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Added on: 19th Jun 2015

 

RHINOCEROS COCKROACH (AUSTRALIA)

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Also known as litter bugs, these Australian roaches are the world’s

heaviest cockroach species.

 

 

EUROPEAN EARWIG (EUROPE)

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It got its name from a false superstition that these insects crawl into

the ear of a person and enter their brain.

 

 

ELEPHANT BEETLE

(CARIBBEAN AND THE CONTINENT OF SOUTH AMERICA)

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Recently the Pentagon funded research at the University of California

to outfit these beetles with electrodes that make them remote

controlled.

 

 

HORSE FLY (WORLDWIDE)

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Female horse flies require a meal of mammalian blood prior

to breeding.

 

 

THORN BUG (SOUTHERN FLORIDA)

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Although this one was found in the United States, these bugs live

everywhere except Antarctica. They are named after the large

thorn sticking out of their head.

 

 

HOUSE CENTIPEDE (WORLDWIDE)

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This insect is an insectivore (it eats other insects) and it lives in

human homes.

 

 

TARANTULA HAWK WASP (NEW MEXICO, U.S.A.)

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This spider wasp hunts tarantulas as food for its larvae.

 

 

TSETSE FLY (AFRICA)

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These large, biting flies inhabit much of mid-continental Africa and

feed on the blood of invertebrates.

 


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