# Bug/ Arachnid Royal Rumble **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412 "2013-05-03T14:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![e.fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@e.fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/e.fred)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/1 "2013-05-03T14:06:52Z")
Who do you think would win if you put a Giant Praying Mantis, Giant Asian Hornet, Giant Centipede, Giant Scorpion, Tarantula, Giant Rhino Beetle, African Ant, Camel Spider, and other tough bugs and arachnids in an aquarium and let them fight. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/2 "2013-05-03T14:24:09Z")
Adam Ant will win, as long as he’s wearing shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/3 "2013-05-03T14:40:22Z")
For just about anything of similar size to a centipede, if it has picked up your trail, your best chance of survival is to be somewhere else when it arrives. Forget about going toe to toe. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/4 "2013-05-03T14:42:34Z")
Godzilla ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/5 "2013-05-03T15:31:10Z")
[moderating] Moved thread from GQ to IMHO. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/6 "2013-05-03T15:46:07Z")
Giant centipede. It’s a fast moving, highly aggressive hunter, with powerful venom, and can get up to about a foot long. Some of the species you listed don’t have any venom or weapons at all, some do but will only reluctantly defend themself, and some are vastly smaller than the others. Most of them wouldn’t stand a chance. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/7 "2013-05-03T16:22:54Z")
- > [@](#): > > …Giant Praying Mantis, Giant Asian Hornet, Giant Centipede, Giant Scorpion, Tarantula, Giant Rhino Beetle, African Ant, Camel Spider, and other tough bugs and arachnids… - Hmmm…sounds like a guest list for the [ugly bug ball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdKEhFM7mY). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/8 "2013-05-03T16:34:26Z")
Raid. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/9 "2013-05-03T17:22:02Z")
Another vote for Giant Centipede. It always got me in that stupid old arcade game. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/10 "2013-05-03T19:29:32Z")
I can’t access youtube now because I am at work, but there are many one on one insect battles on there of the variety of putting both in a jar and shaking it up… The mantis seems pretty tough, I recall seeing one take out a mouse. IIRC spiders don’t fair very well in open combat, they do better as ambush attackers. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/11 "2013-05-03T21:28:22Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > For just about anything of similar size to a centipede, if it has picked up your trail, your best chance of survival is to be somewhere else when it arrives. Forget about going toe to toe. I think you mean toe to toe to toe to toe to toe… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-arachnid-royal-rumble/657412/12 "2013-05-04T06:46:26Z")
I’ve posted [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f5gBFMMmGc) before. **Centipede - 1. Tarantula - 0.** When necessary, the centipede runs _much_ faster than shown in the video. We have such centipedes near our house. Occasionally we see a small one inside the house.