Top 10 weird insects

In the world there are many species of super strange appearance. Here is a list of 10 "alien" insects with you.

Puss Moth caterpillar (cat face caterpillar)

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To "scare" the enemy, this cat-faced moth possesses a rather special face, like the face of a vertebrate. Whenever the body is touched, this worm will "lift" its ugly face to scare. In addition, it can also spray formic acid from two horns on the back to destroy the enemy.

Giant barbed animal

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Giant barbed animals are extremely large insects. Their bodies can reach 20cm long and are covered by spikes that disguise them and protect them from danger.

Pipevine Swallowtail

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Pipevine Swallowtail is a fluorescent green butterfly . They live mainly in the North and South America. While their larvae are a type of red bloodworm with fibers protruding forward.

Flying caterpillars

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Flying moths look quite normal if viewed from the neck down. The strange thorns did not look suitable for his body.

Hemp flowers

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The flower-spotted mantis looks quite like flowers but they are also very fast assassins . They are quite small, only about 38mm long and live mainly in South Africa. The thorny flower mantis is usually white with yellow and green strips. As adults, the thorny mantis produces colored patches that shape like yellow eyes.

Flying scorpions

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Like a hybrid insect, this flying scorpion is a mix of wasps and scorpions . They are an ancient insect and thought to be the ancestors of many butterflies that exist today. They are widely distributed all over the world and only males have the tail-like part of the scorpion.

Insect treehopper Brazil

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Treehopper Brazilian bug Bocydium globulare of the Membracidaev family is distributed in many parts of the world except for a few places that are too cold. They have a very special shape: strange shapes on their backs and we still haven't found the cause of those "hunchback". Possessing a rather bizarre shape is like a bumblebee, but this insect seems quite harmless because they do not attack or have poisonous glands that harm humans.

Dasychira Pudibunda deep butterfly

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Dasychira Pudibunda deep butterflies live mainly in Denmark. Its golden body is covered with a hard coat, which looks like porcupine hair. In 1988, they "destroyed" all 20 hectares of oak forests in this country. They are light gray, active throughout June. Each female can lay 300-400 eggs. When caterpillars are small, their shapes are scary because they are hairy. At the end of autumn, the caterpillar grows fully with a length of up to 5 cm.

Calleta worm

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Calleta worm has many colors and the beards look very frightening. However, their bodies contain many sharp spines. They live mainly on jumping bean plants in Mexico.

Demon Face Mantis (Idolomantis Diabolica)

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Or also known as "dead flower mantis" is the largest and most unusual mantis in the world. The offspring of this species can be up to 13cm long and they have so many colors that it can fake death gods, belonging to the orchid family, to deceive insects that approach and attack them.