So.... what is the creepiest type of Insect?

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Kyriakos

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Careful to only suggest actual insects, not arachnids (spiders of course) or myriapoda (eg centipedes which are really revolting with yellow legs). But any type of insect will do (they all have 6 legs), including coleoptera (eg beetles) and strepsiptera (the term means literally 'with twisted wings'). :)

TIL that strepsiptera are the most messed-up insect i have read about since now. Because:

-Male adults live for a few hours, and never eat, their mouths now morphed to have other organs

-Female adult are neotenic (infant-like in form, ie larva-like), have no legs, wings, or even eyes, and are parasitoid to some poor other insect. That insect ends up being forced to create a vast bag-like protrusion in its abdomen, so as to prevent its own immune system from attacking the parasites or parasitoids... And the parasitoids themselves in some species get eaten alive by their own larvae!!! :rotfl:

So strepsiptera win. Fatality.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strepsiptera
 
I actually like all insects. I can't see anything creepy in any of them. Though, I suppose those parasitic wasps come close.

Last week, I discovered a wasp nest beneath my floorboards, by the fact that wasps kept coming and going through an air brick. Right next to the front door.

I thought I might discourage them a bit by blocking off the air brick with a board. But they didn't take kindly to this at all, and a couple of them stung me.

When I took refuge inside, the wasps, finding they could no longer get out through the air brick, decided to come up inside the house and swarm, buzzing in frustration, behind the glass front door.

After hoovering thousands of the little fellows up. And getting stung a few more times - to the extent that the back of my head started to go numb - I called the pest controllers in.

Pest controllers, I found, charge through the nose.
 
Ever since that scene in Men in Black, where stomping a tiny beetle causes physical pain to the giant beetle, I can't help but think "wait, if I kill this spider, will thousands and thousands of spiders come and vindicate him?".
 
Well, I don't find Wasps exactly scary to look, though they are arguably the insects I have the least fond memories of to say the least.

One time I was stung by a wasp I thought was dead and recently have been ambushed by a wasp when I attempted to open a door, with the result that I was stung as well.
 
Wasps are horrible, and one of the very few insects in continents not including the country Australia ( ;) ) which are dangerous for humans..

Even the local european wasps are nasty. But the japanese ones are death-bringing, i hear.
 
Kyriakos said:
Wasps are horrible, and one of the very few insects in continents not including the country Australia ( ;) ) which are dangerous for humans..

Even the local european wasps are nasty. But the japanese ones are death-bringing, i hear.
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You're talking about Suzumebachi, the Japanese giant hornet. It's actually the animal that kills the most people every year in Japan. Aggressive little bastards. Just like all wasps. Kill them all I say.

I also hate ants but, mostly because they keep coming inside my house, if they stayed outside I wouldn't mind them too much.
 
When I was in Peru close to the equator in a place called Mancora, there were giant bugs crawling around everywhere.. A lot of very large grasshoppers, maybe 8 inches across. But the creepiest insect was a giant cockroach that crawled from under my first bed in Mancora.. really fast, and scuttled out of the way before I had a chance to destroy it. I didn't really sleep that night..
 
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The one that flies it your ear and keeps buzzing for hours!
 
Terxpahseyton said:
If spiders are off big fat bugs with thick shiny black chitin encasings.

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Yuck yuck yuck
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What's yuck about it?

I'm just amazed by the things. Imagine trying to build one of those yourself from scratch! And where do the batteries go?
 
No. It's an amazing living self-replicating creature!

(I still don't know where the batteries go.)
 
The best part is that it needs no batteries. It fuels itself through carbohydrates and all that. You don't even need to plug it in!
 
Wut? It runs on marmalade sandwiches? Just like Paddington Bear? That's cool. But sticky.
 
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