Scariest animal smaller than your foot?

[ssgt splatter]

For me, I'd have to go with spiders and anything that can sting you.

On an even more frightening level I'd have to go with parasites.

 

[ssgt splatter]

I gotta go with the candiru.

*shudders* Why'd you have to remind me about that fish!?

What's a candiru?

 

[Prof.Wood]

Sydney Funnel Web Spider

A Spider roughly two inches long, drawn to warm dry environments (like your house), extremely aggressive, will willingly attack creatures many thousand times it own size (like you), locking fangs that cannot be shaken out (that's right you gotta reach down and pull), a tendency to strike repeatedly (that thing in your hand? still wants to bite you), a disproportionatly hard carapace that can resist serious crushing forces (like your foot), fangs long and powerful enough to pierce human nails, oh and the small matter of a venom specifically evolved to kill primates (that's you again) so toxic that it can potentially kill within 15minutes of being bitten. Should you be given antivenom you will most likely survive, but the bite itself has chance of developing into a necrotising sore that could lead to the amputation of the bodypart.

Worth noting nobody's been killed by one of these things since 1981, but still.

Thanks for that, now I'm off to my safe room with my guns and food call me in 3 weeks as my paranoia will have subsided by then.

 

[Prof.Wood]

I gotta go with the candiru.

*shudders* Why'd you have to remind me about that fish!?

What's a candiru?

I think its the one that ...... erm... goes in you through a very small opening that men have then swells up. (I may be mistaken but its still a thing if I'm wrong)

 

[ssgt splatter]

I gotta go with the candiru.

*shudders* Why'd you have to remind me about that fish!?

What's a candiru?

I think its the one that ...... erm... goes in you through a very small opening that men have then swells up. (I may be mistaken but its still a thing if I'm wrong)

Oh, you mean that small catfish from south america in the amazon that feeds on blood. Right. Gotcha.

 

[JigzPro]

Ron Howards penis

 

[GaldapJunior]

Fire Ants, they gang up on you and hurt like hell.

bulldog ant. known to kill entire villages with one colony. also maybe the GIANT WASP. can kill you with one sting. they fuggin hate honey bees

 

[Kollega]

Spoiler: This creature, commonly found in North-American woodlands.

Why yes, i have large feet.

 

[shadowsandwich]

a kind of fever restricted to africa that melts your organs and makes you bleed all over that or a bullet

 

[jubosu]

Is Herpes considered an animal?
If that is not allowed Brown Recluse Spiders

 

[Aulleas123]

Sewer Rats, they're smaller than my foot and I'd hate to be swarmed by them.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

Sydney funnel web... it hunts your feet and feeds on your blood tinted tears!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.118413-The-Sydney-Funnel-Web-Unfair

 

[HK_01]

Centipedes.

 

[GreyAxe]

any bug the size of my foot

 

[Flamed up]

Spoiler

Sydney Funnel Web Spider

A Spider roughly two inches long, drawn to warm dry environments (like your house), extremely aggressive, will willingly attack creatures many thousand times it own size (like you), locking fangs that cannot be shaken out (that's right you gotta reach down and pull), a tendency to strike repeatedly (that thing in your hand? still wants to bite you), a disproportionatly hard carapace that can resist serious crushing forces (like your foot), fangs long and powerful enough to pierce human nails, oh and the small matter of a venom specifically evolved to kill primates (that's you again) so toxic that it can potentially kill within 15minutes of being bitten. Should you be given antivenom you will most likely survive, but the bite itself has a chance of developing into a necrotising sore that could lead to the amputation of the bodypart.

Worth noting nobody's been killed by one of these things since 1981, but still.

Perhaps it would be appropriate to point out that the 15 minute death you mentioned, was from a small child being bit. Not a full grown adult.

This is my nightmare. >_<

Scolopendra Gigantea [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea]
Video of one eating a mouse [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg]
Another video of one demonstrating it's speed. Jump to 1:03 to see it sprint [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8HSkAr7v5g&feature=fvw]
Oh, and did I mention it kills and eats tarantulas? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8pAwGsuF4]

Alternatively the Asian Giant Hornet.

Spoiler

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Mini-Cthulhu. Also, Cymothoa exigua. Google that shit.

 

[Ubilaz]

Personally I think the scariest one is the botfly. As larvae they live as parasites in your skin.

 

[weecath77]

Moths.

They just disgust me. Damn them to hell!

Agree totally!
When they die,they turn straight into freaky dust and anything that thinks my bedside light is the moon I have zero respect for.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Perhaps it would be appropriate to point out that the 15 minute death you mentioned, was from a small child being bit. Not a full grown adult.

No, never mention anything that makes those little buggers sound less terrifying.

Speaking of which, London Zoo used to have a few of those hornets pinned to a display, the real life Thornet...