KnightWhoSaysNi

In the province of Alberta here (in the northern parts) we have nasty things called horseflies. They're big ugly beasts that try to land on your skin and take a chunk of flesh off you.

One time I felt a pinch on my back and found that one of these bastards tried to bite through my T-shirt.

Korihor (formerly 'Nightshade')

The Naked Mage

Awwwww! It's saying "Howdy, pardner! Mind if I run in and out of your nostrils while you sleep?" That's awfully cute.

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I'd like to add alien facehuggers to my list of nature's horrible, horrible mistakes.

GypsyLife

Great. And I was getting ready for bed.

<gasp> I think I've just traced my phobia! My grandfather used to looove to tell us kids about the time a German cockroach crawled in his ear while he was sleeping and was STUCK for SIX hours (until he finally got to an ER to get the thing yanked out) and the whole while he could feel it's evil little legs wriggling around.....

Gonna need a sleeping pill.

Quetzal

Although bot flies and screwworms are right up there on the Top Ten List of why gawd is a cruel, unthinking barbarian, nothing - not even trypanosomes - beat the guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis) for sheer horribleness. In the interests of the delicate sensibilities of the II denizens, I won't post the actual images here. However, for those whose morbid fascination with the totally insensate nastiness of nature can't live without it, here's a webpage devoted to the little horror: Ohio State's "Graphic Images of Parasites" website. Enjoy.

Infinity Lover

Little fluffy kittens.

They'll suck you in with their cuteness, and before you know it you are scraping funky chunks out of a can, scooping even funkier chunks out of a box, and cleaning puke off the carpet... for more than a decade usually. You can kiss your wallpaper and furniture goodbye, same as your wardrobe (hairs hairs hairs), going on vacation will require giving virtual strangers free access to your home while you're gone (to feed the furball), you can't leave anything resembling food out in the open... your life just won't be yours anymore.

And don't get me started on bunnies; brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

villainess

Squirrels are trying to kill me; have been for years. Likewise, woodchucks are pretty vile, especially when they rattle their yellow pointy teeth at you.

I have a problem with virtually anything that scuttles around where I'm not expecting it or can't see it clearly.

But the most disturbing is definitely humans. On bad days, they all seem to look like despair-ridden post-apocalyptic zombie mutants. Of doom.

the_villainess