First time I ever encountered a "House Centipede": What was the scariest insect you've come across? - General

[IMG]http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/gallery/Scolopendra-sp2.jpg[/IMG] Everynow and then I can see a smaller and dark-coloured version of those fucking around the cracked walls of my bathroom. ... I absolutly hate them... Hate... Them...

I once had this motherfucker on my desk. [IMG]http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/pseudoscorpion_sharpfocus588k.jpg[/IMG] My first thought was a quick [I]what the fuck[/I], then [B]KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!!![/B] It's actually pretty small. Here's another picture so you can relive my horror. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Kaldari_pseudoscorpion_01.jpg/800px-Kaldari_pseudoscorpion_01.jpg[/IMG] It's called a pseudoscorpion. Take another look at those pincers. [IMG]http://bugguide.net/images/raw/4RLH8RZHQR3Z7R3Z2RTLGRKHKZALKZQHSZ0HKZKH2RCL5RAL4RVLMZKHER0H7ZZHGRHHKZ0H8RZHIZ.jpg[/IMG] what the fuck [editline]11th June 2012[/editline] Someone should make a dedicated creepy insect megathread unless there isn't already one

[img]http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/e/e4/Cazador.png[/img] first time I encountered one I died

[QUOTE=_Kent_;36279233] Tarantula Hawk picture. [/QUOTE] Cazadores DO exist? I can't live on Earth anymore. I have to get as much space between these motherfuckers and me before the Great War of 2077 happens.

Me, my dad, and sister were headed to Sonic at about midnight. We get into the car, and my sister notices something on the tire of the car next to us. She gets out of the car and starts to swat it with her shoe, but the Thing disappears. I was taking a picture of her swatting it, meanwhile. As we leave Sonic, I look at the picture. I notice it appears to be a spider. A spider with a red hourglass on it.

One of these crawling on the couch next to my face in the basement. [img]http://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/images/bugsWetaHand.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;36281230]I've lived with House Centipedes a while and there are a few things you should know 1.They can grow to the length of your palm, I've seen one first hand 2. At that size, they can take down [B]goddamn mice[/B] 3. They are fast as fuck and dwell in dark areas, darting from hiding spot to hiding spot 4. You can smash them, cut them, w/e, and they will still keep goin as long as their head is intact 5. Only slight weakness is that they work alone Take care, friend.[/QUOTE] They may be able to take down mice, but they are relatively harmless to humans. Their forcipules can't even break through the average human's skin, so even when the very rare occasion happens that they do bite, it's likely nothing will happen. If it did though, it's no worse than a bee sting.

Dragonflies. They're like tiny helicopters. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t1uekwypsOE/TcjM6quxFTI/AAAAAAAAAME/wo8ndsR2qnA/s1600/P5298461SUDENKORENTO.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=D3TBS;36277278]where the fuck do you live[/QUOTE] Quintâs, near Ilhavo, which is close to Aveiro. (Portugal for those who don't know) Its a pretty secluded place. In my street, theres only 3 houses. One with me and my parents, another with a drunk ukrainian which I have NO IDEA how he never swerved his bike into another car and die, and a family of 5 or 6 + their goats/sheep/whatever. Everything else is trees, dirt, overgrown grass and dogs that keep on heckling my cats, and sometimes gipsys. I have no idea where those things come from. They aren't really THAT big. Maybe about as big as a thumb, maybe more, but they have some pretty sick looking legs and a big abdomen as said. I think they are poisonous, and they build some fucked up webs from one tree to another. We have to spray some hardcore insecticide to kill them, and they still squirm around for minutes, its just easier to set them on fire, but I'm afraid that they can jump at me in flames and fuck me up. As for the other spiders, they are thick black, a bit lengthy usually and they love to hide in corners. I was once having breakfast on the couch, still half asleep, when I look up and theres one lodged in the corner of the ceiling. I jumped and ran. We get other shit aswell. Lots of centipedes as big as your hand, lots of earwigs in the windows because its really dry, lots of flies in warm days if you open the window, fucking mosquitoes... Not even the cats are safe, they take home a shitload of ticks, some already strapped to them and fully loaded on blood. One of my cats had one in the tip of the ear so big it made the ear bend. The tick died or whatever, and the day after, he had another. [editline]11th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Crimptor;36277386]That time when I realized I had a nest of black widows living under my bed for 2 years.[/QUOTE] Where the fuck do you live?! Holy fuck I'd set fire to the whole house for that.

I once had a cockroach walk across my keyboard when I was playing a game. I touched it and nearly fell out of my chair, so I dumped it off into a cup and flipped the cup upside down. To this day that cup is still sitting next to my desk with the roach inside.

[QUOTE=Dogchow33;36284976]I once had a cockroach walk across my keyboard when I was playing a game. I touched it and nearly fell out of my chair, so I dumped it off into a cup and flipped the cup upside down. To this day that cup is still sitting next to my desk with the roach inside.[/QUOTE] How long ago was that? Post the de-cupping when it's been like, six months.

Cockroaches are hardly scary. Neither are dragonflies. I like dragonflies. I mean hell, they have [i]dragon[/i] in their name. I used to think they might actually be relative kin to dragons when I was a child. I read a lot of fantasy books when I was a wee lad. Also, black widows are terribly common here. My friend Stephen (Borellus) found a nest under his old swimming pool a while back.

[QUOTE=bradley;36284489]They may be able to take down mice, but they are relatively harmless to humans. Their forcipules can't even break through the average human's skin, so even when the very rare occasion happens that they do bite, it's likely nothing will happen. If it did though, it's no worse than a bee sting.[/QUOTE] I'm just saying in terms of how fucking scary they can be, I'm not saying they're dangerous

That thing was scary. It looked like some terrible spider-caterpillar and I thought it was going to eat me alive.

I used to have fun trying to catch these jumping things when I was a kid (don't know the english name, in French it's sauterelle). [IMG]http://uppix.net/3/4/7/604ef4439fe24811d9d4d60ad8219.jpg[/IMG] It was harmless and fun. One day I catched one with some kind of huge dart (I don't know if they can actually use it to stab or if it's for something else) [IMG]http://uppix.net/5/b/1/be09e5694757f816aec9ef6ae617c.jpg[/IMG] When I saw that I panicked and never ever tried to catch any of them again. Try to have fun with some peacefull-looking insects, once you are used to them nature will suddenly grant them a dart/pair of claw to scare you when you least expect it.

I found one of those big hairy spiders/tarantulas in my grandparents' house in China, freaked out. But I guess the experience that really sticked was of a worm. Once upon a time I went to the kitchen and grabbed a peach, took a bite and when I looked at it, there was a hole and half a worm and I was like ohgodohgodohgod

I don't know why spiders are scary to people. Just try picking one up, they're actually pretty cute up close. Look at that cute little thing- [img]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/1/13/12/anigif_now-its-even-cu-4856-1231868931-6_preview.gif[/img] The worst they can do is tickle you a little bit. [editline]11th June 2012[/editline] And the worst "thing" I can think about (that actually lives here) is a [url=http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/1/13/12/anigif_now-its-even-cu-4856-1231868931-6_preview.gif]Deathstalker[/url]- The most venomous scorpion in the world happens to reside in the exact area I live in. I never had the pleasure of getting stung by one, but my dad did, and he says the pain lasted for at least a week.

Had a nest of wasps in my room not too long ago. Wasn't exactly scary, just a little tense. England is so boring, the worst we get is wasps, and they are just annoying fuckers. I'd love to visit Australia one day to see some real critters. [editline]12th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Glorbo;36287553]I don't know why spiders are scary to people. Just try picking one up, they're actually pretty cute up close. Look at that cute little thing- [img]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/1/13/12/anigif_now-its-even-cu-4856-1231868931-6_preview.gif[/img] The worst they can do is tickle you a little bit. [editline]11th June 2012[/editline] And the worst "thing" I can think about (that actually lives here) is a [url=http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/1/13/12/anigif_now-its-even-cu-4856-1231868931-6_preview.gif]Deathstalker[/url]- The most venomous scorpion in the world happens to reside in the exact area I live in. I never had the pleasure of getting stung by one, but my dad did, and he says the pain lasted for at least a week.[/QUOTE] I fucking love spiders. I did my final art project, the subject was beauty, about spiders. Greatest project ever, made a large spider model.

[QUOTE=LPG55;36287135]I used to have fun trying to catch these jumping things when I was a kid (don't know the english name, in French it's sauterelle). [IMG]http://uppix.net/3/4/7/604ef4439fe24811d9d4d60ad8219.jpg[/IMG] It was harmless and fun. One day I catched one with some kind of huge dart (I don't know if they can actually use it to stab or if it's for something else) [IMG]http://uppix.net/5/b/1/be09e5694757f816aec9ef6ae617c.jpg[/IMG] When I saw that I panicked and never ever tried to catch any of them again. Try to have fun with some peacefull-looking insects, once you are used to them nature will suddenly grant them a dart/pair of claw to scare you when you least expect it.[/QUOTE] We call them Grasshoppers in English. That thing on the bottom one is probably (I'm not certain as I'm more familiar with crickets than grasshoppers) an ovipositor, which is an organ used by insects and other some other arthropods to lay eggs.

[QUOTE=LPG55;36287135] It was harmless and fun. One day I catched one with some kind of huge dart (I don't know if they can actually use it to stab or if it's for something else) [IMG]http://uppix.net/5/b/1/be09e5694757f816aec9ef6ae617c.jpg[/IMG] When I saw that I panicked and never ever tried to catch any of them again. Try to have fun with some peacefull-looking insects, once you are used to them nature will suddenly grant them a dart/pair of claw to scare you when you least expect it.[/QUOTE] That's a camel cricket, and like the other guy said, that's an egg-laying thingy.

Here in the capitol wasteland we got rad roaches and fire ants.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;36294321]Here in the capitol wasteland we got rad roaches and fire ants.[/QUOTE] Tsk, bitch. Come to Mojave. The meanest of fire ants ain't got shit on even a newly hatched Cazador.