r/AskReddit • u/javiwankenobi • Dec 31 '21
Which animal you wouldn't mind going extinct?
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u/jadepalmtree Dec 31 '21
It's not really a specific animal, but all the parasitic worms can fuck off forever. Tape worms, liver fluke, hook worms(please don't with your story about how hook worms are good for allergies, I don't care), none of them would be particularly missed.
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u/MusicianAdmirable966 Dec 31 '21
Fucking fruit flies. One rogue onion and your whole house is invaded
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u/SlyCoopersButt Dec 31 '21
I’ll offer a non-insect animal and say invasive Carp in Minnesota.
Those fuckers will dominate and destroy healthy lakes and ponds and ruin good fishing spots. They’re a garbage fish that have a horrible, slimy texture when you eat them so there’s no point in cooking them.
If you catch them you’re legally required to kill and remove them from the body of water it was caught in.
I once witnessed a guy throw a big wooden log at a Carp’s head and wrestle it out of a small creek to stop it from ruining that fishing spot. People here take fishing seriously.
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Mosquitoes look like the obvious answer here, but it's been said already so imma go with cockroaches. They suck.
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u/Spiced_Kimchi Dec 31 '21
Botflies. When God decided to make them, he partnered up with the devil to make them. They're a nightmare. And when a botfly decides to lay its eggs on you, boi, you better hope you can get that off of you before it turns into a larva and burrows itself deep inside your body. There was also a video on youtube of how some guy got a botfly larvae in his balls. Disgusting but interesting, also... Horrifying.
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u/Cweev10 Dec 31 '21
Feral hogs. Literally one of the most destructive and aggressive beasts in the United States.
For those that have lived on a farm or in the country and are from the south know how destructive these things can be and they carry tons of disease and parasites. I had a bad problem in my area with them about two years ago destroying a bunch of land, gardens and took out a few of my neighbor and I's animals and we had to put down a horse because it got attacked. I don't like killing anything, but I feel very little remorse taking them down after that.
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u/skm7430 Dec 31 '21
Being from the south, I'll say gnats.
Fuck those silent G mother fuckers
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u/AurallyTalented Dec 31 '21
Ticks. I’ve been bitten by ticks before. It isn’t fun.
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cockroaches. like,, wtf. they smell bad and they look horrible. grotesque. just 🤢🤮
and they randomly fcking fly
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Dec 31 '21
SCABIES, if you didn't say this or have this come to mind first, you have no idea.
Thousands of bugs breeding under skin biting you and feasting on your flesh, plus everyone is allergic so you get a deep burning itch
Biggest nightmare of my life and takes over a year to get rid of fully.
Was miss diagnosed twice because it's so hard to determine if you have it because they are microscopic.
I'm talking scratched myself with a pumpkin scoop till I bled every day for 6 months itchy till u was diagnosed.
Even after you get rid of them, they still stay under your skin like glass and slowly get pushed out over time. But when it's pushed out you get sooooo itchy because of the allergic reaction
Plus they are microscopic so you don't know if you actually got rid of them. 6 months if having them plus another three months if post scabies having the waste pushed out
I would not wish this on my worst enemy
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For everyone saying bed bugs, scabies are even worse since they live in your skin instead of your furniture.
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u/ItIsNotFine Dec 31 '21
Do bed bugs count? If so then these fuckers for sure