Worst Bug In the Universe

[MoseyWalker]

[u4ic]

1. The flu bug

that I'm becoming intimately acquainted with at this moment...:-(

[MoseyWalker]

6. Sorry to hear that!

Just remember that flu bugs are temporary, and not as strong as they may initially seem.

You will beat the crap out of them!

[u4ic]

16. Perhaps not before

it beats the crap outta me...:crazy:



I will remember your wise words, however. :-)

[blonndee]

2. The Dreaded Wasp.

If those assholes serve any beneficent purpose, I can't imagine what it is.

[Broken_Hero]

3. ticks, plain and simple....yuck...nasty nt

[MoseyWalker]

10. Yep

I can think of no possible good reason for ticks other than............uh........

nothing!

[Broken_Hero]

13. well, other than to suck your blood...

they are good for nothing...:) My second one would be horseflies...those damn things sting hard...really hard.

[momophile]

4. Is this what you mean by lots of legs and runs fast?

[MoseyWalker]

8. That had better be made of plastic or

I'd be running as fast as my legs would take me!

ooohhh uuuugghhhh

scary

[momophile]

15. it's the real deal

and one of the negatives of the Peace Corps.

ick!

[mike_c]

5. hey, bugs are our friends...!

Be sweet to bugs.

[MoseyWalker]

9. I am sweet to bugs

but that doesn't lessen the scary factor that they create!

I love bugs, as long as they are somebody elses.

[XemaSab]

20. Mike,

you can't tell me I should be quote-unquote "sweet" to chiggers.

They ain't cool.

[Burma Jones]

7. Mosquitos

they're big killers

[MoseyWalker]

12. Well, there's always the chance

you'll meet up with someone who thinks having mosquito bite scars is cool!

[Radio_Lady]

11. Roaches are pretty pervasive -- and pretty disgusting! We saw several

albeit in beautiful surroundings in Florida.

[MoseyWalker]

14. Have you seen the flying versions?

Scariest bug I've ever seen other than about a thousand others!

[benny05]

31. They are the worst critters n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

33. they do not bite, sting or carry dread viruses. Yucky indeed

but given the choice of roaches even the Florida /Texas varieties, I would prefer the roaches to the equivalent number of fire ants, virus bearing mosquitoes, or ticks carrying Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever or Lyme Disease.

[Zero Division]

17. Horseflies: unbelievably vicious and you can't run fast enough.

The only bad thing I remember about my vacation in the Outerbanks of North Carolina: the horseflies that would come out every evening, biting me wherever (they seemed to especially enjoy biting me in the face) and how ever many times they could. I went for a run on the beach with my brother and neither of us could quite outrun them. Hell, I remember getting in a car and watching them literally bounce off of the back window for a while as the car was gaining speed on the road. I had to use my towel as a shield when going to the beach or the swimming pool in order to simply decrease the number of times I'd get bitten outside.

Coming in a close second to horseflies: house centipedes, which I never encountered until I moved to Iowa. And I never thought I'd find a bug that actually gave me the creeps more than spiders. I don't want any kind of crawling bug that big and fast anywhere near me. :scared:

[MoseyWalker]

18. It wasn't horseflies, sorry to say

it was your neighbor down the road, clem.

yep.

[Zero Division]

21. Damn that clem, extra points for bouncing off the rear window...

of a moving vehicle, though. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

19. Chiggers

Seriesly.

[SmileyBoy]

22. Japanese killer hornet

A few stings can kill a human being.

Up to 3 inches in length.

[MoseyWalker]

23. so

they're not in ND, right? They only sting Japanese people? Come on. Give me something to hang on to here............

[SmileyBoy]

24. They're only in Japan.

Although we get some nasty Asian ladybugs here during the fall. The bite like the dickens.

[tonekat]

27. We have European Hornets that scare the heck out of me

and I'm in No VA....these things are agressive and they are attracted to lights at night!

[NewJeffCT]

32. I vote for that one, too

scary creatures.

[ok_cpu]

34. ...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_hornet_video.html

Pretty cool video from National Geographic

[barb162]

25. earwigs are pretty disgusting

[njdemocrat106]

26. Spiders creep me out

Also, I've never had these in my house, but when I was in Canada this year, I woke up one morning to find a huge house centipede in my bathroom sink. I let it be, and when I left the hotel for the day, I warned the cleaning lady about it (she said they were pretty common).

[pokerfan]

28. It's not even close, can't believe it wasn't an option

Malaria, West Nile Virus, etc.

According to U.N. estimates, malaria kills one child every 30 seconds and more than a million people each year.

[rug]

29. Cockroach

[datasuspect]

30. human immunodeficiency virus

or the streptococcus that causes necrotizing fasciitis

[HawkerHurricane]

35. Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!

[SoyCat]

36. Fly--one of the top four vectors to spread disease (fingers,

flies, filth, and feces)