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Least Favorite Bug?
Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:24pm

Living here in Montana we don't have many venomous spiders or really nasty bees. But we do have these little spawns of Satan (Example Image from Web Below). They have antennae that can get to 2-3 inches, their bodies only one usually. They make a loud buzz seconds before they try and land on your face with those, cold, maliced, hate filled eyes staring you down. I'm sure the Australian members on here should diversify this list.

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Funditor406 Descens Offline Shattered Remains. Wonder why. Posts: 224 Turah, Montana Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #1 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:34pm By the way, the image's name comes from me saving the file from my browser.
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Reply #2 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:34pm

I'm an arborist who lives in Australia so I have had lots of experiences with bugs and alike but the worst thing that I have come across are a cattapillar that lives in oak trees in Germany . I do not know the English name of how to spell the word in German but it's something like eicheprotisponspinner.
Nasty things that can get you from meters away . Make you itch for days

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Funditor406 Descens Offline Shattered Remains. Wonder why. Posts: 224 Turah, Montana Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #3 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:37pm Nasty caterpillar indeed.
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2598 Australia Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #4 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:42pm Best part is being an arborist in Germany you are who is likely to get the call to remove them from the tree. Lots of nasty stuff in Australia but not as much where I am. In the north there are badarse ants that flogg you up trees
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Funditor406 Descens Offline Shattered Remains. Wonder why. Posts: 224 Turah, Montana Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #5 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:43pm You must love your job to continue doing that! Some Sawyer-like bugs like an Asian Longhorn are apparently a plague in American Forests as well. Never be too careful.
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2598 Australia Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #6 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 3:55pm America has a lot of pest species effecting trees also fungi that is causing big problems. Australia is lucky in that it's an island and has a strong border quarantine. However we still get things coming in through the cracks. Our latest one has the potential to infect almost the whole of Australia if it's not contained.
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Reply #7 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 5:24pm

Least favorite= Mosquitos. It's hard to imagine a more annoying insect. Effectively dirty used flying hypodermic needles that can home in on your sweat and breath. Horribe creatures. Ticks are also up there as well. The diseases they spread can affect you for the rest of your life. And they are disgusting looking to boot.

I'll also throw out a few good bugs to leave on a good note. Fire flies, June bugs and cicadas are all just fine by me.

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Reply #8 - Nov 27^th, 2017 at 5:45pm

Mersa: "Eichen-Prozessionsspinner" ? (english: Oak processionary)

That name went through the newspapers a couple years ago...

My least favourites include as well ticks and mosquitos. Add bed-bugs and we're done.

My favourite is most probably lucanus cervus (a stag beetle according to wikipedia). I've only seen two or so in the wild but they are quite impressive.

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Reply #9 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 3:56am

Over here the worst ones are horse flies. Luckily their season is pretty short and I think I've only been bitten maybe once by them. Ticks are nasty little buggers carrying Lyme disease and being sneaky as hell. They're pretty easy to keep off though with long trousers and avoiding the deepest patches of vegetation. Mosquitoes... I hate mosquitoes. Unfortunately they love me. I don't know if it's my English blood that the Finnish mosquitoes love but I always end up with twice the number of bites as my girlfriend and her family. They're the only thing I don't like about the Summer cottage. Relentless, annoying and there are BILLIONS of them.

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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #10 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 6:34am Black flies. 1/16 of an inch bloodsuckers. Like mosquitoes, their saliva can produce an allergic reaction that causes itching and swelling. Most welts are the size of quarters, but some, like the picture are extremely allergic.
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Reply #11 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 6:45am

I'm a mosquito magnet anywhere in the world.
But hands down the worst insect I've ever come across are the canadian blackfly they get in algonquin national park.

Evil, nasty, bitey, bastard things !

The scots will always claim the loch midges are the world's worse - but canadian blackfly would have them for breakfast - kilts and all !

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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #12 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 8:29am I’m with Morphy, mosquitoes are the worst. Especially, when they are more attracted to you than the rest of your family, well in my case my Dad’s the same. If we all stood outside, me and him would get bit most.
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Reply #13 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 10:05am

I second horseflies. For anyone not familiar, they are essentially a housefly looking thing scaled up to the size of a hornet, that sucks your blood like a mosquito on roids.

I went up a mountain in Canada before, and it was just thick with horseflies and mosquitos. Even covered in insect repellent they bite you to shreds.

Ticks really suck too, first time I went to do archery in the forest I got three of the little suckers head deep in me. Nasty.

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Least Favorite Bug? Reply #14 - Nov 28^th, 2017 at 10:43am Horseflies also cut through your clothing to get at you. If mosquitoes are flying hypodermic needles, horseflies are miniature flying chainsaws.
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