Meet the toad bug! These bizarre, squatty bugs are truly some of the strangest and most alien looking insects around! Their perfectly camouflaged round bodies, capped with bulbous protruding eyes makes these insects look like they jumped straight from Mos Eisley Cantina! It should come as no surprise that these weirdos have an equally surprising survival strategy: they are voracious predators! Using quick jumps and a sharp piercing proboscis, these toad bugs can impale small invertebrates and sl

The Jerusalem cricket, potato bug, Cara del niño, etc is one of the strangest insects on earth! These bizarre subterranean relatives to crickets and grasshoppers are common throughout the southwest US and Mexico and spend their lives in burrows eating just about anything they can find. While harmless to us humans, it’s not at all uncommon for these primarily vegetarian insects to kill and eat other small animals if they find themselves in a position to. I can’t imagine being a small insect and u