Insects, most dangerous to the person

Insects, most dangerous to the person

Some of the organisms, most dangerous to the person, there is less person many times over, and sometimes are also hardly noticeable with the naked eye. Insects are wasps, bumblebees, hornets, bugs, ants and others which stings are so poisonous that in certain cases can lead to death.

Wasps and bees

Wasps and bees painfully bite, and their stings can lead to anaphylactic shock. These insects live almost in any climate and on all continents, and most of people at least once in life was bitten by a wasp. If the person has no allergy, it does not lead to unpleasant consequences. But at development of allergic reaction it is possible to die of a sting of a bee or a wasp – anaphylactic chic leads to the complicated breath, turbidity of consciousness and even death. Stings in an oral cavity and in the blood vessels located on head skin are especially dangerous.

And if the person swallows a wasp, and she will bite him in a throat, then the developed tumor can lead to suffocation.

The bumblebee sting – not an ordinary small bumblebee, but Asian huge can become also very dangerous. This insect reaches five centimeters in length and has especially sharp and long sting. It stings of this bumblebee the people who do not have an allergy as the dose of poison of a mandorotoksin reaches a deadly point sometimes die.

Ants

Usual ants seem harmless and kind beings, but on the earth there are hundreds of species of very dangerous and poisonous ants. Even usual ants are able to bite and inject acid into a wound of the victim, but the danger of so-called fiery ants is many times higher. These cruel insects at first do a sting in skin of the person then a sting enter inside poison solenpsin which action is similar to feelings from a burn. Fortunately, this poison is not deadly if it of the person bit one or several ants, but hospitalization is in that case provided. Other species of ants living in South America became famous thanks to the fact that their stings are recognized as the most painful feelings at the person. Pain from a sting of "an ant of Congo" incredibly strong and sharp also proceeds more than a day, inflicting huge suffering. Because of it the insect was nicknamed an ant bullet. Its not deadly sting, but according to much endured it, puts a mental trauma.

Among some South American Indian tribes such custom was widespread: young people as a ceremony of initiation have to bear a sting of an ant bullet twenty a time in a row.

Bugs, flies and other dangerous insects

The insect with the lovely name – the kissing bug – is found in America, Asia and Africa. Species of this bug transfer an infection, fatal to the person, – after a sting Shagas's disease which leads to a lethal outcome develops. The tsetse fly who is found in Africa and exhausts blood at the person is very dangerous to the person. But the main thing – she carries a sleeping sickness which harmful influences heart, endocrine and nervous system of the person and often leads to death. And the tiny rat flea in itself is harmless, but can be the carrier of dreadful diseases: she caused a disease of plague in the fourteenth century and destroyed a half of all population of Europe.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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