"Hi there tarantula wasp, I'm your eusocial cousin from Asia, the Japanese Giant Wasp. I'm proficient at murder, murder is my favorite past-time. I injure many people every year with my stings and bites, and quite a few even die!"
The death's head hornets that spit acid. Not scary at all. You have to appreciate how insanely horrifying that is. Imagine two dozen people showing up at Lallapalooza and killing every single person there-- by hand-- without taking a scratch.
Pure and utter domination of everything in it's path. And just to take it a step further. Bot flies and other such fun.
Those last two photos are from a movie called Blue Is The Warmest Colour. I recommend all of you watch it immediately.
Here's a palate-cleansing of mammals, because mammals tend to be considered more cute than arthropods.
As an australian, this thread makes me want to step on my phone. I mean creepy crawlies don't unduly bother me, but my reflex is absolutely to kill them.
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/for/4671577446.html Poe's Law is in effect, I'm totally unsure if that post is a joke. Good with kids my ass. Reptiles literally lack the brain-hemispheres to give a shit about you. They're all instinct and impulse. I have a Florida Kingsnake myself, and she's nowhere near as good a friendly pet as a hamster or even the (pre-killed) mice she eats. She's just cool-looking, that's all.
I've spent half my life in New Zealand and the other half in Australia. Having spent the earlier years in NZ I've grown up with absolutely no fear of snakes or spiders because they don't have them there and it never occurred to me I should be scared. As a result it's a minor miracle how I haven't been bitten by something yet considering I still abhor footwear of any kind and spent the majority of my childhood on a farm tipping over any log or piece of iron we could find to see what was underneath. Mostly infestations of these. Spoiler Also these.