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29.09.2011 20:50, niyaz

It is clear that the tactics are different. And whose is the most effective one? Weight is not always critical.

29.09.2011 20:53, Mantispid

It is believed that stray ants are the strongest, they can even overcome a donkey

29.09.2011 21:44, Коллекционер

and if in 1vis1 it's probably a Japanese hornet, I watched different videos about it - a rather aggressive beast

29.09.2011 21:47, niyaz

and if in 1vis1 then probably a Japanese hornet

Do you think a Japanese hornet will pierce a predatory and armored giant ground beetle?

29.09.2011 21:54, Коллекционер

it is unlikely to pierce,but it will probably bite the limbs

29.09.2011 22:07, niyaz

it's unlikely to pierce,but it will probably bite your limbs

Ground beetles have mandibles no less specialized for biting off limbs
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29.09.2011 22:09, Mantispid

The pepsis wasp will be cooler than the hornet, representatives of this genus have a strong sting, which takes one of the first places on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index scale, along with the large ant Paraponera clavata.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsis

29.09.2011 22:09, niyaz

stray ants are the strongest

Termite soldiers in my opinion give them a serious rebuff.

29.09.2011 22:56, PVOzerski

And then it turns out that the coolest flies (Tachinidae, Conopidae, Phoridae) are parasites, respectively, ground beetles, wasps and ants

30.09.2011 9:34, Bad Den

In ground beetles, the mandibles are no less specialized for biting off limbs

These particular mandibles are specialized for holding the female during mating

30.09.2011 13:20, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

I think the termite soldiers are giving them a serious rebuff.

Unfortunately, in almost all cases of "clashes" that I observed (Macrotermes vs. Doryllinae gen. sp.), the ants won. At the same time, the termites were amazing at organizing their actions, but the ants crushed them with a mass.

01.10.2011 19:10, Коллекционер

maybe not in the subject ,but still.. the day before yesterday I watched the program "mythbusters" so they found out that if at a speed of 136km/h you crash into a flying goliath beetle with your throat(well, when riding a motorcycle), you can die (your adam's apple will break!)

This post was edited by Collector - 01.10.2011 19: 10

02.10.2011 19:29, niyaz

These particular mandibles are specialized for holding the female during mating

Maybe they can use it for this, I don't know, I haven't seen it or read it. Can you share a link where it says that the purpose of manticore mandibles is exactly for this? But the fact that they use these mandibles, including for dismembering the victim, is a fact and I saw it with my own eyes.

02.10.2011 19:33, niyaz

Unfortunately, in almost all cases of "clashes" that I observed (Macrotermes vs. Doryllinae gen. sp.), the ants won. At the same time, the termites were amazing at organizing their actions, but the ants crushed them with a mass.

Yes, on TV they may show more often when ants defeat termites, this is an action game, blood, dismemberment, and the rating increases accordingly. But from the point of view of evolution, we can theoretically assume that it is termites that win more often, otherwise they would simply disappear from the face of the Earth, or in any case they would be very rare. I also saw a picture when stray ants in a confrontation with termites suffered heavy losses and their colony was on the verge of extinction.

This post was edited by niyaz - 02.10.2011 19: 37

02.10.2011 19:40, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Yes, this is not TV, these are my observations in the field.

03.10.2011 21:31, gonkem1986

The largest freckle Pteronarcys californica - reaches a length of 5 cm and a wingspan of 9 cm
. source: http://blog.riverwoodfliesonline.com/?p=403
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I remember once as a child on the outskirts of Kemerovo,on the banks of the Tom River,turning over stones, I found a very large springberry, with shiny black wings, at least 5-6 centimeters long...it was definitely longer than a child's finger...Back then, I didn't know much about insects-I thought I'd found something ordinary,even if it was a big one...here are such chaotic semi-mythical childhood memories...

04.10.2011 19:25, Bad Den

Maybe they can use it for this, I don't know, I haven't seen it or read it. Can you share a link where it says that the purpose of manticore mandibles is exactly for this? But the fact that they use these mandibles, including for dismembering the victim, is a fact and I saw it with my own eyes.

No, it is clear that they have mandibles in predatory beetles in order to kill and eat prey.

However, in many male racehorses, enlarged mandibles play an important role in holding the female during mating (females, in turn, have special grooves on the chest).
I didn't find any links, here is a page from Mares ' monograph on the genus Manticora: https://yadi.sk/i/E49lVfRD3UQt23

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04.10.2011 19:43, Коллекционер

and I have a carabus, I don't know exactly the type, probably grainy w... so the male tried to mate with everyone..males..females... females of a different species, and he tried to catch them all with his mandibles.. is he a pervert maniac?

05.10.2011 0:58, niyaz

And here on the video captured as a manticore on the floor bites some kind of horn. Just an amazing force of jaw pressure. In my opinion, the bite force of the manticore is a record holder, similar to the hyacinth macaw among birds or a polar bear among predatory mammals.
http://www.japanesebugfights.com/2-28.htm

05.10.2011 8:50, Bad Den

And here on the video captured as a manticore on the floor bites some kind of horn. Just an amazing force of jaw pressure. In my opinion, the bite force of the manticore is a record holder, similar to the hyacinth macaw among birds or a polar bear among predatory mammals.
http://www.japanesebugfights.com/2-28.htm

Well, as for the bite force, it is necessary to take measurements, it is unlikely that someone did
this In the video, by the way, not a hornbill, but a ground beetle Mouhotia sp.

05.10.2011 12:26, niyaz

Well, as for the bite force, it is necessary to take measurements, hardly anyone has done this

And who would you put forward as a contender for the title of the strongest mandibles in the absolute dimension?

This post was edited by niyaz - 05.10.2011 12: 28

05.10.2011 15:47, Bad Den

Some big barbels, I think.

05.10.2011 18:54, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

I had to read (I don't remember the source immediately) that the larvae of horntails are able to chew through soft metal. The situation is as follows: the larva found itself in wood, from which a metal-bound box was made, and in the process of gnawing through the moves, the larva and the metal did not stop. I'll try to remember the source.

This post was edited by Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg - 05.10.2011 18: 55

05.10.2011 19:02, PVOzerski

I also don't remember the source exactly (either Fabre or Animal Life), but I do remember the details: horntails (imagos, I think) chewed through lead bullets when they left the cartridge boxes in the wooden walls of which they passed larval development.

05.10.2011 19:08, Коллекционер

I also don't remember the source exactly (either Fabre or Animal Life), but I do remember the details: horntails (imagos, I think) chewed through lead bullets when they left the cartridge boxes in the wooden walls of which they passed larval development.

Yeah, well.. I had birch horntails, so this is probably the weakest bite that I felt

17.10.2011 21:15, Коллекционер

I have heard that in the tropics there is an ant that is about 5-7cm long, and it also has a sting, is it true that such an ant exists?

17.10.2011 21:45, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

The Ponerinae family.

It was exactly 3 centimeters long. The sting is quite unpleasant.

Pictures:

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17.10.2011 22:09, Коллекционер

class, and where did the ant sting so I do not understand, it is clear that these are distant relatives of wasps, but in the Black Earth region I did not meet a single ant with a sting, I once saw 1,8 cm..but the sting was not

18.10.2011 7:36, Shtil

Search, search, they are there. You just need to believe and not give up!

18.10.2011 12:14, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

there must be myrmicks.

18.10.2011 19:13, Коллекционер

never met

05.11.2011 15:47, Dr. Niko

But I wonder if there are "taxonomic records", for example, which insect genus is the largest in terms of the number of species?

English Wiki writes that the golden beetle Agrilus is the largest genus of organisms (2,886 species). That's it.

This post was edited by Dr. Niko - 05.11.2011 15: 50

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08.11.2011 14:39, Коллекционер

and which larva is the biggest?in the sense of length

08.11.2011 21:08, niyaz

Do you mean insects with complete transformation?
Then the larva of the Hercules beetle (dynastes hercules) reaches - 110 mm, the caterpillar of the Peacock atlas (Attacus atlas) - 115 mm, in the Peacock hercules (Coscinocera hercules) - up to 120 mm.
Is there anyone bigger?

14.11.2011 0:05, Трофим

Mayfly Clouds - http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/superswarm...fly-clouds.html
Swarms of killer bees - http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/superswarm...bee-attack.html
Huge swarms of locusts- http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/superswarm...st-plagues.html
Some brine-flies, and how gulls hunt them, generally fly away - http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/superswarm...y-billions.html

Scientists estimate that the population of salt flies (since there is no Latin, it is difficult to say what kind of species we are talking about, but the sight is very impressive) in anologichny salt lake in Utah has more than one hundred billion, and they are the main food source for many migratory birds that visit the lake.

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15.11.2011 13:14, Pirx

Some brine-flies, and how gulls hunt them, generally fly away - http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/superswarm...y-billions.html

According to scientists, the population of salt flies (since there is no Latin, it is difficult to say what kind of species we are talking about, but the sight is very impressive) in anologichny salt lake in Utah has more than one hundred billion, and they are the main food source for many migratory birds that visit the lake.

On the video - beregovushki flies, ephydrides.

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15.11.2011 16:01, Mantispid

On the video - beregovushki flies, ephydrides.

Speaking of shorebirds, I think the oil fly - Psilopa petrolei Coquillett, 1899 from this family should be given 1st place for the most unusual substrate for larval development ... oil

30.11.2011 18:12, niyaz

In my opinion, the long-whiskered moth Nemophora degeerella has whiskers relative to the body even longer than the gray long-whiskered barbel.
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01.12.2011 22:05, Коллекционер

I have one, though during transportation one fell off and was lost

08.12.2011 0:13, Dr. Niko

A striking example of island gigantism is the ueta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae, Rhaphidophoridae) New Zealand.

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