Top 15 Weirdest Insects in the World

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Peacock Spider

Facts

• Scientific name: Maratus volans
• Habitat: Australia

Appearance

Peacock or spider? Both!

Wow! What a colorful spider! The peacock spider has colorful stripes on its head and a kind of plate with shimmering scales on its abdomen. It can raise this up, just like how a peacock spreads its beautiful feathers. Both animals use this trick to impress the ladies. To see the peacock spider’s colorful plate, you’d need pretty good eyes: these insects only grow to 0.14 to 0.23 inches (3.8 mm to 6 mm) and are very fast.

Peacock Spider - Photo: Jurgen Otto [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Peacock Spider - Photo: NaturePixel/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Peacock Spider
• 2. Puss Moth
• 3. Planthopper
• 4. Giant Silk Moth
• 5. Bush Cricket
• 6. Rainbow Scarab Beetle
• 7. Feather Horned Beetle
• 8. Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
• 9. Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar
• 10. Scorpion Fly
• 11. Elephant Hawk-Moth Caterpillar
• 12. Giraffe Weevil
• 13. Cionus Hortulanus Weevil
• 14. Flannel Moth
• 15. Treehopper