10 Most Dangerous Recently Discovered Insects

somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year so many that it's really hard to keep up with them all scientists have so far identified 2 million species of plants animals and microbes but there is so much more left to discover with insects being a huge part of that discovery from ants using kamikaze techniques to keep the colonies safe to a spider that uses itself as a slingshot to catch its prey check out these 10 recently discovered insects Madagascar's pelicans spider thought to have gone extinct until eighteen new species were rediscovered in 2018 the Madagascar pelicans spider is one of the most bizarre looking spiders on the planet in fact it doesn't really resemble a spider at all at a mere 5 millimeters long these tiny spiders behave just as odd as they look because the most interesting thing is that they don't do what other spiders do they don't build webs big tunnels or set trip wires waiting for an unsuspecting insect to come along instead they follow the faint trails of silk that other spiders leave behind as they go stalking their fellow arachnids until they get a chance to pounce they then use their long fangs as poisonous skewers impaling their prey and if that's not weird enough their heads are stretched into a tubular structure that gives the appearance of a separate head and neck however the spiders mouths are actually below the neck and the head like bulb is loaded with muscles to power their highly maneuverable jaws which they use to impale their prey hitchhiking beetle you might think that writing ants is a mode of transportation reserved for animated kids movies and a certain wisecracking Avenger but apparently a newly discovered beetle in Costa Rica heard about how strong ants are and decided to hitch a ride first found by scientists in 2017 a group of biologists almost didn't notice this well disguised beetle clamped onto the abdomen of an army ant it's so well disguised that detecting this insect is nearly impossible with the naked eye and the researchers only notice them because of a strange difference in the reflection of the abdomen of some of the ants they were collecting at night an up close inspection of the captured ants that are slightly different colors literally to be more specific the beetles used their jaws to bite down and latch onto the ants turning these dedicated workers into a quick mode of transportation from one side of the forest to the other see-through shrimp the see-through shrimp looks like something straight out of a horror movie but it's not actually a shrimp but it's not an alien either these strikingly disturbing looking crustaceans were discovered by a team from the University of Seville in Spain and are actually members of the amphipod family they live in the deep dark of several caves off the coast of Catalina and appear to have at least a few adaptions in common with deep-sea creatures they have small eyes completely see-through bodies and display sexual dimorphism that is to say the two sexes are easily distinguishable by sign males are much larger with bigger claws than females despite their somewhat frightening appearance the translucent body serves a very important purpose of helping disguise them in the water and the trick has been so successful that we've only just found out about them in 2013 fairy-like moth it's not often that a moth is a mystery but the aptly named in nigma moth is practically a Rubik's Cube level puzzle described as a living fossil this sparkling insect is part of an ancient group of moths with ties back to the days of the dinosaurs in fact these odd little creatures are so prehistoric with their iridescent gold and purple scales and feather like tasseled wings that their discovery in 2015 has provided scientists a unique window into the evolutionary paths of mobs and quite possibly insects as a whole what makes a survival of this species especially remarkable is the fact that their entire adult life is only one day long so if you thought finding a date was hard imagine having to do it all under 24 hours yet somehow this tiny fluffy bag has managed to not just survive but to thrive undetected for millennia living branch the stick the sword a post if this living branch ever took on a role in some sort of stage play it would probably be regulated to serving as one of these less than dignified props but that's okay because this bug doesn't want any attention at more than a foot long and considered the second largest stick insect ever to be found in the world this species makes itself at home in the jungles of Vietnam it was discovered just in the year 2014 and managed to stay hidden for so long despite its size because it's stick like form matches so perfectly to its environment that it's nearly impossible to spot if you're just walking through the forest this seemingly odd adaptation has allowed it and similar insects to survive in relative safety often disguising themselves as a very peculiar kind of tree depending on the species fearless and it's well known that ants are almost robotic ly loyal to their home colonies but one fearless ant species discovered in Madagascar back in 2014 take their dedication to family to a whole new heights when worker and fighter ants at the entrance of the nest sense the presence of an intruder they exhibit what is considered a rather strange and extreme insects behavior instead of swarming the foreign body as regular ants would these oddball insects grab onto the offending creature with their huge jaws and hurl themselves off the high ledges through which they tunnel their homes often this brash move is all it takes to toss potential threats to the side and then the ants can just get up March up the hill and go back to work as if nothing's happened it's certainly odd but an effective strategy to defend the colony and it's earned them many thousands of years of survival as a species vicious wasp a lot of people like bees and it's not exactly hard to see why they're fluffy they pollinate our food and they basically keep the entirety of our ecosystem in balance without bees 30% of crops and 90% of wild plants simply wouldn't exist wasps however aren't always so helpful sometimes they're downright scary and the perfectly named bone house wasp is definitely terrifying first spotted in 2014 by German researchers working in China this deadly insect doesn't just pack a reusable sting it's brilliantly demented females of this species have a uniquely horrifying way of providing for their young when a bone house wasp is ready to lay her eggs she constructs a nest made up of many solid walled cells catches and kills a spider for each cell depositing a single egg into the body of each arachnid she then covers and seals each cell with the bodies of dead ants to disguise the smell of her soon-to-be offspring with the chemicals of the rotting and corpses triangle weaver spider this interesting spider was recently discovered and has a remarkable ability that other spiders don't possess the triangle weaver pipe DoD's cavitus builds a web to catch its prey like any other spider however when their prey hit the web something near logic-defying happens sitting in one corner the spider seems to suddenly teleport in the blink of an eye closer to its prey than another and then another until the web eventually collapses on the insect it might seem like this spider has the ability to teleport but it's actually pulling off something you'd never think possible with its front legs it tugs a thread within the larger structure of the web building up tension while at the same time using its back legs to hold another anchor thread leaving a lot of slack the extra thread coils up near the spider spinner egg and when the spider releases the coiled anchor line the arachnid rockets forward with incredible speed which researchers measured at an astonishing 0.4 miles per second 773 meters per second which equates to a dizzying 79 GS to give you an example of how incredible that is fighter pilots pass out at just 9 G's cave-dwelling beetle zoo Deitz bail us at less than half an inch long the recently discovered zoo Knights Bellis doesn't exactly strike an intimidating figure in fact this beetle is so weird it seems like it defies common sense but it just might be the most cave-dwelling adapted beetle in existence when a group of scientists working in the doing guanxi Province in China first shined their lights on this odd-looking little insect they noted that it had no eyes little pigmentation and an extremely long hand actually it was long all over with sections of its legs being much longer than a previously known species this super stretched out body along with the natural climbing ability most beetles share has a these cave-dwelling beetles to squeeze into crevices that remain inaccessible to their more regularly shaped cousins and that proficiency with caves has allowed it to obey detection until recently in 2018 flatty spiders while the other numbers on our list are more about a single newly discovered species in the case of the flatty spiders a study in 2018 resulted in the discovery of three new varieties of this agile arachnid family ignoring the creepy flattened appearance perhaps the coolest thing about these spiders is the fact that they're the fastest turner's on the planet with turning speeds of up to 3,000 degrees per second flatty spiders put even the most seasoned of Olympic skaters to shame slow-motion video evidence of flatty's snatching up crickets showed that the spiders use the leg closest to their prey to anchor themselves while the opposite legs push the spider into a turn that took them a mere eighth of a second to complete this quick spin is an evolutionary adaptation that has allowed flatties to survive right alongside other more regularly shaped spider species we hope you enjoyed this video tell us which one of these creatures you thought was the coolest 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Length: 11min 0sec (660 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/scheckydamon]

Australia ? Am I right? I can't watch it.

[u/Gerry1of1]

I creeped out with the first one, the Pelican Spider.

I'll watch the rest later..............maybe

[u/_Punko_]

Kinda meh. The ones I was interested in, they didn't spend much time discussing. They also screwed up their video in a few places