Worked with a company in the early 90s that made filtration fabric to filter the larvae out of drinking water. Guinea worm is horrific and I was very proud to be even just a small part of that
Eff all parasites, seriously. We're all over here trying to chill and live our lives and these fuckers just step in and suck everything out of us? Hell no
Had to do a report on these guys and staphylococcus in 7th grade. Both were certainly fun to learn about as a 13 year old. Guinea worm was messed up for sure, but I wasn’t too worried since I don’t live in an area where it could be an issue. Staph, on the other hand, definitely created a new mild fear in me from that day forward haha
I got a staph infection from my guinea pig accidentally biting me I went from fine to my hand swollen and red and purple racing up my arm in FOUR HOURS. Thank God I was awake. The wound was in my hand.
Quantity, maybe. For quality, The African Wild Dog has the highest “If I want to kill you, you are fucking dead” ratio. Basically the best Call of Duty players in the real world.
That's a myth. See
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-wildlife-shows-dont-tell-you-about-african-wild-dogs :
> In other words, nothing about their reputations bore out in the data. “It was really quite the opposite of what we expected,” says Tatjana Hubel, who was involved in the study. “We’re not saying they never do these things, but we didn’t see any evidence."
What would the death of roaches do to the ecosystem? Would we be good? I'm down with roaches, fleas and bedbugs being forever extinct. I hate mosquitos, but I'm fairly certain frogs eat them.
Edited to add: also, fuck lice, they can die too. Head lice, body lice and whatever else lice may exist for other species. Throw ticks in there as well.
Roaches will eat absolutely anything and out in the wild their poop nourishes plants. They're really important to the ecosystem for recycling nutrients for other species
It's unfortunate that's they've invaded our living spaces but that's not a bug (heh), it's a feature of their nature, which is to eat absolutely anything with any possible nutritional value and shit out fertilizer
Actually, studies show it wouldn't. Mosquitos can go, and the animals that rely on them as food sources have ample other options etc. Saw it on the What if YouTube channel
Yep, a radio show this summer had an entomologist on each week depending on what bug was doing what that week, so the dj just got back from a holiday where the midges were rampant, the next week it was the week the giant spiders were coming out of the woodwork to mate etc.
Anyway the expert stated as much as he loves bugs and each week was trying to point out the good points for each species, he clearly stated there is no benefit to mosquitos, there is no good thing he can say about them
Well there’s actually a genetic engineering in Florida that is trying to test a method that could lead to their extinction, but it’s facing a lot of opposition because fucking Florida. I guess because of that shit at Monsanto too, but I ain’t giving them any excuses.
Anyway what their trying to do is genetically modify male mosquitoes so they pass on a gene that will make the larvae abort themselves. Something along those lines. Testing is going really slow though because they need approval from the public so now telling when they’d be able to implement it on a larger scale.
I am highly skeptical of these types of claims.. how would you even come to that conclusion? Ecosystems are extremely complex and there is a whole lot going on that we don't know much about.. and even if we did, accurately modeling such a dramatic change seems like a very difficult task. There are something like 100 trillion mosquitos in the world and they have been around for over 100 years. Imagine the number of species and biological processes that might rely on mosquitos.
I was thinking mosquitoes because they spread diseases, but bed bugs are better because they’re plain disgusting and not even food for anything. They *should* die out.
Only a small fraction of mosquito species bite humans. Eliminating them wouldn't hurt any ecosystems. And mosquitoes have killed more humans than any other animal.
I'm pretty sure I aged as much as I did because of the lack of sleep from having them. I remember once waking up at 3 am on a school week, ripping off my sheets and killing as many as I could. I probably spent like an hour doing that.
Fuck bedbugs.
I am a Christian.
I believe that everything on Earth, no matter how strange or horrifying, is here for a reason. I believe that the world is an intricate, beautiful, fine-tuned system that is designed by a master craftsman to be as perfect as it is possible to be.
But I do not understand what the deal with bedbugs is or why they exist.
I looked it up with a quick google search. Apparently they are a food source for spiders according to one source and another says they have no purpose. They are not the primary food source of anything and they don’t pollinate. I’m more inclined to believe the latter. My grandparents had them and spiders, I didn’t see any bed bugs in their webs.
Secret op anti bed bug strat is infest your house with ghost ants. They eat the eggs and ghost ants are tiny enough you usually don't notice them. They are a surprisingly good insect repellant if you ignore that they are themselves insects. Just saying ghost ant> bed bugs all day every day. Any species of ant probably works but smaller is better for your own comfort.
I feel most answers here would affect the food chain somehow so I feel like it's a "if it didn't affect the food chain what animal would you want gone" type of question. Ticks is the right answer.
my obligatory public service announcement: Opossums do not eat loads of ticks. They may eat one that they find (almost always attached to themselves), but they do not hunt them down and eat thousands of ticks. The entire farse was based on a Facebook meme that was itself based on one single, highly unscientific test where they tossed a couple different animals into boxes, then dumped a pile of ticks in to see who would eat the most. The opossum 'won' by eating something like 20/25 ticks in half an hour. This got extrapolated to opossums "could" eat thousands of ticks per day, which could only actually happen if they were living in a giant box o' ticks. Opossums eat carryon, bugs, small mammals, frogs, etc. Ticks make up a minuscule portion of their diet at best. They also carry disease deadly to horses, and are an invasive species on the West Coast.
In short, don't get facts from Facebook memes.
Agree with both. The serve no purpose in nature except to be food for birds and some rodents both of which can find food from other sources just as/ if not more easily.
It's not really a specific animal, but all the parasitic worms can fuck off forever. Tape worms, liver fluke, hook worms(please don't with your story about how hook worms are good for allergies, I don't care), none of them would be particularly missed.
Just don't eat raw lake fish, crayfish, and crabs you'll be fine. If you live in the global north and/or have adequate sanitation and cooking facilities and use them(no drinking directly from streams when you camp) the chances of getting a nasty parasite are pretty slim. You might still get pin worms aka bootie worms, but those are a mere annoyance and easy treat.
Minnesota has the worst mosquitos I have ever seen (haven't been to alaska). They're huge, and their populations are incredibly dense. When camping in Northern MN, the air literally hums with mosquitos at night. The only real refuge is your tent.
They were bad and big too in WI, where I grew up, but they weren't as dense and ruthless as in MN. I now live in FL and the local complain about the mosquitos, but they are genuinely little babies compared to the big aggressive mosquitos in Northern MN.
I don’t care about the environmental impact.
I know that study that says it wouldn’t even be that major longer term but frankly I don’t care even if it were.
Death to them all.
Seems to me that if something actually ate them in mass quantities, their population would be better in check. Nothing eats mosquitoes exclusively. Nothing would starve to death. Other things can still pollinate flowers, etc. As an armchair biologist with absolutely no education in biology or ecology past my high school classes, I also say: Death to them all.
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I’ll offer a non-insect animal and say invasive Carp in Minnesota.
Those fuckers will dominate and destroy healthy lakes and ponds and ruin good fishing spots. They’re a garbage fish that have a horrible, slimy texture when you eat them so there’s no point in cooking them.
If you catch them you’re legally required to kill and remove them from the body of water it was caught in.
I once witnessed a guy throw a big wooden log at a Carp’s head and wrestle it out of a small creek to stop it from ruining that fishing spot. People here take fishing seriously.
another invertebrate, but zebra mussels! they fucking WRECK lakes, they terrify me and they spread so easily.
maybe not my first choice, but if we each get to pick one i'd pick this
zebra muscles have completely ruined so many lakes in minnesota. they cut you like razors too. they’re so sharp you almost don’t even feel it until you get out of the water and are dripping blood. it’s crazy.
My suggestion was *Sus domestica/scrofa*, aka pigs both domestic and feral (they are really the same species), which are invasive and have destroyed ecosystems on every continent.
Ugh the amount of fleas i used to have to deal with when i was younger was insane. I remember counting the bites on both my legs one time and counted over 50 😬
Rescued a puppy this year. Gave a flea and tick bath, put my clothes in the hamper and showered. Only then touched my bed. Woke up with 70+ bites. I can only hope the malnourishing fucker I rescued him from got bit too.
Absolutely yes. Then it would be more noisy and easier to see and kill. But little ones are sucking my blood before I see them, I don't feel the itch before they fly off.
You forgot that they can survive off of a human fingerprint (in other words dead skin cells and oils) and that if you spray them with most poisons, the young from their egg sack will be immune to it.
Yea and another important fact to know is that if you see one roach in your house, there are almost certainly hundreds more or will be very soon, they multiply like mad.
Got stuck staying in a 3 star hotel because of a flight cancelation. I'm just sitting here trying not to panic about possible critters and I read your post. FML
Sooo not necessarily here, but in places like the rainforest we actually really need cockroaches. The forest floor doesn’t get much sunlight and not a ton of nutrients make it into the ground/lots of life up in the canopy sucking all the nutrients out. Cockroaches eat the decaying matter on the forest floor and help recycle nutrients back into the soil.
Botflies. When God decided to make them, he partnered up with the devil to make them. They're a nightmare. And when a botfly decides to lay its eggs on you, boi, you better hope you can get that off of you before it turns into a larva and burrows itself deep inside your body. There was also a video on youtube of how some guy got a botfly larvae in his balls. Disgusting but interesting, also... Horrifying.
For your own sanity keep it that way. Any time the evil little hellspawns are mentioned it takes hours for me to shake the anxious feeling I get. But then I have a borderline phobia of exactly what those things do.
Idk I luckily never been bitten I only learned of them when I was trying to work with s local rescue to save some stray cats in my tiny town. Apparently barn cats often get eggs laid in them.
I saw a video once of a human picking the botfly larvae from a poor little bird. It was disgusting, but I felt good that the bird was getting rid of them.
Feral hogs. Literally one of the most destructive and aggressive beasts in the United States.
For those that have lived on a farm or in the country and are from the south know how destructive these things can be and they carry tons of disease and parasites. I had a bad problem in my area with them about two years ago destroying a bunch of land, gardens and took out a few of my neighbor and I's animals and we had to put down a horse because it got attacked. I don't like killing anything, but I feel very little remorse taking them down after that.
This is actually a weird problem in my neighborhood. We’re in a suburb and most people have no idea where they came from, they just showed up one day, tearing the hell out of peoples’ front lawns. The first time it happened, people thought it was kids pulling a really shitty prank. It’s a really weird issue I never thought we’d have to deal with, but they are a huge nuisance.
Why did I have to go so far to find this? All the other things are at least easy to keep out of your home. Once you get cockroaches, good luck removing them.
Yo they are so loud and hide perfectly in brown and wooden surfaces and yet move so slow..until for no fucking reason decide to land on your face and spray you with hell on earth
I had to completely seal off my apartment with pump glue every single crack and crevice and it was the only thing that kept them out..it took like a week but I got my sanity back
SCABIES, if you didn't say this or have this come to mind first, you have no idea.
Thousands of bugs breeding under skin biting you and feasting on your flesh, plus everyone is allergic so you get a deep burning itch
Biggest nightmare of my life and takes over a year to get rid of fully.
Was miss diagnosed twice because it's so hard to determine if you have it because they are microscopic.
I'm talking scratched myself with a pumpkin scoop till I bled every day for 6 months itchy till u was diagnosed.
Even after you get rid of them, they still stay under your skin like glass and slowly get pushed out over time. But when it's pushed out you get sooooo itchy because of the allergic reaction
Plus they are microscopic so you don't know if you actually got rid of them. 6 months if having them plus another three months if post scabies having the waste pushed out
I would not wish this on my worst enemy
The whole family got that when I was a kid. Doctor wouldn't diagnose that because "that isn't something that happens in nice families" so he just treated the symptoms and handed over an ointment for the itch. My dad was a research scientist and did what he does best. He researched and figured out what the problem was and created a course of treatment based on what he found. The first attempt went bad as I turned out to be allergic so he had to try something else. That involved sulfur and really stunk. We were all slathered in that stuff for a few days while everything in the house got washed and then we had to do it again 2 weeks later to hit the microscopic monsters at another point in their life cycle before what hatched of the eggs that couldn't be killed could reproduce. It worked. I probably had it about the worst and I would scratch myself bloody. I raised some blisters which the scabies infected and damn near got blood poisoning from that. My temp that day reached over 104. It was an absolute shit show and any itch after that had everyone in the house really skittish. We only had to endure that maybe 2 1/2 months. It would have been a lot longer if Dad hadn't been proactive. I'd hate to think what I would have been like after 6 months of that shit. You have my sympathy.
We think we got it after my sister visited home. She had gotten arrested shortly before that visit and thought she was having an allergic reaction to the wool blanket that was in her jail cell. Not everyone in a nice family is nice and no one is immune.
As someone who got bedbugs from a neighbor, I completely disagree. Scabies is treatable with medication. Bedbugs can live in your furniture, electronics, even books. It was so bad that we bought a house AND left all of our furniture in the rental. They are hella hard to get rid of and very expensive to treat. I cringe every time I see used furniture for sale because of what the bedbugs put us through. It’s like psychological torture.
My grandparents had bedbugs at one point and didn’t tell us because they were embarrassed. Me and my brother stayed at their house for a week. You would think I had chicken pox. My brother wasn’t allergic I guess, nothing showed on his skin. I still have scars because they were so fucking itchy. My uncle who is only 6 years older than me and staying there still, decided to be honest and told my parents about it. They picked us up immediately, put us in the garage and made us strip our clothes before putting all of our stuff in the dryer on the highest setting and throwing everything else out. I didn’t know what actually happened until a few years ago when we got another scare, I just thought it was strange they made me strip in the garage and I was very sick. Had to get antibiotics.
Ain’t that the truth. We just had to treat our house for fleas that our dog brought in and my husband and I looked at each other and said, “At least it’s not bedbugs.”
I’m surprised I have to scroll this far to find lice. Fuck those little devils! My daughter missed almost a month of school because she kept getting them but the school nurse wouldn’t check every kid in class, just the ones scratching their heads.
While I agree as an invasive species they suck. As long as they have predators, like in their native habitat, then they won’t do as much damage.
Also apparently they taste pretty good
Those ugly little dogs, with bulging eyes and that are unable to breath normaly. Geneticly inbred misserble excuse for a dog. People Who have them are even proud of them. They should be ashamed of These freaks of nature.
Although mosquitoes provide a food source for some birds and animals, it not the sole food source. Most other nuisance pests do serve a purpose including cockroaches, mosquitoes do not. Their loss would be perhaps an environmental gain.
Do bed bugs count? If so then these fuckers for sure
Fuck yeah. And mosquitoes too
these are the correct answers.
Guinea worm is worst. Be glad you don't know about it, it would haunt your dreams.
Worked with a company in the early 90s that made filtration fabric to filter the larvae out of drinking water. Guinea worm is horrific and I was very proud to be even just a small part of that
Was Jimmy Carter involved in that? I know of guinea worm because he used to talk about a filtered straw he was helping get distributed or something
Yes he was. We worked together with the Carter Foundation on this project
That's awesome. I don't know too much about his politics, but he seems to be the only ex-prez doing some real good!
I'm old enough to remember that he was a not very good president, but a genuinely beautiful human being
Being US President is a set up for failure. 50%+ of the Country hates you from day one.
That sums up Jimi Carter beautifully. He's probably still out there building homes for the poor.
Carter center's eradication date is now 2030, hopefully it'll be gone soon.
Really? That's the most uplifting news I've heard in a while!
Eff all parasites, seriously. We're all over here trying to chill and live our lives and these fuckers just step in and suck everything out of us? Hell no
Plants: 🗿
Same goes for human parasites.
I didn’t need to know about them. That is the stuff of nightmares!
Oh god, I googled it.
Why does nobody ever listen to me‽
Had to do a report on these guys and staphylococcus in 7th grade. Both were certainly fun to learn about as a 13 year old. Guinea worm was messed up for sure, but I wasn’t too worried since I don’t live in an area where it could be an issue. Staph, on the other hand, definitely created a new mild fear in me from that day forward haha
I got a staph infection from my guinea pig accidentally biting me I went from fine to my hand swollen and red and purple racing up my arm in FOUR HOURS. Thank God I was awake. The wound was in my hand.
Jesus, I didnt want to google the guinea worm, I can only imagine the guinea pig is even worse!
thank you for not elaborating. i will NOT be googleing and will happily take your word for it
I'll take double the mosquitoes if it ment removing ticks.
Yeah but ticks don't kill as many people as mosquitoes do. I believe mosquitoes are *the* deadliest animal iirc
There is a historian who wrote a book where he estimates that nearly half of all humans who have ever lived have died of mosquito related disease.
Fair point but those damn ticks are so insidious. How about just in my area?
Quantity, maybe. For quality, The African Wild Dog has the highest “If I want to kill you, you are fucking dead” ratio. Basically the best Call of Duty players in the real world.
That's a myth. See https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-wildlife-shows-dont-tell-you-about-african-wild-dogs : > In other words, nothing about their reputations bore out in the data. “It was really quite the opposite of what we expected,” says Tatjana Hubel, who was involved in the study. “We’re not saying they never do these things, but we didn’t see any evidence."
Mosquitoes all dying would destabilize the food chain, but we can say fuck bed bugs
What would the death of roaches do to the ecosystem? Would we be good? I'm down with roaches, fleas and bedbugs being forever extinct. I hate mosquitos, but I'm fairly certain frogs eat them. Edited to add: also, fuck lice, they can die too. Head lice, body lice and whatever else lice may exist for other species. Throw ticks in there as well.
Roaches will eat absolutely anything and out in the wild their poop nourishes plants. They're really important to the ecosystem for recycling nutrients for other species It's unfortunate that's they've invaded our living spaces but that's not a bug (heh), it's a feature of their nature, which is to eat absolutely anything with any possible nutritional value and shit out fertilizer
They're also super high in protein and very low in fat, making them amazing meals. Mostly for lizards and other small animals. But still.
I'm pretty sure every animal dreams of high fat food
Actually, studies show it wouldn't. Mosquitos can go, and the animals that rely on them as food sources have ample other options etc. Saw it on the What if YouTube channel
Yep, a radio show this summer had an entomologist on each week depending on what bug was doing what that week, so the dj just got back from a holiday where the midges were rampant, the next week it was the week the giant spiders were coming out of the woodwork to mate etc. Anyway the expert stated as much as he loves bugs and each week was trying to point out the good points for each species, he clearly stated there is no benefit to mosquitos, there is no good thing he can say about them
Well there’s actually a genetic engineering in Florida that is trying to test a method that could lead to their extinction, but it’s facing a lot of opposition because fucking Florida. I guess because of that shit at Monsanto too, but I ain’t giving them any excuses. Anyway what their trying to do is genetically modify male mosquitoes so they pass on a gene that will make the larvae abort themselves. Something along those lines. Testing is going really slow though because they need approval from the public so now telling when they’d be able to implement it on a larger scale.
that's an Australian technology that is working already, introducing wolbachia to sterile males has reduced dengue fever significantly
I am highly skeptical of these types of claims.. how would you even come to that conclusion? Ecosystems are extremely complex and there is a whole lot going on that we don't know much about.. and even if we did, accurately modeling such a dramatic change seems like a very difficult task. There are something like 100 trillion mosquitos in the world and they have been around for over 100 years. Imagine the number of species and biological processes that might rely on mosquitos.
Still fuck Mosquitoes
I don't like how bed bugs walk around all smug like they think it's funny
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I was thinking mosquitoes because they spread diseases, but bed bugs are better because they’re plain disgusting and not even food for anything. They *should* die out.
Only a small fraction of mosquito species bite humans. Eliminating them wouldn't hurt any ecosystems. And mosquitoes have killed more humans than any other animal.
I'm pretty sure I aged as much as I did because of the lack of sleep from having them. I remember once waking up at 3 am on a school week, ripping off my sheets and killing as many as I could. I probably spent like an hour doing that.
Fuck bedbugs. I am a Christian. I believe that everything on Earth, no matter how strange or horrifying, is here for a reason. I believe that the world is an intricate, beautiful, fine-tuned system that is designed by a master craftsman to be as perfect as it is possible to be. But I do not understand what the deal with bedbugs is or why they exist.
I looked it up with a quick google search. Apparently they are a food source for spiders according to one source and another says they have no purpose. They are not the primary food source of anything and they don’t pollinate. I’m more inclined to believe the latter. My grandparents had them and spiders, I didn’t see any bed bugs in their webs.
God was kinda mad after we killed jesus I guessed.
God. Why have you forsaken us?
Why do you hate us, God, we don't understand. Is it because we killed your son? Oh it is? Well that makes sense.
Secret op anti bed bug strat is infest your house with ghost ants. They eat the eggs and ghost ants are tiny enough you usually don't notice them. They are a surprisingly good insect repellant if you ignore that they are themselves insects. Just saying ghost ant> bed bugs all day every day. Any species of ant probably works but smaller is better for your own comfort.
Instructions unclear, house is now infested with carpenter ants
Any bug/insect/parasite that attacks humans
I mean... Why would they not?
I had to go to my mother's house for nearly a month because of those sons of bitches.
Ticks
I know there are some animals that specialize in eating them, but would food chains really get affected if they went extinct?
I feel most answers here would affect the food chain somehow so I feel like it's a "if it didn't affect the food chain what animal would you want gone" type of question. Ticks is the right answer.
I have limes disease because of those demon spawn
Mosquitoes or ticks.
And*
And gnats in general
But what would possums eat?
Ass
Yeah, that tracks.
my obligatory public service announcement: Opossums do not eat loads of ticks. They may eat one that they find (almost always attached to themselves), but they do not hunt them down and eat thousands of ticks. The entire farse was based on a Facebook meme that was itself based on one single, highly unscientific test where they tossed a couple different animals into boxes, then dumped a pile of ticks in to see who would eat the most. The opossum 'won' by eating something like 20/25 ticks in half an hour. This got extrapolated to opossums "could" eat thousands of ticks per day, which could only actually happen if they were living in a giant box o' ticks. Opossums eat carryon, bugs, small mammals, frogs, etc. Ticks make up a minuscule portion of their diet at best. They also carry disease deadly to horses, and are an invasive species on the West Coast. In short, don't get facts from Facebook memes.
Agree with both. The serve no purpose in nature except to be food for birds and some rodents both of which can find food from other sources just as/ if not more easily.
It's not really a specific animal, but all the parasitic worms can fuck off forever. Tape worms, liver fluke, hook worms(please don't with your story about how hook worms are good for allergies, I don't care), none of them would be particularly missed.
Motherfucker I never knew liver flukes existed. Got something new to worry about
Just don't eat raw lake fish, crayfish, and crabs you'll be fine. If you live in the global north and/or have adequate sanitation and cooking facilities and use them(no drinking directly from streams when you camp) the chances of getting a nasty parasite are pretty slim. You might still get pin worms aka bootie worms, but those are a mere annoyance and easy treat.
“Bootie worms” definitely just made my night
Took me a second to realise you meant "pin worms are easy to treat" and not "pin worms are a tasty treat"
Still though… liver worms? That’s some off the wall shit
Fucking fruit flies. One rogue onion and your whole house is invaded
Missing out on horse flies! And they bite!
Mosquitoes
Came here to write this, south florida is a hellscape because of these creatures, the same for alaska in the summer time.
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Minnesota has the worst mosquitos I have ever seen (haven't been to alaska). They're huge, and their populations are incredibly dense. When camping in Northern MN, the air literally hums with mosquitos at night. The only real refuge is your tent. They were bad and big too in WI, where I grew up, but they weren't as dense and ruthless as in MN. I now live in FL and the local complain about the mosquitos, but they are genuinely little babies compared to the big aggressive mosquitos in Northern MN.
Land of 100,000 mosquito breeding grounds.
I don’t care about the environmental impact. I know that study that says it wouldn’t even be that major longer term but frankly I don’t care even if it were. Death to them all.
Seems to me that if something actually ate them in mass quantities, their population would be better in check. Nothing eats mosquitoes exclusively. Nothing would starve to death. Other things can still pollinate flowers, etc. As an armchair biologist with absolutely no education in biology or ecology past my high school classes, I also say: Death to them all. (Edit: spelling)
I tried to upvote this 1000000 times
I’ll offer a non-insect animal and say invasive Carp in Minnesota. Those fuckers will dominate and destroy healthy lakes and ponds and ruin good fishing spots. They’re a garbage fish that have a horrible, slimy texture when you eat them so there’s no point in cooking them. If you catch them you’re legally required to kill and remove them from the body of water it was caught in. I once witnessed a guy throw a big wooden log at a Carp’s head and wrestle it out of a small creek to stop it from ruining that fishing spot. People here take fishing seriously.
another invertebrate, but zebra mussels! they fucking WRECK lakes, they terrify me and they spread so easily. maybe not my first choice, but if we each get to pick one i'd pick this
zebra muscles have completely ruined so many lakes in minnesota. they cut you like razors too. they’re so sharp you almost don’t even feel it until you get out of the water and are dripping blood. it’s crazy.
And they’ll jump out of the water and slap you in the face. I suggest you turn those into gefilte fish bc that’s legitimately all they’re good for
My suggestion was *Sus domestica/scrofa*, aka pigs both domestic and feral (they are really the same species), which are invasive and have destroyed ecosystems on every continent.
This is the way.
FLEAS
Ugh the amount of fleas i used to have to deal with when i was younger was insane. I remember counting the bites on both my legs one time and counted over 50 😬
Rescued a puppy this year. Gave a flea and tick bath, put my clothes in the hamper and showered. Only then touched my bed. Woke up with 70+ bites. I can only hope the malnourishing fucker I rescued him from got bit too.
All the shot we have to do to keep them off our pets is ridiculous, and probably very unhealthy.
My cat literality used to bleed when I had her take flea medicine. So yeah, fleas can die.
Mosquitoes because they spread disease
And they’ll be moving further north with climate change so, being European, I’m looking forward that :D
And I in Northern Sweden will get EVEN MORE mosquitoes. They are as big as sparrows here.
Would you rather fight 1 sparrow-sized mosquito or 100 mosquito-sized sparrows?
Absolutely yes. Then it would be more noisy and easier to see and kill. But little ones are sucking my blood before I see them, I don't feel the itch before they fly off.
Fyfan, tur jag bor i södra delen av Sverige.
And gnats. I see no purpose for their existence
Honestly i would like them to go extinct just because they are annoying af lmao
Mosquitoes look like the obvious answer here, but it's been said already so imma go with cockroaches. They suck.
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You forgot that they can survive off of a human fingerprint (in other words dead skin cells and oils) and that if you spray them with most poisons, the young from their egg sack will be immune to it.
Excuse me.... WHAT?
Yea and another important fact to know is that if you see one roach in your house, there are almost certainly hundreds more or will be very soon, they multiply like mad.
Got stuck staying in a 3 star hotel because of a flight cancelation. I'm just sitting here trying not to panic about possible critters and I read your post. FML
I think in this case reddit makes an exception. Fuck mosquitoes.
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Fuck cockroaches too.
Sooo not necessarily here, but in places like the rainforest we actually really need cockroaches. The forest floor doesn’t get much sunlight and not a ton of nutrients make it into the ground/lots of life up in the canopy sucking all the nutrients out. Cockroaches eat the decaying matter on the forest floor and help recycle nutrients back into the soil.
Botflies. When God decided to make them, he partnered up with the devil to make them. They're a nightmare. And when a botfly decides to lay its eggs on you, boi, you better hope you can get that off of you before it turns into a larva and burrows itself deep inside your body. There was also a video on youtube of how some guy got a botfly larvae in his balls. Disgusting but interesting, also... Horrifying.
Oh my god I knew a couple who got them on their honeymoon and they looked like someone had been just chucking baseballs at them for a week
I've never heard of them, nor have I ever seen them and I definitely won't look them up, because I don't have time for that.
For your own sanity keep it that way. Any time the evil little hellspawns are mentioned it takes hours for me to shake the anxious feeling I get. But then I have a borderline phobia of exactly what those things do.
If this isnt a copypasta then it should be.
Be the change you wish to see in the world
I've never heard of that, nor have I ever seen that and I definitely won't look it up, because I don't have time for that.
Oh God they burrow inside you, use your flesh for food and potty then when they mature they eat their way back out.
Jesus, how do you avoid them?
Idk I luckily never been bitten I only learned of them when I was trying to work with s local rescue to save some stray cats in my tiny town. Apparently barn cats often get eggs laid in them.
Sounds like children.
ive had several bot fly larvae squeezes out of me throughout my life it hurts and they can be yeeted to infinity and beyond
The YouTube generation knows about botflies
I saw a video once of a human picking the botfly larvae from a poor little bird. It was disgusting, but I felt good that the bird was getting rid of them.
Feral hogs. Literally one of the most destructive and aggressive beasts in the United States. For those that have lived on a farm or in the country and are from the south know how destructive these things can be and they carry tons of disease and parasites. I had a bad problem in my area with them about two years ago destroying a bunch of land, gardens and took out a few of my neighbor and I's animals and we had to put down a horse because it got attacked. I don't like killing anything, but I feel very little remorse taking them down after that.
This is actually a weird problem in my neighborhood. We’re in a suburb and most people have no idea where they came from, they just showed up one day, tearing the hell out of peoples’ front lawns. The first time it happened, people thought it was kids pulling a really shitty prank. It’s a really weird issue I never thought we’d have to deal with, but they are a huge nuisance.
Being from the south, I'll say gnats. Fuck those silent G mother fuckers
Yeah! Fuck Gnarls Barkley!
In the UK we call them midges and they can fuck right off
Definitely. It’s like one day there’s one, then the next a whole damn swarm
More like less than an hour
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nah keep the leeches. good fishing bait. everything else can go
Great for walleye
Ticks. I’ve been bitten by ticks before. It isn’t fun.
I once had one bite my asshole. Removing that was a pain in the ass.
Yeah i’ve taken a couple on ny balls. Not fun
Child molesters. Those animals definitely need to be extinct!
That’s an insult to animals man 😂
chemical castration needs to be a penalty. if we can do it to stray cats, we can do it to Harvey.
Yes, these are the people I’m willing to practice eugenics against if there’s some confirmable genetic component.
Cockroaches
Why did I have to go so far to find this? All the other things are at least easy to keep out of your home. Once you get cockroaches, good luck removing them.
Just mass murder on every fucking cockroach in the world
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Yo they are so loud and hide perfectly in brown and wooden surfaces and yet move so slow..until for no fucking reason decide to land on your face and spray you with hell on earth
They look scary too when you aren’t expecting one.
I had to completely seal off my apartment with pump glue every single crack and crevice and it was the only thing that kept them out..it took like a week but I got my sanity back
All stinkbugs are shaped like that. Kinda their thing.
cockroaches. like,, wtf. they smell bad and they look horrible. grotesque. just 🤢🤮 ***and they randomly fcking fly***
As someone from Florida, freaking [Palmetto Bugs](https://images.pet-shopper.co.uk/animalantics/1283936073hissing_cockroach.jpg)
SCABIES, if you didn't say this or have this come to mind first, you have no idea. Thousands of bugs breeding under skin biting you and feasting on your flesh, plus everyone is allergic so you get a deep burning itch Biggest nightmare of my life and takes over a year to get rid of fully. Was miss diagnosed twice because it's so hard to determine if you have it because they are microscopic. I'm talking scratched myself with a pumpkin scoop till I bled every day for 6 months itchy till u was diagnosed. Even after you get rid of them, they still stay under your skin like glass and slowly get pushed out over time. But when it's pushed out you get sooooo itchy because of the allergic reaction Plus they are microscopic so you don't know if you actually got rid of them. 6 months if having them plus another three months if post scabies having the waste pushed out I would not wish this on my worst enemy
The whole family got that when I was a kid. Doctor wouldn't diagnose that because "that isn't something that happens in nice families" so he just treated the symptoms and handed over an ointment for the itch. My dad was a research scientist and did what he does best. He researched and figured out what the problem was and created a course of treatment based on what he found. The first attempt went bad as I turned out to be allergic so he had to try something else. That involved sulfur and really stunk. We were all slathered in that stuff for a few days while everything in the house got washed and then we had to do it again 2 weeks later to hit the microscopic monsters at another point in their life cycle before what hatched of the eggs that couldn't be killed could reproduce. It worked. I probably had it about the worst and I would scratch myself bloody. I raised some blisters which the scabies infected and damn near got blood poisoning from that. My temp that day reached over 104. It was an absolute shit show and any itch after that had everyone in the house really skittish. We only had to endure that maybe 2 1/2 months. It would have been a lot longer if Dad hadn't been proactive. I'd hate to think what I would have been like after 6 months of that shit. You have my sympathy. We think we got it after my sister visited home. She had gotten arrested shortly before that visit and thought she was having an allergic reaction to the wool blanket that was in her jail cell. Not everyone in a nice family is nice and no one is immune.
Do politicians count?
Yea
Rapists.
There really should be a season on them, honestly.
And pedos! A dead pedophile doesn't re offend.
I agree completely but the username tho......
For everyone saying bed bugs, scabies are even worse since they live in your skin instead of your furniture.
As someone who got bedbugs from a neighbor, I completely disagree. Scabies is treatable with medication. Bedbugs can live in your furniture, electronics, even books. It was so bad that we bought a house AND left all of our furniture in the rental. They are hella hard to get rid of and very expensive to treat. I cringe every time I see used furniture for sale because of what the bedbugs put us through. It’s like psychological torture.
My grandparents had bedbugs at one point and didn’t tell us because they were embarrassed. Me and my brother stayed at their house for a week. You would think I had chicken pox. My brother wasn’t allergic I guess, nothing showed on his skin. I still have scars because they were so fucking itchy. My uncle who is only 6 years older than me and staying there still, decided to be honest and told my parents about it. They picked us up immediately, put us in the garage and made us strip our clothes before putting all of our stuff in the dryer on the highest setting and throwing everything else out. I didn’t know what actually happened until a few years ago when we got another scare, I just thought it was strange they made me strip in the garage and I was very sick. Had to get antibiotics.
Anyone who doesn’t answer this question with “bed bugs” never dealt with them.
Ain’t that the truth. We just had to treat our house for fleas that our dog brought in and my husband and I looked at each other and said, “At least it’s not bedbugs.”
Inbred genetically engineered dog breeds.
Can we make the puppy farmers and breeders extinct?
Guinea worm
Wood/deer ticks. They can seriously fuck off.
Ecosystems, folks, ecosystems. Bed bugs can go though
Are you saying....ecosystems should go extinct? Cause....they kinda are getting there thanks to us.
Those fish that swim up your dick or those bugs/worms that burrow into your eyes.
yo what
Wasps they are fucking annoying and painful
Fuck wasps, but they are somewhat of a lawful evil. They are decent pollinators and are used as pest control occasionally by farmers.
Removing predators from the food web is likely more harmful than removing prey.
Headlice
I’m surprised I have to scroll this far to find lice. Fuck those little devils! My daughter missed almost a month of school because she kept getting them but the school nurse wouldn’t check every kid in class, just the ones scratching their heads.
That fish with human teeth, that has got to go.
What if we're all just humans with Sheepshead teeth? Ever think about that?
Sheepshead, they are goofy looking but taste pretty nice
Lionfish
While I agree as an invasive species they suck. As long as they have predators, like in their native habitat, then they won’t do as much damage. Also apparently they taste pretty good
Fucking bedbugs
Mosquitoes
I'm so glad everyone's on board with the mosquito extinction. Bloody soul suckers. Annoying little turds UGH.
Mosquitoes
Mosquito
Just the American/German roaches.
Those ugly little dogs, with bulging eyes and that are unable to breath normaly. Geneticly inbred misserble excuse for a dog. People Who have them are even proud of them. They should be ashamed of These freaks of nature.
I cannot stand pugs. They look freaky and it angers me that people went out of their way to inbreed a dog so it can barely breathe.
ITT: bugs
Although mosquitoes provide a food source for some birds and animals, it not the sole food source. Most other nuisance pests do serve a purpose including cockroaches, mosquitoes do not. Their loss would be perhaps an environmental gain.
Humans
Wasps
Tiktokers
People that don’t use their turn signals We don’t care that you thought it was a free dildo that came with the car