What is the prettiest bug?

Top 10 Most Beautiful Insects In The World
  • Christmas beetle. http://blogpestcontrol.com/2012/12/the-christmas-beetle/ ...
  • Jewel Caterpillar. ...
  • Cotton Harlequin Bug. ...
  • Peacock Spider. ...
  • Blue Morpho Butterfly. ...
  • Pink Katydid. ...
  • Devil's Flower Mantis. ...
  • Madagascan Sunset Moth.
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What is world's prettiest insect?

The Most Beautiful Insect: Widely accepted to be the Sunset Moth from Malagasy (Madagascar), a day-flying moth of rainbow colors.
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What is the cutest looking bug?

Hey, some of them may even be worth a cuddle.
  • 1) Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa Rubicunda) ...
  • 2) Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar (Papilio Troilus) ...
  • 3) Jewel Beetles (Buprestidae) ...
  • 4) Ladybugs (Coccinellidae) ...
  • 5) Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) ...
  • 6) Peacock Spider (Maratus Personatus)
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What is the coolest looking bug?

Up first: an artistically inclined butterfly named after one of the giants of modern art.
  • Picasso moth. Scientific name: Baorisa hieroglyphica. ...
  • Red spotted jewel beetle. Scientific name: Stigmodera cancellata. ...
  • Claudina butterfly. ...
  • Violin beetle. ...
  • Green milkweed grasshopper. ...
  • Gray's leaf insect. ...
  • Papuan green weevil. ...
  • Cuckoo wasp.
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What are pretty bugs?

Lady bugs, velvet ants, and fireflies are some of the most beautiful insects in the world. Grasshoppers are another animal found on this list. Dragon flies and rosy maple moth are also on our list of the 10 most beautiful insects.
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15 Most Beautiful Insects In The World



What is the tastiest bug?

Sago grubs are often called the bacon of the bug world.
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Is there a cute insect?

From the cartoonish cottony cushion scale to the darling damselfly, we've rounded up images of the world's most adorable insects. Click on for fuzzy bumblebees, rainbow-winged beetles and googly-eyed caterpillars galore.
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What is the rarest bug ever?

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

The Academy's Entomology Collection contains five specimens of the world's rarest and most endangered insect, the land lobster (Dryococelus australis).
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What's the weirdest bug ever?

14 of the world's weirdest insects
  1. Hercules beetle. (Wikimedia/Didier Descouens/CC BY-SA 4.0 ) ...
  2. Giant long-legged katydid. (Canva) ...
  3. Assassin bug. (Canva) ...
  4. Goliath beetle. (Wikimedia/w:en:user:fir0002/CC BY-SA 3.0) ...
  5. Giant burrowing cockroach. (Wikimedia/Urasimaru/CC BY-SA 2.0) ...
  6. Titan beetle. ...
  7. Thorn bug. ...
  8. Devil's flower mantis.
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What is the world's creepiest bug?

About Green Wing
  • Assassin bug. ...
  • House centipedes. ...
  • Camel spiders. ...
  • Bot fly. ...
  • Tongue-eating louse. ...
  • Giant Silkworm Assassin Caterpillar. ...
  • Bullet ant. Depending on who you ask, this one-inch-long ant is capable of delivering the world's most painful insect bite. ...
  • Cockroach.
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What is the fluffiest bug?

Wooly aphids (family Aphididae, subfamily Eriosomatinae) are spectacular when sitting on twigs in large assemblages, and startling as individuals, flying through the air like bits of fluff or feathers. Their aerial appearance has earned them common names like fairy flies, fluff bugs, and angel bugs.
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What is the kissing bug?

Because they tend to bite people's faces, triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs”. After they bite and ingest blood, they defecate (poop) on the person. The person can become infected if T. cruzi parasites in the bug feces enter the body through mucous membranes or breaks in the skin.
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What looks like a kissing bug?

Recently, the commonest look-alike I've been getting reports of is the masked hunter bug (Reduvius personatus), which can also be encountered indoors. If you aren't familiar with masked hunter bugs, there's a good reason why these insects can sometimes mistaken for kissing bugs—they're technically kissing cousins.
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What insect looks like a fairy?

Fairy wasps (family Mymaridae) are tiny, feathery-winged parasitoid wasps. They're often called fairy flies, which is a misnomer. The Mymaridae family includes the smallest known insects in the world.
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What is the cleanest bug in the world?

It might be difficult to believe, but the cockroach might be the “cleanest” species of insect.
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Are there any pink bugs?

Pink katydids are a color morph of the green katydid and were first discovered in 1887. They are relatively uncommon. Only one of about 500 has this pink pigmentation, also known as erythrism.
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What bug has no purpose?

Of course, the giant water bug has no more purpose behind its existence than the frog it eats, and incessantly demanding a reason for its presence is useless except when it helps us understand our own condition.
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Is there a zombie bug?

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859, and currently found predominantly in tropical forest ecosystems.
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What is the least popular bug?

Cockroaches

The most hated bug in the U.S. by a long shot is the cockroach. In addition to 27.3 percent of all respondents naming cockroaches as their least favorite creepy crawler, the insect is also the most hated in 29 out of 50 states, and the most abhorred bug by both men (24.1 percent) and women (30.6 percent).
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Is there a bug that never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii.
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What bug comes every 17 years?

The 17-year cicadas are species of periodical cicadas, a group of homopterans with the longest known insect life cycle. The largest brood makes its appearance every 17 years, like clockwork, in the northeastern quarter of the United States.
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What bug is gold?

Few insects boast a truly gold-colored body. The Golden Tortoise Beetle is even more remarkable because it can actually change its coloring at will thanks to microscopic cavities in its cuticle that house pigmentation. The beetle's metallic sheen can be dulled, and that lovely gold can become brown.
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Can bugs smile?

Insects can't smile, but it's not their fault any more than it was the fault of my fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Kessler, who we called Fossil Face Kessler because she was incapable of smiling. It is because inflexible exoskeletons make faces rigid.
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Do tiny bugs have feelings?

They can be optimistic, cynical, or frightened, and respond to pain just like any mammal would. And though no one has yet identified a nostalgic mosquito, mortified ant, or sardonic cockroach, the apparent complexity of their feelings is growing every year.
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What insect can feel emotions?

Bumblebees seem to have a “positive emotionlike state,” according to a study published this week in Science. In other words, they may experience something akin to happiness. To some, the idea is still controversial, however.
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