Which of these bloodsuckers do you think has the nastiest bite?

[fosing]

a $20 hooker/prostitute

 

[Intruder04]

ha, true to your name, Intruder04, this thread got the nasty

Haha....what do you mean?

I've never been bitten by a leech but I can imagine its pretty disgusting!

I've never been bit by one either but it bit my aunt once and she said it was hardly noticeable until she saw it. The wound wasn't too big although it was bleeding long after we'd got it off.

I woke up one night to a sting on my inner upper leg one night near my woohoo it's was a tick, nasty little sucker

More naughty than nasty

The answer is none. Most ppl don't even know a tick has bitten them. Wasp, Spiders, Jelly Fish, Electric Eels... are the real annoying bitters.

I was talking only about blood feeding parasites.

my ex....

Umm....you need therapy J.

And me too!

For some reason i though this would be a movie vampire poll

Go ahead.

Ticks are the worst because they can give you diseases.

Most of these other pests can too.

I was going by the nature of the bite itself. Ticks burrow and anchor themselves in your skin. Then they bloat. Then they fall off, leaving a hole. So utterly disgusting that anything short of bot fly larvae cannot touch it.

Although, I have no real idea what Mr.Green is talking about. (Then again, I usually don't.) If I knew I think ticks might fall to second place.

I think that botflies get the top honors cuz what they do is pretty scary and terrible.

Horseflies. I hate those damn things.

but I think u should add fly, biting fly that is. they're no ordinary fly.

I should probably add flies to the list too. How do I edit the poll?

a $20 hooker/prostitute

Ok, now I really need to edit the poll

 

[The Ween]

Most of these other pests can too.

You have a much bigger chance of getting something really nasty, like lime disease, from a tick.

 

[devilof76]

Unless you live where malaria was never eradicated because the hippies banned DDT to save the mosquito.

 

[EnShinNoi]

I have a 10 year old scar from when a tick got me in the groin.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

I bet that line works pretty well with the ladies, huh?

 

[devilof76]

Ticks will embed themselves in worse places than genitals. They like it where it's dark and warm. If they can find it, they'll hole up (all puns intended) as deep as they can.

 

[occulum]

Horsefly by a mile.

 

[averagejo]

Horsefly by a mile.

I lived in New Hampshire for a few years and there were plenty of horse flies AND black flies in the woods. You are right, horsefly bites hurt like hell...but they weren't on the list!

 

[crows]

one time I went with my ex to the woods for a walk, and our shoes and socks were full of ticks, it freaked me out. She kept saying they wouldn't do anything to us.

they were also really hard to kill, i tried killing them but I couldn't. Had to burn my shoes.

 

[shocktrooper_au]

Horseflies. I hate those damn things.

Yeah those suckers done even bother to inject you with something to block the pain for a couple of seconds

 

[Intruder04]

You have a much bigger chance of getting something really nasty, like lime disease, from a tick.

Well, mosquitoes spread malaria and dengue fever and I'm sure the others too carry some sorta disease causing pathogens.

Unless you live where malaria was never eradicated because the hippies banned DDT to save the mosquito.

Although I hate chemical pesticides and I'm not a hippie, I think that certain situations do advocate their use.

one time I went with my ex to the woods for a walk, and our shoes and socks were full of ticks, it freaked me out. She kept saying they wouldn't do anything to us.

they were also really hard to kill, i tried killing them but I couldn't. Had to burn my shoes.

You did the right thing. These things need to be burned. Crisis averted.


So, what happened after that?

 

[crows]

she laughed at me ....

 

[Intruder04]

Strange. Usually, post crisis you make sticky.

 

[occulum]

one time I went with my ex to the woods for a walk, and our shoes and socks were full of ticks, it freaked me out. She kept saying they wouldn't do anything to us.

they were also really hard to kill, i tried killing them but I couldn't. Had to burn my shoes.

you have to let them fill up with blood first. Then they're easy to pop

 

[averagejo]

you have to let them fill up with blood first. Then they're easy to pop

Omg..that is so gross.

 

[BadMoon]

Excluding disease, I would have to say chiggers are the worst. I've had just about everything on me. Want to watch grown men cry? Watch them scratch their legs open and pour bleach in the wounds.

It ****ing hurts!

And before some smart *** asks why bleach, it's all we had.

 

[Intruder04]

you have to let them fill up with blood first. Then they're easy to pop

Yeah. I burn these mofos every time I spot one. Has never bit me though.

Omg..that is so gross.

Die tick die!

 

[user 1190]

There are lots of tools for removing ticks.

 

[agen_kolar]

For me, ticks are bad mainly due to Lyme disease. The bites themselves don't bother me nearly as much as mosquitoes, which are the worst. I think I'm somewhat allergic to them. Plus, the diseases they spread kill way more people than the rest of the critters on the list combined!

However, not mentioned on the list were no-see-ums (sand flies, sand fleas) which may be the most godawful creature to walk god's green earth.