.  Fire ants usually attack in group that contain ten to hundreds pf ants. The venom of fire ants alto make allergic reaction.

Kissing Bug

Kissing bugs grow up by sucking blood of vertebrates. Kissing bugs named after their habit of biting the lip of human while they sleep . They also transmit parasite called as trypanosoma cruzi. The kissing bug disease or ‘changas’ kills 12000 people every year. The changa disease spread to animals and pets in the same way. The bite of kissing bites makes instant changes within body, cause welts and rashes.

Giant Japanese Hornet

Giant Japanese hornet is the largest species of hornet in the world. They grows up to a size of 2 inch. Every year up to 40 deaths are recorded by sting of Japanese hornet. The venom of Japanese hornet makes allergic reaction and dissolve tissues within short time. The repeated stinging from group of hornets also result in death.  Japanese hornets are very aggressive and fearless in nature. Each colonies of Japanese hornet contains 700 members. They feed on honey bee larvaes in larger amount, have power to finish up to 40 honey bees in a minute.

TseTse Flies

TseTse flies is a deadliest biting insect native to Africa. They mainly feed on blood of vertebrates. The extreme dangerous insects inject powerful toxin on each string. It is estimated that about half a million people lost their live by attack of tsetse flies in Africa. At primary stage the venom of tsetse flies makes sleeping sickness on victim. But the sometimes it also may lead to fatality.

Killer Bees

Killer bees also known as Africanized honey bees, one of very aggressive and dominant insects in the world. The group of killer bees follow the victim for more than 1 miles. The group of killer bees consist of hundreds or thousands of members. They attacked in group and make repetitive stinging and cause death. The killer bees mainly target the face and eyes of humans. In fact their toxin is not so dangerous but attack by group cause fatality. They live within large colonies that contain more than 80000 members. Once they get disturbed the bees become alert for next 24 hours and attach any animals and humans come within their range.

Driver Ants

Driver ant have largest colony than any other insects in the world. Each colonies of driver ants have members up to 22 million. Even elephants run away from the group attack of driver ants. They try to finish off any animal that comes across their path. Driver ants normally kill thousands of different animals within a single raid. They make repetitive wounds on animals and humans using their strong mandibles. Driver ants also raid nests of other insects for food and kill them.

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are most dangerous species on Earth. The deadliest insect cause 1 millions death every year by transmitting dangerous malaria disease. Mosquitoes carries malaria germs from one place to another and they transmit germs into the blood of victim by biting. WHO estimated that in every 30 seconds a child dies due to malaria and 500 millions cases of malaria reported every year.

Actually malaria is a blood transmitting disease. The disease won’t affect by contact with sick person. It transmitted through parasites, mainly by bites of mosquitoes. In addition to malaria mosquitoes also spreads dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis and west Nile virus.

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