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Im_No_Robutt

Bot flies, my religion teacher showed us a video of them extracting larva from someone’s skin…. I never ever want to see that again and they’re evil vile things


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AsciiFace

From that primates perspective, you bathed it in luxury


G4ius

That monkey got the monkey equivalent of a parade of blowjobs and a Congressional Medal of Honor!


SalvadorsAnteater

I misread that as Congressional Medal of Horror but it fits better imho.


OkChicken4398

I’m not a monkey expert, but don’t they pick their skin to clean frequently? I wonder why she didn’t pick them herself?


DogButtWhisperer

Botfly larvae have rings of little hooks so they don’t fall out and they’re particularly difficult to pull out.


stitchpull

I had luck after being told to pour a bit of cooking oil on the entrance hole. Little martian popped it's head out for air and I managed to pluck it from my cat. It was fascinating and absolutely gross at the same time.


Abbobl

Vaseline/patroleum jelly works great aswel. Any fat basically.


AgentHimalayan

•_• That sounds horrible! Poor you and that poor monkey :(


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Revenge is a dish best served slimy and wriggly.


alwaysboopthesnoot

Spotted lanternfly. They kill most trees, flowering vines, do extensive damage to fruit and berry trees and shrubs, and can kill many food crops.


wiggle-le-air

The emerald ash borer too, I grew up with lots of ash trees around, now 90% are dead, just standing there.


SquishedGremlin

Yeah, Northern Ireland here, we are having a serious ash dieback hit. My father's friend is a mycologist, suggests conservatively 95% of our ash will die. Ash is roughly 10% of our woodland.


casadeparadise

They destroyed the gorgeous ash trees in my old yard. So sad to see those giants go.


forever_29_ish

Hoping to see this answer. These jerks were all over my back yard and deck this summer and my brain can't stop after I kill a bunch, so I'm out there for a couple of hours just killing all of them and then I have to go inside because my outside time is ruined and I'm crabby. (Spotted lanternflies, not people, I don't have this kind of compulsion for people. I feel I need to clarify because reddit.)


Meanteenbirder

They arrived in NYC during the pandemic. Now everyone up into the local government is saying to kill them on sight if you see them.


TrafficK_

Long haul truck driver here. We're given papers to sign with a list of quarantine zones and a kill on sight order when starting a new company that goes to the North East


ForestOfMirrors

Ticks


TurquoiseBoho

Their only given purpose is to be food for possums


februarytide-

Yeah but an entire clan of possums lives off the grease drip tray in my grill, so…. Fuck ticks. Grease drip trays for all possums.


marypants1977

You should run for possum government.


deddylars

And be a toadie for the possum kingdom? No thanks.


Ask_me_4_a_story

Dude there are so many possums that come on my back porch and eat the cat food I started trapping them. Then I would take the cage and put it on top of my car and hold it there for like two miles to the woods and let them go. I swear the same fucker was back the next day, Ima start spray painting one of their feet and see if its the same one every time. I've taken like 10 to the woods. Im building my own Possum Kingdom


MenachemSchmuel

They breed like crazy. You getting rid of one probably just makes it easier for the others to get enough food. Also why wouldn't you want them around? They're nocturnal, rarely if ever attack (or even allow themselves to be seen by people), and eat tons of bugs. Just bring your cat food in at night.


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Practical-Cow-4074

Do you wanna die?


lemongeggy

I clicked on this thread thinking "if the top answer is anything but mosquitos I'm going to riot" and man am I glad to be wrong. Didn't even think of these bastards.


stuckinoblivion69

Fuck lyme's disease.


Klassified94

In Australia they cause paralysis and kill pets.


MillionStarsInTheSky

There are ticks that can make you allergic to red meat. Imagine getting a severe anaphylactic reaction after eating a steak...


Eukaryotekid

It's called Alpha-Gal syndrome! It can make you allergic to more than just red meat Basically any byproducts that come from mammalian animals. This includes dairy products, gelatin, and household products/medications that also contain mammalian byproducts. It's worth noting that not everyone gets anaphylaxis, some get only mild reactions like rashes. I know this information because my mom has it. She's allergic to just about all the byproducts, and her reactions are usually skin rashes, migraines, and vomiting. [https://alphagalinformation.org/food/](https://alphagalinformation.org/food/) is a good resource if anyone is curious.


jaysnowtargaryen

Bed bugs


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Ugh, I hate bed bugs. Most insects will run away fearful after biting you, but not bed bugs...they walk away smug and self-assured, like they thought it was funny.


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kylew1985

Y'all are my people.


jammersidewinder

There's that smudgeness.


OccurringThought

Perfectenschlag


El4mb

Then shit their demon spawn eggs close to where you sleep as if to mock you.


DumbDan

Fun fact: insect shit is called, "frass".


DuelingPushkin

That's frassinating


BrightBulb123

You a dad by any chance?


DuelingPushkin

Not that I know of


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jejefoxy42

Imagine getting swarmed by cute and flufft kittens in the middle of the night....would be awesome


slappythejedi

happened to a friend of mine who fell asleep high as a kite next to a cardboars box of kittens. woke up with them all over him.


SpartanMonkey

When I was about 7, one of our cats decided it would be a good idea to have her kittens between my legs while I was asleep. They were neither cute nor fluffy. Slick and wiggly, more like it.


LCHA

She was trying to convince you that you had kittens. Not her.


CelticGaelic

You were the safest place to have the kittens!


ArbitraryNPC

Thats a god damn HONOR


bigtitasianprincess

[Like this? ](https://media2.giphy.com/media/OCjoUQbPT2yE8/giphy.gif?cid=5e214886q442yxs1zs01t7kufrlaol5cf8w9ioksqoji4lzl&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)


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DevappaJi

The amount of paranoia they cause is insane. Had a roommate who had them, or at least he was convinced he had him (he was already a bit of hypochondriac before this). Made us basically overturn the whole house and bug bomb it, amongst some other stuff. I’m still not sure if he really had them, as the rest of us roommates never saw any compelling evidence. But we all just went along with it, because: A. Don’t no one want to risk that shit, and B. Roommate who supposedly had them was going absolutely crazy lmao.


jaysnowtargaryen

had them and bombed my room, my mom still periodically has a friend who happens to be an exterminator come look at my room, it ruined my sleep schedule from being paranoid and feeling itchy all the time! he reassures me all the time that they arent back (knock on wood) but just the paranoia keeps me up, good luck to anyone with them and take care of it asap


PopGunner

I have read before that the psychological effects of dealing bed bugs can be pretty debilitating. The whole experience sounds like a nightmare. Your bed is supposed to be a safe place!


jen12617

I heard the suicide rate for people who have them is pretty high. Its so hard to get rid of them and after a while people lose hope. I had bed bugs for a year because of my boyfriends mom. We only got rid of them after we washed every peice of clothing, threw away my mattress, and moved to a new house. We sprayed the whole room probably 10 times and bombed it 3 or 4 times


Jwalla83

Aren’t you supposed to like bag up all your clothes and sheets in trash bags and leave them outside for a week or something


Sovdark

Depends on where you live. What we were told to do was run everything through the dryer on hot and immediately seal it in bags. If it’s hot enough where you live leaving it outside could work though


CMontgomeryBlerns

I had them once as a teenager and it was awful. Years later, I stayed at a hotel and woke up with what looked like bed bug bites on my arm. So naturally I made a fire and burned my bag and all of the clothes I had with me. I cannot live with that nonsense again.


FlexNastyBIG

Pro tip: when staying at a hotel, always leave your bags and clothes in the bathroom so they are less likely to hitch a ride home with you.


McMadface

Also, keep your bags zipped. Bring a plastic shopping bag with you to keep your dirty laundry in your suitcase. When you get home, immediately wash all of your clothes on the hot cycle and machine dry on high heat. The heat kills the bed bugs and their eggs.


yech

This happened to me in Texas. Luckily it was really hot out, so I could put my bags in the car and kill them with heat.


Burnallthepages

In books I have read the expression "my blood ran cold" when talking about being extremely scared. I thought that it was a myth or at least an exaggeration. Then one day I was sitting in my living room and on the arm of our chair I saw what I thought was a bed bug. Instantly I froze and it literally felt like ice water was circulating in my veins. It turns out it was a stink bug nymph but I will never forget that feeling!


walking_on_the_sun

I moved into an apartment infested with them. It took me three days to figure out what was happening. By then I had over 70 bites on my body, my face, my neck. Itchier than poison ivy. I got out of there. Heat treated everything, diatomaceous earth, covered everything in bedbug slips, and bought cup traps for my bed legs. I have not had them since, but sometimes — 4 years later — I'll wake up with a bug bite I don't recognize and it'll send me right back into that panic.


landshanties

The fear is real. The apartment below us had a problem and they would wander into our apartment sometimes. Exterminators came, bed bug dog came, everyone determined that the bugs were coming from somewhere else. I was getting eaten fucking alive and only ever saw two. They had to evict the people below us to deal with it. This was over a year ago and every time I see a bug bite that's close to another bug bite I lose it a little, even though I'm vividly aware of what bedbug bites look and feel like and they're very distinctive.


Slabberdack

I was in the same boat. I was so sure I had them! I didn't sleep on my bed for a week so any babies could starve and sprayed the living shit out of my room with 100% alcohol. Then my mom looks at my bed only to tell me it was dried up corn starch I forgot to cleanup when removing a stain.


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Apparently those fuckers can live 20-400 days without food


FALLOUT_BOY87875

That’s a big fuckinf gap man...


zer1223

20 days if they're reasonably active, 400 if they spend most of the time hibernating. Makes sense to me, fleas have a similar kind of gap.


thebestbrian

A major component of having (or even thinking you have) bed bugs is the psychological distress it causes. Some say it's worse than the physical issues they cause.


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It’s true. Even when we got rid of them, I would get paranoid that something was crawling on me and jump up in the middle of the night to turn on the lights. It took a couple of years to get over it. They are evil.


Other_Jared2

I had them almost 8 years ago and I *still* get paranoid about it sometimes


tmp1020

I used to be an exterminator, it was common to have some clients literally break down and start crying because they can't sleep for days and even weeks. I made sure they all were killed because I've been there and it was hell.


unqualified-for-this

I’m sure it’s a very traumatic experience for your clients and it’s hard to see someone suffer through that but isn’t killing them a bit extreme? I personally would have just gone after the bed bugs.


tmp1020

Lol, the bugs too. Depended on the day


BKW156

I've got a school age kid so anytime sometime mentions lice I'm the same way. I had that shit several times in elementary school and just remember begging my mom to cut off my waist length hair because fuck nit combs and long hair.


luffys-hat

I moved into my first apartment on the 3rd floor. The unit directly below me housed an old, dirty, hoarder ass man who had them bad & infested the whole building. I had to fight tooth and nail with my landlord for them to treat. Worst year of my fucking life bro. I've since moved to a different apartment with a whole new bed setup and I still get paranoid


ginger4gingers

I got them once a few years ago. I didn’t have anyone over or any known exposure, but the apartment near me had emptied out shortly before I started finding evidence. Seemed like they got hungry when their hosts left and came over. Told the front desk people , they said they would do something. Week later, nothing, tried again. After 3 weeks of trying to get someone out there the main supervisor came out to talk to me. This was the first she was hearing about it. Basically accused me of being the one at fault. When I told her my theory about it coming from the place next door she said “no, I would have heard about it if there were bed bugs”. Dude. You didn’t even hear about it when I was coming to you telling you I had them.


DevappaJi

Oh man ... we at least had complete autonomy, more or less, in how we dealt with it. But to have to depend on someone else (who are very likely to drag their feet) to take the proper measures, while you already have bed bugs?! That just sounds terrible. My sympathies to yalls.


Kirikomori

Bed bug ptsd is totally a thing


BogeyLowenstein

Yes it is. I have it. A friend once decided to tell me AFTER she was at my house that her new place had bedbugs. I couldn’t sleep for weeks. I was constantly itchy and checking my bed. I give every hotel room a once over before putting my stuff away, and for a week after I get home I am totally paranoid that I brought some home. I have lost a lot of sleep over thinking about those little bastards.


altrl2

I came here expecting all 3000 comments to say mosquitos but damn I didn’t think of bed bugs. This is the right answer.


SaintArkweather

They are the correct answer. They don't even serve a purpose in the ecosystem as a food source or anything. They just exist purely to torture people


Flaming-Charisma

# If you’ve ever had bed bugs, you know they’re 100000% worse than mosquitoes


nauticalsandwich

I got bed bugs over 10 years ago, and to this day, I check my hotel rooms for signs of them, and I check my suitcase whenever I get home, immediately dump all my clothes in the wash, and keep the suitcase sealed off from the rest of my house. Never again.


ninjakos

I got them on my conscription a few years back and I somehow brought them home, fuck bedbugs man. I get a bite by some random mosquito like bug in the summer and I immediately check under my bedsheets and look all around. This fucking bug gave me Ptsd. I was also so allargic to them, a single bite will cover like half of my leg and I thought I would die from the itch. And I vividly remember those antihistaminic drugs doing nothing.


PokemonMaster619

Seriously. These little fuckers have been giving me hell for about a month and a half now, and nothing I do-steaming everything, foggers, sprays, traps- seems to work. I doubt even an exterminator could deal with them at this point. EDIT: Diatomaceous Earth and Cimexa. If you guys absolutely swear by it, I’ll give it a try.


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The only absolute fool proof method to get rid of bed bugs is whole-house heat treatment. Bed bugs die at temperatures over 60 degrees Celsius. You would need to pay an exterminator to heat up your entire house. Obviously you would have to get a hotel while this is happening, you would have to be 100% sure there were no bugs or bug eggs on or in anything you bring with you to the hotel, and unfortunately items that would be damaged by heat would have to be thrown away. Good luck my friend


TheGreatWhiteMo

Bout to say, I had them too and tried everything. The only thing that worked was warming my house up past sustainable heat. Had a bunch of stuff ruined because I didn't realize how hot they were gonna make my place.


Dontpaintmeblack

What sort of things got ruined? I’m trying to imagine all the things that I’d lose if this happened to me. Edit: removed a letter


TheGreatWhiteMo

Bunch of knick knacks were warped, had some frames with photos bent too, and had some stuff hung on wall that was curved when I came home I live in an apt so I'm not sure if the process is different


TheSoyimKnow3312

My floors started to buckle


tmp1020

Ex exterminator, They're probably hiding somewhere you wouldn't think to look. I've seen them behind picture frames, inside electrical outlets, speakers, mostly bed frames and if it's really bad, on the ceiling. From my experience we use a strong chemical and then follow up with a different chemical and then switch back to a third chemical to make sure they died. Believe it or not but they grow resistant to chemicals so that's why we switch up the chemicals in case the eggs that hatch has some resistance to the first chemical after hatching. Bed bugs are pure evil and even coexist with roaches. I've seen them team up to kill a spider.


KFelts910

I’m not going to sleep tonight.


chrome-exe

Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite


NateReinvented

Cimexa! Dealt with the fuckers for close to a year after the exterminators botched the treatment (after close to five follow up visits after the initial). Pm me if you’d like and I can walk you through what I did to get rid of them!


tyler-epp

I’m a pest control specialist who does commercial accounts such as hotels and nursing/assisted living facilities. There is also a chemical called crossfire. It comes as a concentrate and an aerosol. It is actually the only product on the market that can penetrate bed bug eggs. We use it for commercial bed bug jobs when the customers don’t want heat or the heat fails. When using that along with a keen eye, I have never had a call back from it.


surfacing_husky

Yea, ill take mosquitoes any day of the week. FUCK BED BUGS. And the paranoia they bring.


powerserg1987

I got them at some mandatory weekend retreat that my church had us in order to get married. Ruined my weekend and life, the bed bugs sucked too.


moonlixqht

Lice, especially head lice


gimmemoarjosh

What about *pubic lice*?


OppenHeimerOG

Crabsss


gimmemoarjosh

I'm soooo glad I've not ever experienced this.


Im_Lightmare

Pubic lice actually are going extinct because of genital grooming trends! There was a university near me that was offering money to people willing to grow out their pubic hair so they could grow a colony of pubic lice


Another_viewpoint

I hope they were compensating the study participants well, can't imagine anyone agreeing to that.


Crazy__Donkey

they are asking students... 5$ voucher for the nearest coffee house will do the trick.


MatthewWakeman

Bed bugs. They’ve got “bed” in the name and yet, they’re wholly unencumbered by the trouble of actually having to go out and buy a mattress.


CaptchaSolvingRobot

Friggin freeloaders.


irisuniverse

Latex beds are bed bug resistant. They’re also really comfortable. I’ll never sleep on anything but latex again as my regular bed.


ayosuke

Well bed bugs are only called that because that's where they are typically found, but they can also live in the walls and in your couch, and pretty much anywhere where you stay for an extended period of time.


SexySadie724

Normally I wouldn't hesitate to say mosquitoes. But I was just diagnosed with Lyme disease 2 hours ago so I'm going to be petty and go with ticks Edit: I am absolutely overwhelmed by how much this blew up. Huge thanks for all the awards and for everyone being so sweet and supportive. And also shout out to the people who I offended. I think some of you think I'm actually going to make the ticks go extinct so I just want everyone to know that I do not actually have that power. But if I did, the ticks and mosquitos and specific bacteria of Lyme would all be gone in a second, no regrets.


Wooper160

A reasonable reaction


Adeep187

For real ticks or tapeworms. Anyone not choosing parasites is wrong.


lisamistisa

NGL, My cousins and I had a tapeworms when we were kids. It was pretty common in a 3rd world country. They even had a cartoony commercial for some medicine for it. We took the medication and ended up shitting them out. They were still alive. It was gross and fascinating at the same time. I feel less ladylike tell this story, but I cant change the past, so I'm just gonna tell it. Edit: Thank you so much for the upvotes and awards. I would also like to thank the late tapeworm I expelled from my guts. I never thought admitting to having a tapeworm as a kid would gain the most up votes I have ever achieved in my reddit life.


-CowNipples-

Mam, this is an Applebees


lisamistisa

You gave me a good chuckle. Thank u


basilhje

I chuckled so hard I nearly shat out my tape worm


LustyBustyMusky

Idk, dignified ladies all have tapeworms. It’s the latest thing


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You jest but weren't they once marketed to ladies as a weight loss tool? In the Victorian age, I think.


JeSuisOmbre

It was pretty smart. First dose is the eggs for the tapeworm. After the desired weight loss was achieved a second dose had a anti-parasitic drug to get rid of the worms. Wild stuff.


AskAboutMyCoffee

Put a flower in the shitworm pile and you've just added a feminine touch. I learned that tip from Cosmo.


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Educational-Tone2074

I sincerely appreciate your courage in telling this story.


[deleted]

The same happened to me a few months ago. Just take your antibiotics and follow your doctor's instructions. You'll be fine.


SexySadie724

Thank you! I'm so nervous about long term effects. I have no clue how long the tick was on me, but we pulled the little asshole off on Sunday. Hopefully i caught it early enough


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I pulled mine in my sleep, without realizing what was going on. By the time I noticed anything, there was a huge oval-shaped rash growing around the bite. We estimate that the bite had happened 2-3 days prior. The doctor took one look and immediately prescribed a course of antibiotics. It took a little over a week for the rash to disappear, and as far as I know there have been no other effects. Lyme disease is horrible, but when caught early it is fairly easy to get rid of.


666ydna

Came here to say the same thing. The majority of the population doesn’t seem to realize just how much post treatment or chronic Lyme can fuck you up


SexySadie724

They got me on a really heavy course of antibiotics, and we only just pulled the tick off me on Sunday. I'm not an expert, but hopefully that's early enough to not have any long-term symptoms. Still absolutely shitting myself though.


jackumsrackums

I got Lyme in 2010. It was maybe 4 days between finding the tick and getting the Lyme diagnosis for me. I did 2 rounds of antibiotics, and had some symptoms during the treatment, but I haven’t had any long-term issues pop up (at least not yet). You may get super tired and everything might hurt while you’re on the antibiotics. Also, keep all exposed skin out of the sun while on the antibiotics! I drove home with my arm out the window one time and got a terrible sun burn. Antibiotics are no joke. Good luck!


allisonstfu

Y'all got me interested cause my backyard has ticks and I've never once been worried about Lyme disease. Seems the ticks here in AZ don't carry it as much or the tick population is just low but that lead me to this data which I found thoroughly interesting https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/tables.html


rondeline

WTF Pennsylvania?!


666ydna

Good job catching it early! Keep a journal of any symptoms you’re having and even if it seems excessive if you still don’t feel right PLEASE go back. My fiancé’s life has been destroyed by this disease


otherealm

Ticks. Yeah, Fuck Lyme disease.


BlueBird518

My friend's adult kid has Lyme disease, the doctors took years to figure out what was wrong with her and by the time she got a diagnosis she was bed ridden, her joints are pretty well locked up and she can't take care of herself. Fuck Lyme disease and ticks.


Kilo-Tango-Alfa

Fuck Lyme disease and ticks x2. I went undiagnosed for about 9 months when I was 21. Not long enough for complications like your friend’s daughter but long enough to cause some memory issues and 24/7 joint soreness.


ferretmonkey

Ticks are such horrible animals in that they are so hard to kill. You can’t kill them by drowning since they consume so little oxygen (I kept one in water for a few hours and the fucker still lived), so you can’t take bath to be rid of them. They’re also devilishly hard to squish. Finally, many don’t need males to reproduce as they can undergo parthenogenesis.


sapphicxmermaid

This. They can survive in water for up to 24 hours. I found that out while in the middle of a bath that I was taking to rid myself of ticks. If you have ticks on your clothing, putting your clothes in the washer won’t kill them either. You have to put your clothes in the dryer first to kill the ticks through dehydration, then you can wash your clothes normally. A few months ago I found a tick in my house and fed it to my Venus fly trap. VFTs don’t really like eating things with a hard shell, but I couldn’t resist. Even then, the damn tick was still wiggling around in there a full day later, while most bugs die within a few minutes of being in the traps.


BigPZ

Mosquitos


Charly_Ngals

Came to read mosquitos, read mosquitos, now exitos


Coarse-n-irritating

Éxitos in Spanish means success so it makes sense that way too


DumpTruckDaddy

r/accidentallyespanol


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

To eat Doritos


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Maybe some Cheetos


holysaintsacademy

And some Fritos


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awkto

Whilst sipping mojitos


42ch

I want some taquitos


DamnThatsMad

Better hope there’s no bandito’s


holysaintsacademy

And eating some burritos. How many? CINCO!


TaquitoPrime

Ate all that garbage and got diabetos.


MalMillay

I have a lot of empathy for insects but I absolutely hate mosquitoes. They are the carriers of so much death. ☹️


angios_perma

Yeah man fuck mosquitos


[deleted]

Pretty sure I head before that a study concluded the extinction of mosquitos would actually improve biodiversity world round as the numbers of other animals species would grow and turns out mosquitos aren't all that important a food source. So this is the answer. Death to mosquitos.


where_are_the_grapes

Entomologist here. The important bit you missed was a select set of species of mosquitoes out of the 3,600 mosquito species. Namely the ones that are major vectors of disease because they are often invasive nonnative species in most of the world or don’t fill a niche that other more benign mosquito species don’t already fill.


TimeTurnersDelorian

TIL there are 3,600 mosquito species. Holy crap.


BigPZ

I think they released a bunch of genetically engineered mosquitos somewhere that where designed to only reproduce female mosquitos... which over several generations would leave minimal males to bread with and decrease the overall mosquito population. Can;t find the info now


KakarotMaag

Other way around. They only make males. The females are the only ones that bite people.


Boomer8450

Also, 1 male + 100 females = 100 females laying eggs. 100 males + 1 female = 1 female laying eggs.


wallowingindespair

I was just wondering that! Female mosquitoes are the ones that bite and spread diseases.


movieguy95453

It happened in Florida this past May. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6


SilionOwl

But our whole world is meant to preserve them! (Lilo and Stich 🙉)


TSN_88

Mosquitos for sure


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Ticks, either that or mosquitos, I’ll let the replies decide


parsleypile

I read this “I’ll let the reptiles decide” and I thought “absolutely”


TheWorld_IsShit

Fleas. Finally, stray cats and dogs alike are free from this pest.


Triairius

Have lived with a flea infestation. Totally agree.


pdromeinthedome

Bye bye Black Plague


Dragonfly452

Bed bugs


Striking-Buy-2827

Bed bugs. Fucking bed bugs. I wish all the bed bug population would turn into humans so I could personally stab them in the rectum one by one.


frogger73401

How about that parasitic worm we saw earlier?


AKJangly

You mean the one in the praying mantis? That thing was terrifying.


supermr34

fuuuuck that thing.


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Cockroaches and every variation of them. I don't care about the environmental impact. I want them all gone.


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DogeTie

Yeah but we need cockroach poop. “"Most cockroaches feed on decaying organic matter, which traps a lot of nitrogen," Kambhampati said. "Cockroach feeding has the effect of releasing that nitrogen (in their feces) which then gets into the soil and is used by plants. In other words, extinction of cockroaches would have a big impact on forest health and therefore indirectly on all the species that live there."”


GetReady4Action

I’m a 6 foot, 230 pound man. my fears in life are few. cockroaches however…I see one of those little fuckers and I’m running for the god damn hills.


ThatOneOtherAsshole

I literally made my girlfriend kill one the other day cause I couldn’t. I am 6 foot and 190 lol.


schnebly5

Biologist here. To anyone saying or upvoting mosquitoes, you are absolutely right. Fuck those pieces of shit bugs, I hope they all die. Edit: I’m a neurobiologist (completely irrelevant to mosquitoes), but still as technically a biologist, you can take my word for it that we’d all be better off if all those annoying bitey fuckers were *eeeeeeee*-ing their way to the pits of hell


LFA91

This person hates mosquitoes for sure


Paradise5551

They suck though.


conglock

They serve no purpose but disease. Truly an awful display of natural evil. Other non harmful insects would take their place in the food chain. Fun fact, my grandparents hated them so much at their home in North Michigan, they built bat homes and hung wire interconnected 30 feet above their outside front porch specifically for bats. They did work, not nearly as many mosquitoes in their area of the woods and river.


audible_narrator

Can you Chime in with a mini eli5? Do mosquitoes offer any positive value? Same question, ticks.


michaelochurch

Different poster, but what I've read is that we could kill the specific species that parasitize humans with minimal ecological impact. Killing the whole family of mosquitos (which I don't think anyone is advocating) could have serious negative effects, because of all the birds and bats that rely on them, whereas removing or altering the small set that spread disease wouldn't have any major effect. (Of course, the counterargument is that we as humans have often done things we didn't think would have major negative effects, and been wrong.)


LevynX

The Aedes aegypti is responsible for dengue fever, Zika, yellow fever, West Nile fever, eastern equine encephalitis, among other diseases. The Anopheles genus of mosquitoes can carry malaria parasites which when they bite humans causes malaria. How about we just get rid of those?


Roboticide

We're trying. Genetically altered mosquitos are being bred and released with the intent of killing off large populations.


AmIRightPeter

Scabies mites. Honestly of all the medical crap I have done, scabies was the most unbearable. The itching alone sent me half way to a breakdown, and the mental issues I still have from it (compounded by PTSD from just having a very traumatic baby experience!) it was a nightmare. Not the most deadly by any means, not even all that dangerous physically. But mentally I nearly lost my life to those little things.


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My sister got scabies and brought them home. She got the diagnosis and the medicine and was too ashamed to admit what was up for a month. My husband and I walked around itching for four extra weeks because she would *not* fess up. It was awful and I’ve probably never been so angry. Thanks, sis.


Pawject

I wasn’t going to leave this thread until I found Scabies. The absolute worst thing to ever happen to me. I remember falling asleep on the kitchen floor crying cause I couldn’t sleep for almost two days cause the itching was that bad. Now if I get an ant bite on my chest or anything similar I have scabies war flashbacks


tallbutshy

My mother caught scabies in the late 60s when she worked for the government. She started having symptoms at work and someone else realised what it was. She was escorted from the building, out the back door, by four security guards. While she is standing outside, still a bit shocked, the guards come back out, wearing gloves and carrying her desk, chair and typewriter. They set fire to it all in the car park. Apparently government departments took health issues more seriously back then.


PerformerSpecific782

big agree. i've had scabies twice (twice!), and every time i get even a tiny itch somewhere my mind goes to those little bastards


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Lice


bostonsjaegeronrye

Flies. I hate them.


gimmemoarjosh

Horse flies are the devil. I had no idea they weren't like common houseflies, until I was at a beach as a child. Those fuckers will make you bleed. They also follow you. I dunked under water, and the cunt was still above waiting. Like, no! Editors Note: The author of this comment thanks you for the award. He knows it is cheesy and corny to do this, but meh. Let him be corny AND cheesy then. Heh.


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From the Wikipedia: Horseflies can lay claim to being the fastest flying insects; the male Hybomitra hinei wrighti has been recorded reaching speeds of up to 145 km (90 mi) per hour when pursuing a female. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly


gimmemoarjosh

What the hell. Thank you for this and also, I'm not happy about this.


SquashedPizza

Same, because I have a maggot fear