10 Terrifying Insects & Arachnids in Texas HD

25.12.2017
Top 10 most scary and creepy insects and arachnids that live in Texas both out in nature and in your home look out for centipedes! 5 Blister Beetles These fiery little critters look pretty fierce on camera, and let us tell you, they can easily deliver on that. Blister beetles get their name from what they do: their bodies contain a powerful toxin called cantharidin, which causes the skin of their victim to erupt in painful and itchy blisters. What’s even worse, they love to randomly land in animal feed, especially in food meant for horses, and if the animal eats food infested with blister beetles, it grows horribly sick and is likely to die. If you see one or more on your haystack or somewhere, put on a pair of gloves before you decide to handle them... 4 Daddy Long Legs Why anyone would want to name these creeps after a benevolent novel character is beyond us. Alternatively, they are known as the Harvestmen, and they love to hurriedly hamper around Hill Country. They are completely harmless to humans, with the exception of a heart attack that the sudden sight of them might give you. Imagine being on a picnic and this horde scuttering over your blanket. There are 37 families of them around the world, and 18 species reported in Texas so far. There are some interesting myths attached to them, too. Back in the old days, it was believed that a daddy-long-legs could find lost cattle. If you picked it up by seven of its eight legs, the free leg would point in the direction of the wayward cattle. Another myth was that if you killed a daddy-long-legs, it would rain the next day. 3 Gigantic centipedes As if all the spiders, snakes, and scorpions weren’t bad enough to give you nightmares, there is one particularly creepy critter that nobody thinks to warn you about when you go visiting this state: the infamous Texas red-headed centipede. It’s also called the Giant Desert Centipede, and some other nasty things which people tend to shout at the top of their lungs on their first date with this monster. They are giants, 6.5 inches at average, but they’re known to grow to 9 or even 12 inches long. Cherry on the cake? They’re venomous and ravenous. Their venom is more or less mild. A bite will cause a sharp, painful sting, which is sometimes accompanied by swelling, but it usually goes away after a few hours. Occasionally, though, someone has an acute reaction featuring minor skin necrosis, dizziness, nausea, and headaches. A few heart attacks were also reported. To make it all the worse, these guys hunt things way larger than themselves: lizards, toads, snakes, even rodents. Luckily they don’t have a taste for humans, but they do bite and inject their toxins in defense when you try to get them off your property. 2 Rat-tailed maggots A mix of rats and maggots in one tiny, squirmy, slimy creature. Good luck keeping your lunch down. These disgusting critters are actually larvae, which means that all they do is eat and grow until they have developed into yet an

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