So just now...

OMG peaches?! I love peaches! :3
I'm all excited and pick up the bag and right on the bottom, this spider just glaring at me. I freaked and dropped the bag and the spider fell off and started running under the table. I caught it with a cup and put it outside. Shit, what I hate most is being taken by surprise and being scared shitless.

And I think I bruised my peach

XiGua

Sweden3085 Posts

June 12 2011 21:38 GMT

#304

On June 13 2011 06:27 Kojaimea wrote:
^ Don't you believe it....

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Spoiler that shit man...

MasterFischer

Denmark836 Posts

June 12 2011 21:57 GMT

#305

Guys really..

Spiders are harmless... well most are... and the venomous ones, won't touch you if u leave it the fuck alone..

Spiders are actually some of the most helpful and productive insects around... They're your lil' buddies cleaning up yo house and stuff. Would be rude to just mash the lil' buggers... they aint ever done you anything !

Carsto

Germany72 Posts

June 12 2011 22:28 GMT

#306

Reasoned by a bad dream in my early years i can't stand spiders very well. I don't have a problem with the tiny, "normal" ones, but when I see one which is a bit bigger or even seems to be a bit "hairy" it is time for me to get my vacuum :>

Zimmerman

Canada35 Posts

June 12 2011 22:37 GMT

#307

What is the hell is this. I read this thread and i'm like, "good thing there aren't any bug in my room. ever." Then i go to leave my room and there is this huge bug guarding the door : |. I could see the evil in it's eyes, wanting to avenge it's fallen comrades.

It was no match for an Accounting textbook though :D

Johnnybb

Denmark486 Posts

June 12 2011 22:43 GMT

#308

I wouldn't say I'm afraid of bugs, I just don't like them. I can't sleep with a spider in my room.

Billyray

Canada49 Posts

June 12 2011 23:00 GMT

#309

I can understand people hating on roaches and earwigs, but bees ? Bees are freaking awesome and I'm not talking about wasps, hornets and all those other hyper agressive douchebags. I'm even thinking about buying some bees to produce my own honey this summer.

ToxNub

Canada805 Posts

June 13 2011 00:54 GMT

#310

Even wasps are just usually trying to eat your garbage and spills for you.

zJayy962

1363 Posts

June 13 2011 01:01 GMT

#311

I keep a can of Dust-Off around just for those little bastards. Turn the Dust-Off upside down and freeze them like the little buggers they are (Ender's Game reference).

SgtCoDFish

United Kingdom1520 Posts

June 13 2011 01:03 GMT

#312

I would never be able to leave Europe and live in another continent purely because of bugs like these posted here. Small spiders don't bother me at all, but big spiders and big bugs... I'd have to wear a fucking HEV suit at all times:

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and carry at least a crowbar, perhaps also a small pistol/flamethrower.

Basically I'd have to become Gordon Freeman.

I'll stick to Western Europe.

Sanctimonius

United Kingdom861 Posts

June 13 2011 01:06 GMT

#313

All about having spiders around, as long as they keep to themselves. They kill insects and help keep my home free of those lil things.

Hate having flies bussing around my head, especially mosquitoes. It's like they are taunting you - 'Hey there. See me? See me buzzing around your head? Yeah. Just letting you know I'm here. Because when you're asleep, I'm going to be nomming on you. I'll find me a nice, soft piece of flesh and just go to town. You'll have a nice mark you can scratch, it'll drive you crazy. Why am I telling you all this? Because I want you to know.'

Bastards.

Kisra

United Kingdom466 Posts

June 13 2011 01:23 GMT

#314

Australians shouldn't be allowed to post in this thread. I've been lead to believe their insect and spiders are a league above everyone elses. Asking an Aussie if they're afraid of bugs is like asking someone if they're afraid of lions - an Australian insect is just as fierce, but can probably fly, and instead of mauling you it'll replace your blood with acid and stuff.

Not to mention the spiders.

I'll stick to my happy island nation with small insects, thanks!

ZuRbii

United States58 Posts

June 13 2011 01:28 GMT

#315

The pictures on the first page scared the living hell out of me. If I know a spider is there, it's fine. If I just see it on my arm all of a sudden then I get a little startled and smack it off. But my god if I see a centipede or anything like that, I'm out. My biggest fear of anything is centipedes and anything close to centipedes (a million legs).

Abductedonut

United States324 Posts

June 13 2011 01:29 GMT

#316

Dude, you guys think insects are nasty? YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! These videos are not for the faint of heart!! Here are some less practical ideas for getting rid of those pesky things!!!

Cordyceps: These are a type of fungus that LITERALLY MIND CONTROL insects into doing what the fungus wants. In this video, the fungus mind controls an ant, sends it up a tree where the fungus grows out of the ant's body and then explodes, infecting more ants.

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Nematomorph Worm: This is another type of mind controlling worm that mind controls crickets/grasshoppers and makes them commit suicide by jumping into water. After they make the insect commit suicide they just swim in the water like total ballers.

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These are just some ideas to get you people thinking. These things are the human equivalent of something mind controlling us and getting us to fistfight a pack of rabid bears. Nature is scary!!!

ZuRbii

United States58 Posts

June 13 2011 01:43 GMT

#317

On June 13 2011 10:29 Abductedonut wrote:
Dude, you guys think insects are nasty? YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! These videos are not for the faint of heart!! Here are some less practical ideas for getting rid of those pesky things!!!

Cordyceps: These are a type of fungus that LITERALLY MIND CONTROL insects into doing what the fungus wants. In this video, the fungus mind controls an ant, sends it up a tree where the fungus grows out of the ant's body and then explodes, infecting more ants.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

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

These are just some ideas to get you people thinking. These things are the human equivalent of something mind controlling us and getting us to fistfight a pack of rabid bears. Nature is scary!!!

I saw those videos in Biology class at college. Extremely interesting, and I would definitely be afraid of that stuff if something could take over my head and bust out.
Also, idk if they were mentioned earlier in this thread but anyone afraid of these?
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Prevolved

United States573 Posts

June 13 2011 01:56 GMT

#318

I have an ongoing war with silverfish in my room. They aren't anywhere else in the house but my room. I woke up with one on my face and that was it for them. Left them plastered on my walls to deter them from fucking with me. It seems to have worked, I only find a few every once in awhile. I still scour the walls every night before I go to bed. Stupid fuckers

Goliathsorrow

Italy317 Posts

June 13 2011 02:13 GMT

#319

I did find a beast, very similar to this, in my backpack (cointaining my lunch) during work break.

I thought it was a normal spider at first so I kicked it out of my god damn stuff.... OBVIOUSLY dozens of those freaky things dropped into it when I did that.

I didn't end up eating that day.

Footler

United States560 Posts

June 13 2011 16:48 GMT

#320

On June 13 2011 10:23 Kisra wrote:
Australians shouldn't be allowed to post in this thread. I've been lead to believe their insect and spiders are a league above everyone elses. Asking an Aussie if they're afraid of bugs is like asking someone if they're afraid of lions - an Australian insect is just as fierce, but can probably fly, and instead of mauling you it'll replace your blood with acid and stuff.

Not to mention the spiders.

I'll stick to my happy island nation with small insects, thanks!

No kidding, if anyone dares look up - 'white tail spider bite.' Those live in Australia and apparently cause necrosis. Seriously some grotesque shit.