Top 5 Bizarre Insects You Haven't Heard Of

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Five weird insects you have probably never heard of

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:20 Hose Nose Weevil
01:01 Brahmin Moth
01:48 Dracula Ants
02:43 Glowspot Roaches
03:39 Bat Flies

Articles:
Jansen van Vuren, P.; Wiley, M.; Palacios, G.; Storm, N.; McCulloch, S.; Markotter, W.; Birkhead, M.; Kemp, A.; Paweska, J.T. Isolation of a Novel Fusogenic Orthoreovirus from Eucampsipoda africana Bat Flies in South Africa. Viruses 2016, 8, 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/v8030065

Marchiori, Carlos. (2023). Family Nycteribidae (Insecta: Diptera). Open Access Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. 6. 017-025. 10.53022/oarjms.2023.6.1.0033.

Larabee Fredrick J., Smith Adrian A. and Suarez Andrew V.
2018. Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillaeR. Soc. Open Sci.5181447