Most annoying Insect!??!

[Crimson Velvet]

Mosquitoes for ruining many a good fishing trip, and spiders for always managing to get into my house, no matter how much I seal crevices in the foundations and walls and whatnot.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Mosquitoes can be pretty bad here. We're closer to swamplands than desert, in fact we do have some swamps here. Even still, those tiny yellow things are worse!

However, bugs overall have not been bad here this summer. Not sure why...I don't recall the city doing any super duper mosquito spraying.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Do tell. I'm interested in hearing a brief run down of each.

Not much to tell. In order: Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, Nevada, Iowa, and then finally decided to go to Arkansas (the only one I had a choice in). Best place I've lived? I'd say Arkansas though I was too young to remember anything from Arizona. Worst? I'd say Iowa. I actually loved living in Nevada, even though after I moved away from it, I realized it was a bit fucked up. My town had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world at one point.

If all goes to plan, I'll be back in Japan next year in the JET programme. And as things are looking (for me personally and for this country), I might end up getting permanent residency there.

Jerry, you should go teach English in Japan. Holy shit, I'd love to hear those stories.

Edit: To keep this thread on track, Japan has no poisonous spiders, however, it has the largest hornets on earth. And it's cockroaches are especially large and nasty.

 

[Divine Victim]

Where the fucking hell is the Moths option?

 

[Krilons Resa]

Again I wake up to your end, your ways and means
I watch your machinations seamless on the screen
I turn away again but still your always there
Your vacant, automatic smile is everywhere

The bright procession flashes past
In 2 dimensions under glass
The smile that lies between the lines
Luminous the union beams
Between the gods and their machines
The numb seduction of the blind
Sacrosanct the rank and file
Of perfect angels passes by
To modify the mind's desire
And no 3rd dimension troubles this
Procession where there's no abyss
In which there burns a fire

So you will jinx us with your trinkets and your tricks
Your malcontented ravings and your razor bladed wits
Go on you little clown and do your very worst
Go ahead and starve to death, or satisfy your thirst

The bright procession flashes past - Bad little insects find it tricky to survive
In 2 dimensions under glass
The smile that lies between the lines
Luminous the union beams - As they infest the sickest segments of the hive
Between the gods and their machines
The numb seduction of the blind
Sacrosanct the rank and file - Though we might whisper pretty words from time to time
Of perfect angels passes by
To modify the mind?s desire
And no 3rd dimension troubles this - They'll get no honey like the ones who stay in line
Procession where there's no abyss
In which there burns a fire

So yet another preconception dead ahead
A winning grimace and a gnawing sense of dread
A set of orders from a disembodied head

 

[dorian gray]

I just had it out with the world's loudest cicada. I tried to fling it across the blackness of my backyard but alas, it just landed a couple feet away. At least it's no longer looking in my window, watching me as it spews forth its endless cacophony.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

mosquitoes! fucking worthless!

 

[Krilons Resa]

I just had it out with the world's loudest cicada. I tried to fling it across the blackness of my backyard but alas, it just landed a couple feet away. At least it's no longer looking in my window, watching me as it spews forth its endless cacophony.

LMFAO...Invite some Cicada Killer Wasps to your yard.


Many animals feed on cicadas, which usually occurs during the final days when they become easy prey near the ground. One of the more notable predators is the cicada killer. This is a large wasp that catches the dog day cicada. After catching and stinging the insect to paralyze it, the cicada killer carries it back to its hole and drags it underground to a chamber where it lays its eggs in the paralyzed cicada. When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae feed on the paralyzed, but still living, cicada.

Insects are fucking EVIL.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Other - these tiiiiiiiiny little yellow chigger-like things that instantly land on your skin and bite when you walk outside. They're not chiggers though. Dunno what exactly they are, but I hate em.

Thrips. They are called thrips, and I still hate them.

 

[NAD]

I love bugs. I kill mosquitoes, flies, and poisonous things, but only if they are indoors. Everything else gets liberated and thrown outside.

Anyone who hates bees needs to kill themselves right now. Everything else is personal opinion, whatever. I just happen to like weird critters.

 

[refraction]

Bees are awesome. Wasps I will punch into gory oblivion, given the chance. Spiders are fascinating and awe inspiring, ants - provided they stay outside - are amazing with many behavioral elements analogous to humans. Flies and mosquitoes can collectively go die in a fire. Granted the ecosystem would be fucked without flies but lets face it, its going south fast anyway...

 

[ChaosLee]

I have to give credit to my cats for being insect murder machines. Even if a fly gets into the house they hunt the bastard down and leap midair to catch it. When the occasional roach or scorpion passes the threshold it rarely gets more than a few feet before being ripped into oblivion.