The water bug is an exotic creature of our planet. Troll larva: a new very strange species of insect has been discovered A new insect similar to a hedgehog has appeared

A large family of bedbugs surprises with its diversity. Among them there are predators, bloodsuckers, pests and completely harmless creatures. The body sizes of these creatures reach from 0.3 mm to 15 cm. Insects conquered all the elements, including water. Water bugs such as smooth and giant water bugs cannot be ignored. If giants live in tropical countries: India, Thailand, South America. That smooth bug can be found in our reservoirs.

How to recognize smooth

The name speaks for itself. The body of the bug resembles a boat. The streamlined shape allows it to move quickly in the water. A smooth surface makes this process easier. The insect has 3 pairs of legs. The last are the longest and most unusual - in the form of oars. Thanks to them, the smooth water bug calmly cuts through the water column and quickly reaches its intended goal. The appearance of the smooth water bug attracts the human eye more than it repels. Interesting coloration, which is distributed in a regular geometric shape. Shades are present: yellow, green, light green, brown. And even pink. On the head of the water bug are huge eyes.

Behavioral Features

Interestingly, smooth water bugs can make sounds that are similar to the chirping of grasshoppers. The insect quickly rubs its proboscis with its front paws and a kind of singing is obtained. This water bug swims in a special way. He rolls over onto his back and changes beyond recognition. This strange feature helps the insect to remain undetected in the water by predators such as fish. Since the smooth body of a water bug with coloring in the tone of a reservoir is difficult to notice from a depth. Gladysh spreads its paws to the side and moves smoothly, pushing off with its fins. From a bird's eye view, the water bug can be confused with a plant. Therefore, birds often ignore him. At the same time, the smooth surface of the water calmly approaches the victim, which lives in the upper layer of water, and is taken to the meal. However, they cannot stay in the water for a long time. Periodically turn over, rise to the surface to breathe air. And at this very moment they risk being eaten.

In case of danger, the water bug acts like most of its relatives. He's just pretending to be dead. And when that doesn't help, the smooth surface releases an odorous substance with an unpleasant odor. In nature, such a signal is regarded as "carefully, poisonous!".

Insect habitats

The smooth bug prefers closed reservoirs with stagnant water. But to see it, it is not necessary to go to such places. An insect may end up in a puddle, a barrel of water. And in the evening it can be found in the veranda or on the terrace. Water bugs smooth fly perfectly. But water bugs do this rarely. Mainly for moving to more suitable water bodies in search of food. They have a weakness - they love bright light. In the evening, the activity of smooth bugs increases. Because many insects at this time begin to crawl out of shelters. And the included light bulbs and lanterns cannot be ignored. For those who camped near the pond for the night, a meeting with these creatures is guaranteed.

Food habits of the water bug

The smooth bug does not differ from other members of its family in terms of nutrition. The insect has piercing-sucking mouthparts, and the saliva contains a nerve agent. However, like all representatives of this family. Water bugs first pierce the victim, then let in an antiseptic. Under the influence of unique saliva, all the insides quickly liquefy. The smooth bug can calmly start a meal and suck out the entire inside.

Offspring of smooth

The insect lays eggs, which are carefully hidden at the bottom of the reservoir. Their water bugs are located on the lower part of the plants. The eggs are light yellow in color. Gather in an even circle. On average, the larva matures for 2 weeks. If the water is warm, water bugs appear 2-3 days earlier. The appearance of the larvae changes throughout the summer. During this time, water bugs go through 4 molts. After each increase in size, the color changes. Leads the same way of life as an adult. They don't really stick together. Everyone hunts individually.

Human danger

Gladysh can be called an exotic harmless creature. Man is not his goal. The insect bites extremely rarely. Mostly when they feel in danger. Curious and fearless children often suffer from them. Picking up a bug, they risk getting a bee-like sting. The poison contained in saliva is not dangerous to humans. But the bite site will be felt for a long time. Smoothness can be called more useful than harmful. The indefatigable water bug eats hundreds of mosquito larvae per day. Regulates the number of other harmful insects. Gladysh never attacks people first. Don't touch him and he won't!

Giant bugs - who are they?

For better or worse, there are no giant water bugs in our area. Giant water bug is a foreign tropical creature. Belongs to the genus Belostoma. Reaches a length of 15 cm. The color is brown with different tints. The frightening appearance of an insect does not mean at all that it is dangerous to humans. Giant water bugs have 3 pairs of limbs. The anterior ones are bent in the form of pincers. With them, the predator grabs the prey and draws it to itself.

The process of hunting and feeding

Giant water bugs can be found in ponds with stagnant water. Belostoma giant water bug prefers to hunt at night. Water bugs choose a convenient place, and simply freeze. When the prey approaches, the giant bug quickly grabs it with its claws. In the saliva of the belostomy there is a substance with a nerve-paralytic effect. The victim has no chance of survival if the water bug injection has already followed. Giant water bugs are interested in large insects, frogs, small fish. The giant belostom bug itself rarely becomes a victim.

reproduction

This point requires special attention. Caring for future offspring is completely shifted to the strong back of giant water bugs - fathers. The female belostomy lays 3-4 eggs directly on the back of the male. It does this until there are about 100 pieces. This amount of back giant water bugs can easily fit. From now on, all responsibility is shifted to dad. The water bug bears them for 2 weeks. Periodically, the giant water bug rises to the surface and exposes its back for warming up. In this way, the larvae avoid the formation of mold and the accumulation of harmful microorganisms. In this form, the belostomy resembles a hedgehog.

The harm and benefits of giant water bugs

It is not worth fearing for the life or health of a person when meeting with this water bug. Belostoma does not prey on humans. In addition, for giant water bugs, it is preferable to quickly take refuge in a safe place. However, strongly persistent curious people risk getting bitten. Water bugs bite like a bee or wasp. There will be no big consequences. There will just be redness, swelling. The sore spot will calm down after a week.

On the contrary, the belostomy is considered a very useful bug. Water bugs are the only creature that can calmly deal with pests such as three-keeled turtles. They are a great danger to the young generation of commercial fish.

In addition, giant harmless water bugs themselves suffer from human hands. Giant water bug is served fried in Thai restaurants. The demand for such exotic dishes is quite high. Therefore, in some lakes, the giant bug remained in small numbers. And on farms they try to breed them.

The bug is not always harmful and dangerous to health. Reckless destruction of these creatures is strictly prohibited. Even if a wonderful dish is prepared from the bug. Everything in nature is interconnected! Perhaps in the era of global warming, such large creatures will appear in our ponds. You need to know how to meet them.

FAKE STATUS: active
APPEARANCE: autumn 2016 a, Mexico

Apparently, the citizens of our vast Motherland became bored and some decided, out of boredom, to scare the population and their loved ones and distant ones with a new misfortune and dragged last year's fake on VKontakte, which somehow, apparently, did not receive strong distribution (let's give credit to the admins of the group - at the time of writing this material, this already deleted):

We look - where and when it went:

In a standard manner "inform everyone, all the media are silent, almost everyone has died around the world and in our village" a message began to spread through Russian social networks " Attention! a particularly dangerous insect, unknown until recently, entered Russia from India! Do not try to kill him with your hands - as soon as you touch him, you will instantly be struck by a terrible virus, from which there is no vaccine yet! Spread this message, take care of the kids!"

Panic notes are accompanied by creepy, unbearable pictures:

It seemed especially funny to us that in Mexico, in a number of cases, the RUSSIA TODAY channel was indicated as a source of information, and specifically its broadcast to South America:

As can be seen from the above picture, the comment is unambiguous - "Fake deadly bugs in Mexico: Disturbing news about deadly bugs in Mexico is spreading online and on multiple sites".

The photo on the right, which could easily pass as a frame from any horror movie or Photoshop user's imagination, has nothing to do with this article. This is the image that uses trypophobia, dislike for agglomerates of round objects, which we will discuss below.

The RT logo is also false, not a single material, article, video with this name in the Spanish-language direction of work can be found on the RT website.

The "new insect" is by no means new, but well known to everyone - the male bug of the Belostomatidae family. The water bug, which is one of the largest insects, reaches a length of up to 10 centimeters. In this family, the eggs laid by the female stick to the body of the male for the purpose of protection. These bugs do not suck blood as described in the article, however, they can sting when they feel threatened. That is, this photo has nothing to do with the panic article at all, and seems to have been used to increase the fear caused by the similarity of the image of the holes in the arm and the accumulation of eggs on the back of the male. Of course, for everyone who was brought up on the knowledge that aliens strive to get into a person and lay eggs there, unconscious and conscious fears and disgust immediately worked, which led in a number of cases to a nervously accidental pressing of the "repost" button.

How this and in whose head it "came to India" is no longer clear. It’s strange that it hasn’t yet spread from Kazakhstan in the spring, where for some reason they prefer to distribute fakes via WansUp:

Apparently, a classic phenomenon occurred - a certain insect of MICROSCOPIC (do you see a "microscopic insect" in the picture? It seems that experts recognized a bug in it, which, as written above, can reach 10 centimeters) sizes was indeed found in India. Then someone stuck an illustration to it that has nothing to do with the situation.

Let's compare the two texts and once again learn how to highlight manipulative emotional generalized phrases:

But what do we have in scary pictures?

and here's what:

What is it?

If you feel disgust and fear at the sight of a honeycomb or a fungus sponge, you have trypophobia. Although, in fact, not everything is so simple. Let's figure it out.

The term trypophobia, or fear of clustered holes, comes from the Greek trypa, or hole. Fear arises in people suffering from this condition at the moment when they see something covered with small holes arranged in an asymmetrical pattern.

It is characteristic that a person suffering from a phobia feels a number of unpleasant symptoms at the sight of holes in cheese, washcloths, enlarged pores on the face, honeycombs and even a bar of aerated chocolate!

Everything objects that have numerous cluster holes in their structure, represent a huge discomfort for trypophobes.

Trypophobes are afraid of:

• holes in the human body
• holes in plants and animals
• holes and multiple holes on food
• holes on inanimate objects: fossil, household, hygienic.
• cluster holes formed as a result of human and animal life (earthworm passages)
• graphic and digital images of multiple holes

It is noteworthy that trypophobes are not afraid of absolutely all objects that have cluster holes. So, a person suffering from a phobia may be afraid of a washcloth, but react quite calmly to holes in cheese or bread.

Experts say that this feature is due to the fact that trypophobes are only afraid of those things and objects from which danger is expected, which is directly related to certain causes of fear.

If at the sight of multiple holes and openings you experiencing the following sensations, then you are among the 10% of the world's inhabitants suffering from trypophobia:

• pruritus
• goosebumps
• disgust
• disgust
• panic
• fear that someone lives in the holes
• increased sweating
• allergic reactions on the skin
• shortness of breath
• pallor
• dizziness
• nausea

One of the psychologists named Jeff Cole he himself diagnosed trypophobia and began an intensive study of it. The scientist came to the conclusion that this fear is based on a variant of animal atavism and biological disgust - the fear that someone can live in the holes and carry a certain danger. After all, numerous holes and spotting are certainly present on the body of the most poisonous creatures on the planet and in their habitats. Our ancestors, as the scientist explains, determined the danger by these signs, and subconscious fear stopped them from a fatal step

Many psychologists suggest that, as such, the fear of multiple holes every person has. According to them, some show this fear, while others may not even be aware of it.

In addition, the stories of many people experiencing trypophobia lead researchers to believe that all fears come from childhood

So, one of the respondents said that in childhood he was bitten by a bee and his skin was so swollen that he saw every pore, and the other told how his parents were killed with a knife, the handle of which had cluster holes

Trypophobia on the skin: hello photoshop

Many, due to their ignorance, believe that trypophobia is a skin disease, which consists in the formation of various holes on the human body. It's actually a mental disorder. is not a disease and formations on the body due to a phobia do not appear.

Really, "trypophobia in pictures" originates in 2005 . The growth of the disease was facilitated by the rapid development of digital photography, when everyone got the opportunity to take a large photo of an orange peel or coral. Plus, the rapid development of various 3D technologies has added fuel to the fire, you can learn more about them on the website. Today, one does not have to be a professional photographer or artist to quickly and easily create images that cause many people to trypophobic horror.

Especially popular among those who want to get scared are colorful photos of human skin, covered with trypophobic patterns. It might look something like this.

Such images cause unpleasant emotions in 30% of people. But it would be wrong to say that all these people suffer from trypophobia. After all, the images are really dangerous. Imagine that you met a person on the street who is actually covered in holes like this. Most likely he is very seriously ill and contagious. And it carries danger. And therefore, the fear caused by such hypothetical individuals in others is not of some morbid nature.

However, 16-18% of people in trypophobic horror are no longer photoshopped pictures of people's skin, but normal macro images of objects of animate and inanimate nature.

So what scares us so much in the past of mankind? And here's what:

We also thought that "it would be better if we didn't see something here."

Well, the citizens also comment:

PLEASE TURN ON THE HEAD, DO NOT REACH THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITHOUT TURNING ON THE HEAD AND DO NOT FORGET THAT THE SIGN OF A STANDARD FAKE IS EMOTIONAL CALLS "TELL EVERYONE! WARN EVERYONE! SAVE-HELP! AND MANY, MUCH EXCLAMATIONS".

Many people are afraid of insects, flying, crawling. But they are not at all dangerous, although not entirely attractive in appearance. There are many amazing insects in the world that you did not even know about.

In this review, you will learn about the most unusual and mysterious creatures of our planet, which are very well adapted to their lifestyle, and many of them are huge.

Huge water bug.

The water bug has long been under the threat of extinction. The appearance of this insect is very unusual. The water bug is somewhat reminiscent of a tiny hedgehog. It lives in Japan and can grow up to 15 centimeters in length.

The huge water bug is considered one of the most biting insects in the world. How bedbugs bite - everyone knows, and in this case, the water bug is no exception. Its bite is very painful. Therefore, it is not advised to dive where they live.

These insects live in rice fields, feeding on small fish, various crustaceans and amphibians. During the hunt, these insects quickly paralyze their prey, because they can not cope with it because of their tiny size. If the bug feels danger, he skillfully pretends to be dead. This insect is considered a sophisticated delicacy in Thailand.

Turtle beetle Aspidomorpha.

One of the most beautiful beetles are Aspidomorpha, popularly called the turtle beetle. It is called so because of the shape of the body, which strongly resembles a turtle. In length, this insect reaches 7 - 8 millimeters.

The beetle has a very bright and beautiful color. The body of the insect is oval, slightly flattened. The beetle not only looks amazing, but also has amazing features. It can change the color of the upper transparent layer, which is called the "shell", thereby creating optical illusions and merge with the objects surrounding it. This ability helps him hide from predators.

Stick insects.

The next type of insects are stick insects (ghost insects). There are 2,500 species of these amazing insects in the world. Stick insects live in the tropics.

Outwardly, they look like some kind of alien creature. The shape of the body allows them to camouflage among the various leaves and branches that they are very similar to. Stick insects can take almost any shape due to their thin body. One of the most striking ghost species is the Megastick.

It grows up to 57 centimeters in size and was only discovered in 2008. This species is named after Datuk Chan-Chu-Lun, who was one of the first of all who began to study it. The lifestyle of this insect is not yet fully understood, as the Megastick has only been seen a few times in the deep jungle.

Winged crocodile (Fulgora laternaria).

The winged crocodile strikes not only people with its appearance, but also predators. It lives on trees and flowers. It is popularly called the crocodile, and its real name is Fulgora laternaria. The lantern grows up to 9 centimeters in length.

They called this insect a crocodile because of the unusual shape of the head. It has false eyes on its wings that aid in camouflage and escape from predators.

STICTOCEPHALA BISONIA.

Stictocephala bisonia has an unusual appearance throughout life. The larva has a pinkish color and has "thorns" that are located along the body. The larva resembles a very small dinosaur. Adults have angularities and the shape of an irregular rhombus. On the limbs there are long hairs of a light color. The size of this species is not more than one dozen millimeters.

Do you know all your neighbors? Sure? Some of them are so small that you just can't see them. Insects live in almost every home. It's a fact: even if you can't see them, it almost always means that the "roommates" are just very successful in hiding. In some cases, insects in an apartment are absolutely harmless, but some of their species pose a serious danger not only to food and things, but also to the person himself. In general, get acquainted!

For thousands of years, people have sought shelter, starting with the first cave, then building shelters from tree branches and leaves, and making tents from animal skins. Time passed, and additional tools were developed, mankind began to build houses from strong wood and stone, houses appeared. And always, from the very first dwelling, various insects lived next to a person. Today we see them as uninvited guests, and we prefer to live without them. But if you think about it, they were before us, and they will be after us. Here is a list of 15 little creatures that you might share your home with. They are also called synanthropes (non-domesticated plants and microorganisms whose lifestyle is associated with a person and his housing, for example, cockroaches, house flies, house mice, bed bugs).

15. Spiders

Spiders are probably one of the most common creatures we share our homes with, and some of these arachnids will appear on this list more than once. In nature, there is a great variety of spiders, more than 45,000 different species. In general, modern spiders have settled around the world over the past 200 million years, which is mainly the reason for their wide distribution and diversity. The spider does nothing wrong in the house, sometimes it even benefits - it catches flies. Our ancestors had a huge variety of signs associated with spiders, mostly positive. They say spiders are harbingers of good things. But, probably, if you trust the signs too much, then you will completely overgrow with cobwebs.

14. Ground beetles

Just like spiders, beetles are very ancient and perfectly adapted creatures for survival. There are more than 40,000 species of ground beetles alone in the world, and these insects come to our homes without an invitation. The most common is the grain beetle. They usually cause damage to crops in fields, but are increasingly found in regular apartments. The grain beetle crawls into the apartment only if it likes the living conditions. As soon as the insect enters the house, at nightfall it goes to look for food (crumbs, food left on the table, cereals). Ground beetles interfere with sleep, rustle, fall from the ceiling onto the bed or right on you. And if they have found food, then the next step will be their reproduction. So, if the grain beetle appeared in the house, urgent action must be taken.

13. Crickets

The wise cricket, who gave advice to Pinocchio, probably looked somehow different. And ordinary crickets are creepy insects, sometimes huge. A popular sign says that if a cricket is wound up in a house, then this is fortunately and well-being. But people who have been visited in large numbers by this "happiness" do not share this point of view and are looking for ways to get rid of them. About 2.3 thousand species of these insects are known in the world, of which only about 50 are found on the territory of Russia. Most of them live in subtropical and tropical countries. Our most famous species are field cricket and brownie cricket. Brownie cricket in the southern part of the country lives both in apartments and in nature. In the central and northern regions, he lives only in houses next to a person, while giving preference to old warm rooms with high humidity. These insects live and breed well in warm basements flooded with water. Sometimes crickets can spoil food and even things in the apartment, just like moths. Therefore, although popular belief does not advise offending them, it is better to bring out crickets. Unless, of course, you liked the "night concerts" that crickets usually arrange.

11. Carpet Mite

Scientists have found more than 1,000 different types of house mites, and all of them cause great harm to humans, and all year round. Any carpet or carpet perfectly collects dust, it accumulates in its villi and even daily cleaning will not give a positive result - dust and mites will still remain there. Ticks, unlike most insects on this list, are very harmful to humans. The mites themselves are able to leave their waste products in the form of feces, which contain digestive enzymes, they destroy the cells of the human body and can cause severe allergies and asthma. The harm caused by carpet mites is not limited to allergies: conjunctivitis, allergic rhinitis, atypical dermatitis and others can develop. It's easy to deal with them - throw away all carpets and upholstered furniture, once and for all!

10. Dark-winged mosquito

The main harm is squeaking and disturbing sleep! Thank God, mankind has invented many ways to get rid of mosquitoes. Mosquito nets, repellents and fumigators are a whole industry. Arrange fresh branches of elderberry, bird cherry, Caucasian chamomile or basil in the rooms, and place a container with tomato seedlings or geraniums in a pot under the windows and on the balcony. Mosquitoes do not like the smell of these plants, so they will want to leave your house as soon as possible. According to popular beliefs, these small, disgustingly buzzing bloodsuckers - mosquitoes - are capable of bringing not only absolute harm, but also benefit, predicting the weather and future events. Clouds of mosquitoes - good weather tomorrow. Painful mosquito bites and a particularly active buzzing of bloodsuckers - to soon bad weather and night rain.

9 Spitter Spider

As previously mentioned, there will be more than one species of spider on this list. Spiders of this species catch prey by spraying a liquid onto it, which renders it harmless by freezing on contact into a poisonous and sticky mass. You can observe the habit of spiders to swing from side to side. They do this in order to wrap their prey. Most spiders are only capable of producing silk, but Scytodes spitting spiders are an exception. Together with silk, they release poison from their mouths, and silk strands impregnated with toxin, falling on the victim of a spider, fetter it. These spiders are not dangerous to humans, they do not weave grandiose traps, and they look unremarkable. But still, they have one feature - during the hunt, they "spit" their prey. It may sound a little harsh, but it's true. For this they got their name "spit". Spitting spiders live in both warm tropical and temperate regions, including Russia, in human homes, where it is warm.

8. Clothes moth

The moth inhabits houses and is a household pest whose caterpillars spoil fabrics by eating them and gnaw on silk upholstery of furniture. Damage to products is caused only by caterpillars, because adults are deprived of a gnawing type of mouth apparatus. At dark night time, adult moths fly to an artificial light source. According to some data, room moth caterpillars also feed on plant substances, namely grains of wheat, barley, oats, corn, flour and dry bread. The room moth is widespread worldwide, this type of Lepidoptera is a serious pest in human homes. They feed on clothing, carpets, rugs, and upholstery, as well as fur, wool, feathers, and miscellaneous items such as animal bristles used to make toothbrushes and piano fibre.

7. Woodlice

Generally speaking, wood lice are not insects (they belong to crustaceans), but they lead about the same lifestyle as cockroaches. When threatened, they collapse, simulating death.
In most cases, wood lice start up only in those apartments where it is constantly damp, for example, water is leaking from pipes. These insects are excellent indicators of various plumbing failures and flange depressurization. The appearance of wood lice in the apartment, first of all, should worry lovers of indoor flowers, because if measures are not taken in time and removed, the plants will die soon. First of all, these insects harm moisture-loving tropical plants that have a thin and delicate root system (orchid, fern, cactus), hitting it, so if you have just such plants, then you should fight more actively.

5. Ants

At different times of the year and in different regions of the country in an apartment, and even more so in a private house, you can often meet representatives of various types of ants. Very often, ants in an apartment are random guests brought in on clothes or with things. Among them are insects of different sizes and colors. However, the real pest in the apartment is only the so-called pharaoh ant - an independent species of heat-loving small ants, which in our latitudes, in addition to residential heated premises, cannot live anywhere. These red ants in an apartment are a real problem: they are numerous, spoil food, can carry pathogens of various diseases, and besides, they are removed with great difficulty.
In one colony of domestic ants, several dozen queens and up to 350,000 workers can live. The reasons for the fact that red ants appear in an apartment, although not numerous, can be found in almost any home. That is why small red ants successfully conquer more and more new areas and are likely to appear in any apartment, even the cleanest one.

4. Silverfish (common silverfish)

You may have seen them somehow in the bathroom or toilet if you went there in the middle of the night (they quickly run away when the lights are turned on). Those thin, silvery, little things on the floor? Do you remember? They are called silverfish. Like most of the other creatures on this list, silverfish don't pose any real harm to us, they don't bite. Cases of contact did not reveal a negative impact on human health. Eat foods of plant origin containing starch or polysaccharides; but they may not eat anything for months. Their diet may include sugar, flour, glue, book binding, paper, photographs, starchy fabrics. From warehouses can be brought into the house through the purchase of toilet paper or paper napkin cartons. Harmless to humans and pets and are not carriers of disease, but may damage wet paper.
Their scientific name is "common silverfish" (lat. Lepisma saccharina). It is believed that silverfish is one of the oldest living insects - its ancestors lived on Earth more than 300 million years ago, back in the Paleozoic era. Silverfish prefer damp and dark places, if the house is dry and light, then there will be no silverfish there.

3. Cockroaches

The remains of cockroaches are, along with the remains of cockroaches, the most numerous traces of insects in Paleozoic deposits. In addition, cockroaches are the earliest known Polyneoptera, possibly descending from an ancestor of the entire subcohort. They have always been and will be on Earth. More than 4600 species of cockroaches are known; especially numerous in the tropics and subtropics. On the territory of the former USSR - 55 species. In recent years, reports of a decrease in the number of certain species of cockroaches in the CIS have been popular (they say they completely left apartments in St. Petersburg and some other cities - no one was upset, but the reasons are interesting).
A number of cockroaches live in human dwellings, being synanthropes, for example, a red cockroach (Prussian), or a black cockroach. Others are brought with tropical products to temperate countries and sometimes take root in heated rooms (American cockroach). Cockroaches can damage food, leather goods, book bindings, indoor and greenhouse plants. Some cockroaches, feeding on various garbage, including feces, are carriers of infectious diseases (for example, dysentery) and worm eggs.

2. Spider-harvest

Harvest spiders building trapping webs are ubiquitous. They hang upside down on their messy, tangled, uneven web. Webs are built in dark damp niches of caves, trees and under stones, in dens abandoned by mammals, for example, in cellars and various buildings. In human homes, they like dry and warm places near windows. How dangerous are harvester spiders to humans? Suffice it to say that what poison they have, they spend exclusively on their victims, inflicting a paralyzing bite on them. Nothing more is enough for him. The main reason for declaring war on arachnids is arachnophobia. Some people do not even tolerate them visually, in others, a creature that has fallen on the body causes panic fear. The problem is so serious that psychologists are dealing with it.

1. Flycatcher

The common flycatcher, also known as the domestic centipede, is often found in private houses and cottages, and is also found in apartments. Due to its large size, repulsive appearance and high speed of movement, this insect, which suddenly appeared in the house, often terrifies residents. But the domestic centipede is a peaceful and completely harmless insect. Usually they appear in search of food from the street or from a neighboring apartment. If centipedes can find a permanent source of food in the house, then there is a high probability of their appearance in this room. Especially often centipedes are found in private houses, settling in basements, basements and underground floors, from where they go hunting, moving around all the rooms.

A few weeks ago, the international community of biologists reported that the result of many years of field research was the discovery of many completely new species of animals and insects, among which the blue scorpion and the giant hairy spider are most notable.

Over 20 years of research in the tropics, many previously unknown animals and insects have been discovered. Of course, it is not yet possible to publish a complete list of species, since most of the finds have not yet been systematized, but a group of scientists decided to tell the public about the most amazing finds during their work!

One of the most unusual finds was a huge tarantula (theraphosa blondi). The body length of an adult insect (without legs) reaches almost 20 centimeters, and its weight is up to 170 grams! At the moment, this is the largest spider in the world known to science.

The spider was first discovered during an expedition to Guyne (a small state on the northeast coast of South America). The spider lives in underground burrows and, despite its name, does not feed on birds at all, but on small invertebrates (lizards and even poisonous snakes)! Despite the fact that the spider has poisonous fangs, its bite is not dangerous to humans.

No less interesting is the imperial scorpion (Pandinus imperator). The body size of the imperial scorpion reaches 20 centimeters. This is one of the largest scorpions in the world (the species from India is considered the largest scorpion).

The emperor scorpion was also discovered in 2006 in Ghana. Despite its impressive size, the scorpion is not at all considered a dangerous predator and termites form the basis of its diet.

Another discovery of biologists, according to Dailymail, was a new species of ants. Hooked ants were discovered in 2007 in Cambodia. These insects make their homes in the trunks of dead trees, easily cutting tunnels through the wood thanks to sharp hooks on the body.