You may think you already know a lot about bugs. They are nothing more than writhing pieces of flesh, indistinguishable from end to end, committing suicide on the side of the road during a storm. You're all right, but the bugs you've said and seen are "good" bugs, and they make up only a tiny fraction of all the bugs on Earth. When it comes to "evil worms" or even "nightmare bugs", the first thing that most people think of is probably the Bobbitt worm. However, there are many more "nightmare bugs" than it is. Now, let's look at the most representative of them.
Rock bugs Eating scenes are too scary
Rock worms are also called sand worms or sand silkworms. Their faces are like the buttocks of a centipede. The circle of clamps around their faces is strong, and when the rock worm is threatened, the clamp can give the threat a fierce blow. These clamps are amazing because they are made up of a harder yet lighter material than most existing synthetics. Therefore, scientists are studying the microstructure of the rock worm clamp in the hope of replicating it. And for the average person as a non-scientist, the rock worm is definitely a "nightmare worm". Bring together the characteristics of your least favorite insects and spiders, and that's rock bugs. Rock worms have a centipede-like body, and each of the 120 sodops has a set of appendages that can help rock worms swim or crawl on the ground. Rock worms live in shallow waters with mucus on the surface, spitting mucus at the mouth of the cave to weave a web, like a web woven by snot spiders. But unlike spiders, which have to passively wait for their prey to fall into the web, rock worms' bodies will rise and fall in a suitable way, creating traps for water near their own holes, and any prey that comes close to these streams will be dragged into the net and then swallowed by the rock worms. Of course, the snot net and the water in the net were also swallowed. It's hard to describe this, but to put it in general: it's terrible! In addition, the rock worm body can reach up to 1 meter long. So the next time you're ready to jump naked into some dark body of water, you'll have to think twice!
Velvet worms are terrible "zombies"
Velvet worms spit out double snot streams, and the length of the snot is several times the length of the velvet worm's own body. Velvet worms do not have retractable fangs, are not as large as a deadly snake, and do not hide in the sand. It's just a small, slow-moving, tree-infested worm. In fact, even though it has small, robust legs, it has no joints and doesn't crawl much faster than a snail. But it is a predator. Being swallowed by it felt like being swallowed by a zombie: its slow, heavy gait made it more terrifying than any other predatory bug.
When the velvet worm finds its favorite prey, the front half of its body jumps violently, spraying slime to make the prey unable to move. It is a skilled hunter, and even the deadly funnel spider will fall prey to it. When the prey is glued to a branch, it can only watch the velvet worm shake its feet and slowly come. The velvet worm then began to grope for the soft rib area on the exoskeleton armor of the prey. Upon discovering this part, the velvet worm will use its terrible mouth to pry open the shell of the prey. The velvet worms then spit saliva into the prey and "cook" the prey that is still alive, which is equivalent to digesting the prey before eating the prey. Eventually, when the prey dissolves into a thick soup, the velvet worm sucks its "soup" clean, leaving only the exoskeleton of the prey in place.
Kissing insects, extremely terrifying "large intestine"
It looks like the intestines of some large animal have sunk to the bottom of the sea, but it is actually a predator, to be precise, a scavenger up to 2.2 meters long and the diameter of a water pipe , the kissing worm. On the icy bottom of the Antarctic sea, the kissing insect eats whatever it finds, and in addition to eating dead bodies, it also kills. It has a beak (mouth), but this beak is not as fragile as the butterfly's beak, but like a hammer. The kissing insect repeatedly attacks its prey with its own "hammer" until the prey cannot move. The kissing insect has no teeth, so it prefers soft tissue on animals, basically eating prey from the inside out. It pokes a hole in the skin of the prey and then burrows into the prey to suck the internal organs. Because the kissing insects are scavengers, the other kissing insects will find this big meal and swim over, snaking together into the body of the prey. So, I saw a large number of large tongues wrapped around trying to lick the internal organs of the corpses of the prey. It was horrible and disgusting.
You may wonder: how can such a terrible insect grow so big? In fact, the kissing insect has no natural enemies, mainly due to the fact that its skin secretes strong acids. When the kissing insect feels threatened, it releases strong acid into the water. This strong acid is like a slice of Italian macaroni in the seawater, and any fish that tastes this "macaroni" is killed immediately. You may also ask: Don't kissing insects have no weaknesses? I can tell you: the soft underbelly of the kissing insect has not been found. In fact, when it gets into trouble, it even deforms. Even by the standards of insects, the flexibility of the kissing insects is quite remarkable. For example, because it breathes through the skin, once the oxygen content in the water starts to drop, it makes itself flat like a pizza, which gives it a larger breathing area and a shorter travel distance of oxygen. Kissing insects are perfectly adapted to the environment, so when you try to step into their territory without any defense, although they may not be able to kill you, you have to worry about them burrowing into your body pores to eat you.
Planarians Despicable and vicious killers
Terrestrial flatworms are not very common, but they are vile and vicious killers. Planarians (also known as leeches or vermiculatures) are a well-known terrestrial flatworm. They are native to Asia, but have since spread around the globe. In their natural habitat, they are colorful and eye-catching. Planarians feed on earthworms, which flee as soon as they see it. When preying, planarians poke their heads into the earthworms and inject digestive enzymes into the latter. When the earthworm is still alive, the planarians begin to digest the earthworm until they dissolve the earthworm into a milkshake. The abomination of planarians lies not only in the way they prey, but also in the fact that if plankles are infested, the number of earthworms is sharply reduced, the soil cannot be gasified, the ecology will be affected, and we will have no food to eat. Therefore, planarians are really "nightmare worms".
Giant sea scales Are illusions
The giant sea scales don't look scary. It is only about 20 centimeters long and lives in the distant Antarctic waters. If you don't care about its somewhat creepy sunken head, you might even want to try its bristles with your fingers. But we can't guarantee that you'll be able to get your finger back intact, because that sunken head is actually a retractable mouth with multiple fangs. So don't be fooled by the cute appearance of the giant sea scale insect that looks like a small ponytail and is actually a tentacle – that cute appearance is just an illusion. In addition, the middle of the giant sea scale insect's body is covered with small armor. Scientists still don't know what it likes to eat and how it reproduces, partly because it lives in the deep Antarctic, and partly because perhaps — who wants to know what no one likes?