When we are thinking of pests, we are usually assuming of small, annoying bugs you see around our home and garden. But some pests have incredible powers that make them incredibly strong and difficult to kill. It has these tiny little creatures inside that destroy buildings and spread nasty diseases and are incredibly strong in their fight against exterminators.
Knowing about these pesky pests is key to preventing them from coming. Professional Hinsdale Exterminator Services can help you locate and eliminate these not-so-easy-to-kill bugs with methods that work best for each type. Here are the most powerful pests on Earth and the reasons they’re so hard to fend off.
8 Most Powerful Pests In the World
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Termites
Termites head our list because they can cause so much damage. They are able to bite with strength 500 times their body weight, and other specialized mouth parts enable them to break down wood, which allows them to eat a building from the inside out. Many people do not know that they have termites until the bugs have caused a lot of damage.
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Fire Ants
Red fire ants are mighty and chemical weapons. They can hoist 20 times their weight and create floating rafts in floods—linking their bodies, keeping them alive on the water for weeks. Their painful sting injects venom into the skin that produces welts and can make some people very ill.
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Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are tiny, but they transmit disease. They kill more humans than any other animal — more than 700,000 people each year are killed by diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, Zika , and West Nile virus. Female mosquitoes can smell the carbon dioxide in our breath from a distance of up to 50 meters, and their specialized mouth parts can pierce the skin and suck blood without us feeling it.
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Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are really quite hardy pests. These nocturnal bugs can go without food for up to a year while in snooze mode and also can withstand temperatures ranging from nearly freezing to very hot (122°F). Their flat bodies allow them to slip into cracks as narrow as a credit card, and research shows they have developed resistance to many types of bug killers.
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German Cockroaches
These cockroaches are true survival masters. They can survive without their heads for about a week (they die only because they can’t get any water), resist levels of radiation many times that are fatal to humans, and pass through openings just 3/8 inch wide. They breed rapidly, with one female able to produce a colony of 30,000 in a single year.
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Rats
Brown rats are strong and smart. With teeth that exert pressure of up to 7,000 pounds per square inch, these rodents can gnaw through aluminum, concrete, pipes, and electrical wires. To get around treacherous areas and evade traps, they work through problems. Rats can pass through holes the size of a quarter, swim half a mile, and survive falls of 50 feet. They also carried diseases, including a few that have wrought terrible illnesses over the centuries.
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Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants don’t consume wood like termites but burrow into it to create nests. A colony can consist of up to 50,000 workers, each able to carry objects many times its own weight. They are very careful when chewing through wood, when attempting to chew through good wood, insulation, and even plastic. What gives carpenter ants their superpower is their colony system.
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Ticks
These tiny critters have specialized parts inside their mouths that allow them to attach tightly to animals and humans and remain concealed as they feed for days. Some produce poisons in their saliva that can induce paralysis, and they transmit more than 15 serious diseases, including Lyme disease, which afflicts about 476,000 Americans every year. Their hard outer shells make it difficult to crush them, and they remain without food for up to 3 years while waiting for someone to bite.
