What is the strongest insect?

Scientists in the SBCS have found that a species of horned dung beetle is the world's strongest insect. After months of gruelling tests, the Onthophagus tauru was found to be able to pull 1,141 times its own body weight, which is the equivalent of a human lifting six full double-decker buses.
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What is the physically strongest insect?

Dung Beetle

A dung beetle is not only the world's strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight. They can pull 1,141 times their own body weight. This is the equivalent of an average person pulling six double-decker buses full of people.
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Which insect is the best fighter?

I give you ten of the most formidable predatory insects… and be grateful that they don't come in large sizes!
  • Robber fly.
  • Water scorpion.
  • Arachnocampa luminosa.
  • Tiger Beetle.
  • Antlion.
  • Assassin bug.
  • Dragonfly.
  • Siafu ant.
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What is the king of all insects?

(often capitalised as “King of Insects”, as is the convention for monarchic titles) The bee.
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What insect is invincible?

They don't call it the diabolical ironclad beetle for nothing: Phloeodes diabolicus, a rugged insect native to western North America, has an almost supernatural ability to resist compression and blunt hits.
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What bug can't be crushed?

Native to desert habitats in Southern California, the diabolical ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton that's one of the toughest, most crush-resistant structures known to exist in the animal kingdom.
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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 is a black titan bug?

The titan beetle (or Titanus giganteus) is an extremely large species that lives in the tropical rainforests of South America. It has a large reddish-brown and black abdomen, black colouration on its legs, antennae and thorax, and pale wings with brown vein structures.
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What insect is the soul master?

As for the wingless warriors- well, cicadas have an extremely long wingless “baby” stage (up to 17 years!) so maybe those guys are all younger while the Soul Master is fully developed as an old man. Cicadas are true bugs, having a sort of hard upper segment with a softer abdomen.
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Is there a king wasp?

Megalara garuda, colloquially referred to as the "King of Wasps", is a large wasp and the only species in the genus Megalara, family Crabronidae, tribe Larrini. The species M. garuda is only known from the Mekongga Mountains in the southeastern part of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi.
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What insect is hardest to control?

The three most difficult pests to exterminate are:
  • Termites.
  • Bed Bugs.
  • Cockroaches.
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What is the fastest bug on earth?

The Australian tiger beetle, Cicindela hudsoni, is the World's fastest running insect recorded to date, with an average speed of 5.5 mph (9 km/h). This doesn't sound very fast but the tiger beetle is a small animal, so at 5.5 mph it is moving at a relative speed of 171 body lengths per second.
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What is the most savage insect?

The Red Imported Fire Ant

Although an individual fire ant cannot kill an individual, “they are known to be one of the most aggressive insects that exists,” Rivers says. “They will actually chase you. They're among the top 10 threats to agriculture because they will destroy anything in their path.”
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What insect can lift a human?

The insect world is famous for its Olympian power-lifters, but the horned dung beetle (Onthophagus Taurus) takes the gold. A mere 10 millimeters long, the beetle can pull up to 1141 times its own body weight-the equivalent of an average man lifting two fully-loaded 18-wheeler trucks.
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Do any insects feel pain?

Over 15 years ago, researchers found that insects, and fruit flies in particular, feel something akin to acute pain called “nociception.” When they encounter extreme heat, cold or physically harmful stimuli, they react, much in the same way humans react to pain.
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What insect has the best abilities?

10 Insects With Superpowers
  • The Cockroach. They might be nasty and fill you with dread, but fear is not their superpower. ...
  • The Bombardier Beetle. You don't want to get to close to this critter. ...
  • Parasitiod Wasps. ...
  • Aphids. ...
  • Dragonflies. ...
  • Bark Spider. ...
  • Fishing Spider. ...
  • The Dung Beetle.
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What God controls bugs?

Khepri, Egyptian God of Sunrise and God to Insects.
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What bug pretends to death?

Many insects feign death after a predator has grabbed them, a phenomenon called post-contact immobility. For instance, the larvae of Euroleon nostras antlions—a fierce type of predatory winged insect—can play dead for an astonishing 61 minutes.
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Who is the bug God?

Bug God ( 蟲 むし 神 がみ , Mushigami; Viz: Insect God) was a Demon-level Mysterious Being from the Monster Association. He was killed by Superalloy Darkshine.
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What is the deadliest assassin bug?

Assassin bugs - 12,000 deaths a year

The assassin bug, also called the kissing bug, is responsible for carrying Chagas disease, which kills about 12,000 people a year on average. Chagas disease is a parasitic infection passed by the bug, which got its nickname by biting people on the face.
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What is the world's largest bug?

The longest insect in the world is a newer discovery. Discovered in 2014, the stick insect, Phryganistria chinensis Zhao can grow up to two feet long. This insect is native to China and is a type of stick insect.
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What is the heaviest insect?

Of the heavy weights in the insect world, a rhinoceros beetle wins the title. Megasoma actaeon is found in Guyana, South America and adults weigh in at an astonishing 3.5 ounces (100 grams)!
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Which animal has no blood?

Flatworms, nematodes, and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals) do not have a circulatory system and thus do not have blood. Their body cavity has no lining or fluid within it.
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What bug wakes up every 17 years?

There are only seven species of cicadas that come out all at once every 13 or 17 years—a life cycle that's unique among insects. Each year, warm weather in North America brings the familiar buzzing and clicking of cicadas that have surfaced from their underground burrows in search of mates.
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What animal never sleeps?

Lithobates catesbeianus is an animal that cannot sleep.
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