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Does anyone know which bug/insect lives the longest??

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Does anyone know which bug/insect lives the longest??

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Hi! If she meant the bug/insect species that has been on Mother Earth for the longest, then that would be the cockroach. If she meant the bug/insect that has the longest lifespan, then that would be (according to the Guiness Book of Records) The Splendour Beetles. “The longest-lived insects are the Splendour Beetles (Buprestidae). On 27 May 1982 a Buprestis aurulenta appeared from the staircase timber in the home of Mr W. Euston of Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex after 47 years as a larva. ” EEEEeeewww! (No. I definitely could not ever be an Entomologist.