World's Most Unusual Insects

One bite from this ant is so painful it is compared to a bullet. It causes trembling, throbbing, burning, perspiration, and can cause paralysis that lasts about 24 hours.

Appear to be a cross between a spider, scorpion, and crab. They have no stinger or tail and walk sideways on six legs.

Can support 850 times its own weight on its shell. Strangely with all that strength they eat vegetation and aren’t aggressive except when fighting each other for girls.

Super creepy insects. The larva wait on a flower for a host to fly along. They then bury themselves into its body and feed off of its organs and blood. Adult males leave the host to search for a mate, but they are so good at it they can’t even use their mouths to eat. Females never leave the hosts or grow legs or wings, they just shove the reproductive organs out for the big event.

In some species, the males have two identical, fully-functional and independently operable penises. Generally they only use the right one.

Very violent sex life.

They hide in the bottom of traps and then each grab a limb and tear their prey apart before bringing its parts home for dinner.

Create beautiful pictures in caves in New Zeeland as larva by glowing blue-green. Adults look like mosquitos.

Freakishly white in color. This is believed to help it mimic white fungi.

They seem familiar to us, but they really are quite interesting because of their complex communication structure and ability to create products [honey and wax] that are harvested by several other species.