Snake-Headed Caterpillar and Bat-Eating Spider: Nature is Scary as Hell

Nevertheless, the dark side of Mother Nature (with her terrible insects and frightening phenomena) chills the soul.

You may find this a bit disturbing: After all, people are used to seeing only the beauty of our planet, but there is also another side to everything. However, not everyone wants to notice it.

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Millipede with children

CC BY-SA 2.0 / B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art / Centipede

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A deer shedding its fur

CC BY-SA 3.0 / Duke of W4 / Damhirsch mit Resten vom Bast auf dem Geweih

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Saw fish

CC BY 2.0 / Holiday Point / Smalltooth Sawfish

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A statue peeking out of a tree hollow at the Ta Prohm temple complex in Cambodia

CC BY 2.0 / Gusjer / Hidden

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A parasitic fly of the familly Nycteribiidae collected on a Plecotus auritus bat in Switzerland (Le chenit, Baume de la petite Chaux, Coll. P. Nyssen). Scale : bodylength 2mm Technical settings : - focus stack of 25 images - Leitz Photar objective @ f/4 with 70 mm extension tubes/adapter

CC BY-SA 2.0 / Gilles San Martin / Nycteribiidae (parasite fly living on bats)

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Spanish Sawtail Shark

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A floating ant colony forms a bridge to land as it tries to save its eggs from drowning during a flood.

CC BY-SA 2.0 / Michael Mol / Floating ant colony

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Cicada on the contrary

CC BY-SA 2.0 / Toshiyuki IMAI / Emergence

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Eulagisca gigantea NIWA specimen.

CC0 / Siobhan Leachman /