10 MOST PAINFUL STINGS OR BITES:

1. Cicada Killer
2. Tarantula Hawk
3. Bulldog Ant
4. Desert Centipede
5. Scorpion
6. Velvet Ant
7. Baldfaced Hornet
8. Carpenter Ant
9. Giant Water Bug
10. Sydney Funnel Web

WORLD"S CURRENT TOP KILLER:

protein-hungry female MOSQUITOES of the genera Anopheles and Aedes that vector the following disease:

- malaria - 2,000,000 deaths per year
- West Nile Virus - 30,000 deaths per year
- yellow fever - 30,000 deaths per year
- encephalitis - 15,000 deaths per year
- dengue fever - 12,000 deaths per year

OTHER VECTORS OF DISEASE:

- flea - plague
- louse - typhus
- Tsetse fly - sleeping sickness
- kissing bug - sleeping sickness
- blackfly - river blindness
- sand fly - leishmaniasis
- tick - Lyme disease, RM spotted fever

FACTOIDS:

- bedbugs do not vector disease
- the daddy-long legs is not the world's most poisonous spider
- there are no giant camel spiders in Iraq