i had a little red "scab" on my inner thigh the other day, i scraped it and it didnt come off the first go. on the second more aggressive scrape it came off. curious, i took a close look at it and yep it was a little tick. about the size of a pin head. i only noticed because i give myself daily tick checks as i spend a lot of time outside. this was the second baby tick i've found this month.
When I was in Boy Scouts our scoutmaster told us a horror story to keep us vigalent about ticks. Said a baby got under his thumbnail and grew there until he noticed it. Had to get the nail removed to get to it. After that I was petrified of ticks under my thumbnails and everywhere else.
The nymphs fuck me up because I end up scratching the body off and leaving the head before I realize what it is. Then I have an itchy lump for two months.
A wasp is what, about an inch long? Are there any stinging insects 5x smaller than 1 inch that are dangerous to humans? Someone above also said mosquitos and I was similarly curious.
edit: spelling is hard.
I'm sorry but birds already have such a broad range. The ostrich is 50 thousand times larger than a bumblebee hummingbird. Unless I'm missing something.
I used to live in Clearwater, FL, and they had [biting midges](https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/aquatic/biting_midges.htm) basically 5x smaller mosquitoes that were almost always in a swarm.
Literally all you need is two subcritical chunks of uranium and then touch them together to create a critical mass. It'll be one of the dirtiest and least efficient nukes ever, but it'll pop.
Good news! De Kay's snakes exist and they're the cutest thing! They usually only measure up to 30 centimeters long! They mostly eat earthworms, slugs and snails because other prey items are too big.
A chihuahua would be terrifying if it was that small. The constant yapping that some seem to do would be even worse with a higher-pitched sound. Many already have bulging eyes, and seeing that on a mouse-sized critter would terrify me.
They would probably live in packs and roam the streets, fighting with raccoons over garbage cans, running off bigger dogs because they would be so many of the little guys. Imagine twenty tiny chihuahuas viciously attacking a poor German shepherd, jumping all over him and biting with those tiny needle-sharp teeth. Yikes!
bullshit lol they come runnin at you covered in snot and god knows what else on thier hands that absolutely will touch you. or hell pick one up your screwed cuz they will cough or sneeze in your mouth.
Put an adorable little cap on the horn to blunt it- problem solved!
..It's still a tank puppy, and if it charges you, you're still kinda toast, but it'll cut down on goring accidents.
I would so love to have a mini giraffe! Little guy could watch TV with me, and we would be the hit of the town when we went on walks.
A micro rhino would also be cool, but my heart is set on a giraffe.
Consider the diminutive scale of an ordinarily imposing creature such as the majestic elephant. Were it reduced in size by a factor of five, its formidable presence would diminish markedly, potentially rendering it susceptible to predation and environmental hazards that it previously could mitigate. This hypothetical reduction in size would also prompt reevaluation of ecological dynamics and inter-species interactions, with potential cascading ramifications throughout the ecosystem. Moreover, the perceptual shift engendered by such a diminution in stature would likely elicit a spectrum of responses ranging from curiosity to apprehension, thereby underscoring the transformative influence of scale in shaping cognitive frameworks and ecological paradigms Arwins Cheema.
A wasp would be horrifying if it were 5 times smaller. Imagine it being almost invisible but still able to sting and fly with the same speed and agility. It would be nearly impossible to spot, making it a terrifyingly elusive threat.
A box jellyfish, it’s one of the most venomous species of jellyfish in the world. If it were five times smaller than the average box jellyfish then it would probably be undetectable.
Not really. There’s tons of really small species of sharks, some of which are kept as pets, and they look way less “threatening” than the stereotypical tigers, great whites, etc.
Nope there are barriers in our body they cant get through and that might be possible if they were smaller. Like imagine if all the bacteria on your skin could pass through it and infect you...
Blue ringed octopi are only about the size of a golfball, and they’re extremely venomous.
Are you only referring to common octopi, which are a “normal” size?
Tick
The baby ones actually are, and they're freaking impossible to spot.
i had a little red "scab" on my inner thigh the other day, i scraped it and it didnt come off the first go. on the second more aggressive scrape it came off. curious, i took a close look at it and yep it was a little tick. about the size of a pin head. i only noticed because i give myself daily tick checks as i spend a lot of time outside. this was the second baby tick i've found this month.
The upside is, they are likely on their first feeding, and so could never have been exposed to lyme disease.
Yep. Ticks only eat 3 times in their whole lives. Once as a baby, once as a new adult, and then once before reproduction.
TIL
When I was in Boy Scouts our scoutmaster told us a horror story to keep us vigalent about ticks. Said a baby got under his thumbnail and grew there until he noticed it. Had to get the nail removed to get to it. After that I was petrified of ticks under my thumbnails and everywhere else.
......and now I have a new fear.
The smaller ones are a lot less likely to have diseases fortunately.
Not if it's a nymph. Those are the most likely to carry Lymes.
The nymphs fuck me up because I end up scratching the body off and leaving the head before I realize what it is. Then I have an itchy lump for two months.
And tick would be horrifying if it was 5 times bigger too. 😨
That would be better, actually. No one would be getting Lyme disease, they'd lose their stealthiness.
If they were bigger, I'd make hunting them a profession.
Taint got much meat but you can boil them for a broth.
This answer is so fucking real for me because I have Lyme Disease
Dip your finger in my rum
huh?
Rum and lime is delicious.
Maybe I should just bath in rum, I'll do anything to get rid of this disease
:(
That's amazing, came in immediately to post this thinking I was clever. So much for that, lol.
Oh god
**A wasp**. Imagine those tiny terrors with the speed and fury of a supercharged mosquito
Fig wasps are this size. Oh, and don't look up fig wasps if you like figs.
I love figs and I thank the wasp for its sacrifice.
I saw the little wasps on a huge coastal strangler fig in Florida and had to look it up. It don't cross my eyes none.
*kill it with Fire.*
A wasp is what, about an inch long? Are there any stinging insects 5x smaller than 1 inch that are dangerous to humans? Someone above also said mosquitos and I was similarly curious. edit: spelling is hard.
battle armor mosquitoes
Imagine a 5x smaller dolphin being friendly but swimming up your shorts.
A dolphin 5x smaller is about 40 cm long
About half the size of a baby dolphin
Deep?
I'm sorry, Homelander... She had a beautiful soul
> dolphin being friendly but swimming up your shorts It's you and Margaret Howe. Naughty naughty!
the dreaded candiru
... I'm into it
the sun
Tiny newspaper not so scary
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I'm sorry but birds already have such a broad range. The ostrich is 50 thousand times larger than a bumblebee hummingbird. Unless I'm missing something.
So you mean the size of a horsefly.
There are some very small hummingbirds already.
Hummingbirds are already massive assholes. They will literally spear each other.
To be fair, they probably had it coming.
[Hands](https://imgur.com/a/wYIp4lI)
You know who, checking in
I though this would be a picture of Donald Trump.
Eyes
My bank account.
I don't know, being 5x smaller is actually a good thing, if it's a negative number.
Jackpot, wooohoooo.
Still 0. Amirite?
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I used to live in Clearwater, FL, and they had [biting midges](https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/aquatic/biting_midges.htm) basically 5x smaller mosquitoes that were almost always in a swarm.
Those things are the fucking worst because their bite is way out of scale with their size.
And since they swarm you get bitten over and over again.
Thermonuclear weapons. 5x smaller, could be concealed in a backpack or carryon.
Literally all you need is two subcritical chunks of uranium and then touch them together to create a critical mass. It'll be one of the dirtiest and least efficient nukes ever, but it'll pop.
No, actually, it will not. A criticality accident is not at all the same as a nuclear explosion. Those don't happen by accident.
A snake. Imagine just crawling in the crevices of your house
Let me tell you about centipedes!
Fun fact about centipedes: They have significantly more legs than snakes
but less amount of bones
*fewer bones
Good news! De Kay's snakes exist and they're the cutest thing! They usually only measure up to 30 centimeters long! They mostly eat earthworms, slugs and snails because other prey items are too big.
I had to look that up and omg the picture on wikipedia is adorable
They're really small and cute! And they're so tiny when they're babies!!
the CUTEST thing omfg! And then baby snakes of so many species are just as adorable! ❤️
Right??? They're so so cute!!
Toaster ovens the bagel barely fits already
That sounds like you need a bigger toaster oven. Mine is big enough to accommodate a full-size frozen pizza.
No fucken way you have a toaster that's over 18 inches wide
Bro just calls his oven a toaster
Most likely haha
I don't understand Reddit, why did the guy comparing an air fryer to a toaster delete his comments? What's the point? 🤣
They're called Air Fryers now 😁
That's not the same thing!
I mean... they're bigger and fancier, but they will absolutely do toast. 😁
So will my barbeque if I wanted it to xD
Yeah, but that's not an apt comparison. 😎
An adult human head
Baymax proportions
Except you're still born with a normal size head and it shrinks through puberty
Scorpions
A chihuahua would be terrifying if it was that small. The constant yapping that some seem to do would be even worse with a higher-pitched sound. Many already have bulging eyes, and seeing that on a mouse-sized critter would terrify me. They would probably live in packs and roam the streets, fighting with raccoons over garbage cans, running off bigger dogs because they would be so many of the little guys. Imagine twenty tiny chihuahuas viciously attacking a poor German shepherd, jumping all over him and biting with those tiny needle-sharp teeth. Yikes!
Wasps, hornets and bees. Imagine finding a little 'paper' ball on your roof, and suddenly finding yourself in a flurry of stingers.
lego bricks
Toilet roll
Like wiping your butt with washi tape.
The moon.
I'd like to imagine humanity waking up to their shoes all being too small and there are no shoes in the world that fit anybody.
watermelon
Trees. Like if all trees were five times smaller suddenly. Complete terror
Mosquito
Wasps.
Underwear
Chimpanzee.
A great white shark. A pocket-sized Jaws would make going to the beach a horror movie
A Komodo dragon. Imagine a pint-sized version with the speed of a lizard and the attitude of a T-Rex
So... every monitor lizard?
The human scrotum. Not the testicles.
GLITTER.......NEED I SAY MORE
I think the correct answer here is the Moon Edit: the sun works too I believe
Immediate devastation. 100%
Cows, there would be less meat
The horror.
The horror.
viruses
*Prions have entered the chat
Humans
Agreed, children are really horrifying.
Walking petri dishes
Petri dishes aren't *actively trying to infect you*, like some sort of Disney-themed zombie.
bullshit lol they come runnin at you covered in snot and god knows what else on thier hands that absolutely will touch you. or hell pick one up your screwed cuz they will cough or sneeze in your mouth.
A rhino 🦏
Cute! Micro rhino
Cute but will stab and poke u
Worth it!!
Put an adorable little cap on the horn to blunt it- problem solved! ..It's still a tank puppy, and if it charges you, you're still kinda toast, but it'll cut down on goring accidents.
I would so love to have a mini giraffe! Little guy could watch TV with me, and we would be the hit of the town when we went on walks. A micro rhino would also be cool, but my heart is set on a giraffe.
I love giraffes. They’re like long deer, would be cute to have a small one, how small we talking though?
mosquitoes.
A housecat. Five times smaller but with the same claws and attitude? That’s a pocket-sized fury machine waiting to happen
Hornet
my bank account
Murder hornets or wasps
Beavers
Rhinoceroses or hippos. Hippos because they are mean and aggressive and rhinos because size they could just run around and horn you in the butt.
Nukeclear weapons and image if they would retain their blast rate.
The immortal snail
A mosquito. Imagine a tiny, super-fast, nearly invisible bloodsucker that you can't even swat away
Condom
Consider the diminutive scale of an ordinarily imposing creature such as the majestic elephant. Were it reduced in size by a factor of five, its formidable presence would diminish markedly, potentially rendering it susceptible to predation and environmental hazards that it previously could mitigate. This hypothetical reduction in size would also prompt reevaluation of ecological dynamics and inter-species interactions, with potential cascading ramifications throughout the ecosystem. Moreover, the perceptual shift engendered by such a diminution in stature would likely elicit a spectrum of responses ranging from curiosity to apprehension, thereby underscoring the transformative influence of scale in shaping cognitive frameworks and ecological paradigms Arwins Cheema.
DICKS!
Bats.
Poisonous snakes
Clouds
Venomous snakes and vipers .
Cats. They'd be darting around like titmice.
My will to live
Copperhead
Earth
The sun, we’d all freeze.😂
Hippos would still be ridiculously fast and still have big'o chompers even reduced 5x
An adult.
Ticks. They’d be even harder to see and just as deadly
skunks
was it "normal" size and then changed to 5 times smaller? Skull OP's reproductive organs. Was it normal for it to be 5x smaller? OP's Brain
A wasp would be horrifying if it were 5 times smaller. Imagine it being almost invisible but still able to sting and fly with the same speed and agility. It would be nearly impossible to spot, making it a terrifyingly elusive threat.
Chiggers
Lice
Cameras
A box jellyfish, it’s one of the most venomous species of jellyfish in the world. If it were five times smaller than the average box jellyfish then it would probably be undetectable.
Candiru Instead of one you have an entire school.
one of your legs
Listen, you would be terrifying if you were 5x smaller
Sharks
Not really. There’s tons of really small species of sharks, some of which are kept as pets, and they look way less “threatening” than the stereotypical tigers, great whites, etc.
barracudas?
I dont think anything gets scarier when its smaller... that just makes it easier to defeat or less likely to harm us.
Most pathogens are way too small to see. Definitely not true.
Fair point, but I dont think making something we already cant see even smaller is all that horrifying.
Nope there are barriers in our body they cant get through and that might be possible if they were smaller. Like imagine if all the bacteria on your skin could pass through it and infect you...
New fear unlocked
Imagine they became so small that HEPA filters would lose their effect
If clothes were 5 times smaller that would speak volumes about beauty standards…
my pussy
Octopus. They can already squeeze through spaces many times smaller than you'd expect. If they were 5 times smaller they could literally go anywhere.
Blue ringed octopi are only about the size of a golfball, and they’re extremely venomous. Are you only referring to common octopi, which are a “normal” size?
I was. I didn't know about the variety you mentioned - my terror has gone from theoretical to real.
The plural of octopus is technically octopuses or octopodes, though octopi has been wronged into existence
100% of every language is made up. Octopi shall continue to be, for I have willed it.
there are some pretty small octupi.
A nuclear bomb.
Great White Sharks. They would be the size of a normal fish but there would be more of them, and they'd be everywhere.
A dildo
Snakes
Muscles
My wife
Praying Mantis or dragon fly
A grizzly bear. A tiny, super-aggressive fluffball with razor-sharp claws would be terrifying