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fucking ew SICK nasty. they jump at you! theyre super girthy! they chill in swarms! i hate these creepy motherfuckers dude i hate em

The fuck is "cave crickets"

Stinkbugs

Damn_Underscore posted...

Stinkbugs

Are you sure?

I used to have them show up in my bottom floor when I lived in Tennessee

Oh I know them as camel crickets. Ya they are soooo annoying.

Master_Kazuya posted...

I used to have them show up in my bottom floor when I lived in Tennessee

bottom floor...do you mean basement

Damn_Underscore posted...

Stinkbugs

so much easier to catch and let out, no smell no sweat. and they dont look like nightmares

they are p bad tho

Shabriri posted...

and they dont look like nightmares

you sure

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/2/AAMkx7AAD0mk.jpg

Mosquitoes

Bed Bugs

botfly

Damn_Underscore posted...

you sure

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/2/AAMkx7AAD0mk.jpg

yeh :v

The_Popo posted...

Mosquitoes

Bed Bugs

ok bed bugs is a fantastic answer. i fully believe i have some type of trauma from that year i had them and no one in the house believed me. at one point i have over 70 bites on each limb. i couldnt sleep, couldnt find peace. lined my walls with foil and tried cooking my room even. it was bad.

Whip scorpions

Flying roaches

Uh, ROACHES

Wtf guys

tree roaches are pretty friggin bad, but ive had fewer run ins with them - even when i lived in a gnarly muggy part of San Antonio. but one was crawling on me at night when i was playing League in the dark. that was fucking brutal man

Brazil wandering spiders
Ticks
Leeches
Mosquitos
Cockroaches
Every bug species that burrows into your skin
The list goes on and on

cazadores

These monstrosities

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/5/AAZvZqAAD0nP.jpg

i used to live in a house where they'd usually pop up. horrifying.

VampireCoyote posted...

botfly

fruit flies

MixedRaceBaby posted...

These monstrosities

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/5/AAZvZqAAD0nP.jpg

i used to live in a house where they'd usually pop up. horrifying.

what the hell is this

Dobsonflies. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/7/AAFUDuAAD0nR.jpg

YellowSUV posted...

what the hell is this

looks like a weta. ohh i was mistaken, guy below me answered. potato bugs, who knew

do they taste like potato

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Dobsonflies. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/7/AAFUDuAAD0nR.jpg

oi. scary

YellowSUV posted...

what the hell is this

Jerusalem Crickets aka the potato bug.

i mean i know they're harmless but FUCK. they're as big as a damn MOUSE

I hate this topic why did I click it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/8/AASzMlAAD0nS.jpg

meestermj posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/8/AASzMlAAD0nS.jpg

christ

resident evil moment tho!

meestermj posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/8/AASzMlAAD0nS.jpg

please call the exterminator

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Dobsonflies. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/7/AAFUDuAAD0nR.jpg

That one's a male. Those bitey-looking things are actually pretty weak and won't hurt you. They are for grabbing the female to mate. Females have noticeably smaller mandibles, but they are still pretty big due to the size of the bug and they are strong, so if a female bites you, you're gonna have a bad time.

Whipscorpions are fucked up looking but I don't know how dangerous they are. Water scorpions are pretty creepy too (I've seen those irl, but not a whipscorpion).

House centipedes are among the worst bugs aesthetically imo but they are actually not bad to have at all. They are apparently very clean as far as bugs go and they will eat other home pest bugs. I used to always kill them. Now depending on the mood I'm in, I either leave them alone or put them outside.

In terms of bugs that will fuck you up, Brazillian Wandering Spiders are a good nominee, especially for dudes (their venom will make your wiener hard and it will stay that way. Without anti-venom, the blood will not be able to leave and you could end up with permanent damage or even worse, lose your wiener or die). Botflies are terrible too. Less dangerous, but who wants literal maggots living inside of your scalp? . There is also a caterpillar in Central and/or South America that has venomous spines. Their venom acts as a blood thinner and if you don't get treatment quickly, you'll just start bleeding out of like everything and without treatment, it won't stop and you'll be done. Mosquitoes are the obvious one too. Malaria kills more people than any other bug-borne illness. Deer ticks transmit Lyme Disease. Predacious Diving Beetles (aka toe biters) are big enough to eat fish and salamanders and small frogs so a bite from one of those is gonna hurt. Then of course there are centipedes and millipedes in Asia that are like the size of an average adult human arm and they are venomous as well (there is a type of millipede that secretes a powerful dissociative/hallucinogenic toxin that some marsupials will spread on themselves to deter predators (at the expense of getting SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP for hours)). There is also apparently a type of moth that feeds on bodily fluids of animals, so they will like drink off of the eyeballs of cattle and will even drink blood.

Yeah, there are lots of unpleasant bugs out there >_>

Bed bugs

FigureOfSpeech posted...

That one's a male. Those bitey-looking things are actually pretty weak and won't hurt you. They are for grabbing the female to mate. Females have noticeably smaller mandibles, but they are still pretty big due to the size of the bug and they are strong, so if a female bites you, you're gonna have a bad time.

Whipscorpions are fucked up looking but I don't know how dangerous they are. Water scorpions are pretty creepy too (I've seen those irl, but not a whipscorpion).

House centipedes are among the worst bugs aesthetically imo but they are actually not bad to have at all. They are apparently very clean as far as bugs go and they will eat other home pest bugs. I used to always kill them. Now depending on the mood I'm in, I either leave them alone or put them outside.

In terms of bugs that will fuck you up, Brazillian Wandering Spiders are a good nominee, especially for dudes (their venom will make your wiener hard and it will stay that way. Without anti-venom, the blood will not be able to leave and you could end up with permanent damage or even worse, lose your wiener or die). Botflies are terrible too. Less dangerous, but who wants literal maggots living inside of your scalp? . There is also a caterpillar in Central and/or South America that has venomous spines. Their venom acts as a blood thinner and if you don't get treatment quickly, you'll just start bleeding out of like everything and without treatment, it won't stop and you'll be done. Mosquitoes are the obvious one too. Malaria kills more people than any other bug-borne illness. Deer ticks transmit Lyme Disease. Predacious Diving Beetles (aka toe biters) are big enough to eat fish and salamanders and small frogs so a bite from one of those is gonna hurt. Then of course there are centipedes and millipedes in Asia that are like the size of an average adult human arm and they are venomous as well (there is a type of millipede that secretes a powerful dissociative/hallucinogenic toxin that some marsupials will spread on themselves to deter predators (at the expense of getting SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP for hours)). There is also apparently a type of moth that feeds on bodily fluids of animals, so they will like drink off of the eyeballs of cattle and will even drink blood.

Yeah, there are lots of unpleasant bugs out there >_>

FigureOfSpeech posted...

That one's a male. Those bitey-looking things are actually pretty weak and won't hurt you. They are for grabbing the female to mate. Females have noticeably smaller mandibles, but they are still pretty big due to the size of the bug and they are strong, so if a female bites you, you're gonna have a bad time.

Whipscorpions are fucked up looking but I don't know how dangerous they are. Water scorpions are pretty creepy too (I've seen those irl, but not a whipscorpion).

House centipedes are among the worst bugs aesthetically imo but they are actually not bad to have at all. They are apparently very clean as far as bugs go and they will eat other home pest bugs. I used to always kill them. Now depending on the mood I'm in, I either leave them alone or put them outside.

In terms of bugs that will fuck you up, Brazillian Wandering Spiders are a good nominee, especially for dudes (their venom will make your wiener hard and it will stay that way. Without anti-venom, the blood will not be able to leave and you could end up with permanent damage or even worse, lose your wiener or die). Botflies are terrible too. Less dangerous, but who wants literal maggots living inside of your scalp? . There is also a caterpillar in Central and/or South America that has venomous spines. Their venom acts as a blood thinner and if you don't get treatment quickly, you'll just start bleeding out of like everything and without treatment, it won't stop and you'll be done. Mosquitoes are the obvious one too. Malaria kills more people than any other bug-borne illness. Deer ticks transmit Lyme Disease. Predacious Diving Beetles (aka toe biters) are big enough to eat fish and salamanders and small frogs so a bite from one of those is gonna hurt. Then of course there are centipedes and millipedes in Asia that are like the size of an average adult human arm and they are venomous as well (there is a type of millipede that secretes a powerful dissociative/hallucinogenic toxin that some marsupials will spread on themselves to deter predators (at the expense of getting SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP for hours)). There is also apparently a type of moth that feeds on bodily fluids of animals, so they will like drink off of the eyeballs of cattle and will even drink blood.

Yeah, there are lots of unpleasant bugs out there >_>

Are you a dolomedes wannabe

The worst by far
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/9/AATz36AAD0rh.jpg

Followed by
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inloveanddeath0 posted...

Are you a dolomedes wannabe

I've got a bit of an edge over him when it comes to knowledge of some types of bugs but he's leagues ahead of me on spiders and probably lots of other bugs too.

bugs are cool yall!

im not as into bugs as dolomedes, who will soon appear before us, but i am a hobbyist etymologist all the same. i dont kill bugs though.

by bugs i mean insects and arachnids and stuff like worms and slugs and stuff too.

im not scared of any of them tho. when i find a black widow im like "coooooooooooool! hey! u guys check out this deadly spider!"

i currently have a butterfly hatchery.

MixedRaceBaby posted...

These monstrosities

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/5/AAZvZqAAD0nP.jpg

i used to live in a house where they'd usually pop up. horrifying.

Didn't know ants could get that big wtf

Shabriri posted...

tree roaches are pretty friggin bad, but ive had fewer run ins with them - even when i lived in a gnarly muggy part of San Antonio. but one was crawling on me at night when i was playing League in the dark. that was fucking brutal man

I think that'd be it for me. Like, I'd just get up and blow my brains out.

If I ever wake up with some kind of giant bug on me, I'm tapping out.

oh, another one... Giant Ichneumon Wasp. They look lovecraftian, with what appears to be a stinger that is about 2 inches long. They actually can't sting at all though and are completely harmless, in spite of being huge and terrifying-looking. Only the females have the protrusion and it's actually an ovipositor. They stick it into trees and logs when laying eggs. But that in and of itself is kinda creepy because they lay the eggs directly on the larvae of other wasps, which will be doomed to be parasitized and eaten from the inside by the Ichneumon larvae.

Siafu ants

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/4/AAJ6tUAAD0r6.jpg
This little guy is probably the creepiest in my collection. And he'd not even fully grown yet!

coooooooooooooool (i also have that insectarium)

Ratchetrockon posted...

Didn't know ants could get that big wtf

Those aren't ants. They're called Jerusalem crickets or potato bugs. They're not crickets though. I think they're related to wetas.

ArchNemo posted...

I think that'd be it for me. Like, I'd just get up and blow my brains out.

If I ever wake up with some kind of giant bug on me, I'm tapping out.

it was bigger than my thumb. i could feel its girth better than i could feel its skittering

and i have large hands

deathpainter posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/4/AAJ6tUAAD0r6.jpg
This little guy is probably the creepiest in my collection. And he'd not even fully grown yet!

hes neat, what is he? did you uproot him from Izalith

FigureOfSpeech posted...

I've got a bit of an edge over him when it comes to knowledge of some types of bugs but he's leagues ahead of me on spiders and probably lots of other bugs too.

Ah makes sense

Mosquitoes stink bugs and roaches are thee worst

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/2/AAWLQcAAD0sW.jpg
Vinegarroons are also fun.

Completely harmless though.

Even though harmless, the cicada killers have an intimidating presence in the air. One of the bigger things we have in the midwest.

Shabriri posted...

hes neat, what is he? did you uproot him from Izalith

Goliath beetle grub. Picked him up at a reptile show in August. It was less than an inch long when I got it. Hopefully it lives a full life and morphs into an adult beetle.