Tuesday, July 20, 2010

World's most poisonous caterpillar, 1000x more powerful than cobra venom.

In the southern Brazilian rain forest caterpillars lurking Lonomia - dubbed the clown "lazy" from the world of insects. Unfortunately, like "The Joker" from Batman series, there's nothing funny about this worm.
This worm his life in amazon jungle, south of Brazil.
members of the animal insect "LONOMIA" real name Taturana Tatarana.

This animal is a kind of caterpillar trees we usually see.
but that is different from most of caterpillar trees.
prickly thorns which amounts to hundreds of the deadly poison save fluids and have eaten dozens of victims each year.
anticoagulant poison is the most extreme ever.
Anticoagulant can divide and destroy the blood cell composition.

A terrible thing about this animal.
you will not know for sure where he's climbing.
Next thing you know is, that your blood will from a break down in a great of his agonizing pain.

Even worse, caterpillars are considered "vague" and easy to blend with tree bark. So even if you try to find you may not see it. Unfortunately, there are several deaths each year caused by Lonomia.

Even more amazing is that the toxic dose of poison with the lowest median lethal poison in the world, poison Lonomia had a lethal dose of poison 1000 times more powerful than the bite
snakes.

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