Name one (1) more fearsome bug. Go ahead, I'll weight

B E D B U G S

>>2353604
the ones that burrow under your skin and lay eggs

any kind of parasite really

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>>2353604

>>2353604
Brown recluse.

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>>2353604
A stone centipede? They can't even penetrate your skin.

>>2353604
larger centipedes are much more fearsome

>>2353629
this possibly.

>>2353715
this is just another species of centipede

>>2353615
Was going to say this.
Fuck all bugs but especially fuck those little niggers, they'll fuck with your mind more than any other

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>>2353615
Dude not even. Bed Bugs don't even transmit disease. If you want a terrifying Hemipteran, look at fucking Triatomines.

If you live in substandard housing in S America, these fuckers will live in your fucking walls and come out at night to feed on you. They get massive (over an inch) and take a shit ton of blood, so much that in heavily infested houses, people will get anemia from lack of blood, thanks the these hellspawn chilling on their faces en masse every night (did I mention they prefer faces, especially near the eyes?) and sucking the life out of them. They produce one of the most effective anaesthetics of the animal kingdom, so even if you're awake, you wont feel them until you look down and see this massive abomination with it's proboscis directly connected to your vein.

Oh yeah, and they transmit Chagas disease when they shit on you, just because fuck you even more. Chagas is fucking scary btw. You'll get some swelling and a fever, but it won't be that bad and will go away soon. Give it a few decades, and the parasite will reemerge out of fucking nowhere and cause permanent damage to your organs, often fatally. No vaccine, no cure, of course.

These fuckers killed Darwin, and they'll kill you too. Centipedes are good predators that will give you a painful bite if you mess with them. Triatomines will trace your body heat and CO2, drink your blood as you sleep, shit in your wound, and give you a disease that will kill you years later when you least expect it. THESE are what you should be scared of.

(btw they live in the US too)

>>2354292
jfc

good post

>>2354292
I see some of these on here(SEA). It's black though and doesn't have a pattern, not sure if it's the same species desusenpai

>>2354292
They're not nearly as impossible to get rid of. Well maybe if you do live in a third world shithole where they're everywhere but in that case you were fucked to begin with and that's just one of a hundred things that could've fucked you. Bedbugs are terrifying because they sound like something that should only exist in fucking Venezuela or whatever infesting 3-room houses inhabited by a family of 12 but they're everywhere.

>>2354303
That's 99% likely to just be some other random (mostly) harmless assassin bug.

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>>2353604
The centipede has only one weakness, if grabbed behind the head it is helpless, like a snake. I've seen a mantis kill a centipede in this fashion.

Otherwise, there's very few arthropods that can match the centipede's speed, strength, and venom. Interestingly, their 'fangs' are actually the first pair of limbs modified into forcipules. The largest species, Scolopendra Gigantea, have been known to hang from the ceilings of bat caves to catch, envenom, and eat the flying mammals without ever leaving its spot.

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>>2353629
gib me yer toez!

>>2353741
I'm so glad they aren't in my country
Those fuckers

>>2353604
Army ants
Those fuckers will dismember anything they can get their jaws on
If you mean for humans then Brazilian Wandering Spider

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nom nom :3

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>>2353741
>Dangerous?
Sure.

>Fearsome?
Not so much.

I live in Florida, so these guys are not terribly uncommon, but the chances of being bitten are slim at best. Unless you're fucking with one or massively unlucky, they'll usually just run and hide from big animals. They won't aggressively serpentine in a confused daze, biting what it can like a centipede would.

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>>2353604
o hai

Bot fly or horse hair worm. Both are terrifying insects from the depth of hell. If you don't know what they are, Google it. I'll wait.

>>2354440
That's quite a relief, thanks anon ~

>>2354433
rude

>>2353747
holy fuck that centipede is using a lizard skin disguise!

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Might not be very fearsome to us, but dragonflies are brutal in the realm of insects.
First they spend their nymph stage in the water, there they resemble a weirdly-proportioned, wingless dragonfly which feeds mostly on small vertibrates and arthropods with a projectile mandible attached to a hinged armature.

As an adult they become one of the most-talented flying animals on Earth with bear-trap legs and extremely-developed compound eyes. They are the only predator on Earth with a 95% successful hunting rate.

Similar insects, possibly direct ancestors of modern Odonates, can be found as far back as the Carboniferous period when example species could grow to the size of an eagle. Their larvae were likely predators to our own ancestors at the time.

>>2354292
even though triatomines are spooky af, theyre still my favorite bugs (along with the rest of the reduviidae family)

>>2354672
Try getting a bat in your house and you'll quickly find it equal if not better at flying.
You simply can not touch or catch a bat in flight.

I'm glad I figured out which window it was after having to catch 7 of them. Never brushed one with the hoodies or towels I tried to intercept them with.

>>2354944
I got a bat in my house once. It flew into a door and then my cat picked it up. Not too impressive desu.

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>>2354944
A bat can't hover or fly backwards. Odonates aren't as acrobatic as bats and houseflies, but dragonflies navigate a 3D plane with uncanny precision and agility. Additionally, they've been doing it since the Paleozoic, back when vertebrates had just come up onto land.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned camel spiders (cave crickets for some)

Fuck those things, anyone got an infographic or something?

>>2355463
>I'm surprised nobody has mentioned two completely harmless animals

>>2355503
to be fair most of the animals in this thread are harmless too

>>2353604
>I'll weight

>>>/fit/

>>2354433
how cute it's giving the lizard a massage

>>2355503
Well yeah. We aren't talking about harmful, we're talking about fearsome. Fuck camel spiders.

>>2354441
puncher

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>>2353604

Idolomantis diabolica or The Devil's Flower Mantis, and it can grow to the size of a frisbee.

But it's a sweetheart, and you can have them as pets. Just make sure you get them from a breeder, and you're not supporting importing them illegally.

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>>2354440
Thanks for helping me realize there are brown recluses in my house anon

>>2354392
>I've seen a mantis kill a centipede in this fashion.
video?

>>2354392
>these
are the antenna also modified legs? what about those two weird back legs they have?

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>>2354441
Mantis Shrimp are fucking awesome. Maybe not terrifying, but definitely fearsome.

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Tiger Beetle are the most badass fearsome insect

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>fearsome
This is now a mantis thread

>>2354292
>(btw they live in the US too)
American trypanosomiasis is almost unheard of in the United States though. Most cases recorded occur in immigrants from Latin America. I'd argue mosquitoes are a much more terrifying vector of human disease than kissing bugs.

>>2357517
Doesn't stop people from freaking the fuck out whenever they see anything that slightly resembles one. It's like bongs sperging out over false widows.

>>2357271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGyHFVuPb0k

>>2357274
The hind legs are, certainly. Antennae may have once developed from leg structures, but have long-since evolved into dedicated organs.

>>2357517
FOUND LE KISSING BUG LOL

>>2357618
what are the back legs for, tho?

>>2354944
>You simply can not touch or catch a bat in flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCXMBajXkTY

>>2357870
Not sure, but my guess is that it makes it difficult for a predator to distinguish the head from the tail. They might also be useful as holdfasts when they rear-up or hang over an edge to sense their environment.

>>2354944
>You simply can not touch or catch a bat in flight.

Tell that to my cat. He used to catch them all the time.

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>>2357517
edit needed

>>2354303
Yeah, what >>2354381 said.
There are a lot of Assassin bugs that look kinda similar (see the Western Corsair and the Wheelbug) but won't mess with you. Most Reduviids just feed on other insects, thank god.
Also, if you live in the US, these guys are very unlikely to feed on you if your housing isn't utter shit (they usually need thatched roofs of heavily creviced walls to stay in during the day). And if they do, your chances of getting Chagas are pretty low in the US.

>>2353604
I HATE THESE CREATURES, I HAVE NICKNAMED THEM THE DEATHCRAWLER

personally i'm fucking terrified of ticks. Being bitten itself isn't really bothersome but the fact they could be carrying one of however many diseases doesn't sit well with me. I live east coast and there's plenty of mice/deer around so lyme disease is pretty likely.

>>2357274
Technically, all arthropod mouthparts are modified legs.

>>2354672

Dragonflies can react in 400th of a second.

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>>2357781
I see these by my house sometimes.

>>2355097

Cats wreck bats.

>one sticky summer night
>leave windows open in house
>all have screens so bugs no issue
>later...
>have to piss
>walk into hallway
>step on something squishy
>fucking cat shit in the hallway!
>take piss, come back to clean it
>turn light on
>bat corpses all through the hall
>at least a dozen
>cat is just staring at the window
>notice screen has a rip in it
>cat is pulling bats in through and strewing their bodies all over the place

>>2359686
>lyme disease is pretty likely.

You have to have a tick on your for quite awhile to get lyme.

I've lived here right up against a SGL all my life, go outdoors all the time to camp and hike and I've had 4 ticks in 36 years. All noticed within a day.

>>2357456
Why be afraid of the six spotted tiger beetle?

>>2361044
i personally know of two people who've picked up the disease and have had it for the long run and their quality of life is terrible. I've probably had about 8 on me in my whole life but as of late the stories have got me paranoid.

>>2353629
This
They fly, swim, have weird eyes and inject you with flesh melting enzimes