# Extinction! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608 "2015-01-22T19:18:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/21 "2015-01-22T20:19:24Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > bedbugs > > or roaches Gotta go with bedbugs. Mosquitos are annoying, bedbugs are hell. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/22 "2015-01-22T20:19:49Z")
It’s a tough first choice between tics or mosquitoes. Although during certain months flies can be awfully damn pesky. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/23 "2015-01-22T20:28:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Species. Well then, whichever species of mosquito does most of the buzzing and biting around my backyard in the summertime. Sure, that geographical/ecological niche would soon be filled by other species of mosquito, but we’d surely get a short interval of reduced mosquito abundance in the one place that matters most to me. ---
**Author:** ![vomit\_comet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/73ab20/32.png) [@vomit\_comet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vomit_comet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/24 "2015-01-22T20:35:10Z")
Plankton; fuck the whales. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/25 "2015-01-22T20:37:37Z")
> [@vomit\_comet](#): > > Plankton; fuck the whales. Since when is plankton a pest? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/26 "2015-01-22T20:53:28Z")
With the exclamation point in the title, I keep hearing Tevye singing it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/27 "2015-01-22T21:00:33Z")
Fruit flies. They seem to serve no purpose other than to reproduce and annoy. Same could be said of some people, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/28 "2015-01-22T21:11:11Z")
Most of those things (mosquitoes, fruit flies, paint eating mold) are a number of different species - erasing one wouldn’t do much good as far as I know. Checking what wikipedia says of fruit flies for example gives you a genus of 1500 species. All 1500 aren’t pests but still, removing just one wouldn’t change much. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/29 "2015-01-22T21:22:55Z")
What’s with the extreme prejudice against insects? 😃 How about one that is nearly eradicated, and only exists to make people miserable: [Guinea worm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis). I dont think the ecosysem would miss it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/30 "2015-01-22T21:24:12Z")
Killer bees. Actually I’d go with mosquitoes or bedbugs, but killer bees are a close third. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/31 "2015-01-22T22:03:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > With the exclamation point in the title, I keep hearing Tevye singing it. I was secretly hoping someone would knock a parody out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/32 "2015-01-22T22:07:21Z")
Cockroaches. Hate the little basterds. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/33 "2015-01-22T22:14:19Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I was secretly hoping someone would knock a parody out. 😃 Would’ve, but I’m still on the clock. I’ll let someone else take it on. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/34 "2015-01-22T22:17:51Z")
Since I can’t just get rid of all wasps, get rid of the yellow jackets. And if that’s a bunch of different species, get rid of the ones in the northeast USA. All you folks out west or wherever these buggers live will just have to keep suffering. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/35 "2015-01-23T00:34:46Z")
Skeeters ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/36 "2015-01-23T00:39:42Z")
Anyone else for people? Except maybe me of course. I want to be left to see if the ultra-tree-huggers are right and all this planets ills are because of us. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/37 "2015-01-23T01:46:31Z")
I’d like to second/third bedbugs. They’re a big problem in a lot of places these days, and I don’t think many people would miss them. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/38 "2015-01-23T01:49:14Z")
Eye-blindness-causing parasites. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_doped](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@straight\_doped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_doped)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/39 "2015-01-23T02:06:04Z")
cats. they have ruined the internet. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608/40 "2015-01-23T02:07:15Z")
The [Quokka](http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/selfie-friendly-animal.jpg). They are too cute to live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extinction/710608.md?page=3)