What animals make you cringe, either out of disgust, fear, or just annoyance? For me: Mosquitoes Humans. Yes. Many humans are cringe. Anything that creates tonnes of faeces. Eg. Rats, Crows Maggots Surinam toads. Those eggs give a crippling tryphobia °° Monkeys, especially their blood-red rear-en…

That’s the National Bird of the People’s Republic of Northern Ontario you’re talking about, as referenced in our national anthem .

Somehow that reminded me of our unofficial state motto and our own cringe-worthy species: “New Mexico: Land of the flea, home of the plague.” (I used to have the bumper sticker.) I think Arizona adopted that motto too.

Ticks, probably due to having caught some truly horrifying diseases from them. Those parasites that eat fish tongues and then sit there pretending to be a tongue…euugh. And I have a difficult time with anything that creates massive swarms, particularly ants (though I will still try to get a pictur…

The McGarrigles! Awesome. I only experienced Black Flies in my early 30’s, and the first bite I had swelled up to the size of my hand. You guys need the muddy, slow rivers that we have in Manitoba.

I vividly remember waking up one early morning on a day I was supposed to take a long flight overseas with excruciating pain and what I thought was tinnitus in one of my ears. I got up in a slight panic, expecting to have to see a doctor to get it checked out before heading to the airport. As I was …

[image] marina_gorbunova: now it’s like a cringe culture but with living organisms instead of people, Like those arachnophobia memes, where there is a picture of a spider in the house, and words to the effect, “Now I’d better burn down the house.” Are they supposed to be funny? Because they’r…

I actually love leeches, living not in tropics and seeing them not too much helps with that (but I actually seek after them). I find Hippoboscidae quite disturbing because of their elusiveness on your head, they have strange-looking abdomen, they’re almost impossible to kill or just to catch, and so…

[image] abhijatshakya: bloody rear end? °|° [image] tiwane: ticks Agreed. Ticks are absolutely horrifying and probably the only insect I find truly disgusting. Other than a mosquito that is squashed and leaves a huge bloodstain on my hand. :) [image] graysquirrel: Those parasites…

What animals make you cringe?

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lynnharper December 3, 2021, 1:32am 29

Leeches.

shudder

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What animals make you cringe?

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