Thursday, August 6, 2009

Roaches Were Just The Beginning.

I am not afraid of bugs. I do not curl up into the fetal position on top of a bar stool every time I see a spider. I can deal with ants and beetles. Roaches however are fucking disgusting and I will absolutely cry if one touches me.

Then we come to bees and wasps. I am not afraid of bees and wasps. I am however an intelligent human being and I fail to find the manliness in getting stung.

That being said, there are a few bugs that will elicit in me emotions so strong I will turn around and haul ass leaving who ever I am with behind. I DON'T HAVE TO BE FASTER THEN THE BUG, I JUST HAVE TO BE FASTER THAN YOU. Read about the evil little bastards below and tell me you wouldn't share my lack of enthusiasm.

JAPANESE GIANT HORNET
Japan (obviously)

WHY YOU MUST FEAR IT: This fucker is the size of your thumb and sprays flesh melting acid death poison out of its ass. I wish I was making that up, seriously, because how shitty would a 4 inch long acid shooting wasp be... y'know? And it aims for your eyes! Bastards. Oh and the acid death poison has a pheromone that will signal every other hornet in the hive to come and do the same to you until you are dead. Awesome. Not only are they nasty bastards, you can't outrun these hornets as they can easily fly 50 miles a day. At this point it would be nice to say that they are rare and only live in remote places. But no no, these fuckers are goddam everywhere. All over Japan.

BULLET ANT
Nicaragua & Paraguay

WHY YOU MUST FEAR IT: It's an inch long. An ant. That is an inch long. As if that's not enough, they live and trees and so can and WILL fall on you to scare you away from their hives... the one you didn't know was there because it's in a fucking tree. Before it does all that, it shrieks at you. It shrieks at you. It's called a bullet any because it's "unusually severe" sting feels like getting shot. On the Schimdt Sting Index, Bullet Ants rate as THE NUMBER ONE MOST TRY NOT TO SHIT OUT YOUR SPINE PAINFUL in the entire world of animals. You are walking through the forest and all of the sudden you are surrounded by shrieks and screams as hundreds of these ants shower over
you and proceed to bite the holy shit out of you.

Again... they shriek at you.

AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE
Every-fucking-where

WHY YOU MUST FEAR IT: Know how to tell the difference between a regular back yard bee and one of these? YOU CAN'T. The difference is in their behavior. Regular bees will give you about 9 seconds of being close to their hive before they decide you are a threat and attacking you. Pretty easy to walk past them with no dying. That's not how the African bees roll. They give you no more than literally half a second before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up. The entire hive. All of em. The result is you running away flailing your arms screaming "HOLY SHIT IM COVERED IN DEATH BEES!" for over half a mile. Africanized bees can live in almost any climate and will have come to every state in the US by 2010. I soooo wish I was making that up.

ARMY ANT
Amazon Basin, Asia & Africa

WHY YOU MUST FEAR IT: They fucking eat people. Alive. Healthy people. FUCK THAT.

EAT PEOPLE.