5 most horrifying bugs in the world!

[Board of Command]

But might in fact taste surprisingly bad. Maybe super dense meat or something. That botfly in your brain thing. I wonder how it got past your skull.

Maybe the mother fly planted the egg when the person was a newborn. Newborns don't really have much skull in that area.

Either that or it was just a nasty prank.

[XanBcoo]

I'm guessing they probably burrow into the brain from somewhere else in the body, like from the neck.

I'm still not convinced on the Army Ants. Maybe if they were like the Scarabs in The Mummy it'd be a little more freaky, but it's probably very easy to just...step out of their way. I dunno.

[Buffalobiian]

Maybe the mother fly planted the egg when the person was a newborn. Newborns don't really have much skull in that area.

Either that or it was just a nasty prank.

However it got in, it ate right through half the frontal association area. If he/she didn't die a painful death, they lived a life with thinking problems.

Thank god for our natural barrier. It's arguably the best.

[Abdula]

I'm guessing they probably burrow into the brain from somewhere else in the body, like from the neck.

I'm still not convinced on the Army Ants. Maybe if they were like the Scarabs in The Mummy it'd be a little more freaky, but it's probably very easy to just...step out of their way. I dunno.

I think you just need to see them in action or see their aftermath, that will quickly change your mind.

[Idealistic]

I think the least scary one of the 5 would be the bullet ant. The fact that you know a tribe somewhere out there uses these ants as a ceremony into manhood, it takes away a lot of the scary factor of the bullet ant. From the looks of it, you don't die from their stings. It just hurts like a mofo, but you don't die, and you don't get poisoned or anything. I'll still be scared to see one though.

On a side note... I'm more scared of spiders.

[XanBcoo]

^^^^ Dude seriously, freakin' spiders

I think you just need to see them in action or see their aftermath, that will quickly change your mind.

Ok, so I looked and here's a guy sticking his finger into a stream of them.

I'm not trying to invalidate how cool it is that they can tear down pretty much anything due to their numbers, but they don't seem like a legitimate threat to humans. Nor are they disgusting, which is a pretty big factor in my book.

Edit: And here they are attacking a Daddy-Long-Legs, which eventually escapes

Also: lol, The aftermath of the first video

[Board of Command]

I think the least scary one of the 5 would be the bullet ant. The fact that you know a tribe somewhere out there uses these ants as a ceremony into manhood, it takes away a lot of the scary factor of the bullet ant. From the looks of it, you don't die from their stings. It just hurts like a mofo, but you don't die, and you don't get poisoned or anything. I'll still be scared to see one though.

On a side note... I'm more scared of spiders.

Sometimes it's better to just die than to endure the pain. That's the basis behind torture.

[Abdula]

^^^^ Dude seriously, freakin' spiders


Ok, so I looked and here's a guy sticking his finger into a stream of them.

I'm not trying to invalidate how cool it is that they can tear down pretty much anything due to their numbers, but they don't seem like a legitimate threat to humans. Nor are they disgusting, which is a pretty big factor in my book.

Edit: And here they are attacking a Daddy-Long-Legs, which eventually escapes

Also: lol, The aftermath of the first video

I get what you mean the ability to escape plays a huge part in the scare factor but piranha aren't scary if you can get out of the water.

[Board of Command]

I eat piranhas. I eat that shit for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

[Animeniax]

I'm not trying to invalidate how cool it is that they can tear down pretty much anything due to their numbers, but they don't seem like a legitimate threat to humans. Nor are they disgusting, which is a pretty big factor in my book.

That's a good point about being able to get out of their way. I really hate flying insects for the reason they can rapidly pursue you. Flying cockroaches are the worse, because they are so random in their flight pattern.

@Idealistic: the thing about ants is that they often creep up on you. So when that bullet ant bites you and it hurts that bad and you aren't expecting it, it's scarier.

[Psyke]

I've got stung by hornets 3 times before, once on the thigh and twice to the back of the head. It hurt like hell, but I still had to carry on with the training. Took 2 days for the pain to wear off, and whenever I see those things I would run as fast as I can to get away.... Smoke grenades are useless.

[sangai]

Oh yeah, this thread would also be a good place to mention the Giant Isopod. These things are usually a little over a centimeter long, but thanks to Deep-sea Gigantism they can grow as large as a person's hand. There's something really unsettling about that.

yah but hte isopod falls under the phylum arthropoda/ subphylum crustacea...so its more like a crab then a insect...

since insects are arthropoda/subphylum insect..


and there are honestly worst insects then army ant and giant hornets. bullet ants are pretty bad sting like a mother fucker.. army ants are only bad in numbers same with africanized bees.

bot flys are pretty disgusting.

[Board of Command]

yah but hte isopod falls under the phylum arthropoda/ subphylum crustacea...so its more like a crab then a insect...

Which means they're tasty?

[XanBcoo]

yah but hte isopod falls under the phylum arthropoda/ subphylum crustacea...so its more like a crab then a insect...

I knew that. I posted it anyway because it's interesting.

It's not even that large when compared with other deep-sea crustaceans, but the fact that it's shallow-water brothers are 1 centimeter long is just way creepy. It should not be that large.

Same goes for that centipede. That video made the back of my neck tingle.

[Board of Command]

It's like the centipede demons you see in Inuyasha.

[Idealistic]

It's like the centipede demons you see in Inuyasha.

Speaking of centipedes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f5gBFMMmGc