If your children are a bit too at ease with insects, fingering worms or putting ladybugs into their tiny chocolate-ringed mouths as they are wont to do, introduce your little ones to bugs’ terrifying, too-fast-to-keep-track-of nature with HexBug Nano Newtons.

We’re not unfamiliar with HexBug’s line of robotic creepy crawlies, including crabs, ants, worms and more—but the new Nano Newton might be the creepiest of the bunch. Whereas the other ones are big enough in size that they are discernible as harmless plastic imitations of the real thing, the Newtons are so tiny that at first glance they could just as well be radioactive cockroaches. And they acts like it.

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