People who hate certain bugs: Which ones?

I generally don't mind the insect world, as a former and future gardener, I've made my peace with most of them. But I *hate* 3 kinds of insects....More like, they make me jump about 5 feet in the air if they come near me...

Moths
Beetles
Large spiders other than a Daddy Longlegs.

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They freak me out. A lot. And sometimes those huge brown crickets, but only because they tend to resemble spiders if you don't look closely enough. :P

:shrug:

and fiddleback spiders (brown recluse)

My wife is more interesting. She hates butterflies and dragonflies!

I hate them.

I hate Cockroach's too.. I can't watch The Cosby Show without getting sick.

...freakin' hate them, they move so fast. I had one on my bare leg one time in college, it stretched across my entire thigh. I screamed so loud I woke the neighbors.

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and tomatoe worms (I know it's not an insect but I still hate them)
Water bugs
fast moving spiders
earwigs

I can't think of any others right now.

Evil, creepy little burrowing bloodsucking bastards!

BTW, spiders are not "bugs," but you already knew that! :)

Except ladybugs, fireflies, and woolly caterpillars

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for example, one time camping as a boyscout I awoke to one of those giant beetles with the enormous pincers looking at me over the lip of my sleeping blanket. it thought it was cool.

mosquitoes, on the other hand, are slapped with great vengeance. pun intended

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on Earth.

"has an inordinate fondness for beetles."

-J. Haldane.

Really, there are some BEAUTIFUL beetles out there. BEAUTIFUL.

Like, OFF THE HOOK. As beautiful as any butterfly. :)

Taking out the trash on hot summer days, there are always hundreds of them swimming around in garbage juice... :scared:

kitchen at 5AM and came across one that looked like something out of a 50's monster movie. Also crickets, because they jump unpredictably. One time there was a brush fire near my Southern Calif. home and dozens of crickets made their way into my house, gaining access through the small drain holes in the windows. It was creepy.

I hate getting stung.

I love animals, but I draw the line at bugs.

common house flies, lightning bugs, and other obviously benign varieties.

the two bugs that really got to me in the Peace Corps.
the centipedes can get to about 7 inches where I was (bigger in other places):

these spiders were about four or five inches across normally:

Spiders are the worst.

I also have a great paranoia about BedBugs, although I have never seen one. The horror stories I've read freak me out.

A big ole' spider (body probably size of a quarter, with looong legs) was building a web across our sliding glass door and I walked right through it (thank god the spider didn't land on me or I'd have freaked).

I put said spidey into a tupperware dish and took him/her outside to re-weave his web elsewhere.

I'll remove them from the house; I refuse to kill spiders unless they happen to be a black widow or a brown recluse (if I knew what a brown recluse really looked like). Spiders do fantastic work keeping down the population of undesirables like mosquitoes. This world would be overrun with bugs were it not for their natural predators.

I know spiders are creepy, but really, people - they are very, very beneficial, and most of the time weave truly beautiful webs. Give 'em a break, please. Please?

HATE roaches. The way they scuttle around is disgusting. They get offed if I see one, but I rarely do, thankfully.

HATE ticks. Have a serious tick-o-phobia. Immediate tick death for any that cross my path.

Don't much like centipedes or milipedes, either.

and recently, fleas.

I have a friend who thinks crickets are cute. Just seeing 'em makes my skin crawl.

I can't stand them. They can drop on you out of nowhere. I hate the way they move -- it' so creepy. Plus, they invite themselves into my house. :scared:

All my life, they have freaked me the fuck out. No other bug (or reptile or amphibian) does. I even have nightmares about the damn things. :-(

Horrible, hairy, creepy crawly things....yech.

I'm fine with just about everything else. (except that weird unidentified spiny thing that landed on my NECK a few weeks ago... that was creepy and weird.) I can handle spiders, even big ones. I can handle snakes and other things most people consider to be creepy, gross and/or scary. But roaches just creep me the hell out. I don't know why.

I've taken a saying from Yoda to heart on the matter. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

So I turn my fear into anger, anger into hate, and when I find roaches, I make them SUFFER. Mwahahahahaha! :evilgrin:

I'm not too fond of earwigs, but they don't give me panic attacks.

and they aren't insects.



I kill venomous ones I come across, which are mostly black widows and brown recluses.

I truly hate mosquitoes because they kill millions of people every year.

ETA: I hate wasps which are mostly yellow jackets around here. That's why I have so many swallow nests on my property.

I'm also not real fond of ticks. Disgusting creatures.

On the other hand, my all time favorite insect is:

At least, until they get to a certain size... then you just can't call 'em bugs anymore.

In that case, you'd probably consider my only pet at the moment to be a bug too...

I work the night shift, and after work, about 3 or 4 am I stopped at the store to get some groceries. The parking lot was pretty dark, but as I was walking towards the store I noticed something a few inches long on the ground. I looked a little closer and thought... "Is that a huge insect? No... too many legs." So I looked even closer, and I noticed that the front two limbs were claws, and I thought, "Is that a scorpion? No way... biggest scorpion I've ever seen in this state was less than a centimeter long." So I looked closer, and nudged it with my foot to see if it was alive.

It reared up when I nudged it... and I realized that either it was a baby lobster (unlikely... no salt water around for fifty miles) or a large crawfish. Either way, it was almost dried out, and they can't breathe if their gills aren't at least damp. So I did my shopping ASAP, and bought a cheap tupperware container to catch it in. I couldn't think of any good water nearby to dump it in (who knows where it crawled from), so I took it home and named her Roadkill. :)

what did she taste like? :)

And don't knock bugs. Most of the world eats bugs. Great source of protein. I had grasshopper once and it was actually delicious.

Crickets mostly. I had two cuban tree frogs and a leopard gecko.

Stompin' Tom Connors does the bug song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lN_nCYCHI

or, as I like to call them...big fucking ugly flying cockroaches the size of VWs.

Tomatoes? Fine.

Strawberries? Fine.

Bell peppers? A pesticide chemist's wet dream.

That would be lepidoptera larvae.

I merely "hate" ants and cockroaches (indoors), mosquitos and flies around my person, meal bugs in cereal/flour/cornmeal etc and the occasional bee, wasp, or scorpion that may inadvertently sting me. Oh and suck bugs, AKA Walpi Tigers or Kissing bugs. I hate those fuckers.

Maggots: not cool. :(

but daddylonglegs creep me the fuck out.

And buffer overruns are the worst!

because of the welts they give me and the itching that goes on for at least a week after I get bitten.

Because they make the most annoying sound. I had one in my room for 2 freaking weeks. Then in the middle of the night it started making noise, it toke forever to find it but I did and I killed it.;-)

Also, during a Spanish quiz a cricket chupped throughout the duration of class. I didn't do so well because I didn't study much but I wish I could blame the little sucker. x( :D