# When nature grosses you out **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612 "2007-03-12T15:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/121 "2007-03-15T15:56:18Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Can you describe it, I don’t want to click? [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s _ **AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA** _ shaped. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/122 "2007-03-15T15:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Can you describe it, I don’t want to click? [/QUOTE] It’s kind of like a scorpion had a threesome with a spider and a crab. In a vat of steroids. ---
**Author:** ![Bogdan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Bogdan99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogdan99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/123 "2007-03-15T16:01:15Z")
I am not really scared of any bugs, worms , rotten animals, etc, but here is something I would be terrified to see crawling near me : the giant centipede. Here are 2 links, where you can see how it looks , then you can see how big it is : [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg) [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg) It`s like one of those things from bad horror movies, that get inside a human and take control of him. Also, I am grossed out of worms or bugs that infest the human body. I remember when I was very young, my father had a friend who got this worm infection from not cooking well some pork meat.It lodged in his arm, and surrounded itself with a very hard cocoon.The doctors couldn`t get it out at that time, and from what I `ve been told, some baby worms went to his heart, caused some infection and the man died. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/124 "2007-03-15T16:12:52Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Can you describe it, I don’t want to click? [/QUOTE] Working from the rear to the head, and keep in mind that I don’t know my bug body parts: Long, thin, whip-like tail. Reddish-brownish-blackish end section marked with parallel lines. Six legs, fairly thick, sprouting from the midsection. Flat, crab-shaped head with what looks like friggin’ brow ridges. Long, spindly antennae. And JAWS. Jaws like I’ve only seen in documentaries on those giant army ants in the jungle. Jaws that could probably tear the nose right off your face, while it glowers at you from beneath its brow ridges. It’s a baaaad motha (shut your mouth!). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/125 "2007-03-15T16:16:25Z")
[QUOTE=Bogdan99] I am not really scared of any bugs, worms , rotten animals, etc, but here is something I would be terrified to see crawling near me : the giant centipede. Here are 2 links, where you can see how it looks , then you can see how big it is : [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg) [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg) [/QUOTE] Holy shit. And how does that person stand there so calmly? Even if that thing is dead I don’t want it near me. Walking on a leash maybe. [QUOTE=Cervaise] Yeah, it’s _ **AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA** _ shaped. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bogdan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Bogdan99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogdan99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/126 "2007-03-15T16:23:07Z")
This vinegaroon looks very much like an insect that in my country has a myth surrounding it. You need to crush the jaws of how many insects you can catch, make it into a dust, mix with some plant, which I don`t remember, and put it into a girl`s drink and you make her very horny.It was supposed to be an aphrodisiac 😃 ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/127 "2007-03-15T16:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Add me to the list for maggots and hyenas, and I’ll also sign up for gypsy moths. Not the moths themselves, but those horrid take-over-the-world cocoons the babies build, and the way they kill everything around them. [/QUOTE] Ugh, I hate those things. Just thinking about them makes me feel like things are crawling on me. I’m am not a squeamish person. Heck, I even think tarantulas are CUTE! Gypsy moths are the devil incarnate, though. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/128 "2007-03-15T16:26:21Z")
> [@](#): > > It was supposed to be an aphrodisiac Oh yeah, that would totally get me hot. Nothing like a little powdered bug jaw to turn me on. ---
**Author:** ![Bogdan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Bogdan99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogdan99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/129 "2007-03-15T16:31:23Z")
And the funny thing is that it was said that the recipe for the aphrodisiac came from America.And people here believed that the Americans definitely know what they are doing, so I am sure someone actually tried this thing. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/130 "2007-03-15T17:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Beaucarnea] **Dung Beetle** , pass the eggs. I love those things. I could eat them while reading this thread. I could eat them while looking at pictures from this thread. I could eat those eggs out of a carcass. I could eat Cadbury eggs off of a surinam toad’s back. [/QUOTE] Oh, you just very nearly made me toss my breakfast. In regard to what **Bogdan** posted: (do not scroll down if you don’t wish to read something truly horrific) one of my neighbors ate a pork taco that was not cooked well. Months later, it was discovered that a T. Solium (a type of worm) had died while wrapped around somewhere in her brain. Docs did the best they could to get it out–or most of it. It took her a very, very long time to recover. The T. stands for taenia. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/131 "2007-03-15T17:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] Oh yeah, that would totally get me hot. Nothing like a little powdered bug jaw to turn me on. [/QUOTE] I dunno, if a guy was manly enough to catch a few dozen of those and process their little buggy mandibles (out of my sight, of course), I might just be impressed enough to sleep with him. Or maybe it would be a pity lay, I’m not sure which. :o ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/132 "2007-03-15T17:29:55Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Mom looks like hell after the babies hatch;all popped open and raggy looking. [/QUOTE] [No kidding !](http://www.bogleech.com/nature/biomisc-surinam.jpg) Sorry, I couldn’t resist; one more picture of a Surinam Toad Mommy. Her back looks like it’s full of gigantic blackheads, some of them with little tails sticking out; and the blackheads that are " empty" show her raw flesh. The picture comes from a site with other bizarre pictures; some very unflattering portraits of [naked molerats](http://www.bogleech.com/bio-misc.html) , for example. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/133 "2007-03-15T17:31:58Z")
I am very proud of myself. Except for **Cervaise** ’s link to the bicycle, I have not clicked on any of the links. There’s reading about horror, then actually seeing it staring at you. Yeesh, folks, you know it’s bad…why do you torture yourself? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/134 "2007-03-15T17:47:49Z")
I don’t know, **ivylass** , but I’m straining right now not to click on **Maastricht** ’s last toad link. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/135 "2007-03-15T18:15:15Z")
Thanks for the guided tours. And very happy I did not click. ---
**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/136 "2007-03-15T18:29:10Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Yeah, it’s _ **AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA** _ shaped. [/QUOTE] ha ha ha 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/137 "2007-03-15T20:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=Beaucarnea] ha ha ha 😛 [/QUOTE] Your tale has been further [immortalized](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=412460). /shameless reference to own thread ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/138 "2007-03-15T21:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Can you describe it, I don’t want to click? [/QUOTE] Okay, I clicked on that one. I can handle that one. It’s the slimy, oozing, icky Surinam toads that make me want to go screaming for the hills. That’s not to say I want to find one sitting on my chest one night in bed, but the picture wasn’t creepy crawly-inducing. (Like the toads. I can hardly type it…you guys are creeping me out enough with the descriptions.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/139 "2007-03-15T21:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=Bogdan99] I am not really scared of any bugs, worms , rotten animals, etc, but here is something I would be terrified to see crawling near me : the giant centipede. Here are 2 links, where you can see how it looks , then you can see how big it is : [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%204.jpg) [http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg](http://markmlucas.com/images/invertabrates/amazon%20giant%201.jpg) It`s like one of those things from bad horror movies, that get inside a human and take control of him. [/QUOTE] Jeeeeezus. I’m like you; bugs don’t terrify me at all, with this one exception. However, I have NEVER seen a centipede as stonkingly huge as that second picture, and it’s squicking me the hell out. All the monsters and dinosaurs and slugs in _King Kong_ didn’t bother me in the least, but that one scene where Ann hid in the big hollow log and the gigantic centipede started to crawl on her damn near gave me a heart attack. And your 'pede isn’t much smaller than Peter Jackson’s fake one! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612/140 "2007-03-15T22:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Like the toads. I can hardly type it [/QUOTE] You don’t know how tempting it is to post a link labeled “another webbed-up bicycle” that doesn’t, y’know, go to a webbed-up bicycle. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-grosses-you-out/395612.md?page=8)