Your most feared insect?

[crownjules]

Originally posted by: MasterAndCommander
Mothra

Winner.

 

[elpres05]

im the O.P. Just to add a disgusting thing, my bro says sometimes when he poos, a roach or two will come and have a snack. Worst of all, my bro doesnt mind it at all, he doesnt even hate them. On the other hand, if a cock roach touches me, even my mistake, ill jump the shiiit out of me and a big scream.

Infact im so damn scared, i would not go to my bathroom knowing the roaches will be on the walls and the sink. Even i wake up in the night under serious poop emergency, i would rather peeeeee in my kitchen sink than......

 

[slimrhcp]

Originally posted by: Sunrise089

Originally posted by: slimrhcp

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: snooker
Black widow spider. I caught one the other day in my back yard. Hard to believe something so tiny can kill.

Yeah, but same for all spiders....the likelyhood of being bitten and them secreting enough venom to give you more than a bruise is doubtful. Spider venom is approximately 5 times more potent than snake venom, but there just isn't as much of it and their small fangs usually cannot penetrate our fatty tissue (especially in america) for the venom to go directly into our bloodstream.

Correct about the venom statement. The black widow's bite has been greatly exaggerated by the media. Their bites rarely lead to death of healthy adults but can be very painful. The brown recluse, which was mentioned earlier, is much more deadly in terms of the toxicity of its venom. Bullet ant bites/stings are also at the top of the list of pain.

Of course spiders aren't insects, but IMHO the black widow is more fearsome. Brown Recluse's pretty much look like a lot of brown spiders, and where is live in Florida are rare. I've had far too many black widow close calls to think of any other spider as more fearful to me. By far worst of all was the time a group of people and I were loading up large bales of hay from a field into a trailer, and found the field was infested with black widow spiders. Literally each hay bale had over a dozen visible on its surface, and looking down at the ground you saw one every few feet. Suffice it to say I didn't stick around long.

Also, as far as I know the brown recluse venom attacks muscle tissue causing a very painful but limited bite. The black widow's venom attacks the brain and nervous system, causing a less painful but much more immediately threatening bite if enough venom was injected (recluse's main danger would be from secondary infections).

Good point about the two spiders. I should have made the distinction, but from what I understand black widow spider bites are more painful than brown recluse bites initially. The black widows bites cause not only local pain but trigger weird CNS functions like intense muscle spasms.

 

[ribbon13]

Beware!

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Beware!

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[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Beware!

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Drag and drop?

 

[vedavox]

i really hate brown recluse spiders. those bastards were everywhere in fort benning, ga. kind of a helpless feeling when youre going to sleep in the field, hoping you dont wake up with a bite.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Apparently a large percentage of ATOTers failed elementary school biology... Spiders are arachnids... Insects are insects. Both groups, along with crustaceans, millipedes, etc, are arthropods.

My worst feared insect is the cockroach.

 

[aircooled]

Praying Mantis freak me out.