To me, the first should be ants, they’re practically everywhere and there’s a lot of them
Mosquitoes. If they were organised and had a goal, they could destroy humans. Imagine if they all line up to suck from someone with loads of diseases to get some viral load and then go and seek out people in positions of power to infect.
Even without being organised, they are atil by far the biggest killer of humans.
Like by a factor of millions. Mosquitos are a flying genocide historically.
The ants will not listen. The ants will show no mercy.
Anyone who was privileged to read animorphs knows that the correct answer is whatever ensures that ants remain uninvolved.
Either, ants would destroy us, or theyd be glued to social media and started infighting for completely arbitrary reasons
Ants. Sentient ants could literally end us overnight.
ants. they can farm, tend livestock (aphids), know complex engineering, have distinct castes that have evolved to perform specific jobs, and there’s untold trillions of them. sure, bees create honey - but so do ants. wasps are crazy dangerous - but so are ants.
ants/humans vs scorpions/spiders - the war to end all wars.
Ants can make us their slaves if we do not cooperate. They have the largest colonies and are the most organized. However, they have clans and problems just like humans now.
In the UK we call them daddy long legs, I don’t know what they would be called in the US - though I think it might be horseflies(?). Anyway I was told at School that IF they could break human skin, they would be deadly to us - but they haven’t evolved that ability - yet. So I think they would be who I would befriend first - just in case.
The idea that daddy longlegs are highly venomous and just unable to pierce human skin is an urban myth and has no basis in reality. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daddy-longlegs/
Bees or ants. They are capable of building infrastructure, listen to command, and hate wasps and I don’t want to side with wasps.
You ever read children of time? I’m definitely going with the spiders.
Honestly, I’m going to go with spiders. I love spiders, and the fact that I can have an army of Hobos, Fiddlebacks (Brown Recluse), Redbacks, Mouse, and Funnelwebs, that people are already naturally are terrified of but also regularly prey on other insects? Yes please! Plus, it would mean all the jumpers would be my buddies! Precious little fluffy babies<3
A close second is wasps, but that’s only because wasps species make up 1/3 of all insect species out there.
If Children of Time is anything to go by, then definitely spiders.
Hey! That one was great! I’m actually listening to the sequel right now!
That’s not possible so i have no answer.
So why comment…?
Beetles. 25% of species we’ve discovered are beetles.
British evolutionary biologist and geneticist J.B.S. Haldane quipped that if a god or divine being had created all living organisms on Earth, then that creator must have an “inordinate fondness for beetles.”
God has beetles backs, so we get beetles on our side, we get God on our side.
Beetle’s aren’t a species, they’re an order (coleoptera). There’s still the family & genus between that and an actual species.
