If every insect in the world were suddenly driven to kill humans

[joe]

Would they succeed in wiping us out?

[robert de niro]

I don't see why they would want to join ISIS in the first place

[JohnFreeman]

I would just close my door and windows

[joe]

I would just close my door and windows

Read an article about how mice get into your home. There are MANY entry points, not just doors and windows.

[JohnFreeman]

Read an article about how mice get into your home. There are MANY entry points, not just doors and windows.
Mice are insects?

[joe]

Mice are insects?

No, but if mice can get in, what do you think ants/mosquitoes/roaches will do?

[iamgine]

Depends on how they go about doing it.

[cleveland]

hahahha man thats a awesome thread idea i give u props for that.. hell if i knew how to give props through the forum id give u some points or w.e. the fuq u get on here for the topic... like where the f do u come up w that krazi shit ahhaaahha...
anyways no they wouldnt.. theres just too many of us, by the end of day 1 we would come up with full proof bug outfits and that would be the end of that... we couldnt exterminate all of them neither tho, no matter how much and how hard we tried.... :lol so it would be a tie, they would still be here, we would still be here... their casulties would be 10000000000000000000000 x higher then ours, but then again theres a 10000000000000000000000000000000 x of them on this planet then us so.. it still kinda evens out lol

[gts]

It starts with just one... then a few more

http://i61.tinypic.com/2vb0l50.gif



The estimated ratio of insects to humans is 200 million to one, say Iowa State University entomologists Larry Pedigo and Marlin Rice in their newly published (sixth edition) textbook, Entomology and Pest Management. Rice is the 2009 president of the Entomological Society of America.

There's an average of 400 million insects per acre of land


The United States “is home to some 400 pounds of insect biomass per acre, compared with our 14 pounds of flesh and bone,” they write. “Another amazing statistic is that in the Brazilian Amazon, ants alone outweigh the total biomass of all vertebrates by four to one. Based solely on numbers and biomass, insects are the most successful animals on earth!”

[Demon Lizard]

They would succeed because of disease, and poisons/venom.

[Top Gun]

These sneaky mofos need to be kept an eye on, I don't like those ratios.

[outbreak]

depends if they gain intelligence as well. They probably would succeed in at least crippling the way we currently live. The world is so interconnected through trade and imports for our modern conveniences that if some of the disease carrying insects in some countries attacked every human they saw they'd totally **** up that country which would have a knock on effect to countries relying on goods from those areas economically.

[zoom17]

Depends on what type of insects live around your area. Imagine thousands of wasps sting you over and over.

[ballup]

depends if they gain intelligence as well. They probably would succeed in at least crippling the way we currently live. The world is so interconnected through trade and imports for our modern conveniences that if some of the disease carrying insects in some countries attacked every human they saw they'd totally **** up that country which would have a knock on effect to countries relying on goods from those areas economically.
Or take the simple way: tons of damn bees, flying straight into your mouth to suffocate you.

[gts]

These sneaky mofos need to be kept an eye on, I don't like those ratios.Sleep with a can of raid under your pillow

[Kblaze8855]

Under the direction of a leader...they might. You couldnt stop weaponized mosquitos and other blood sucking peses released by the billions all spreading disease on purpose....while also having to deal with them choosing not to pollinate crops.

Lacking the ability to make them do the bidding of an organized leader...no. They wouldnt get far.

But if they had their shit together....they would wipe out billions just off not helping us grow food and then infecting the others.

The fishing industry would keep us alive a while...but not forever.

The elites I guess would live long enough to maybe come out of it years later...but it would be the insects world not ours for some time.

[Jud]

They'd succeed. There are quintillions of insects in this world

[The Iron Sheik]

old reddit thread

[christian1923]

drop some bUG spray from the sky and kill them all

[gts]

it begins with a night attack somewhere in Asia as billions of Malaria laden Mosquitos move in on their sleeping victims, simultaneously across the globe clouds of locusts, ants and beetles attack the food supply by the end of day one there's not a food supply left unscathed, 40% of people living in asia are now incubating the malaria virus...

as mankind tries to regroup and counter attack stinging insects of all types attack animals all over the globe enmasse, all attacks take place near water supplies, in days the bloating corpses will have have tainted all the world's drinking water.

in South America soldier ants have rendered the rainforests bare of all animal life the Amazon river is now the river of death, el aqua de murte while in Lexington Ohio a family of five dies in a tragic bug bomb incident, El bug bombo de tragico...

The invasion is so overwhelming that in Colorado NORAD picks up the swarms of flying creatures on their radar moving into the plain states, there the crops are ruined in a 24 hr feeding frenzy... the prairies stripped bare, all grazing animals will die of starvation within the month while across the country Lebron James in a last ditch effort to save his legacy signs a max contract with the Charlotte Hornets

NY is hit with a epic case of the trots from polluted tap water, toilet paper shortage ensues, all of Europe once again battles black death as billions of plague riddled fleas infect animal lovers... PETA's London office denounces use of all flea killing products

Week 3
PETA closes London office
Lebron James buys Charlotte Hornets, names Freddy Roach as GM...
ISIS makes slick video showing ISIS fighters burning ants with magnifying glasses, Obama declares ISIS really not a bad group of guys

TSE TSE 4 me me T-Shirts all the rage in Africa, a continent known for it's bug infestations African spokesman Augusto Nandu Savimbi sends world leaders message below

"Welcome to my world motherfu*kers we know all bout them bugs down here, now who's in the spam folder? You should have bought the diamond ranch my great grandfather the chief of the village left me upon his death when you had the chance. FU FU FU

Sincerely
Augusto Nandu Savimbi"

Week 4, world's population cut ny more than half, Antartica now worlds most populous continent... Tokyo subways still running on time but empty...Lebron James moves Hornets to Abuja Nigeria, Kobe Bryant takes over second on all time scoring list after he drops 2190 pts during NBA sanctioned one on one tournament against some guy named Louie in Manilla

Week 5 Frank Sinatra's "My Way" runs on 24 hour loop in Times Square but there's no one to hear.

Week 6
Lebron James and new business partner Augusto Nandu Savimbi die in a cave in along with 40 others when termites compromise the support beams of their diamond mine, Angelina and Brad announce they will adopt the orphans

Week 7 Crickets*

[Mamba]

I live in Australia.... I'm ****ed

[bdreason]

Lose - lose situation for humans. Even if we wipe out most the bugs, we're still fukced.

[Thorpesaurous]

depends if they gain intelligence as well. They probably would succeed in at least crippling the way we currently live. The world is so interconnected through trade and imports for our modern conveniences that if some of the disease carrying insects in some countries attacked every human they saw they'd totally **** up that country which would have a knock on effect to countries relying on goods from those areas economically.


This really becomes the question. I mean are they still involuntarily attracted to fluorescent lights, because we could probably eliminate a large chunk of them pretty quickly if we decided we really have to. But if they decide to start say ... pulling down power lines or generally consciously destroying the infrastructure, that would be much different.

[Velocirap31]

If these bugs were smart and wanted us dead, it'd be easy to wipe us out. They could just attack all of our crops and humans starve.

[JohnnySic]

Some numbnuts in Hollywood is writing the screenplay after reading this thread.

[chosen_one6]

Humanity as we know it would effectively be eradicated, just like white blood cells attacking bacteria in the human body.

There would be so many of them it would be impossible to stop. They could travel via all mediums. Air, water, and land. You'd have no where to go and no way to stop them. A lot of people also freak out when they see a mass of insects. It would cause mass hysteria. It's very scary to think about...although it would likely never happen.

[JohnnySic]

it begins with a night attack somewhere in Asia as billions of Malaria laden Mosquitos move in on their sleeping victims, simultaneously across the globe clouds of locusts, ants and beetles attack the food supply by the end of day one there's not a food supply left unscathed, 40% of people living in asia are now incubating the malaria virus...

as mankind tries to regroup and counter attack stinging insects of all types attack animals all over the globe enmasse, all attacks take place near water supplies, in days the bloating corpses will have have tainted all the world's drinking water.

in South America soldier ants have rendered the rainforests bare of all animal life the Amazon river is now the river of death, el aqua de murte while in Lexington Ohio a family of five dies in a tragic bug bomb incident, El bug bombo de tragico...

The invasion is so overwhelming that in Colorado NORAD picks up the swarms of flying creatures on their radar moving into the plain states, there the crops are ruined in a 24 hr feeding frenzy... the prairies stripped bare, all grazing animals will die of starvation within the month while across the country Lebron James in a last ditch effort to save his legacy signs a max contract with the Charlotte Hornets

NY is hit with a epic case of the trots from polluted tap water, toilet paper shortage ensues, all of Europe once again battles black death as billions of plague riddled fleas infect animal lovers... PETA's London office denounces use of all flea killing products

Week 3
PETA closes London office
Lebron James buys Charlotte Hornets, names Freddy Roach as GM...
ISIS makes slick video showing ISIS fighters burning ants with magnifying glasses, Obama declares ISIS really not a bad group of guys

TSE TSE 4 me me T-Shirts all the rage in Africa, a continent known for it's bug infestations African spokesman Augusto Nandu Savimbi sends world leaders message below

"Welcome to my world motherfu*kers we know all bout them bugs down here, now who's in the spam folder? You should have bought the diamond ranch my great grandfather the chief of the village left me upon his death when you had the chance. FU FU FU

Sincerely
Augusto Nandu Savimbi"

Week 4, world's population cut ny more than half, Antartica now worlds most populous continent... Tokyo subways still running on time but empty...Lebron James moves Hornets to Abuja Nigeria, Kobe Bryant takes over second on all time scoring list after he drops 2190 pts during NBA sanctioned one on one tournament against some guy named Louie in Manilla

Week 5 Frank Sinatra's "My Way" runs on 24 hour loop in Times Square but there's no one to hear.

Week 6
Lebron James and new business partner Augusto Nandu Savimbi die in a cave in along with 40 others when termites compromise the support beams of their diamond mine, Angelina and Brad announce they will adopt the orphans

Week 7 Crickets*
:oldlol: :applause:

[joe]

Humanity as we know it would effectively be eradicated, just like white blood cells attacking bacteria in the human body.

There would be so many of them it would be impossible to stop. They could travel via all mediums. Air, water, and land. You'd have no where to go and no way to stop them. A lot of people also freak out when they see a mass of insects. It would cause mass hysteria. It's very scary to think about...although it would likely never happen.

How do you think humans would respond within the first few days? What would be our go to strategy to protect outself, what type of strategies do you see developing?

Also, how about really super cold places? Are there insects in like, the coldest part of Canada during the winter? And maybe humans would have to be nomadic and keep traveling to the coldest areas for eternity. lol

[Shade8780]

Someone should make a shitty horror movie with this.

[gts]

Someone should make a shitty horror movie with this.SYFY channel could probably whip one up in a week or so...lol

[iamgine]

Ultimately everything depends on how smart and united the insects are.

Are they capable of devising a plan to target and kill the world leaders and military key personnel first? Cut communications? Launch nuclear weapons?

[chosen_one6]

How do you think humans would respond within the first few days? What would be our go to strategy to protect outself, what type of strategies do you see developing?

Also, how about really super cold places? Are there insects in like, the coldest part of Canada during the winter? And maybe humans would have to be nomadic and keep traveling to the coldest areas for eternity. lol

I think it depends on how many bugs are going after you in your area. The slower the attack, the more time to think. In forest like areas I think you're f*cked. Cities are more likely to withhold a little bit longer. I think fire and water would be used frequently as a means for extinguishing the insects. Water could work to knock down flying insects and then you could aim it at the ground to drown them, as well as anything coming at you from the ground (or even underneath the ground)

Fire would be a much more expensive option and also the most devastating to the surroundings. I think it would be most effective though.

Extreme cold areas are actually a good idea. Insects usually slow down in colder weather because they aren't warm blooded.

[gigantes]

Would they succeed in wiping us out?
if they had insect ender wiggin to lead them, sure.

[bballnoob1192]

if they are driven to kill us. they would succeed very easily.

[tpols]

Sure..but that would require predators and prey working together.. and a complete lack of sense of individual survival that's encoded in pretty much everything.

[joe]

Sure..but that would require predators and prey working together.. and a complete lack of sense of individual survival that's encoded in pretty much everything.

Except that it is an alien using the insects to wipe out humans (with mind control technology) so they can come down here and get our resources. Or something. Bro.

[andgar923]

Would they succeed in wiping us out?
They'd wipe us out before we know what's going on.

Y'all think Raid is gonna stop them from killing you? It's hard enough to get rid of them when they're trying to hide. You wouldn't want thousands of ants, mosquitoes, roaches and many others invading your home.

[triangleoffense]

and this would benefit insects (who depend on mammals with a circulatory system) how?

t3h stupid. It hurts tho.

[gts]

and this would benefit insects (who depend on mammals with a circulatory system) how?

t3h stupid. It hurts tho.

relax your dog is safe.. :lol

they're only taking out the humans

[joe]

and this would benefit insects (who depend on mammals with a circulatory system) how?

t3h stupid. It hurts tho.

How does recklessly attacking humans benefit Birds? I dont know, ask Alfred Hitchcock.

And as I said, it is aliens who are controlling the bugs minds and using them to wipe out humans for their benefit. Derrrp.