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Not everything in nature is as beautiful or as hilarious as we're mostly used to. It has a dark side, too, and I'll completely understand if this list by Bored Panda forces you to build a pillow-fort in your living room and avoid going outside for a week.
From a mama centipede protecting its babies to a wasp colony building a nest around a discarded doll, these pictures feature some of the scariest things Mother Earth has to offer. Scroll down to test how brave you are, and vote for your favorite entries.
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#1
This Lava Pit Looks Like It's Sucking The Souls Of The Damned Into Hell
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#2
Hermit Crab Using A Discarded Doll Head For A Shell
#3
Wasps Build Nest Around A Discarded Child's Doll
#4
This Frog Was Found All Dried Up And Withered Outside The Store In The Morning. The Store Manager Said, "Let's Try Splashing Some Water On It," And Holy Sh*t It Came Back To F*cking Life
#5
An Abandoned Hornet's Nest My Dad Found In His Shed That He Hadn't Been In For A Couple Years. The Head Is Apart Of A Wooden Statue It Fused With
#6
Mama Centipede Protecting Her Babies
#7
Somebody Responsible For The Lake Found The Fox (Which Drowned) In The Ice, Cut Him Out And Put Him Back On The Ice To Keep People Off The Ice
#8
Cymothoa Exigua Is A Type Of Parasite That Enters Fish's Gills, Eats Their Tongue, And Then Replaces It
#9
Husks Of Dead Flowers In My Garden. Look Like Skulls/Plague Masks
#10
Devil's Fingers Fungus
#11
Smiiiittttttthhhhhers
#12
So Many Bees In The Wall That Their Honey Is Leaking Through An Outlet
#13
Antarctic Worm Species Called Eulagisca Gigantean
#14
Snake Head Caterpillar
Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
I just hope that the butterfly doesn't have a snake head. Flying snakes, that's what we need.
#15
This Busy Owl Killed 70+ Lemmings And Surrounded His Nest With Their Fresh Corpses
#16
A Centipede That Was Devoured By A Viper, Ate Its Way Out
Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
So the snake thought that the blade-mouthed bug would make a good lunch.
#17
This Tree In Nebraska Was Struck By Lightning And Burning Afterwards A Day Later
#18
Lizard Growing Another Foot On It's Tail?
Cassiel Magem 8 years ago
Ha! And you though only cells could reproduce asexually. One day... one day.
#19
Fireants Create A Floating Island Of Themselves To Ride Out The Houston Flooding
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
As someone who's been bitten by those little tidbits from Hell, it would not be a problem for me if a wave took care of them.
Nancy E 8 years ago
Agreed. When I was a kid, I stepped in a fire ant hill. My dad was a Dr., but, nothing he did dulled the pain. I can still remember screaming all the way home.
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Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
Dad ant to son ant: -What do you wanna be when you grow up? -a bridge. -son, you can't be that.... -chalenge accepted.
Katie O'Brien 8 years ago
THEy have actually had to tell people 'don't even poke it with a stick, when I'll attack you!'
Katie O'Brien 8 years ago
They will attack you* that'll teach me to not type too fast. Lol
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Sanchit Jain 8 years ago
Fire ants are one of few organism on this planet who does things very synchronously. There are many videos on them on youtube which are mind blowing. check them out.
Nicole Longpre 8 years ago
I'd pour a little gas on them and make it a floating fire island for real!
Chuck Larson 8 years ago
As long as you can reach them why not spray them with lighter fluid strike a match and give them a Viking funeral.
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Panda 8 years ago
And if they hit the house, oh ya the house you're on the roof of to avoid flooding, gl because they're gonna take refuge.
Beth Walker 1 year ago
I've been bitten by those tiny terrorists. This does not surprise me in the slightest.
PRISCILLA COLLIER 4 years ago
I've heard of this, they roll over and over so that they all get a chance to breath
Ayrionna Borge 5 years ago
As a kid, I loved jumping from rocks across the water, barefoot for more grip. Imagine jumping on this
Elizabeth Mitchell 7 years ago
I would make a flamethrower with hairspray and a cigarette lighter......hey, it worked for a damn funnel web spider, it would work with fire ants.
Laura Seat Ringgard Barnes 7 years ago
During the hurricane Harvey, my sister walked through a bunch of them floating. Dtung the heck out of her.
Cassy Evelyn 8 years ago
I hate fire ants as much as anyone, especially considering my mom and I have worse-than-average reactions to their stings (their bites do nothing btw, they bite to hold on while they sting). BUT... I think it's kinda nifty that they can do this, AND they brought along their babies.
Tammy Chapman 8 years ago
I was born, raised and still live in Texas. When I was a lil' kid (about 4 yrs. old) I was playing with other lil' kids, and I didn't know about fire ants. The ball went over the fence, I went to get it. I stepped in this big pile I thought was dirt so that I could climb the fence to get the ball. Those fire ants just started climbing really fast, stinging as they came, and I started screaming. Mom heard me, raced outside, grabbed the water hose and started spraying me telling me to take my clothes off (shoes too). She came up closer (so everyone wouldn't see me totally naked) so that she could spray off the ones in my underwear. I was in pain for a loooong time because of those little f**kers!! Now, every time I see a fire ant mound I want to destroy it!! I don't care if it's floating or actually on/in the ground. They're evil little creatures. I think we should import anteaters or we should all buy flamethrowers. My 22 yr. old daughter has been allergic to them since she was born.
TheMsLollidella 8 years ago
This is pretty cool actually. Saw a documentary on ants and they all form a raft when water gets through their colony
Maggie Collins 8 years ago
Mother Nature is AWESOME! But really Mom, don't we have enough ants on the planet? Come on!
Tanzy Colasanti 8 years ago
I hope they sprayed these bitches. They got too many fire ants down there already.
Jesus Wäre 8 years ago
I'd probably be the idiot that goes "hey look at this moving dirt" and pick it up only to start throwing them because they're biting me :) I'm a problem
Dan Holman 8 years ago
Keep spraying them with water saturated with soap. Hopefully it would destroy the water tension barrier and they would sink and drown.
Desiré Yen 8 years ago
They didn't have time to build an ark.. or they just couldn't find Noah!
Janet French 8 years ago
If you get bit by one or more, quickly make a paste of adolph's meat tenderizer with a little water. It will take the fire out immediately. I promise!
Lorena Magee 8 years ago
or pour a little gas around them and set them on fire, the nasty biting things
Cassiel Magem 8 years ago
Good thinking. At least they are ok now... well, the top half at least.
Jim Power 8 years ago
I've been bitten by at least a half dozen dogs in my lifetime (so far). How would you all react if I said we should do the same thing to all the dogs?
Tessa Plattner 8 years ago
It sounds to me like you just need to stay away from dogs.
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Cheryl Harless 8 years ago
Add dish soap (or simple green) to break the surface tension and those suckers will sink and DIE!
Linda Gulley 8 years ago
No, they can float when there are several together. One alone will drown.
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Was About To Show My Kids That Cicada Shells Aren't Gross And Scary When
#21
These Reticulated Pythons Self-Segregated Themselves Based On Color Just After Hatching
#22
Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Bull Showing Antlers That Are Shedding Velvet, North America
#23
A Beehive Built Around Wind Chimes At My Friend's House
#24
The Sheepshead Fish Has Human-Like Teeth
#25
Wingless Fly Penicillidia That Attaches To Bats' Heads And Never Leaves Its Body
#26
This Gecko With Three Tails
#27
Ant On My Porch Carrying The Head Of His Vanquished Enemy
Sanchit Jain 8 years ago
May be it will put it in on top of door of its Ant-home, fancy design!
#28
A Landslide In Taiwan
#30
My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab
Vlad Horobet 8 years ago
I've found a half eaten worm in my pear once... guess where was the other half.
#31
My Cousin Caught A Lobster With Double Pinchers. Both Claws Work
#32
A Venus Fly Trap Getting A Huge Meal
#34
Arachnids Aren't Safe From Cordyceps Fungus Either
#35
Battle-Scarred Hippo
#37
Millions Of Fire Ants Floating In Flooding From Harvey
Sanchit Jain 8 years ago
I don't even want to imagine the agony of creatures that will come in their way!
#38
Lightning Struck This Fishing Rod
#39
This Crab Claw Grew Another Smaller Claw
#40
Brave Patriot Bald Eagle Takes Down Wimpy Canadian Goose
criminalgirl 8 years ago
There is nothing wimpy about a Canadian goose! But size and talons make the difference.
#41
Gecko Eats His Own Tail
#42
Fatal Blow
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Margie Lazou 8 years ago
You'd already know most of those if you were a nature documentary fan. Nothing exceptional there, but I stick to my guns when saying "if it has less than 2 and more than 4 kill it with extreme prejudice if it gets close"
Deona Sherrill 8 years ago
Take it from someone who was bitten by the fire ant bastards, that swarm of them on the water should be annihilated!!
Piotr Kędzierski 8 years ago
Two years ago, this red mushroom looking like octopus, grow up in my garden! I was realy scared! ;)
Francius Sapericus 8 years ago
We all r quite curious we saw this post. We looked at it, fascinated..horrified. Thank you for the burning image 😭
Tammy Butler 8 years ago
NOPE ... Nuh-uh ... I am totally destroyed by these. Totally could NOT keep scrolling. HELL. NOOOOOOOO! *rocking in my chair looking like a deer in headlights* That's gonna take some time to erase.
Adriano Matos 7 years ago
O nosso planeta ainda tem muitas espécies animais e vegetais a serem descobertos para nos surpreender.
Alvin Erwin C. Duques 8 years ago
All these "horror" ones and then there's "Patriotic Bald Eagle , beats wimpy Canadian Goose" ...
Rogue Angel 8 years ago
Dead flower husks.? Seriously.? I don't want plants like that in my garden, or devil's funghi.. or parasitic fish... you just can't unsee this stuff... *shudders*
Harsh Bansal 8 years ago
heyyy i am having trouble in posting links plz tell me how can i post links on my page...
Cassy Evelyn 8 years ago
Curse #6 for making me Google whether or not centipedes care for their young, just to make sure it wasn't fake because it looked super fake
edward Mooney 8 years ago
Brought back from Heaven the only thing a man can bring back Authority of God who gave me half the world the same way he gave the Middle East to Abraham. In the Holy of Holies God showed me all the way back before the Big Bang, I looked into the oldest creation and saw Lucifer waging war in Heaven and the creation of our Universe. I looked down into the beginning of time was surrounded by the 24 elders which was glass creatures because the light of God shown through them but heard them talking to me all at the same time. I understood everything they said. I understood normal "talk" but was filled with massive amounts of information at the same instant. GREATEST CRIME DONE IN AMERICA IN GOD'S SIGHT https://doomsdayfornyse.blogspot.lt/2016/11/planned-parenthood.html
Melissa Mitchell 8 years ago
One page of nope is as far as I got. Going to go watch something to bleach this out of my brain.
John Levac 8 years ago
I think you should the rest of the canadian Goose Vs Eagle photos. The goose wins.
J Rob 5 years ago
https://globalnews.ca/news/2745222/battle-between-american-eagle-and-canada-goose-caught-on-camera/
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EJacob Cornelius 8 years ago
The ice fox is a total fail. There's no way I'm not getting closer to check that out if I saw it.
Bella Zyla Harder 8 years ago
#23: not a bee hive... just wasps... the a******s of the insect world
Sara Gruenebaum 8 years ago
#28: That not "the head of its vanquished enemy"... That's an earwig's a*s.
Claire Talltree 8 years ago
Would love to share this, but I won't. Why can't you put something on here that doesn't have fifteen unnecessary swear words in it???
Jamie Elizabeth Marshall 8 years ago
Now there is the beginning of nightmares swimming through my gills as I happily swim as a mermaid in a dream... it's going to end with mermaid me in the picture!! Ewwwwww! No! Now anyone reading this comment is thinking the same thing right!! Sorry!! That thing is not... it must hail from the river Styx it's so hellish!! Maybe that's why those who ferry people like Dante and Virgil are silent!!
Janice Foster 8 years ago
My sense of horror is exhausted by the degree of nopeness here, but fortunately everyone's hilarious comments have balanced it out and I can go about my day untraumatised. Thanks everyone!
Julie Miles 8 years ago
Oh no, why did I decide to read this just before bed?! I only got as far as the centipede too, just typing that made me shudder a lil.
Ignis Cattus 8 years ago
ok, more nopes added on list. thank you bored panda, you guys very kind~
Élisabeth Limoges 8 years ago
Anyone calling canada goose 'wimpy' never face one lol That thing is f*****g aggressive and the bite hurt a lot. Another american sucking his own d**k probably lol
Mary S 8 years ago
Provide a source or ANYONE being able to suck their own d**k. You can't.
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Margie Lazou 8 years ago
You'd already know most of those if you were a nature documentary fan. Nothing exceptional there, but I stick to my guns when saying "if it has less than 2 and more than 4 kill it with extreme prejudice if it gets close"
Deona Sherrill 8 years ago
Take it from someone who was bitten by the fire ant bastards, that swarm of them on the water should be annihilated!!
Piotr Kędzierski 8 years ago
Two years ago, this red mushroom looking like octopus, grow up in my garden! I was realy scared! ;)
Francius Sapericus 8 years ago
We all r quite curious we saw this post. We looked at it, fascinated..horrified. Thank you for the burning image 😭
Tammy Butler 8 years ago
NOPE ... Nuh-uh ... I am totally destroyed by these. Totally could NOT keep scrolling. HELL. NOOOOOOOO! *rocking in my chair looking like a deer in headlights* That's gonna take some time to erase.
Adriano Matos 7 years ago
O nosso planeta ainda tem muitas espécies animais e vegetais a serem descobertos para nos surpreender.
Alvin Erwin C. Duques 8 years ago
All these "horror" ones and then there's "Patriotic Bald Eagle , beats wimpy Canadian Goose" ...
Rogue Angel 8 years ago
Dead flower husks.? Seriously.? I don't want plants like that in my garden, or devil's funghi.. or parasitic fish... you just can't unsee this stuff... *shudders*
Harsh Bansal 8 years ago
heyyy i am having trouble in posting links plz tell me how can i post links on my page...
Cassy Evelyn 8 years ago
Curse #6 for making me Google whether or not centipedes care for their young, just to make sure it wasn't fake because it looked super fake
edward Mooney 8 years ago
Brought back from Heaven the only thing a man can bring back Authority of God who gave me half the world the same way he gave the Middle East to Abraham. In the Holy of Holies God showed me all the way back before the Big Bang, I looked into the oldest creation and saw Lucifer waging war in Heaven and the creation of our Universe. I looked down into the beginning of time was surrounded by the 24 elders which was glass creatures because the light of God shown through them but heard them talking to me all at the same time. I understood everything they said. I understood normal "talk" but was filled with massive amounts of information at the same instant. GREATEST CRIME DONE IN AMERICA IN GOD'S SIGHT https://doomsdayfornyse.blogspot.lt/2016/11/planned-parenthood.html
Melissa Mitchell 8 years ago
One page of nope is as far as I got. Going to go watch something to bleach this out of my brain.
John Levac 8 years ago
I think you should the rest of the canadian Goose Vs Eagle photos. The goose wins.
J Rob 5 years ago
https://globalnews.ca/news/2745222/battle-between-american-eagle-and-canada-goose-caught-on-camera/
Load More Replies... EJacob Cornelius 8 years ago
The ice fox is a total fail. There's no way I'm not getting closer to check that out if I saw it.
Bella Zyla Harder 8 years ago
#23: not a bee hive... just wasps... the a******s of the insect world
Sara Gruenebaum 8 years ago
#28: That not "the head of its vanquished enemy"... That's an earwig's a*s.
Claire Talltree 8 years ago
Would love to share this, but I won't. Why can't you put something on here that doesn't have fifteen unnecessary swear words in it???
Jamie Elizabeth Marshall 8 years ago
Now there is the beginning of nightmares swimming through my gills as I happily swim as a mermaid in a dream... it's going to end with mermaid me in the picture!! Ewwwwww! No! Now anyone reading this comment is thinking the same thing right!! Sorry!! That thing is not... it must hail from the river Styx it's so hellish!! Maybe that's why those who ferry people like Dante and Virgil are silent!!
Janice Foster 8 years ago
My sense of horror is exhausted by the degree of nopeness here, but fortunately everyone's hilarious comments have balanced it out and I can go about my day untraumatised. Thanks everyone!
Julie Miles 8 years ago
Oh no, why did I decide to read this just before bed?! I only got as far as the centipede too, just typing that made me shudder a lil.
Ignis Cattus 8 years ago
ok, more nopes added on list. thank you bored panda, you guys very kind~
Élisabeth Limoges 8 years ago
Anyone calling canada goose 'wimpy' never face one lol That thing is f*****g aggressive and the bite hurt a lot. Another american sucking his own d**k probably lol
Mary S 8 years ago
Provide a source or ANYONE being able to suck their own d**k. You can't.
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