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I too think the question is a fun one, if not particularly taxing. Even if we restrict ourselves solely to insects and leave out other arthropods like arachnids and myriapods, current estimates place the insect population (including known and unknown species) at as many as 10 million species and quite literally trillions or even tens of trillions of individuals. Even the most harmless of species could theoretically be dangerous in sufficient numbers. Imagine being crushed or choked to death by a massive swarm of, for example, houseflies... there may be worse ways to go but I don't have any particular desire to imagine one.
And of course if we include spiders, scorpions, centipedes ands such, the instance of venomous and/or poisonous (and therefore potentially dangerous) species goes up.
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