What poisonous animals live in Russia: names and photos

The most poisonous animals in Russia are spiders-karakurts, frogs zhrylyanki, scorpions and, of course, venomous snakes - vipers. The place of their distribution and habitat is in the southern regions of our country. About everything in order.

Viper Convent

This is the most common snake in the middle lane of our country, but not the worst for humans. In general, these creatures are found in Africa, Asia and Europe. There are already legends about these snakes. The lion's share is absolute fiction. For example, people believe that a viper's poison instantly kills a person. This is not quite true.

In fact, not all vipers are such an ominous, serious danger for humans is the largest of them - Gyurza. It is her bite that is considered deadly for sure, bites of other vipers living on the territory of Russia can be rendered harmless by injecting an antidote in time - a special serum.

How to behave when meeting a viper?

If you have inadvertently met with a viper, then behave calmly, do not make rash and the more abrupt movements. Otherwise, you can provoke a snake to protective measures. The bites of vipers cause quite painful sensations, and the affected area swells in a matter of seconds. The most dangerous are bites in the neck and face of a person.

The most poisonous snake in Russia

Speaking about what kind of poisonous animals live in Russia, it is impossible not to say anything about the gurze. This is a kind of poisonous snakes, representing the genus of giant vipers of the same name family. The second name is the Levant viper. Unlike his "colleague" - cobra, Gyurza never warns a person about approaching it. She immediately begins to defend herself, so the cases of biting people with these snakes are fixed much more than the bite of the same cobra.

As already mentioned, Gyurza is the largest representative of viper snakes inhabiting the Russian Federation. Its dimensions are quite impressive: the body length of this creature can reach 2 meters, and weight - 3 kilograms! These creatures are found in various biotopes: mountain, desert and semi-desert zones. The remaining types of vipers prefer to hide in advance, so that they do not come. These include the following types:

• Caucasian,
• Armenian,
• Steppe,
• Nosataya,
• Ordinary.

The most poisonous spiders in Russia

If we talk about which animals are the most poisonous in Russia, then we can not ignore the arachnid creatures, namely, poisonous karakurts. These are the only Russian spiders whose bites pose a mortal danger to us. Karakurts, like many other venomous animals, live in the south of the country: in Astrakhan, in the Orenburg region, in the North Caucasus, in the Crimea. At present, there have been recorded cases of attacks of Karakurts on people living in the Moscow region.

How do the Karakurts look like?

Their dimensions, if you do not take into account the length of the walking legs, reach a length of 2 centimeters. The color of the calf of these creatures is black, and on the large abdomen there may be bright spots of red or orange. It should be noted that karakurt can not have such spots on its body. Be carefull! It is the females of these spiders that are considered the main threat to humans. Small males Karakurts - weak and frail, they can not even bite the upper layer of human skin.

A distinctive feature of the Karakurts

The main sign of the difference of these venomous creatures from the other arachnids is a small pale spot located on the underside of their abdomen. If you look closely at it, you can see something like an hourglass. Note that often such a speck can be colored not in pale, but in bright colors.

Picture of poisoning with karakurt poison

The bite is accompanied by burning pain, which spreads throughout the body for 20 minutes. Pain can be felt around the waist, abdomen and chest. Characteristic and sharp tension of the muscles of the press. A person may experience the following common symptoms:

• dizziness,
• Shortness of breath,
• Increased heart rate,
• headache,
• Vomiting,
• Sweating,
• Pale face,
• Retention of urination and defecation.

What poisonous animals live in Russia yet?

One of the most poisonous animals inhabiting the territory of our country is the South Russian tarantula, or mizgir. This is the kind of spiders that represent a family of wolf spiders. Like the rest of its poisonous relatives, it inhabits the south of the country. Fortunately, his bites are not fatal to humans, although they pose a certain danger. The bite of mizgir resembles that of a hornet.

What does the South Russian tarantula look like?

The sizes of these creatures can reach 3 centimeters in females and 2.5 centimeters in males. Their bodies are densely covered with hairs of a brownish-red color from above and black from below. This creature prefers a dry climate, so it often populates steppe, forest-steppe, desert and semi-desert zones. It is widespread in Central Asia and Siberia.

Poisonous scorpions

If we talk about what kind of poisonous animals live in Russia, then it should be especially noted scorpions. Poisonous scorpions inhabit Dagestan and the Lower Volga region of our country. Fortunately, these creatures attack people only in case of self-defense. It should be noted that these creatures are small, but quite worthy opponents. As you know, the poison of the scorpion is at the tip of its tail.

As already mentioned, these poisonous animals (the names of the Latin character of scorpions and other poisonous creatures considered in this article are not mentioned) are attacked only for the purpose of self-defense, trying to hide quickly. However, if all paths for retreat are cut off, scorpions begin to desperately defend themselves. As with the karakurtas, particularly dangerous among these creatures are the females, since their poison can lead to death.

Scorpion venom

The poison of these creatures in its composition contains substances capable of destroying blood cells (erythrocytes, white blood cells, platelets) and detrimental to the human nervous system. Especially dangerous is the poison of young scorpions. Individuals with a light color have a rather strong poison, and scorpions, colored in dark tones, on the contrary, have a weaker poison. The first are found in the desert areas of our country, and the latter - in the wooded.

Wasps and bees

This is hard to believe, but these insects are included from time to time in the TOP 10 of the most poisonous animals in our country. And it's not accidental! The fact is that in themselves bees or wasps do not pose a mortal danger to humans: the bite of such an insect can otherwise cause only an allergy that does not harm our health. However, the poison of bees or wasps, obtained in multiple sizes, for example, when a man was simultaneously stung by a whole swarm of these insects, can lead to a fatal outcome.

Poisonous Toothpicks

Another poisonous animals (photo is presented in the article), inhabiting the territory of the Russian Federation, are poisonous frogs. In abundance, they can be found in the Krasnodar Territory. From their harmless relatives they differ very bright belly of orange color in a dark speck. The length of their body does not exceed 7 centimeters, in the ear canals there are no tympanic membranes, and the pupils of the eyes have a triangular shape.

There are swimming membranes only between the toes of the hind paws. In general, the skin of these poisonous frogs has a tuberous structure and a dirty-green (sometimes - brownish-gray) color. These creatures are active during the day, at night - they sleep. Winter huts are not in the water, but on land, occupying pits, burrows or adjustments. From the predators of these frogs rescues the poisonous foamy secret, produced by the skin glands, and, of course, a warning bright color.

Poison poison

The poison of the moth is isolated with the help of its own skin, literally covered with poisonous glands. As already noted, it has a foamy structure. If you get this poisonous mucus on any mucous membranes of a person, there is a certain pain, burning sensation. In some cases, a person suddenly shivers and starts to get very sore.

Poisonous animals of Crimea

The territory of the Crimea is inhabited by poisonous spiders and snakes, for example, the steppe adder or karakurt, as well as ticks that themselves are looking for a person. If we sorted out the vipers and karakurtas above, then we still do not know anything about the mites. A distinctive feature of these arachnids is that, unlike poisonous snakes, spiders or other insects, they attack people first!

What is the danger of Crimean ticks?

Their harm lies in the fact that these arachnids can tolerate dangerous diseases for us, for example tick-borne encephalitis or Lyme disease. Most often, such diagnoses are put by doctors after the fact, because people until the last moment do not know that they were bitten by an infected tick.

So, in this article we talked about what poisonous animals live in Russia. In conclusion, I would like to briefly get acquainted with what poisonous beings inhabit the territory of Ukraine nearby to us.

Dangerous animals in Ukraine

In principle, on the territory of the neighboring state, there are the same venomous snakes and spiders. One of the most striking similar creatures is the spider-tarantula. As in Russia, in Ukraine, there are spiders-karakurts, we spoke about them above. Another Ukrainian poisonous eight-legged predator is a spider-arpyopa. There is also a gyurza. In general, Ukraine's poisonous animals are not much different from their Russian counterparts.