5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

[Sandman42]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

I've heard of the first 4 before, but never heard of a Bot Fly and now I wish I never did.

[oakfan162]

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Alright, 5 places were just taken off my world travel "to-do" list! lol

[Psyblast]

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Ugh, the bullet ant is horrifying. I remember seeing one of those nature shows, the guy intentionally had a bullet ant sting me. I think the guy honestly wanted to die.

[trobinson97]

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Saw all of those on Nat'l Geographic channel. I'd really hate to run into those Giant Hornets and Africanized bees.

[Cebby]

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That is the worst list I've ever seen (and that includes the 2008 preseason lists with Ohio St and Oklahoma listed as national title contenders).

Why is it so bad?

0 ****ing spiders.

#1-5 should be:

5. Spiders that creep up on you
4. Spiders that can hide under your toilet seat and bite you on the ***
3. The giant spiders that typically aren't poisonous, but still scary as hell
2. Tarantulas
1. Cave spiders

Bees? Ants? Really? I can step on ants, leave bees the **** alone (half a second, you won't see me spending a damn nano-half second anywhere near a beehive), and in general, kill anything half an inch long in the jungle.

But a spider? They'll just post up, waiting for you to slip. Then, when you're comfortable, they'll run right at you, but go under a couch. At this point, you're tense; "That bitch must have been 18 inches long" you tell yourself. As you come down, you realize that it wasn't that big and believe yourself to be safe. Then, with seemingly magic spider powers, the damn thing appears behind you and it's not 18 inches, it's at least 25 and that's conservative. You pull out a machete, preparing yourself for an epic battle. As the beast runs, you manage to lop off 3 legs. This would cripple a half inch ant or lame bee, but a spider? Not likely. It manages to run through a crack in the wall that barely even exists. At this point, you know you'll never truly be safe in the house until the spider is destroyed...

[CMH]

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Ok, I've only watched that Hornet and wow. That seriously looked like a massacre with bodies of bees just laying on the ground.

[trobinson97]

Re: 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

That is the worst list I've ever seen (and that includes the 2008 preseason lists with Ohio St and Oklahoma listed as national title contenders).

Why is it so bad?

0 ****ing spiders.

#1-5 should be:

5. Spiders that creep up on you
4. Spiders that can hide under your toilet seat and bite you on the ***
3. The giant spiders that typically aren't poisonous, but still scary as hell
2. Tarantulas
1. Cave spiders

What, you don't like spiders?

[CMH]

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But a spider? They'll just post up, waiting for you to slip. Then, when you're comfortable, they'll run right at you, but go under a couch. At this point, you're tense; "That bitch must have been 18 inches long" you tell yourself. As you come down, you realize that it wasn't that big and believe yourself to be safe. Then, with seemingly magic spider powers, the damn thing appears behind you and it's not 18 inches, it's at least 25 and that's conservative. You pull out a machete, preparing yourself for an epic battle. As the beast runs, you manage to lop off 3 legs. This would cripple a half inch ant or lame bee, but a spider? Not likely. It manages to run through a crack in the wall that barely even exists. At this point, you know you'll never truly be safe in the house until the spider is destroyed...

And number one reason I don't want to live in the midwest.

[BatsareBugs]

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I heard about the bot fly before reading it in a book.

[madscientist]

Re: 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

That is the worst list I've ever seen (and that includes the 2008 preseason lists with Ohio St and Oklahoma listed as national title contenders).

Why is it so bad?

0 ****ing spiders.

#1-5 should be:

5. Spiders that creep up on you
4. Spiders that can hide under your toilet seat and bite you on the ***
3. The giant spiders that typically aren't poisonous, but still scary as hell
2. Tarantulas
1. Cave spiders

Bees? Ants? Really? I can step on ants, leave bees the **** alone (half a second, you won't see me spending a damn nano-half second anywhere near a beehive), and in general, kill anything half an inch long in the jungle.

But a spider? They'll just post up, waiting for you to slip. Then, when you're comfortable, they'll run right at you, but go under a couch. At this point, you're tense; "That bitch must have been 18 inches long" you tell yourself. As you come down, you realize that it wasn't that big and believe yourself to be safe. Then, with seemingly magic spider powers, the damn thing appears behind you and it's not 18 inches, it's at least 25 and that's conservative. You pull out a machete, preparing yourself for an epic battle. As the beast runs, you manage to lop off 3 legs. This would cripple a half inch ant or lame bee, but a spider? Not likely. It manages to run through a crack in the wall that barely even exists. At this point, you know you'll never truly be safe in the house until the spider is destroyed...

LMAO, cause I hate spiders too. In the lab I work in we had an oilield worker from South America show up with multiple Botfly larvae in him, as well as the diabetic homeless man with leg ulcers and covered in maggots, and the "worm man" that we could not figure out what kind of worms he was spewing out. Cool, but very disgusting at the same time.

I am slightly surprised that those huge, foot long scorpions from Central/South America did not make the list.

[Cebby]

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I am now making an amendment to my list.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071121-giant-scorpion.html

An 8.2 foot long scorpion? Get that **** out of here.

[Beantown]

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****. Insects.

[Flawless]

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That bot fly is just ****ing nasty.

[AuburnAlumni]

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Is there really any doubt that the most talented and hilarious writers work for Cracked.com?

EVERY article I read from that site has me rolling on the floor laughing.

[AuburnAlumni]

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The Japanese Hornet is far and away the worst of those.

A friggin' Hornet the size of your thumb that shoots flesh melting acid in your eye??!!

The only thing worse was if it karate kicked you in the balls as it did this.