The Biggest Bugs Ever Found

Top 10 largest insects you won't believe actually exist in the world.
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Bugs serve multiple purposes on this planet. From pollinating plants to stinging and scaring the living daylights out of people, humans have a love/hate relationship with bugs. We need bugs to make the world go around, but at the same time, people would rather not deal with bugs especially if they bite, sting, or chase after you. It seems that the one common fear that mankind seems to share is the fear of some sort of bug, with spiders being the most common fear known as arachnophobia. The largest bugs in the world were known as the Protodonata, and they lived during the prehistoric period in the Paleozoic Era. They were large, dragon-fly like creatures who ruled the skies and plant life. They would be sure to put a scare in us all if we were to see them today.
As our existence continues to evolve and innovations in travel make it more possible to explore every nook and cranny in the world, more bugs have been found than ever before. In the early 20th century, the discovery of bugs such as the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing incited fear and made people use guns to take it out of the sky. Turns out that this particular bug is the largest butterfly in the world with a wingspan of over one foot, enough to put a scare into anyone. There is a trend known as “island gigantism” where animals and bugs are found to be much larger on remote islands than one mass spaces of land like a continent. The giant weta is a perfect example of island gigantism, as it is the largest weta in the species and puts its relatives to shame.