5 Most Harmful and Poisonous Insects in the World

VIVA – Insects can be very harmful animals and scary when biting humans. Bites or stings may endanger your life if the infections are not medically countered as soon as possible.

The size of the insect is large and small, but this size does not affect the strength of the insect. Many insects are small but very dangerous and poisonous.

Driver ants are one of the most dangerous types of ants. Even elephants who see this type of ant colony can run away in fear. Driver ants are commonly found in Congo, Africa. These animals are better known as Dorylus.

Bullet ants are one of the largest ant species in the world. Bullet ants have the Latin name, Paraponera Clavata. Bullet ants have a very strong sting and bite, like being shot with a bullet.

This species lives in tropical rain forests in the humid lowlands from southern Nicaragua to Paraguay.

The locals call the bullet ant "Hormiga Veinticuatro", because from the start of being bitten the pain will last for a whole day. Bullet ants are 18–25 mm long and stocky, with a reddish black color resembling the shape of a wasp without wings.

Fire ant or scientific name as Solenopsi. The length of this ant reaches 3 mm and the length of the queen fire ant reaches 6 mm. Fire ants are reddish brown in color.

These insects usually live in colonies with the number of colonies can reach up to 100,000 ants. Each colony of fire ants is led by a queen ant who lays between 150 and 200 eggs/day.

Kissing bugs are a type of blood-sucking parasite that are attracted through their digestion through the breath. Other local names for them used in America include barbeiros, vinchucas, pitos, chipos and chinch.

These insects are common and widespread in the Americas, with some species present in Asia, Africa, and Australia.

5. Fleas

Fleas are insects belonging to the order Siphonaptera. Fleas are parasitic insects that are commonly found in animals, but sometimes also in humans. This insect sucks blood from the host it is riding on.

Some species of fleas that have been found include the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis), the human flea (Pulex irritans), and the tightly attached flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea). So far, more than 2,000 species of fleas have been found worldwide.