If one species were to simultaneously launch an attack on humans...

The biggest threat is from where you least expect it.  So I reckon, if they got properly organised of course, some kind of poisonous snake.  Think about it.

I wonder where this is going.

mussies (nap)

I win

next game, please

What species of poisonous snake has enough members, though? Also, not sure about getting properly organised. They'd still have snake-level intelligence.

Snakes are smart as fk.  Actually what about pigs, the cows won't want to eat us whereas the pigs will eat anything.

No, I'd much rather fight a pig than a cow. Cows are massive.

Cows are bottlers.  Pigs don't fk about.

I think you have to assume they stop being bottlers. The species in question suddenly becomes very aggressive and they all just start launching themselves at us.

Some sort of insect would be the correct answer.  Ants perhaps, or a type of fly.

Jan 10, 2016 -- 9:33AM, rob_dylan wrote:

Snakes are smart as fk.

'You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a p1sshead.'

Good question btw by the OP -

Locusts?

Test Have my posting rites have been revoked???

if wasps could become far more ubiquitous AND develop a death sting, they'd be a formidable enemy.

How about bacteria or a virus?  Some of those could wipe us all out pretty sharpish.

Wasps could be easily diverted with a strategically placed cake, half eaten snickers or a simple pile of sugar.

Maybe not. .......because the oink oink animals eat anything, asbestos particle board was removed from pens in the 90s. It wasn't a cancer scare, the bacon just wouldn't fry

Asian giant hornets could destroy us if they wanted to.

Jan 10, 2016 -- 9:40AM, Pokermonster wrote:

Some sort of insect would be the correct answer.

Asian anything could destroy us if they wanted to.

the Muslim hornets are the worst though.

rob_dylan
Wasps could be easily diverted with a strategically placed cake, half eaten snickers or a simple pile of sugar.

Surely this isn't in the spirit of the thread? The specific species would be focused on its task - to wipe out humans.
Otherwise you could say (for instance) that all the cows would have to put off world domination for an hour or two as they needed milking.

MMH.

lol MMH I like it. The BBC would of course have to say 'so called' Islamic Hornets.

If gorillas in the mist ever get a clear day we've had it.

Cows are just a non starter sultan.  Patra on his @rse even suggesting them.  I think Locusts is the right answer.

i'm with Pokerman on this one .

But how would locusts kill us? Suffocation? That would be pretty horrible.

or even Pokermonster

If the ooomygoolie bird ever grows longer legs we are deffo in danger, They will breed like rabbits.

Dogs would be easier than cows imo.

Bullocks!!!

Rats could attack everyone en masse in their (the victims') sleep.

There aren't as many rats as you'd think, though. I think I read there are only five billion.

spiders

There are tens of thousands of species of spider. Which one?

imagine if there were 5 billion honey badgers

Mosquitos already kill thousands so lets hope they dont get organised.

Spiders, the SAS of the animal kingdom.  Imagine billions of them on the march!  (((())))  (((())))  (((())))

Giant mutant moslem spiders

Really hairy growlers scare the **** out of me - turkish ones expecially.

Moquitoes are half muslim anyway.

Mosquitoes!

true

Bed bugs.

Jan 10, 2016 -- 9:57AM, rob_dylan wrote:

Cows are just a non starter sultan.

Below that was supposed to read that you're seriously underestimating cows. Next time you see one close up, remember what I said.

If humans didn't have weapons, cows could actually win imo.

If Bees just refused to work, we'd be screwed.
It's just as well, despite being a highly social species, their work ethic is the opposite of socialists

I mean win a war against humans.

They'd starve us out. War of attrition.

If ants were properly controlled and attacked us as we slept, that could get pretty nasty.

Which species of ant though? Overall, there are over a billion ants per person, so we'd be annihilated. But which species?

Oh you're being THAT specific, that's a bit mad.

But if all the ants in the world got into positions and then say crawled up our noses and blocked our windpipes in one swift action, how quickly could they do it and how quickly would we wake up, and what could we even do if they were able to latch on and form a ball?

Not like we all go to bed at the same time either.

Actually, there probably is a species of ant that outnumbers us a million to one, so they probably could defeat us even if we were awake. Biting and getting into our noses and mouths and then biting us on the lung. Would be fecking horrible.

They could do it in phases, even if the 1/3 of the world manged to get the message out, the rest of the world, how quickly could they respond within a 24 hour period? You have to sleep sometimes. They could hide in the walls, not many homes are ant-tight, not without maybe making the rooms airtight?

Perhaps they could take out the majority of the world population in a week, and then there will be millions of tons of food EVERYWHERE for them to eat. What do the survivors do, DEET the entire planet? Live in sterile boxes?

Temperature would be a factor. Bull ants and bullet ants although highly effective in the tropics would struggle in colder climates, and so these areas would be sanctuary for humans.