Bugs. They’re just harmless little things, right? Tiny, gross, often annoying little things perhaps? But hey, they’re nothing to be scared of! Wrong. Annoying buzzing around your head is the least of your worries if you come across these members of the insect world which can do everything from causing severe allergic reactions to passing along deadly diseases to people or animals. In this macro photography collection, they won’t seem so small and innocent anymore. Check out some of the world’s deadliest insects. And duck! Buzzzzz!!!
1. Anopheles Mosquito
Photo by samizda
Photo by Alan Cressler
2. Fleas
Photo by ruiamandrade
3. Bees
Photo by Antonio Machado
Photo by floridapfe
Photo by aussiegall
4. TseTse Fly
Photo by omeuceu
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5. Fire Ants
Photo by alexpenev
Photo by BurnEm
Photo by Kevin Prichard
6. Locusts
Photo by Tammy Puntti
Photo by Ash-Speake
Photo by Bryan Salzman
7. Wasps
Photo by Opo Terser
Photo by Rundstedt B. Rovillos
Photo by macropoulos
8. Siafu (African Ants)
Photo by Kalense Kid
Photo by Wildcaster
Photo by gbaku
9. Giant Japanese or Asian Hornet
Photo by jay@flickr
Photo by donald_mcmunn
Photo by donald_mcmunn
10. Hemiptera – kissing bugs
Photo by daveelmore
Photo by daveelmore
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Macrophotography is making very large photographs. Photomacography is making closeup photos of small objects (compared with photomicography, making photographs through a microscope).
The last creature is a Wheel Bug from the Assassin Bug family (reduviidae). He not an insect, but a true bug, and is dangerous to caterpillars for the most part. While he looks pretty impressive, he doesn’t belong in this list — just look at that face — he looks like a nerd with armor — not a violent offender.
Yuck.
@ laurie: True bugs ARE insects, they are one of the thirty or so insect orders. The first is not an anopheles mosquito.
What is dangerous? Sure, occasionally some of these cause harm but it is a hodgepodge of very different categories of danger. Another nonsense list on the web.
amazing photo so detail so colourfull
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