When you see some representatives of the insect world, you involuntarily think about what kind of fantasy and freedom of creativity nature has.

Giant insects

Megasome or Elephant Beetle

Inhabitant of South America. One of the largest representatives of insects, about 10 cm long, but the name was not given for its large size, the shape of a horn resembling an elephant tusk. The diet of the beetle is mainly bananas.

Most of the beetle lives in the form of a chrysalis, for more than three years, and adults live only a few months. During this period, they manage to play mating games. For this purpose they use a horn to defeat an opponent by turning him over, but leaving them alive. They are mostly nocturnal and can be found very rarely in nature.

Relic barbel

Even larger in size, this lumberjack beetle reaches 16 cm. It is named because of the powerful jaws that not only bites wood, but can easily bite a branch up to 1 cm. Therefore, if you scare it and pick it up, it can injure at the same time it publishes a menacing hiss.

This bug lives mainly in deciduous forests of the Amur Region, China, and Central America. An adult individual forms in the bark of a tree for several years in the form of a larva, and after that only a month lives. After the mating games, the male does not abandon the female, they climb together to the top of the tree, where she lays up to 25 eggs, and then together they descend to the ground and die.

Ueta is a giant

But the heaviest insect will be this oldest resident of New Zealand.The weight of such "grasshoppers" in a pregnant female reaches 70 grams, and in the normal state 35 gamma. The insect is wingless, but can fend for itself. During an enemy attack, he, like a Shaolin monk, throws out his legs with thorns in front of him and can injure them. Almost omnivorous. It can be both a predator and a herbivore. The main enemies: small rodents.

Malaysian Giant Leggy Grasshopper

The appearance of this biggest grasshopper is very funny. It seems that thin very long legs were attached to a large leaf of the plant, what is needed for masking. Despite the luxurious length of the legs, he does not know how to jump, sometimes he can fly, but basically he moves slowly. These are very shy creatures in spite of their scary appearance. The diet consists of small insects and plants.

There are a lot of large, and even giant representatives of insects; these are wasps, spiders, stick insects, various beetles and butterflies.

Invisible insects

Disguise is an important skill for safety and survival in nature. Even if you know for sure that this insect is right next to it, it is hardly possible to see it. Recognized masters of disguise are praying mantises and sticks. They are sometimes even called ghosts.

Similar to twigs or tree bark. The color spectrum of the coloration varies depending on the lighting or time of day.

And the spider Agriopa uses in order to remain invisible at once several receptions. Firstly, the color of the spider is suitable for disguise, it is a dark abdomen and a light dash in the back,therefore, he spends most of his life as a shifter, invisible from above and below against a background of grass and grains of sand, secondly, if you slightly stir the cobwebs of Agriop, it starts spinning so that it turns into an inconspicuous and obscure strip and thirdly, when he weaves a web, he lets in the center is a white strip of threads and, if it is not turned over, the abdomen is on this strip and looks like its continuation.

Very beautiful

Of course butterflies take the lead in this beauty contest. Because ugly butterflies simply do not exist. But there are special winners in this nomination. Unusual beautiful and delicate butterflies pink maple as if wrapped in a fur coat of yellow-pink color.

The glass butterfly amazes with the full transparency of its large, as if crystal wings. But not only butterflies shine with their beauty. For example, a mantis similar to an orchid, where actually lives, or an Indian flower mantis in a lilac coat.

The crystal caterpillar of Dalceride lives in Central and South America, despite the very bright color and structure of the body, as if from precious stones, it is absolutely harmless. The Picasso beetle and the Golden Turtle beetle have a mother-of-pearl shell with precious reflections that serve as a warning. What they regret is not worth it because of the poisonous smell or taste.