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…

Regarding pubic lice, and human lice in general, the research using lice to inform knowledge of human evolution is, i think, facinating. Just couple quick links - https://www.livescience.com/41028-lice-reveal-clues-to-human-evolution.html; https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/lice-and-human-evolution…

I saw some black stink bugs on a legume and while hemipterans don’t usually do it for me, they looked so much like a pest I shivered when one fell off on me as it escaped. They had basically decimated the bean pods, if it was they that did that work. [image] Bean Bug

I am also not partial to mealybugs, spittlebugs, or scales. Nor codryceps, rabies, or any organism that takes over another one, changing its behaviour or no, to reproduce. Exception being some wasps, as perhaps they’re macroscopic and beautiful when they’re done, but I feel sorry for the caterpilla…

Welcome to the Forum! I don’t mind looking at cockroaches, but when one ran over my face in Mexico one night, I became less enamored of them.

@abhijatshakya was not condoning the actions of the villagers. He wanted to save the snakes, but old habits die hard, especially for organisms with potentially lethal consequences. @abhijatshakya may belong to iNat, but it sounds like the people he closely lives with don’t share the same outlook.

I love parasitology, and came see that any habitat, including humans and other organisms is merely that - a habitat. Life adapts to whatever will sustain them. I respect parasites - they live in environments which are actively trying to kill them. I would prefer not to have one, and do not wish them…

I misinterpreted. I apologize for that, my friend.

I thought that article on sloths was pretty interesting. I’m glad I got to read it— thanks.

What would really make me cringe: if there were parasitoids of humans.

What animals make you cringe?

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marina_gorbunova December 18, 2021, 5:49pm 83

I didn’t think he was. My last “sentiment” was about topic as a whole.

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