6 Creepy Killer Insects That’ll Make Your Skin Crawl 🐛 Smithsonian Channel

From trap-setting glow worms to bugs that use carcasses as camouflage, here’s a closer look at 6 killer insects from “Into The Wild New Zealand,” “Stories From The Vaults,” “Micro Monsters With David Attenborough,” and “The Big Dry.”
0:00 Intro
0:26 This Glow Worm Sets Traps to Catch Insects
4:07 These Bugs Feast on Decaying Flesh
6:37 Praying Mantis Victims Don’t Have a Prayer
10:27 This Bug Wears Its Victims’ Carcasses as Camouflage
12:51 Bees Are the Main Course For This Dragonfly
15:03 Don’t Be Fooled By This Killer’s Friendly Name
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[@amnesiai]

That glowworm is the stuff of nightmares thanks

[@riseALK]

Absolutely fascinating too though right?

[@itzmefelon]

It’s kinda amazing at the same time but literally a nightmare also…

[@bubeable]

Bobbit Worm too!

[@soosquatch4236]

I love praying mantises... I let them hang out on my shoulder. None of these made my skin crawl... perhaps I'm dead inside

[@jeffcasey504]

I have a scar on my finger from a preying mantis sitting on a garden hose valve, protecting itself as I reached between bushes to turn it on (the valve, not the mantis).

[@cathrinewhite7629]

How did it scar you? Mandibles? Front legs? Wondering because I pick them up all the time.🤷‍♀️

[@jeffcasey504]

@@cathrinewhite7629 I didn't see it until I felt the pain in my finger and pulled back. It made about a 5/8 inch cut diagonal on the outside of my middle finger... just always assumed it must have used its front legs, but don't know. I was about 8yo and I'd never seen one before. Southern Michigan in the Irish Hills.

[@cathrinewhite7629]

@@jeffcasey504 makes sense after watching this video. The barbs on their front legs could definitely do some damage!

[@jeffcasey504]

@@cathrinewhite7629 Yup, I've always looked first where I'm sticking my hand since that day!

[@bubeable]

Thanks for clarification 😅

[@wither5673]

ok but watching the glow worm slink around in its little ''snot sock'' was kind of satisfying....just me? aight....

[@bubeable]

Ye but they added these over the top slime sounds which was disturbing.

[@EliPollidesign]

Beautiful 🥰

[@danielmoose1273]

This was an interesting video, but sorry, my skin didn't crawl. I was surprised to see that something could stand to eat a stink bug ... *Gagg* 😖 ...

[@benzouaouaamer2574]

Cc CT

[@frankmartinez4856]

Seen these bugs in “Bones” t.v. Show!! 😅

[@emilyjohnson8524]

But some of them don't even look like a beetle instead some of them look like calipiters

[@aliciahayden1521]

Why is the ants killer just throws the body it's sad😢

[@robertsenseman4339]

Wonder how they reproduce?

[@cathrinewhite7629]

They must use the same special effects noises as TLC's Dr Pimple popper.😂

[@PearlPaisley]

Oh dear. That would turn me off so bad 😄

[@somedayitsgonnamakesense]

why reverse flash in there?

[@charleswilson9480]

Stop bugging me ..

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

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