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Elephants. I feel like they just eat to many leaves and its an inefficient build. They are like an American F150
They walk around the jungle stomping on things and eating a lot. They can squirt water from their trunk and what else? I like em but dont get the point of them.
The only animal I think is truly worth eradicating is the bedbug.
Every other insect from the mosquito, to the tick is an incredibly important source of food (especially protein) for other animals, especially in places with very harsh conditions where other insects struggle to survive. I used to hate and fear insects but now I know they all have their place.
All, except the bedbug. These things are specifically designed to hunt us and pretty much only us. They have precious few predators, much less predators that rely on their existence. They deserve obliteration.
True, but from what I've read, virtually all mosquitoes don't bite people. You can wipe out the 1% or less of the ones that do without significant environmental impact since the things that eat mosquitoes aren't choosy about which ones so you really are just reducing their available food by like 1%, and even some of that will probably be backfilled by other species of mosquitoes since the ones that bite people don't only bite people.
I partly covered this in my response below. If we're talking about eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes from populated areas (and or invasive), then sure that makes sense. But studies that say eradication (even of the harmful ones) would have no negative consequence are very much debated by researchers. It's reddit, but here's a well cited comment from a researcher who works with mosquitoes that does a better job of explaining why it's not that simple: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/1icgbrg/comment/m9qxizu/
I like your answer as its way more thought through than what most people tend to answer when questions like this is asked, like I wish seagulls would just die out as the niche they have is doing what other species are doing in an obnoxious way. I do recognise that this would likely have ramifications that I don't know about though, so I wouldn't want resources used to actively eradicate them.
The Tick is not a source of food, he is a source of JUSTICE
Mosquitos. Dad died from a bite, got West Nile virus as a result of it. I’d give anything to have him back.
Mosquitoes. If I'm allowed, midges too.
Sorry that's fucking gross. OP wants to walk through a world of rotting meat and unscavenged carcasses. Seriously. Read up on what happened to vultures in India when they gave all their cattle Diclofenac.
Cultures might not be pretty but they are fucking awesome and entirely necessary. Why peeps gotta hate on the cleaning staff I don't know.
How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths
Also vultures are beautiful.
My sweet girl Zsa Zsa.
And there is the King Vulture.
Bearded Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
Bearded vultures swallow bones, often shattered after they drop them onto rocks from great heights, but sometimes whole. They are so badass.
Very awesome! Some quick reading says the bones are actually their primary diet. They'd often rather have the bones than the meat. Talk about a biological niche.
And it can chomp down some huge looking bones!
I agree, but got different reasons.
OP went with "less paranoic" as their barrier of choice, whereas the "tick" and "mosquito" choices are actual posts that are dangerous.
Personally I fall in the mosquito camp. I don't know if anything depending on them specifically. And even if there is, I'm ok with sacrificing them too.
Ticks.
Humans. We destroy everything.
Humans.
Here's the answer I was looking for! I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to reach it. We are the source of most of what's wrong with the world so I'm pretty sure the rest of the animals would vote us off the island too.
What is worrying about a buzzard? Are you a small rodent?
Oh no, vultures are great.
For me—probably ticks.
Was looking for this before commenting. They are terrible creatures full of dissease. I'd pick them to be banished to hell instantly.
Then I could finally got hammocking in shorts without a full body inspection every evening.
Mosquito
Ticks. One of the most dangerous animals in the world.
Humans or at the very least Epstillians
Possums, in NZ.
Here they are a scourge. They're introduced and outcompete or prey on native birds.
Bigfoot, of course. This reign of terror must come to an end.
Fuck ticks.
I love vultures so much! Nature's garbage crew.
I will have to go with palmetto bugs, sorry guys you freak me out so bad and I think there are other bugs that turn leaves into dirt without being nightmare fuel.
Humans and I'm not joking maybe Neanderthals would have coexisted with the planet better and we would not be going through the 6th Anthropocene mass extinction event.
Carrion birds are extremely important to our ecosystems.
Edit: apparently "buzzard" in the US usually refers to vultures, which is what I was thinking of.
I wonder what the world would be like without humans?
Wait.. Buzzard as in buteo buteo? What did they do to you?
My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.
I'm not sure I understand that one. What's the connection between buzzards and heat waves? Why do they make you worry? We have a ton of them in Germany, pretty cool birds and not dangerous unless you're a mouse.
I guess if I had to pick one, it would be ticks. But I'd rather not remove any, because whatever animal you remove may have devastating consequences on the entire ecosystem.
Why wish? It happens every day.
Screw worm and mosquito
Ugh. Easy. The St Barnabus Mite (they call them Wringlers in the US, I think). Hate, hate, hate them. Nasty, relentless, ethereal, bitey little shitlords, and they're so resilient they turn up everywhere. They can fuck right off.
Edit: Holy shit, it worked!
tapeworms and parasitic roundworms as a category
Ourselves.
def humans we suck
Mosquito
mosquito
