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According to the guinness book of world records, the longest recorded living insect was the buprestis aurulenta. A beetle that was found alive on a staircase and remained alive in its nest for 47 years.

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Dragonflies are known from the upper Carboniferous, some 300 million years ago. Worms are not insects, but these creatures stretch clear back into paleozoic strata half a billion years old.

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Queen Termites. They can live up to 50 years.

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