5 most horrifying bugs in the world!

[Idealistic]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816...-in-world.html

That African Honey Bee was created from a scientist!! I swear, one day a scientist is going to create the wrong bug and we're gonna have to go to war like Starship Troopers.

[Carnage]

Fuck the war on terror, we need a full mobilization over these freaks. If only we could get them to battle each other to the death. It would be epic.

P.S. The 30 Japanese Giant Hornets battling the 30,000 regular bees reminded me of the Battle of Thermopylae in "300".

[XanBcoo]

The bot fly and the Army ant didn't seem to scary to me.

That Japanese Hornet is just unreal. I can't believe they actually tear apart the other bees. I almost felt sick with dread watching that.

Also, I know they're not dangerous, but I really hate cockroaches. I could barely even look at the google image search results: because seriously. Disgusting.

Edit: The list also needs the Camel Spider. It's five inches long and runs 10 miles per hour through the desert. There are also stories (possibly false) of them jumping through the air and attacking camels.

[RyougaZell]

Usually I don't hate insects... but holy hell... this gave me the chills...

[Animeniax]

The bot fly and the Army ant didn't seem to scary to me.

Edit: The list also needs the Camel Spider. It's five inches long and runs 10 miles per hour through the desert. There are also stories (possibly false) of them jumping through the air and attacking camels.

Camel spiders don't compare to these 5 on the list, since really all they can do is bite you, not burrow under your skin or strip the flesh from your bones. They bite hard, but don't produce venom, so really it's like a small dog bite. We have them here, and people catch them and make them fight, like Michael Vick, but with big hairy spiders. I think they don't attack camels but instead actually live in symbiosis on a camel's body, hence their name.

Army ants aren't that scary until you remember that they move and attack in groups of 1 million or more, and can strip a cow to it's bones surprisingly quickly.

[David75]

Camel spiders don't compare to these 5 on the list, since really all they can do is bite you, not burrow under your skin or strip the flesh from your bones. They bite hard, but don't produce venom, so really it's like a small dog bite. We have them here, and people catch them and make them fight, like Michael Vick, but with big hairy spiders. I think they don't attack camels but instead actually live in symbiosis on a camel's body, hence their name.

Army ants aren't that scary until you remember that they move and attack in groups of 1 million or more, and can strip a cow to it's bones surprisingly quickly.

One cow= 1000 kg roughly or 1 000 000 g

Each of these ants are able to take far more than 1 g (6 at least, and since they are incredibly big, maybe a little more)

1 million attacking, this explains because it's fast.
In fact it could be faster if the attack surface of the cow was bigger.
For sure, it must be a very terrifiying scene to watch. I wonder if it's gore, since the poor thing is probably entirely covered with ants and you don't get to see it under that "matress"

But in the end you probably get dry bones, since everything wet and fleshy would be taken away. I wonder what happens with stomach juices, probably a bit too acid, so maybe you'd have some guts.

[Animeniax]

Thanks for the graphic recount, David. Hopefully this persuades Xan to the badassness of the army ant. Hopefully he's not confusing army ants with the US Army, but then I could understand the lack of awe.

[Kraco]

The hornets vs bees is a lot better when it's the Japanese bees. They can, after all, fight back unlike those European ones. It's pretty nice to watch how they flock layer upon layer on top of a hornet and produce so much heat the hornet will die of a heat stroke.

[Board of Command]

Bot fly. Ugh...

[XanBcoo]

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.

[Kraco]

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.

[Luffy]I wonder if it tastes good.[/Luffy]

[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.

[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.

[Mr Squiggles]

I find those giant isopod things funny for some reason
Now Giant centipedes, on the other hand, have to be the most badass yet scary bugs i know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg
Those things are huge!

[Board of Command]

During my last work term (Sept-Dec), there were these "house centipede" things in my room that crawl really fast. They're a grayish-brown color and about the length of of a small paper clip. It's really hard to see them when they're on the carpet because the color blends in like camouflage. I only saw them when they run around, and trust me they run extremely fast. Sometimes it looks like a little dust ball blowing across the floor, but it's actually one of those bugs.

Very creepy. I didn't sleep well those four months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_centipede

[Mr Squiggles]

Yeah, i've had run-ins with those things too while visiting relatives, and now I finally know what they are . Maybe I wont kill them anymore now that I know that they cant sting me and that they kill pests..... maybe

[Psyke]

20 times of that initiation ceremony? I'm surprised they can still use their hands after that.... Anyway, thanks for the nice read.

[Board of Command]

20 times of that initiation ceremony? I'm surprised they can still use their hands after that.... Anyway, thanks for the nice read.

And this is exactly the reason why they are still an archaic tribe while the rest of the world has intarwebs.

[Junior]

Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

D: OMG that's scary. And that camel spider is pretty creepy as well. And that Giant Isopod looks like something out of a weird hentai movie.

[Board of Command]

And that Giant Isopod looks like something out of a weird hentai movie.

That has never crossed my mind but you are certainly correct.