Kill It With Fire! 12 Terrifying Bugs

There are basically two types of nature posts on the internet: ones that make you saw “Awww” and ones that make you say “Ewww.” This post is definitely the latter. While mother nature has done some things really right (like kittens and baby seals) she’s also done some things really really wrong… like giant, terrifying bugs. Forget your shoe… grab a brick, or better yet a flamethrower if you ever see one of these things up close.

Assassin Bug

Now here’s a bug that knows how to strike fear in the hearts of its enemies. Covered in bug corpses, this bug looks super intimidating to humans, let alone other bugs. Imagine how terrifying that would be in human form… some guy just walking around with like bloody heads and limbs attached to him. Source

New Zealand Weta

Most people exaggerate the size of bugs. “Did you see that thing? It was LITERALLY the size of a cat.” That means with this weta, the world’s heaviest bug, most people would probably claim is was no smaller than a school bus full of children. But seriously, exaggerations or not, look at it eat a carrot—that could easily be your finger. Source

Big Ass Snake Eating Spider

Until recently I had assumed that the natural enemies of the brown tree snake were the Red-bellied Black Snake, the cane toad, and maybe Samuel L. Jackson. But apparently you can add giant spiders to that list. Spotted in some dude’s backyard in Freshwater, Australia, eyewitness Ant Hadleigh said, “You could see the spider just chewing into it and the part which the spider was eating had gone all black and the insides were bubbling.” Dayum. Source

Golden Orb Weaver Spider That Eats Birds

Another giant spider was spotted in Australia—again, in someone’s backyard—this time eating a bird. Joel Shakespeare, head spider keeping at NSW’s Australian Reptile Park assures us that this is not normal… they usually eat large insects. That makes me feel… better? Actually, no… that makes me feel afraid of giant bird-sized bugs. Source

Japanese Giant Hornet

As if a bug the size of your thumb wasn’t scary enough, how about a poisonous flesh-melting hornet? The Japanese Giant Hornet shoots acid at your eyes which contains a pheromone that attracts other hornets who are gonna sting the crap out of you until you die. That’s right people… tracker jackers are pretty much a real thing. Source

Giant Katydid

They might be more or less harmless, but it’s hard to feel safe around a bug that looks like a leaf and is bigger than a gerbil. Source

I don’t know man, some kind of evil grasshopper?

I have no idea what this thing is, but it apparently lives in the US. It was found by some dude vacationing in Wisconsin who describes it as “big and scary, but calm and nice.” Then it ripped his nose off with those giant pincers. Source

Titan Beetle

There may not be anything inherently scary about beetles, but it’s hard to see past the fact this one looks kinda like a giant cockroach. Oh and the fact that its mandibles can snap a pencil in half. Source

Giant Isopod

Okay, technically this is a crustacean and not an insect, but that doesn’t really make it any less creepy… and I certainly wouldn’t want to eat one with melted butter. It’s basically the giant pill bug of the sea. Ew. Source

Scutigera Coleoptrata

The Scutigera coleoptrata is also known as the house centipede… in this case because it’s roughly the size of a house. While they generally eat other creepy crawlies like spiders, bedbugs, termites and roaches… do you really want to keep that thing around? Source

Red Rumped Tarantula

Apparently some people keep these things as pets and feed them stuff like crickets, mealworms and you know, the occasional lizard. Of course it’s not a great idea to handle them because they do sometimes bite and flick their urticating hairs at you which cause you to break out in a crazy rash. Sounds like a great pet otherwise. Source

Brahmin-moth Caterpillar

It’s official. I’m never leaving the house again. Source