What Bugs You?

[Chemical]

(Oh I sure did!)

What are your favourite bugs?
Or do you hate bugs?
Do you have any interesting facts on bugs?

My appreciation and admiration is for the common house fly. It's danger to mankind as well as its importance encourage a deep respect for this underappreciated little guy.

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common name: house fly

scientific name: Musca domestica Linnaeus

life cycle: The house fly has a complete metamorphosis with distinct egg, larva or maggot, pupal and adult stages and can metamorph into it's adult stage within 2 weeks, 1 week if the weather is accomodating. The most interesting stage is the larva stage. Larvae nest in a moist an plentiful food source, hopefully rotting flesh. They're advanced body shape, with a pointed snout and rounded bottom allows the larvae to jut around cutting up the flesh with a hook mouth. What's really fascinating, however, is the waste secretion of the larvae which mainly contains ammonia. The ammonia breaks down the flesh into edible and managable food for the larvae.


presented danger: More than 32 disease and 100 pathogens are associated with the house fly, including typhoid, cholera, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax ophthalmia and infantile diarrhea, as well as parasitic worms. Making the house fly the most threatening household insect.

health benefits: Ironically enough the fly can also save lives and "maggot therapy" is a technique used by prominant doctors to clean unhealing wounds. This is done by introducing live maggots to the infected wound which then clean the flesh by eating decomposing flesh and infected tissue, killing bacteria and thus stimulating wound healing. This technique has been used since 1931.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Shouldn't it's scientific name be italicized or underlined?

If bugs leave me alone, I leave them alone.

I also have an irrational fear of cockroaches. They scare the hell out of me.

[Rocket Edge]

Bugs should die a horrible death for everyone swallowing them in our sleep. They have no use but to terrorise & annoy.

[escobert]

Praying mantis or the ant probably. I don't bugs. Japanese beatles are fun to kill however

[Chemical]

They have no use but to terrorise & annoy.

Aux contraire mon-petit ami.

Aside from the previously mentioned use of maggots... bugs are a viable food source for lots of animals and essential to a sustained ecosystem, many have been used for decoration and dyes, they break down and decompose waste materials and flesh returning nutrients back to the Earth to be recycled, many are used for medicinal purposes and some like the fluttering butterfly have become the muse of poetic gesture.

[Evastio]

Bees do help with the growth of fruits.

Dung Beetles also help get rid of dung.

Some bugs also lay their eggs on dead animals and the larvae that hatch get rid of the dead animal.

[LunarWeaver]

I hate bugs because... society tells me they are icky and I don't like to think for myself. They're gross and they should die. We can then logically conclude that ugly things deserve to die.

[Morningstar]

I hate all bugs. 'Cept fireflies. I like fireflies.

[Rocket Edge]

Aux contraire mon-petit ami.

I did french for three years and still don't understand that.

bugs are a viable food source for lots of animals and essential to a sustained ecosystem

Let the bugs live, it's the flies that need to die.

[final fantasy is stinky]

yummmmmmm... bugs... mmmhhhhhhmmmmmmm!!!!!

[Martyr]

I slaughter cockroaches like it's my business. Because it is.
Currently, all the cockroaches of the world and I are at open war.

I also hate those demonic monsters that eat paper.
(SPOILER)I slew an Earwig once and found to my shock and horror that it has no organs inside of it, nothing remotely like an organ or a mechanism to keep it alive. Only mush from the valuable paper that it devours. Surely, these monsters are magical manifestations of nonliving objects brought forth by some evil that plans to eradicate knowledge from the planet by simply erasing it. I am the Chosen One (Chosen by myself because obviously nobody else is stepping up to the plate) to put an end to this terror.

[fire_of_avalon]

I also have an irrational fear of cockroaches. They scare the hell out of me.

Yes. Please don't ask me to explain it. I just don't like them. Nor anything with more than eight legs. Ugh ugh ugh.

Me and other bugs are cool, though.

Aux contraire mon-petit ami.

I did french for three years and still don't understand that.

She said "On the contrary, my boyfriend."

(SPOILER)Really, she said little friend, but the french use petit(e) ami(e)/copain/copine to refer to boy/girlfriends. xD

[Yuffie514]

cockroaches are the worst type of pesticides ever. but, i can tolerate ants and bees.

[Jowy]

Ants don't bother me unless they're in the house. Then I'll freak out and spray raid everywhere. Centipedes though make me shriek and squeal like a little girl.

[Shlup]

I enjoy my colony of hissing cockroaches, but what I'd really like is some emerald and African millipedes.