• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

If you could exterminate one species without consequence what would it be?

Status
Not open for further replies.
HouseCentipedeHeadFangs.jpg
Click to expand...

House Centipedes.

I've never seen a cockroach outside of hissing cockroaches people have for pets.
 
Either wasps or mosquitos. While wasps are more of an irritant to me, mozzies are a potential malaria-carrier in some other countries, so the latter might do the world as a whole some good.
 
Anything with more than four legs. Sure, our ecosystem will be fucked, but they will be a few months of utter joy before everything collapses.

...are there any use to mosquitoes? Really?
 
Definitely bedbugs.

Never had them, but I never, ever want to have them as I hear it's a goddamn nightmare getting rid of them.
 
I'm going to go with humanity, because no other species would make a thread dedicated to posting pictures of creepy-arse insects.
 
Cow Mengde said:
This is it. There's a scientific study on mosquitoes and it shows even if they go extinct, it wouldn't have a huge impact on the wildlife. That's why scientists are engineering mosquitoes that can't breed and have them pass their genes to other normal mosquitoes to kill off their population.
Click to expand...

There's an old urban legend around here that scientists tried this at the University of Florida, and that's how lovebugs were born.

To answer the OP:

During lovebug season = lovebugs.

Any other time of the year, including winter because why the fuck wouldn't they somehow still be out during winter = mosquitoes.
 
TheLetdown said:
There's an old urban legend around here that scientists tried this at the University of Florida, and that's how lovebugs were born.

To answer the OP:

During lovebug season = lovebugs.

Any other time of the year, including winter because why the fuck wouldn't they somehow still be out during winter = mosquitoes.
Click to expand...

Oh yeah love bugs suck. I used to have to do a lot of highway driving when I was in highschool during the summers. Whatever car I was driving would be caked with them.

June bugs are new to me. They're not as bad but when they are in season my front porch is a graveyard of their huge corpses every damn morning because they flock to the light and just die.
 
Hoo-doo said:
Escherichia Coli
Plasmodium species
Staphylococcus species
Click to expand...

Both E. Coli and Staphylococcus are part of our own bacterial flora, so they serve a purpose.

And to be fair, we've made them more stronger and deadly with the bad use of antibiotics, in the case of infections at hospitals or other places.

Virus and Prions can fuck themselves though.
 
seandooley13 said:
dogs
Click to expand...

Of all the insects and other living things that could suck your blood, make marshmallow of your blood, you pick dogs.

Dogs.

ed: If I would be in a place that this piece of shit fish resides - candiru fish, then I would exterminate this fuckin scum of the earth. Google it. Or don't. There is this fish in penis, on head, it attaches....and lives. Fuck.
 
Napoleonthechimp said:
I don't see any other species that has the potential to deflect meteors/comets and therefore save the entire planet, do you?
Click to expand...

With the way things are going though this species that could save the world is more likely going to be the disaster that kills it. Honestly I don't answer humans because I'm selfish and I want to keep existing but that would be the species that would probably do the most good to get rid of.
 
My personal choice would definitely the fly, being in the UK mosquitoes have never been that much of an irritant to me. The fly though, fuck that asshole, the idea of them munching on some dog shit or decomposing animal, then getting into the house landing on some food uhhhh.
 
NoblesseOblige said:
House Centipedes.

I've never seen a cockroach outside of hissing cockroaches people have for pets.
Click to expand...

North/Mid-West area? I had these things in a house up near Chicago. Creepy bastards that can, but never personally experienced, give a painful nip.

I'd take them over roaches though. Worst part of NC after HB2. Them, mosquitoes, and fleas are at the top of the hit list.
 
Flies, all shapes and sizes. Hell, I'd exterminate those fucks with all possible negative outcomes coming to fruition without feeling any regret. Any world is better than a world with flies.
 
ArkkAngel007 said:
North/Mid-West area? I had these things in a house up near Chicago. Creepy bastards that can, but never personally experienced, give a painful nip.

I'd take them over roaches though. Worst part of NC after HB2. Them, mosquitoes, and fleas are at the top of the hit list.
Click to expand...

Michigan, so yeah Midwest. I had never seen them until I began living in an apartment. Their speed and size is really off-putting. They apparently keep other bug population down but I'd honestly prefer hundreds of other bugs to one house centipede.
 
Spiders if just one.. We have issues with brown recluse where I live.

If I could expand, would gladly kill off bed bugs and mosquitos.
 
Human species. The most dangerous, destructive and egoistic of them all. Good riddance, wouldn't miss us.

Taking care of mosquitos would kill humans as well. Mosquitos are the main food for most birds. Human species can't survive without birds (they spread most seeds). Also without mosquitos there would be less fish and such, because the larvae lives under water.
 
Cow Mengde said:
This is it. There's a scientific study on mosquitoes and it shows even if they go extinct, it wouldn't have a huge impact on the wildlife. That's why scientists are engineering mosquitoes that can't breed and have them pass their genes to other normal mosquitoes to kill off their population.
Click to expand...

Yup. They are also humankinds number one enemy. More humans have been killed by them than by any other animal.
 
Also going with snakes. Don't need them. And even if we do, don't want 'm.
 
As a former bio-major, this thread annoying the crap out of me since everyone are just naming the families (Mosquitos = Culicidae) as oppose to actual species.

*first world problems*
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

If you could go on any game show, what would it be?
33
382
Grenseal replied
What would you do if you got this email?
Opinion  2
70
106
reinking replied
  • Poll
If you suddenly became rich, would you give any of it to your friends/family?
2 3
113
1K
DeVeAn replied
  • Poll
If you found a Death Note, would you use it?
2
55
999
Lambogenie replied
  • Poll
Which one of these would you wanna be in your 70s?
30
875
ahtlas7 replied
Top Bottom