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The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles. Warne. Ryan, Rob (2012). "An addendum to Southwood and Leston's Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles". British Journal of Entomology and Natural History. 25 (4): 205-215. Foster, Stuart (2013). "Coranus aethiops Jakovlev (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) - new to Britain, from South Yorkshire".
The members of the Triatominae / t r aɪ. ə ˈ t ɒ m ɪ n iː /, a subfamily of the Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs (so-called from their habit of feeding from around the mouths of people), [1] or vampire bugs. Other local names for them used in the Americas include barbeiros, vinchucas, pitos, chipos and chinches.
Belostomatidae is a family of freshwater hemipteran insects known as giant water bugs or colloquially as toe-biters, Indian toe-biters, electric-light bugs (because they fly to lights in large numbers), alligator ticks, or alligator fleas (in Florida). They are the largest insects in the order Hemiptera. [1]
The hawthorn shield bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) is a common European shield bug. [1] Its chief food is haws, the fruit of the hawthorn tree , but adults can overwinter on a diet of leaves, and individuals can be found on many potential food plants, including pedunculate oak , sessile oak and whitebeam . [ 2 ]
Hemiptera (/ h ɛ ˈ m ɪ p t ər ə /; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's darning needles , although this name is shared by both dragonflies and crane flies. [ 1 ]
Legnotus picipes – heath shield bug; Canthophorus impressus – bastard toadflax bug; Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) – pied shield bug; Tritomegas sexmaculatus – Rambur's pied shield bug; Adomerus biguttatus – cow wheat shield bug; Sehirus luctuosus – forget-me-not shield bug; Geotomus punctulatus – Cornish shield bug