Despite their reputation, bed bugs do not transmit disease to humans — there is no documented case of pathogen transmission via bed bug bite.
30–50 people die annually from Asian giant hornet stings in Japan — most from systemic venom load, not anaphylaxis.
Despite the unsettling lifecycle, botfly larvae don't transmit disease. The infection is confined to one small site under the skin.
A peptide from wandering spider venom (PnTx2-6) is in clinical trials as a treatment for erectile dysfunction.
Brazilian antivenom developed in 1925 has reduced wandering-spider bite mortality to under 0.5% of cases.
Deathstalker venom contains chlorotoxin — a peptide so specific to brain-tumor cells that surgeons use it as a fluorescent 'tumor paint' during brain surgery.
The 2019–2021 East African locust outbreak threatened food security for 25 million people across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
