The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs In the World.

[Bicoastal]

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

What a coincidence...this morning I had my recurring waking nightmare--the one where there's a tiny grey fly or a spider on the other side of your bedroom, except it starts getting bigger and more grotesque, and at the same time it starts moving faster towards you....and when it's almost on top of your face you scream and jump and turn on the light and for a couple of seconds you're completely awake and you can still see it!

For the record, I'm 25 years old with no drinking problem or mental illnesses to speak of. It's just something that occasionally happens when I have a stressful night's sleep and "wake up wrong."

Anyhoo, compared to that fearsome insect, these bugs are pushovers.

[SallyMander]

1. BAD-ASS

This article is hilarious. :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

2. damn....

just damn...

[Blarch]

3. damn.

removing that bot fly maggot was hardcore.

[SallyMander]

4. I didn't watch that video

i was too much of a wuss! :rofl:

[baldguy]

16. Has Bush ever been to South or Central America?

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Um wow....

I really have nothing to say after that....

[DS1]

6. list needs that parasitic fish that makes itself the tongue of a bigger fish

after eating the tongue

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I believe that the most horrifying bug in the world

is the one up the asses of GD and GDP.

[Love Bug]

8. THANK YOU!

:applause:

I can hardly stand to go to GD or GDP anymore. It's just too crazy-making in there!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. A to the men!! and Hell to the Yeah!!

Do not go in there unless you are prepared for an ass-chewing.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Poor honeybees!

:cry:

I won't even look at the other movies...especially the bot fly. :scared:

[NewJeffCT]

14. the honey bees have some defenses, though

they surround the wasp and try to raise the temperature in their hive past a certain point - the honey bees are much more tolerant of high temps than the wasps

[Robb]

10. Mrs. Robb had a bot fly in her forehead

...brought back from Peace Corps.

It stuck there for several months, finally fell out in the sink one day. She put it in a tiny jar and carried it around with her in her purse, and from time to time would tell the story of the giant maggot in her head and finish off by pulling the sucker out.

Is it any wonder I fell in love with a woman like that? I think not. The horror of King and the sensibilities of Barnum. :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. I always thought that was a bindi

:scared:

[Deep13]

12. Holy fucking shit!

I'm starting to rethink this whole "protect nature" thing.

[Jamastiene]

13. I laughed until I almost wet myself.

The Africanized bees part really really had me rolling. My aunt even laughed when I read it to her while laughing hysterically.

These are the parts that really had me rolling:

"Africanized bees do not roll this way. They give you half a second of being too close before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up and empty the entire hive--tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of angry, angry bees. When you run, flailing and crying and soiling yourself while screaming "JESUS CHRIST I'M COVERED IN BEES," they will chase you for over half a mile."

"More scary shit:
Africanized bees owe their existence to science. Warwick E. Kerr created them in Brazil during the 1950s by crossing a European bee with an African bee. He wanted a bee that could live in the jungle. He got a bee that swarms by the hundreds of millions, is insanely territorial, mindlessly aggressive, has killed anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people. And, can live in the jungle.

And after they escaped and swarmed northward, it turned out they were a-OK with deserts, too. They'll be in Montana by 2010. "

"Nature is fucking hardcore."

[NewJeffCT]

15. I've actually heard army ants aren't all that bad - it's the driver ants

in Africa that are far more dangerous.

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

[ok_cpu]

17. There was a thing on Discovery or Animal Planet

I watched not too long ago about army ants and siafu. Driver ants are insane. Any ant that'll eat a person....

"Such is the strength of the ant's jaws, in East Africa they are used as natural, emergency sutures. Maasai moroni, when they suffer a gash in the bush, will use the soldiers to stitch the wound, by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the gash, then breaking off the body. This seal can hold for days at a time."

:scared:

[NewJeffCT]

18. That's what I was thinking of

The special on discovery. The jack jumper ant in Australia is pretty bad-ass, too. Australia seems to be home to an unusually large amount of deadly animals - the box jellyfish, the inland taipan snake, the funnel spider...

[alphafemale]

20. That is flippin' awesome.

Hardcore indeed.