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[Blargonaut]

Dragons.

I'm tired of all this nuisance arson

 

[GruntOfAction]

Wasps.


Runner up is mosquitoes.

Spoiler

I bet someone said Cicadas, that would make me sad :c

 

[Ampersands]

Crickets would be my choice. I didn't see other pest nearly as often as I do these thing. Maybe flies too...

 

[studyguy]

I heard if we got rid of all spiders that some types of flying insects would then start to run rampant in certain ecosystems. I'm not about getting rid of spiders only to have a billion mosquitoes migrate from their huge colonies into my backyard.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

Gnats

 

[L95]

None, that seems like it would screw up many things.

...Africanized honeybees is my answer, if I had to pick one.

 

[TheBowen]

Moths


Fuck Moths

 

[Professor Renegade]

Wasps. Throw hornets in there too. Those fuckers are the scourge of the earth.

 

[draetenth]

Humans

Mosquito for real answer

.

 

[gaiages]

Cockroaches.

I HATE those things. Disease ridden (?) disgusting things that just DON'T DIE

What purpose do they serve in an ecosystem that other insects can't take care of, anyway?

 

[Sub_Level]

Roaches.

Not even close.

Sorry to all the people who die by mosquitos including possibly myself or one of my loved ones these days but FUCK roaches.

 

[Carl]

Pigeons.

I'm not fond of any birds, but pigeons genuinely terrify me. If there are pigeons in my path, i cross the road (or even walk on the road) to avoid them. If i have no other options, i close my eyes and just walk.

Kill all pigeons

 

[Theecliff]

jelly fish

Have a legitimate fear of them, seriously

Fuck em fuck em fuck em 😣

 

[Coffee Dog]

As I currently have bites all over my body that I keep scratching, I'm gonna have to go with this.

Imagine waking up with clusters of mosquito bites running down your arms, legs, and wherever else you have exposed.

bed. bugs.

 

[EdwardTeach]

100% mosquito's. The bites don't bother me that much, but it is a nightmare with my young kids when we visit India. Plus they obviously spread disease.

 

[Neoxon]

mosquitos.

Spoiler

Fuck them! That's why!

First post is best post.

 

[Gr1mLock]

Chimps

 

[Onyar]

Every animal in Australia.

 

[Servbot24]

Spiders.

You'd be fucking over the human race big time. Seriously, spiders are our friends and life would be hell without them.

 

[Opto]

Spiders

 

[balladofwindfishes]

African Honey Bees

Unlike a lot of other suggestions these freaks of nature would probably not disrupt an ecosystem if they were extinct and are purely man made terrors that never should have existed.

Stuff like mosquito might be invasive, but at least they weren't accidentally created in a lab to be the perfect killing bee like some kind of freak comic book villain. I've never even had to deal with them, it's far too cold for them, but I just find the idea of them to be terrible.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

Mosquitos for sure. Suckers ruin my day all the time. Scary knowing they can carry diseases too. Lake Tahoe gets so friggin many it's just terrible.

LOL at spiders, roaches and moths being mentioned.

 

[Eusis]

With the full ramifications that entails?

Argentine ants. Wildly invasive outside of their native habitat, though ideally I'd exempt the ones there and only go after the horrifically inbred ones everywhere else.

EDIT: No seriously, they're basically the food chain glitching out and have one species going out of control, if they vanish many of the places they're at may actually return to some semblance of what they were before.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

wasps.

 

[Kozak]

Roaches.

Not even close.

Sorry to all the people who die by mosquitos including possibly myself or one of my loved ones these days but FUCK roaches.

This should be the only answer.

Roaches are the fucken worst!

 

[mike0dude]

Kardashians.

 

[Dénouement]

Mosquitoes or wasps

 

[Setsuna]

Arachnids

 

[Wafflecakes]

Wasps

 

[The Albatross]

Mosquitoes

One of the few species that seemingly do nothing for ecosystems but cause harm.

GReat episode of Radiolab about Mosquitos: http://www.radiolab.org/story/kill-em-all/

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

Which animal dying out would be best for earth? Humans

 

[devonodev]

Imagine waking up with clusters of mosquito bites running down your arms, legs, and wherever else you have exposed.

bed. bugs.

There's no bed bugs around where I live, the selfishness in me must stick with mosquitoes.

 

[Roven]

Dogs

 

[Lagamorph]

Spiders. All spiders.
Those creepy little shits can just fuck right off.

 

[InsanerBrainer]

Mosquitoes. Spiders are a necessary evil.

 

[Sakura]

Whales. Fuck them.

 

[ZoltanXerxes]

Politicians or mosquitoes. Both are veracious blood suckers..

 

[MattKeil]

The answer is mosquitoes. Anything else is wrong. Of all the human beings who have died in the history of our species, scientists estimate about half died from malaria. Think about that. Half of the human beings who have ever lived died from malaria. Wars, other diseases, old age, murder, accidents, everything else combined...just barely equals the malaria deaths. Mosquitoes are our deadliest natural enemy.

 

[Dad]

Fuck the elephants.

FUCK EM

 

[jerry1594]

The answer is mosquitoes. Anything else is wrong. Of all the human beings who have died in the history of our species, scientists estimate about half died from malaria. Think about that. Half of the human beings who have ever lived died from malaria. Wars, other diseases, old age, murder, accidents, everything else combined...just barely equals the malaria deaths. Mosquitoes are our deadliest natural enemy.

What about the actual organisms and viruses that cause the diseases?

 

[Ushojax]

Wasps for sure. The worst thing about summer.

 

[LesPaul]

I can't decide between Wasps and Ticks.

 

[Eusis]

What about the actual organisms and viruses that cause the diseases?

Oh, now that's a great idea.

Flu virus family, extinct. Cold too would be nice, but that's relatively tame.

 

[Toxi]

Cockroaches.

I HATE those things. Disease ridden (?) disgusting things that just DON'T DIE

Roaches can only transmit disease through walking on a contaminated surface and then walking on food (like any other insect). As long as there isn't open sewage lying around, they won't be spreading disease. They are even rather clean by insect standards, fastidiously grooming themselves at every opportunity.

If you want to talk about disease spreaders, flies are much worse.

What purpose do they serve in an ecosystem that other insects can't take care of, anyway?

Depends on the roach species. Most roaches don't live in human habitations. The ones that do are scavengers that eat whatever is lying around. Those particular roaches don't really serve an important role, but they're hardly the worst insects we have to live with.

Mosquitoes

One of the few species that seemingly do nothing for ecosystems but cause harm.

GReat episode of Radiolab about Mosquitos: http://www.radiolab.org/story/kill-em-all/

Again, this isn't true. Read the actual nature article linked in the thread. It lists several roles mosquitoes play in just a few ecosystems; the hope of the author is that those roles can be filled in with other animals or won't be missed too much.

 

[Grym]

mosquitos.

Spoiler

Fuck them! That's why!

one and done

 

[Slayer-33]

Pigeons

 

[SalvaPot]

The Broadway production "Cats"

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Hornets

but real answer is mosquitos.

 

[Camwi]

Realistically, mosquitos.

I would also love to wipe ferrets off the face of the planet. My wife (girlfriend at the time) had one as a pet for a while and it was fucking awful. If it was out of the cage, it would bite at my toes. Inside the cage, it would grab at the cage with its teeth and shake the cage just to be annoying. It also made the whole apartment smell like shit.

The final straw that made me force her to get rid of the little bastard was when it purposely started shitting OUTSIDE of the cage.

All ferrets can burn in hell.