10 Craziest Insect Fights Caught on Camera

10 Craziest Insect Fights Caught on Camera

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10 Craziest Insect Fights Caught on Camera
When we talk about epic fights in the animal kingdom, we often think about the clash of the titans. Cape buffalo vs a pride of lions, great white shark vs killer whale, and the anaconda vs the salt water crocodile. However, epic battles need not exclusively involve such massive animals. If you look closer, you can see even more epic fights in the insect world. So let’s find out what will happen when we pit certain insects against each other shall we?
From ants vs spiders to a praying mantis vs a giant centipede, here are the 10 craziest insect fights caught on camera.
Number 10. Leafcutter ant vs. Speckled House spider
https://youtu.be/7tUAjJhg6TM?t=488
Leaf cutter ants are truly remarkable creatures. These ants, as their names suggest, harvest fresh leaves from the forest and take them to their burrows. They are so efficient at their job, one colony can actually strip a tree of its leaves in one day.
They don’t actually eat the leaves, but they use them to cultivate fungi, which is their main source of food. Like all ant colonies, each specific ant has their job to do. Workers harvest leaves and cultivate the fungi, while leaf cutter soldiers protect the colony from intruders. And it’s these larger soldiers that we will be focusing on today.
They are armed with large and strong mandibles that are capable of tearing other hands completely in half. But unfortunately, sharp mandibles aren’t enough to dispatch its opponent today, the speckled house spider.
This relative of the black widow is an excellent ambush hunter, and is fully capable of dispatching insects larger than itself, case in point, this leaf cutter soldier ant that wandered into its web. With an opponent so large, the spider let its web do most of the work, immobilizing the ant before coming in to dispatch it with its lethal venom. As soon as the ant came into the spider’s web, it never stood a chance.

Number 9. Blowfly Vs. Praying Mantis
https://youtu.be/ojWlFslRVwM?t=230
Ok, so this isn’t much of a fight. I’m sure none of you will expect the lowly blowfly to go toe to toe with the praying mantis; one of the most voracious carnivorous insects in the world. As expected, as soon as the mantis catches the blowfly, it makes quick work of it, first tearing off the poor fly’s wings before feasting on its abdomen.
But it’s not the gory kill that’s the main attraction of this video. It’s actually the way the blowfly reacts to the situation. You see, there’s really no escape for the poor fly, but it can do something to make sure that its line lives on.
As you can see, even while the mantis is devouring its head, the fly unexpectedly expels its maggot young, making sure that they at least have a chance to survive the mantis’s voracious onslaught.

Number 8. Centipede vs. Tarantula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPffsGVUKvw
Here’s a fight that you would actually be able to see in the wild; a tarantula and a centipede fighting over prey. This time, however, the three way dance between predators and prey is happening in an enclosed space, and the fight is filmed in all its graphic glory.
You would think that the larger tarantula would be the aggressor in this fight, but it’s actually the centipede that initiates the action, going after the tarantula with the kind of tenacity that I’ve never seen in an insect before.
It looks like the centipede got a few bites in, but in the end, it was no match for its larger foe. It lay lifeless on the floor of the terrarium, falling victim to the tarantula’s lethal venom.

Number 7. Asian Black Scorpion vs. Leech
https://youtu.be/Vq89rXhvmN8
Here’s another fight that I was pretty sure how it will end, but how it got there is extremely surprising. Here we have an Asian black scorpion taking on a leech, probably the most defenseless insect on this list, nest only to the blowfly.
Basically, the uploader was just curious to what will actually happen when these two insects come face to face, and the result is actually surprising. You see, the scorpion initially didn’t want anything to do with the leech, who was advancing on the scorpion trying to climb on to its back.