Summer is here! No more school, starcraft everyday or just chilling outside. There are NO problems in the world, you'd think. When you go home it suddenly itches everywhere. Something has bitten you and of course it's those damn mosquitoes fault.
But that's not the big problem, when you had the door open because of the warm weather several bugs flew into your house and on the evening when the lights are on you see a BIG FAT insect lying on the lamp. You don't realize it at first but it suddenly jumps from the lamp when you look closer and starts to fly towards you. What do you do?
Poll: What do you do?
Try to dodge it by jumping backwards (386)
43%
Try to smack it with your hand/something that you're holding (257)
29%
Don't care (100)
11%
Cry (78)
9%
Scream for help (73)
8%
894 total votes
Your vote: What do you do?
(Vote): Try to dodge it by jumping backwards (Vote): Don't care (Vote): Try to smack it with your hand/something that you're holding (Vote): Scream for help (Vote): Cry
Well TL, I have realized that I HATE bugs. When I was small I actually enjoyed watching them and tried to catch a few. But now, oh damn... I almost try to avoid them as much as I try to avoid a Zerg on ladder (LOL). Don't know what happened xD So I'll ask you something else, are you afraid of bugs?
Only once have I felt a real fear of insects: When my family and I were hiking along the Delaware River and we pulled 12 deer ticks off of my brother, about 3 off me and my parents, and none on my oldest brother (who was laughing at the rest of us).
I'm not afraid of bugs, but they annoy the hell out of me. As soon as I learn to forget/ignore the bastard, THAT'S WHEN IT REARS IS UGLY HEAD. Kill it. Kill it now so I don't have to care later.
On June 12 2011 08:41 poundcakes wrote: I'm only really afraid of craneflies, with their god damn long legs. Not a lot of dangerous insects native to Norway. + Show Spoiler +
dude, spoiler that please.
But I seriously hate bugs. With a passion. i really hate spiders, most of all. Those fuckers need to gtf away from me.
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
GOD DANGIT! That's the insect in my room, thanks for resizing it 100x bigger. o.O
On June 12 2011 08:37 XiGua wrote:]Btw, I have a bug in my room so that's why I can't sleep until that noob is dead. ._.
lolz, the only insects I care if I have in my room while I'm sleeping are earwigs, I'm not scare of insects, but the myth that they enter your ears and cause damage scared me when I was a kid and it just stood around to cause me to be uneasy when I'm sleeping with one around... However I'm scared as shit of spiders.
Spiders had always been the only ones that bothered me, they just seem to be able to move inappropriately fast for their size >.>
I was on a mountain bike racing team in highschool, and during a rather long downhill period with low-hanging trees, a spider about the size of a quarter (a couple cm diameter) fell down into the front of my shirt.
Now to help visualize the disaster a little better, I was riding using those special shoes with clips on the bottom that attach you to the bike pedals unless you twist your feet to eject. Anywhoo, I was out of those pedals and off of that bike so fast you'd think I had an eject button, and I proceded to run down the rest of the hill while tugging on the front of my shirt so it could escape and not bite me.
My memory is a little fuzzy, so I can't remember if i was making embarrassing noises like "AHHHHHH OH GOD OH GOD", but it's probably a safe bet.
Pretty much only scared of spiders but only when they are on me. If I see a spider on the floor I just grab a shoe and kill it, no sweat. Daddy Longlegs are freaking awesome though once I had like 8 crawling on me at once just cuz I was bored ^^ I don't even really care much about wasps except when they fly near my face, I dont like things in my face -.-
Wow, that mantis thing in the second photo is awesome. Still wouldn't want it anywhere near me, but at least it doesn't look like a science fiction monster.
I have a phobia of wasps and bees due to an.... incident... when I was 6, and I guess as a side affect of that I hate all types of flies and similar stuff, mainly because of the buzzing sound when they fly around
My dad has a really serious problem with spiders of any size, but the rest of my family don't so that's not really a huge problem around the house
I also hate centipedes and millipedes (etc) because of a film that I cant quite remember atm
On June 12 2011 08:55 Terrakin wrote: wow how do you not like insects and bugs, they are the most fascinating things on earth
Now those bugs I would not care about. Butterflies are awesome and colorful. But those bugs on page 1 I would not even dare to touch or even kill with only paper ._. I need RANGE god damnit!
They move so fast I hate them. One time this brave ass spider decided to go down its stringy web thing from the ceiling infront of me while i was watching TV. It scared the shit out of me. Now when I see a spider anywhere in the house I go into rage mode and think "MUST DESTROY BEFORE IT LEAVES!"...then I race into the washroom to get some toilet paper and smash it and then flush it out. NOT IN MY HOUSE NUB!!!
On June 12 2011 08:41 poundcakes wrote: I'm only really afraid of craneflies, with their god damn long legs. Not a lot of dangerous insects native to Norway. + Show Spoiler +
Theyre totally harmless though they don't even eat anything as adults haha.
I'm afraid of big (relatively) spiders.. those light brownish ones that grow to be about an inch or more that live bushes everywhere >.>
Totally fine with all the massive cockroaches in my school, but centipedes also scare the shit out of me. Silverfish are such little bitches omg xD
On June 12 2011 08:57 Aeres wrote: Wow, that mantis thing in the second photo is awesome. Still wouldn't want it anywhere near me, but at least it doesn't look like a science fiction monster.
why not, mantis rarely will pinch you, and even then they will hurt no more than a scratch and watching them feed is very cool.
Also this is the orchid mantis, or pink orchid mantis
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
I know how you feel man. I used to have a cat that would bring these fuckers in the house at night and we would be knocked out of our slumber only to be terrified by the sound of it's monstrous fucking wings flapping and it's beefy fucking thorax slapping mindlessly against the wall in the PITCH.FUCKING BLACKNESS. AND BEING SCARED SHITLESS TO GET UP AND TURN ON THE LIGHT SO YOU KNOW WHICH DIRECTION TO FUCKING SCREAM AT.
I occasionally get a house centipede here and there like Assault_1. My dog likes to follow them around, that's how we find 90% of them "Hmmm...what's he sniffing a-...oh, fuck, get the paper towels!" I'm not deathly afraid of bugs, but I do hate killing bigger ones without a sufficiently thick amount of toilet paper/paper towel. I hate flies just cause the fuckers move and I hate bees when they buzz next to my ear, otherwise I don't mind them. I don't get many large spiders, but the larger ones would terrify me. Considering getting some kind of spray bottle for when I go down south (bugs are bigger there, right?) and just filling it with something toxic (bleach would work, I wonder if ammonia/acetone are toxic enough)
Spiders I am fine with since I can easily 1 shot them (unless they are found in the yard with dangerous looking patterns).
Bees on the other hand, stings you if it doesn't like your presence. They don't seem to care about going all-in but I do not want any unnecessary pain.
On June 12 2011 09:09 Hikari wrote: Spiders I am fine with since I can easily 1 shot them (unless they are found in the yard with dangerous looking patterns).
Bees on the other hand, stings you if it doesn't like your presence. They don't seem to care about going all-in but I do not want any unnecessary pain.
Well, if a bee stings you, it dies, so it sort of is going all-in.
I don't give a shit about insects, like spiders are so slow and fucking cute if anything. Mosquitoes can be quite annoying, especially since I live in the outskirts of a forest (50meters to a swamp where there's a ton of them). BUT MOTHS OH GOD
Moths scare the SHIT out of me, the way that the fly around knocking their heavy as a bodies into everything. If a moth is flying around in my room when I'm in a laddergame I leave game and leave th room.
On June 12 2011 08:44 BrTarolg wrote: You know what scares the shit out of these
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
I FUCKING HATE insects. Any moth that isn't just a normal moth scares the shit out of me, especially the GIANT ones that have weird ass colors on them. Flies are annoying but not to be feared. Run from anything that can sting you. I freaking hate roaches and anything that is big. It's sad, because these are really the only things i fear..
On June 12 2011 09:18 Rashta wrote: Bugs never bothered me, living in Australia i just grew up with them. Watched a spider weave a web once, its pretty fucking impressive.
if you hate other bugs, you need to start loving spiders. I go out of my way to keep them alive in my house since they trap and eat stuff like ants, mosquitoes, etc.
I HATE insects with all my being. I find them disguisting and dont wanna touch them or squish them.Whenever i see one in my room i try to throw them out with a piece of paper, Im not really scared because most of them cant hurt me at all but they are really gross.
Spiders are not scary at all because here they are not that big and are useful to take care of other insects hehe.Got 2 really small spiders in my room but i leave them alone.Just checked one of them and they are really doing their job killing quite alot of shit haha :D They are cool as long as they dont come close to me
Got stinged by bees, wasps when i was little but centipedes(or something similar to it ) are really in a different league. Got stinged by one that got claws on their ass and was really painful. And ugh mosquitos are the most anoying thing in summer.
I hate spiders, with a passion. Was one in my room a few days ago. I had a cord on a curtain and pulled it, fucking huge spider came falling down. Crawled back up in no time and stayed in that corner. Was afraid to sleep, slept really bad.
Insects that fly don't bother me that much. Wasps are annoying, but I can easily pick them up with a bit of paper. Bees same thing. Don't really care about flies though.
Insects that walk on the other hand, I really dislike them, they're probably fast (being insects and stuff) and gross. Never had such a scary insect in my room though.
Reading this topic was bad for me, it's 2:30 am and I was just about to go to sleep when I stumbled on this. Thanks for ruining my night TL
When I was like... ten, my dad and I were stacking wood outside (we heat our house with a wood furnace). I picked up a log , turned it sideways, and out of it dumped a whole bunch of what I thought was dirt/decomposing wood (sometimes the wood is old.)
It turned out the decomposing wood was holding an ant colony. Ants started pouring down my 10 year old arm, biting me all over. Because of the number of them, I got a severe fever and ended up having to go to the hospital overnight. I've been petrified of ants ever since. Also they're disgusting.
Other bugs don't bother me in the least, and I especially recommend that anyone who hates spiders look up the "spider bro" image macro, as well as the original "spider bro" story.
I am a 20 year old man, I grew up in the forest in northern NY. Bugs are lol. Except ants.
I live in the city so not much bugs at all here. Once in a while I go to the countryside where my parents live and get chewed alive by mosquitos. My biggest problem is when it's a fairly large bug that gets up close without me noticing, and when I do I rock back and get a little shock. Used to be completely unafraid of anything whatsoever when I was a kid. Appearantly I picked up large spiders and threw 'em out, and went out with a dog that was about as big as a man lmao. I'm a coward now though =( I'll probably be afraid of everything in 10 years.
I love hearing humans talk about how they're scared of things that are 1/1,000th of their size...but I'm one of them, so I guess I shouldn't talk.
Down here in California we have black widow spiders (one of the most toxic species)
and tarantula wasps...
Both are really scary to look at, but I think the tarantula wasp is what scares me the most. Every time I hear them flying, it sounds like some weird accoustic missile flying at your head. Plus, according to some insect research I read, they have the most painful sting out of all other insects, although you really have to rile them up to have them sting you since they're not normally as aggressive as other bees/wasps/etc.
You know what I hate? those big ass mosquitoes that get into your house and fly around, bumping into walls until I get up the courage to get a rolled up newspaper and kill it. Their legs get everywhere and its just nasty. spiders also suck, just because they live in the little crevices of your furniture, waiting to jump out and scare the shit out of you when you sit down.
I'm not afraid of bugs in general, since I KNOW I can whack the living shit out of it with something I have in my hand. If it's something huge like a heteropteryx, I'd back away, and start whipping the sucker with a towel or smack it with a frying pan.
I hate those house centipedes or wetf they called. Like before, I had no problem with insects or w/e but once like 6 years ago I woke up with a huge ass centipede right near my face (I sleep near the edge of my bed; don't ask why, I just do lol), that MF was causally crawling on the bed side frame. IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME, I never woke up easier in my life.
I FUCKING HATE insects and arachnoids of any kind.
The gross me out. They just suck. So much. God I shouldn't have opened this thread, now I turn around every 30 seconds to check if there's spiders in my room and I fucking know that I won't be able to sleep tonight after seeing the weird alien on page 1.
I'm completely serious in telling you that I consider moving to some place where it's really cold and where there's no insects. Does anyone of you live in Finland / Norway to educate me about the insectuation there?
One of the reasons why I love living in Germany is that we have almost no scary/dangerous insects and spider species around here. As far as I'm aware, in all of Germany there are only 3 spider species with fangs strong enough to bite through human skin. Also all of the spiders are pretty small.
Still sucks when a spider tries to assault you from above though. Has happened to me numerous times during my life. I play some games in the evening, lights off and only the computer screen is shining, suddenly this spider appears directly in front of my face hanging from it's thread.
I don't know why they do that, maybe they like the light?
Insects aren't to bad for me, i could care less. But when it comes to daddy long legs those motherfuckers terrify me. LIKE WHY ARE YOUR LEGS TO LONG FOR YOUR PUNY BODY WHY!
Is there any town in the world where maybe a giant tank of insecticides exploded ones and now no insect can live there any more?
I'd definately move there, doesn't matter if it's detrimental to my health. The way I feel about insects, I prolly won't live to be 40 anyway, if I ever encounter a real life cockroach, I'll instantly drop dead.
On June 12 2011 09:53 poundcakes wrote: Spiders really aren't that bad at all unless they're venomous. Look at that thing, it's adorable. + Show Spoiler +
I am so glad I have a pellet gun in my closet...a 6mm plastic pellet going 200ft/s may only sting a human, but I'd hope it can take that thing out @_@.
As you may have figured, I am deathly afraid of spiders which are bigger than about half a centimeter across. Mosquitos is merely a hatred. Apart from that I'm cool with bugs, however I will destroy all those that invade my private space.
I've got a wasps nest with it's entrance located just above my terrace door so I get quite some traffic there and at least a few each day fly into my room. I keep a plastic jar thingy to catch them, and just release them outside again, given they are willing to cooperate(else I kill them). So wasps and similar bugs don't really scare me that much anymore, but spiders man, fucking spiders.
I love spiders, at least house spiders. Theyre a natural insect control so I like keeping them inside the house. I hate any blood-sucking or infestation-capable insects. Mosquitos, bed bugs, fleas, etc. give me a slight allergic reaction to their bites and it pisses me off. Ants are annoying because they could take over your home if youre not careful. Fleas are a combination of the two, I hate them with a passion.
Oh and bees. Bees piss me off. Just be glad you dont live in Japan and have to deal with these bad boys:
I really really dislike ticks. That is fucking concentrated evil spreading borrelia and TBE. I spend alot of time in the forest and do get a few and it scares really. Since I'm retarded I have not gotten vaccinated.
Dislike flies and mosquitoes too, annoying anlimals that wont leave you alone. I try not to open windows ect in my apartment so I get insects inside, been really successful and I have decent ventilation anyway so it's all good.
I'm fine with most insects, wasps, centipedes, moths, whatever, but spiders fucking terrify me. And there's no worse spider than a huge, hairy Huntsman. Open at your own risk. + Show Spoiler +
I almost died when I opened my car and one of these huge fuckers fell on my head. I'm envious of any country that doesn't contain such monstrous beasts spewed from the pits of hell.
When I was just a little boy, around the age of 15, I sat in front of my computer, when all of a sudden a large shadow scurried in my peripheral vision. I immediately screamed for mommy, cause I was sure I had seen a spider.
She came to my rescue, definately annoyed because we couldn't find the beast.
Upon leaving my room, mom saw her.
She was giant. She was hairy. She said directly over the doorframe, towering like the Eye of Sauron.
Even my mom was startled. The thing was so extremely large that words can't really cover it. I had dogs that were significantly smaller.
So my brave mother took a moment to gather her wits, take one of her shoes off and smash the beast. We heard it's bones crack. The bloodstain it left was so huge we had to put new wallpapers on. I still wake up trembling sometimes...
Centipedes and millipedes are the worst fucking things in the world. Just looking at one on the monitor freaks me the fuck out. + Show Spoiler +
Like JESUS FUCK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? GET THAT SHIT OFF YOUR FUCKING HAND OMG.
Cockroaches are fucking terrible, too. UGSOIDUFPOSUDFLKSFCJOPIAS UCPODISCUJS
I don't even understand the fear at all. I used to not be afraid of them. I remember I'd used to find catterpillars in my backyard when I was younger and I'd show it to everyone, let it crawl on my hand and shit... now they freak me out. I don't understand it.
Oddly enough, big spiders dont scare me. Small ones? Yeah, fuck off. Get away from me. But this thing? + Show Spoiler +
I find that thing cool as shit. My neighbour had a pet tarantula and having it on me didn't scare me at all. :/
Not scared at all of common insects like spiders, mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc. The one posted on the first page was a bit nasty though. I would be freaked out for a few seconds before I'd go kill it.
I live in old house, so I pretty much always have a few spiders and other assorted insects chilling around. Doesn't bother me too much unless they are big/too visible (ie. huge freaking crawly thing hanging on the toilet bowl in the morning). I'm a pretty outdoorsy person anyway. I get the occasional wasp and that gets killed the second it gets spotted though.
Mosquito bites suck, but I have learned not to scratch them: the itch goes way in a few hours if you leave the stings alone. I used to be very allergic to them though. I remember having huge angry purple bumps everywhere on my body after fishing trips. Not fun.
On June 12 2011 10:21 Billyray wrote: I live in old house, so I pretty much always have a few spiders and other assorted insects chilling around. Doesn't bother me too much unless they are big/too visible (ie. huge freaking crawly thing hanging on the toilet bowl in the morning). I'm a pretty outdoorsy person anyway. I get the occasional wasp and that gets killed the second it gets spotted though.
Mosquito bites suck, but I have learned not to scratch them: the itch goes way in a few hours if you leave the stings alone. I used to be very allergic to them though. I remember having huge angry purple bumps everywhere on my body after fishing trips. Not fun.
That's pretty weird, but I had the same problem.
When I was little and a mosquito bit me, I got huge skin erections. No I barely notice it.
I hate all giant bugs. When I was younger I used to just dump my clothes on the ground, but one time I saw a GIGANTIC spider right next to my close. I sprinted back, collected my courage for a couple minutes, and grab an old suitcase. I dropped the suitcase right on top of it and since then I have started to hang up my clothes. That suitcase is still there btw, I haven't mustered up the courage to lift it up and check to see what happened.
On June 12 2011 10:13 Supamang wrote: I love spiders, at least house spiders. Theyre a natural insect control so I like keeping them inside the house. I hate any blood-sucking or infestation-capable insects. Mosquitos, bed bugs, fleas, etc. give me a slight allergic reaction to their bites and it pisses me off. Ants are annoying because they could take over your home if youre not careful. Fleas are a combination of the two, I hate them with a passion.
Oh and bees. Bees piss me off. Just be glad you dont live in Japan and have to deal with these bad boys:
I once went inside my house after being away for a while. The first thing I saw when I walked into the living room was a huge moth flying in circles. I tried to ignore it and went into the restroom. I lifted up the toilet seat, and I saw a dead fly floating in the water. I tried to ignore that too and finished urinating. Then I peeked into the shower before I was going to wash my hands. Sure enough, there was a huge spider crawling on the bottom of the bathtub. Getting freaked out, I turned on my sink and was about to wash my hands when a spider popped out of the sinkhole!
On June 12 2011 09:57 TheBatman wrote: I would pull out a flamethrower and roast it with blind fury, worth any extra damaged caused
One time in china, my friend and I assaulted a cockroach with a can of axe (spray) + lighter.... .... it just sat there and we thought it was dead. Next morning it was gone... >.>
Ok, new thread rule, all bug pictures, especially ones that are magnified 100x need to be spoilered!!! :p
I hate bugs and try to kill them all if they enter my house. Although if one touches me unexpectedly I usually freak out and have to compose myself before tackling the beast.
Also, one time, i was eating ice cream in the dark, watching a funday monday at my computer. It was mint chocolate chip, so there were slightly crunchy/chewy pieces in it. All of a sudden, i think i hear a plop. I ignore it, thinking it was the audio. Two bites of ice cream later: CRUNCH. i sit there mortified for a solid minute, and then work up the courage to ignore it, and try again. CRUNCH. At this point, i pull whatever it was out of my mouth. All i know is that it was black, and had a shell. Shaped kind of like a firefly, but obviously had a harder carapace. Da fuck.
I hate bugs. I literally have an undying hatred of them. All of them, they creep me out and spiders practically render me catatonic. Omg I hate them so much, you know those swarms of bees in the south-west that are dangerous because they can swarm and sting you hundreds of times? Yeah I'd die, but not of stings, I would literally have a fucking heart attack out of sheer unadulterated terror, this is not an exaggeration, I would rather burn my own skin off with a lighter than be attacked by a swarm of bees. And that picture of the giant hornet a few posts above me, can't even look at it without getting a little light-headed, I'm dead serious.
The one exception is praying mantises, they kill other bugs and are pretty much the bad asses of the bug world, so yeah, they hate their own kind as much as I do so thats cool and all.
On June 12 2011 10:37 GigaFlop wrote: Also, one time, i was eating ice cream in the dark, watching a funday monday at my computer. It was mint chocolate chip, so there were slightly crunchy/chewy pieces in it. All of a sudden, i think i hear a plop. I ignore it, thinking it was the audio. Two bites of ice cream later: CRUNCH. i sit there mortified for a solid minute, and then work up the courage to ignore it, and try again. CRUNCH. At this point, i pull whatever it was out of my mouth. All i know is that it was black, and had a shell. Shaped kind of like a firefly, but obviously had a harder carapace. Da fuck.
Fuck man, that's disgusting. If that happened to me I'd curl under my blankets and just lay there lifelessly for several hours. Oh, and I'd brush my teeth about a dozen times and use half a bottle of Listerine antiseptic mouthwash.
On June 12 2011 10:14 hoppipolla wrote: I'm fine with most insects, wasps, centipedes, moths, whatever, but spiders fucking terrify me. And there's no worse spider than a huge, hairy Huntsman. Open at your own risk. + Show Spoiler +
I almost died when I opened my car and one of these huge fuckers fell on my head. I'm envious of any country that doesn't contain such monstrous beasts spewed from the pits of hell.
Oh. ..My. God. I almost died when I clicked that fucking spoiler tag. Christ.
On June 12 2011 10:22 Crazyeyes wrote: Fuck this thread. I'm afraid to stand on the ground now (barefoot). I have to fucking pee.
I know dude im reading this thread and like every time I feel a slight sensation anywhere on my body I freak the fuck out, also this
Is that a FUCKING BIRD?
Was funny as shit.
BTW, Gosu add timing, I opened this page and there is a frickin Terminex add on the top of the page. HA! Now that's what I call marketing to a vulnerable audience.
On June 12 2011 10:37 GigaFlop wrote: Also, one time, i was eating ice cream in the dark, watching a funday monday at my computer. It was mint chocolate chip, so there were slightly crunchy/chewy pieces in it. All of a sudden, i think i hear a plop. I ignore it, thinking it was the audio. Two bites of ice cream later: CRUNCH. i sit there mortified for a solid minute, and then work up the courage to ignore it, and try again. CRUNCH. At this point, i pull whatever it was out of my mouth. All i know is that it was black, and had a shell. Shaped kind of like a firefly, but obviously had a harder carapace. Da fuck.
Fuck man, that's disgusting. If that happened to me I'd curl under my blankets and just lay there lifelessly for several hours. Oh, and I'd brush my teeth about a dozen times and use half a bottle of Listerine antiseptic mouthwash.
This thread gives me the chills.
I asked my mom to give me some of the highest-proof liquor in the house. Sadly, she did not oblige :/ and i ended up just sitting by myself for a while, mortified. After that, the ice cream called my name, and i just took the container out of the fridge(i microwaved the other bowl until it was almost boiling, and poured it down the drain with the food disposal on) and ate it while keeping the top over it as much as possible. That monday wasn't very funday.
This seems like a good place to introduce my theory of the most douchebag bug ever: The Wasp. It's like a bee, but it doesn't help us in any way. It doesn't make honey. It doesn't die when it stings you. It JUST sucks. It's a rampaging, pissed-off asshole of a bug who's sole purpose in life is to make yours worse.
EDIT: After looking through everything in this thread, I've found I'm not at all afraid of bugs. But spiders scare me shitless... I can stare at videos of the largest, scariest bugs ever and I'm interested and want to see more. But fucking spiders are scary shit somehow... I wonder what the difference is to me o.O
2nd EDIT: I think it's because I have mad respect for bugs (particularly, ants). Specific species of those little bastards can lift up 6x their own weight, jump like 10x their body, kill animals hundreds of times their size in one bite, and genetically work as a greater army than any people. Their born into an elite fighting/surviving/scavenging society. That's SO fucking cool to me.
On June 12 2011 10:58 TALegion wrote: This seems like a good place to introduce my theory of the most douchebag bug ever: The Wasp. It's like a bee, but it doesn't help us in any way. It doesn't make honey. It doesn't die when it stings you. It JUST sucks. It's a rampaging, pissed-off asshole of a bug who's sole purpose in life is to make yours worse.
Not to mention some of them lay their eggs inside other LIVING insects and their larvae eat them alive while they are paralysed.
I have some weird 'thing' that if a bug touches me I spaz out as if it shocked me until it's not in contact with me anymore. So instead, I always do wild motions in order to dodge the bug, and usually end up hurting myself because of a chair, door, wall, etc. However, even while in pain, I'm thinking "Whew, that was totally worth... EEK" And then I grab my trusty thin encyclopedia and try to smack it out of the air. When the bug is on the ground however, I just pick it up with a tissue and throw it out the window, because I don't want to kill it o.o
Not scared of insects or spiders. I wouldn't let them crawl around on me for fun, but don't run around screaming when I see them.
We have something we call Christmas Beatles - They look like flying peanuts. They are so clumsy, they literally just fly into walls until they die which is extremely irritating. Sometimes I assist them.
I found the only thing that pretty much puts me from 0 - 100 on the rage meter - when a bug flies near my face. Moths, beatles, whatever. You have an entire planet to go buzz around on, why must you fly in front of my face while I'm playing Starcraft. Instant death sentence for that bug.
Probably the most disgusting bug we have in South Africa:
On June 12 2011 11:04 jarrydesque wrote: Not scared of insects or spiders. I wouldn't let them crawl around on me for fun, but don't run around screaming when I see them.
We have something we call Christmas Beatles - They look like flying peanuts. They are so clumsy, they literally just fly into walls until they die which is extremely irritating. Sometimes I assist them.
I found the only thing that pretty much puts me from 0 - 100 on the rage meter - when a bug flies near my face. Moths, beatles, whatever. You have an entire planet to go buzz around on, why must you fly in front of my face while I'm playing Starcraft. Instant death sentence for that bug.
Probably the most disgusting bug we have in South Africa:
Small bugs only scare me when I come into contact with them, with the exception of house flys, mosquitos (die you fuckers) and other harmless pests.
BIG BUGS on the other hand..... I'm not a ninja but I sure as hell look like one when I run into a decently sized bug. I'll jump over tables, kick over chairs, hop counters all in order to save my life.
On June 12 2011 09:55 caruso wrote: Is that a FUCKING BIRD?
You took the words straight out of my mouth.
I don't freak out when it comes to small/common insects but fucking anything bigger than an inch, fuck that shit. In my old house around fall there were so many damn earwigs near my desk, would constantly have to watch out for them as they would always get on my mouse hand when I played.... Fearing bugs though when you think about it rationally is quite silly lol, being scared of something a fraction of your size.
On June 12 2011 09:55 caruso wrote: Is that a FUCKING BIRD?
This is literally word for word what I was going to post when I saw that.
On June 12 2011 10:16 Crazyeyes wrote: oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god
Centipedes and millipedes are the worst fucking things in the world. Just looking at one on the monitor freaks me the fuck out. + Show Spoiler +
Like JESUS FUCK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? GET THAT SHIT OFF YOUR FUCKING HAND OMG.
Cockroaches are fucking terrible, too. UGSOIDUFPOSUDFLKSFCJOPIAS UCPODISCUJS
I don't even understand the fear at all. I used to not be afraid of them. I remember I'd used to find catterpillars in my backyard when I was younger and I'd show it to everyone, let it crawl on my hand and shit... now they freak me out. I don't understand it.
Oddly enough, big spiders dont scare me. Small ones? Yeah, fuck off. Get away from me. But this thing? + Show Spoiler +
I find that thing cool as shit. My neighbour had a pet tarantula and having it on me didn't scare me at all. :/
This is pretty much how I am I think the reason big spiders aren't as scary is because you can see everything they do and feel it, whereas little spiders can sneak up on you.
I used to be terrified of spiders, so I got a few tarantulas as pets. I even let them run around on my hand/arm a few times. After that I could smash any house spider with my bare hand if I needed to. Now centi/millipedes are a different story. All those legs moving the way they do just looks so...unnatural.
Oh wow Assault_1 that is one scary monster, I would NOT be able to sleep, if I've ever seen one of those inside the bedroom !
Edit * Actually all of this thread is giving me those tics, you know, the small, fast shakes when you see something creepy or disguisting. Thanks OP, thanks.
Spiders are great except for venomous ones, but the only venomous ones here are brown recluses and black widows. Only angry hornets scare me, flying around like mutalisks. I can't shoot air.
On June 12 2011 09:40 sur_reaL wrote: wtf guys...I'm so fucking itchy now.
FUUUCK me too I was at my friend's cottage one time, and I made the mistake of volunteering to help put out the campfire. I was one of the last ones to leave the beach to go back to the cottage, and when I got back all the beds/tents were filled up. I decided to just crash on the sofa of the living room for the night. They decided to keep the kitchen light on just in case, which was terrible because I'm sure there was an open window somewhere and all these mosquitoes, moths and flies got into the cottage. I put on sweatpants on top of shorts and a thick hoodie on top of longsleeves, double socks and hands tucked in to expose no part of my body put my face, and tried to go to sleep. ALL FUCKING NIGHT bugs were just bzzz-ing around me, I had my music on and I could still hear those fuckers flying around me. Worst sleep in life, I had to actually wait till pure exhaustion overrided my involuntary fear to pass out. Since I was in the living room/kitchen, people woke up hella early to catch a FIFA world cup game and woke me up to get sofa space. When I rinsed off the next day at the beach, I noticed I had bites all over my body, including through my double layered sweater and longsleeve, on my SKULL, on my thighs (ridiculous cause I was curled up in a ball all night so I dont know how they got in). I essentially got raped by mosquitoes.
LONG STORY SHORT, I hate things that can bite/sting you with a passion (mosquitoes, bees), but I can stand moths/flies/spiders because I know if you can just tolerate them they wont bother you directly.
PROTIP: In a confined space (bedroom with closed windows/doors, sealed off tent, closed car), simply put up a light source in the middle of the area to attract the flying bugs and kill them all before sleeping. For example, 30 minutes before sleeping in a tent, we would zip up the tent, hang a flashlight off the middle and snipe all the flying bugs before sleeping. Spiders and crawlies will sometimes also try to get up to the top via the side of the tent so you can get those as well. Make sure you're sealed up though, or else you'll attract unwanted extra bugs.
Ugh, I need to shower again before sleeping tonight after reading this thread.
The stories in this thread makes me laugh :D Although I'm currently 17, I myself am scared to ALL bug, insects, or any of those creepy crawlers =(
I'll try to contribute:
When I was a little kid, I was FEARLESS of bugs and I mean FEARLESS. Is there fly in the air? I'll kill them by clapping. Is there a mosquito? Do the exact same thing. Flying insect on wall? I'll slap the thing dead. Spider on wall? Slap em dead. Other crawlers on wall? Slap, slap and FATALITY! On the ground? Hand in air --> Run --> Jump --> Slap/pound --> Death. Slug outside? Get my salt. See a multitude of ants? Annoy the crap out of them! Does size matter? NOPE! :D
One time (still as a kid), I had this awesome Coco Puffs cereal. I decided to eat it, so I poured a bunch into my bowl. I'm a weird kid, so I never put milk in my cereal. As I watched tv, I grabbed my spoon and dug into my bowl. I'm not sure if I ate any, probably did for who knows how much, and noticed a crap load of ants in my bowl of cereal. I acted pretty cool, not caring much from the ants, as I simply told my dad what happened. He took my bowl, dumped the stuff in a bag, grabbed the box of cereal, threw it in a bag, and dumped the stuff in the trash. I still wonder or not whether I ate those ants...
Now in the present day, I am sooooo scared of any creepy crawler. It must be karma for the all the things I've done to bugs as a kid. If I see a bug on the wall, I'll kill the thing, but it's gotta be a tiny little guy. However, I'm not brave; I gotta get like a large piece of paper towel and smack it dead. I do the same thing when I see a fly or some other bug on the wall. If I can't kill it, I gotta call for my mommy. My parents have an immunity to insects since they grew up in a third-world country as farmers before moving to America.
A couple summers ago, I went to Laos to visit my distant relatives. It is a communist country (I think, I'm too lazy to check) and it's a third-world typed country. As I spent my 3 weeks there, I met SO MANY BUGS EVERYWHERE OF SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS. My relatives are poor and many were farmers...so I slept in a rural area for half my stay (other half with a relative in the city, but it was still almost as bad). Mosquitoes pissed me off the worst; I believe I counted more than 30 bites the whole vacation. I slept on the floor where bugs can easily crawl on me. However, I stilled enjoyed my stay with the exception of these stupid little insects.
Reading through this thread made me so very itchy and paranoid. I kept looking around myself looking for bugs.
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
You aren't the only one with the moth phobia. I am not going to even look at those pictures.
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
You aren't the only one with the moth phobia. I am not going to even look at those pictures.
This interests me. I don't see what's scary about moths in particular. Too me, they just seem like furry, colorless butterflies.
On June 12 2011 11:54 Terrakin wrote: anyone interested in bug fighting?
I'm scared of wasps and bees. Back when I was like 10 years old, my dad brought me on a hunting trip. In Louisiana, we have some wasps that live underground. I don't know what species it was, but with our luck, the one clear path in the forest had a damn nest in it. My dad accidentally steps on it and we just start hearing buzzes. He runs a little ahead, and my 10 year old self is on the other side of the nest. I see wasps start pouring out and he just tells me to run through the wasps. I got stung in the nose, forehead, and a few times on my arms.
It didn't really hurt, but it was so mentally terrifying as a little kid. And to this day, I avoid wasps and bees like the 5 Rax Reaper into Mass Marauders All-in or Expansion vs Zerg when Reapers weren't nerfed at all strategy.
Please spoiler any insect pictures in this thread (or spiders), they cause me to chill, I cannot even type a comment correctly with that last image on page one right above me. Anyways I am deathly scared of all flying insects that make a buzzing sound, but mostly spiders.
On June 12 2011 08:46 Assault_1 wrote: I hate these more than anything, I see them in my house every so often
Fucking Christ three of these were in my basement, the move like lings with speed and I didnt have any shoes on when I went down. One of them damn near ran into my foot, I hightailed it out of there and came back with shoes to crush them bastards.
On June 12 2011 08:55 Terrakin wrote: wow how do you not like insects and bugs, they are the most fascinating things on earth
100% agreed. All you guys should read books about insects, you'll see how facinating this littlecreatures are. You know that it's absolutely stupid to be scared of such small and defenceless creatures ?
And please, if you see a bug you don't like, don't kill him, just put it outside. They are armless and friendly.
EDIT : I'm starting to love spiders as they catch most of the mosquitoes that are going out of the lake near my garden. When you see a spider, imagine it's a buddy that just came to get rid of those annoying mosquitoes
I'm not afraid of any insects/centipedes/whatever shit people mistake for insects, except spiders. I hate spiders like nothing else. A few years ago I couldn't even see them on TV / photos. I remember once reading a magazine, turning the page and seeing an unexpected horrible full page spider photos. I screamed an through the magazine like if the spider was on my arm.
I don't know why spiders trigger that kind of reaction, since I used to have a lot of these in my former house, and everytime I found one, I would grab it and through it outside :
On June 12 2011 08:46 Assault_1 wrote: I hate these more than anything, I see them in my house every so often
On June 12 2011 11:41 Zealotdriver wrote: Spiders are great except for venomous ones, but the only venomous ones here are brown recluses and black widows. Only angry hornets scare me, flying around like mutalisks. I can't shoot air.
All spiders are venomous. Just in varying degrees.
I like moths, they're like butterflies, except fuzzier and greyer and somewhat dumber. And bees, bees are quite friendly as long as you aren't an idiot. Wish we had more bees around here
Dislike insects that actively screw people over like human bot flies and screw-worms. Wiki them for more information then you'd care to know >< Never met any of them personally, though.
I'm pretty petrified of anything except maybe ladybugs and ants... I grew immune to ladybugs since during the fall giant swarms of them fly out of the forest near my house and try to "migrate" or something, but end up just running into the outside of the house repeatedly. Well our back door has a small crevice near the top where it isn't quite lined up with the frame, usually nothing gets through there but somehow the crazy ladybugs manage to get in there in waves, so occasionally during this time the ceiling of our kitchen is covered in ladybugs and not much can be done about it, they eventually go away on their own or die.
Shit. Even butterflies scare the crap out of me. I hate being physically touched by anything that crawls around on my skin. Ugggh.
It's not that I hate ALL bugs, but damn do I hate a hell lot of them. Just growing up in a city I guess must've made me a pansy for these things. I would literally spray down a water bug for a whole can of bug spray. That's how much I hate them. And on top of that, I hate killing the big ones because of their insides. Gaaah... You know... The ones that take more then just a step, but the twist for the crunch....
I had a fairly traumatic experience with bugs as a child.
I was playing with plastic insects (Making them fight and shit) and i had all of them scattered along the floor. I went to pick up my grasshopper to fight the spider that was just victorious in the ring. Anyway a grasshopper managed to infiltrate my house and I picked it up and it started flailing it's limbs around. Scared the shit out of me.
On June 12 2011 12:40 Barrin wrote: I'm serious... try living in a swamp. Like south Florida.
You will come to appreciate lizards, birds, AND SPIDERS for the way they really cut down on the insect population.
We have a whole lot of spiders, 99.5%++ of the ones you will actually encounter pose no threat to you at all and only want some insects for food which is only a good thing for you (swamp...many insects). We have a few very dangerous spiders like the Brown Recluse and Black Widow, but for the most part they are fairly rare and non-aggressive (but like most animals they will fight if cornered or "attacked").
Ya swamp climate sucks. Southern Louisiana is ftl too. Spiders don't really bother me because of the sheer number and they kill other insects so I like them.
I'm a pussy, any insect that's larger than a fingernail is at best unnerving and at worst super frightening for me. But where I live the biggest insect I have to deal with at a more than once a year basis are adult cockroaches, so it's not that bad.
i dont understand why i am so scared of them... im not scared of animals, only insects... i think its the idea that they dont really understand whats goin on so theyll just crawl closer to you no matter what, whereas a rat or something will run away from you
THEY ARE JUST REBELLIOUS BEASTS god they are so gross
Don't care that much bout mosquitoes or flies! But I hate all the crawling bugs/spiders etc. The moment I see smth I just freeze for 4 seconds with my body in total shock.
On June 12 2011 10:14 hoppipolla wrote: I'm fine with most insects, wasps, centipedes, moths, whatever, but spiders fucking terrify me. And there's no worse spider than a huge, hairy Huntsman. Open at your own risk. + Show Spoiler +
I almost died when I opened my car and one of these huge fuckers fell on my head. I'm envious of any country that doesn't contain such monstrous beasts spewed from the pits of hell.
HOLY SH............
I'd blue flame hellion that, and all the damn kids too.
I'm arachnophobic towards any spider larger than 5cm in diameter.
I'm not super afraid of insects in general, but Holy God!!! That spider on page 4 is eating a bird. And that bee is like as big as a thumb!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was kinda a insect boy. I had a big garden in my house and lotsa variety of insects and other invertebrates lived there. I only hate cockroaches, most flies, and mosquitos. The others are OK for me.
Another funny yet strange thing about me is that sometimes an insect just pop out of nowhere in my body. Usually a random insect like beetles, ladybugs, moths, and so on. One time I had a spider making a web near my armpit. I take like 2 showers a day. I guess I just attract invertebrates around me.
This thread made me interested in going look up insect videos and I stumbled upon this. A type of wasp injects their larva in a caterpillar and basically mind controls the caterpillar to help the larva grow. I'm so scared to go outside now.
On June 12 2011 14:54 tbrown47 wrote: we just need to fly out into space, nuke the planet to kill all the bugs then land and restart civilization without them
on a nuked, heavy radiated planet? P.S.: insects like roaches survive the radiation like it's nothing
I generally don't afraid of bugs or insect but they still give me shiver sometime esp those with lots of legs O_O. Spiders are ok though, I can slap them with my bare hand if they are small.
Im afraid of a lot of bugs, especially large worms. I'm not one bit scared of spiders when I see them in pictures or videos, but once I see one in real life, I freak out.
On June 12 2011 08:59 Dolky wrote: Dont care much about bugs and insects in general but shit, bees and wasps and other flying, stinging bitches scare the shit out of me.
My reaction to bees:
"Aghh kill it with fire!" ... nah, I usually trap them in the slot in my window.
I let spiders and centipedes go now because they catch other bugs, and because I live in a shitty place so I've become used to seeing them.
On June 12 2011 14:54 tbrown47 wrote: we just need to fly out into space, nuke the planet to kill all the bugs then land and restart civilization without them
I only get scared of insects/spiders if they catch me off guard. Like one time I was playing starcraft, and looked down after the game and there was a spider on my keyboard, that made me jump. But generally unless its poisonous I just leave it alone because there really isn't anything wrong with having insects/spiders around.
Flying bugs are another story. Fuck those. Annoying as shit
Fuck bugs, fuck spiders, fuck mosquitoes, fuck roaches, yuck. I wish they would stay outdoors I almost consider moving to move to the arctic (there are no bugs there right?) whenever I see a gross bug in an awkward position because it's like impossible to sleep knowing it could crawl on you and get inside you or some shit fuuuck!
I have seen alot of bugs since I have been living here. Nothing really bothers me though, except the poisonous spiders we have around here. I have seen Black Widows and Brown Recluses since I have been living here, and they fucking suck. Cockroaches don't really bother me anymore, but a few years ago one fell from the A/C vent above my computer, and a big fucking cockroach just fell onto my desk. Big WTF moment from me
I do fucking hate wasps/bees though. I always hesitate to hit them because I don't want to piss them off and sting me.
I HATE any sort of bug. Anytime I see a bug in my room, I get that really uneasy creepy crawly feeling all on over my arms and spine. Oh, and spiders amplify that feeling 10x with their damn legs, particularly daddy longlegs - fuck those things.
I had the worst experience with a spider once. I was going in for a shower and this small, tiny little spider was in there hanging off the thread of its web. Being the pussy that I am, I go grab a magazine and roll it up to squash that sucker. As I'm closing in on it, the fucking thing leaps at me from like 2 feet away, startling the shit out of me. I jump back, slip, land on my ass and my head hits the bathroom cabinets behind me. My room mate comes in from hearing the THUD and the moaning, only to see me lying on the ground like a moron. Lesson learned: spiders are evil as shit.
On June 12 2011 08:41 poundcakes wrote: I'm only really afraid of craneflies, with their god damn long legs. Not a lot of dangerous insects native to Norway. + Show Spoiler +
Dude, me too. Been afraid of them since I was a kid. There were a couple years recently where our town had tons of the really big ones everywhere during a month long period and I repeatedly embarrassed myself in front of my friends xD.
It's okay though, it seems everyone has an irrational fear or two. At least I'm not afraid of ice cream sandwiches like my friend is (like really, she gets frightened if you put one near her).
On June 12 2011 15:41 proot wrote: I HATE any sort of bug. Anytime I see a bug in my room, I get that really uneasy creepy crawly feeling all on over my arms and spine. Oh, and spiders amplify that feeling 10x with their damn legs, particularly daddy longlegs - fuck those things.
I had the worst experience with a spider once. I was going in for a shower and this small, tiny little spider was in there hanging off the thread of its web. Being the pussy that I am, I go grab a magazine and roll it up to squash that sucker. As I'm closing in on it, the fucking thing leaps at me from like 2 feet away, startling the shit out of me. I jump back, slip, land on my ass and my head hits the bathroom cabinets behind me. My room mate comes in from hearing the THUD and the moaning, only to see me lying on the ground like a moron. Lesson learned: spiders are evil as shit.
That reminds me of my evil spider in the shower incident. One time when I was taking a shower, I went to go grab a sponge. Little did I know there was a huge hobo spider chilling in it. Had no idea until I felt a tickle on my stomach, looked down, and saw this huge 2 inch spider crawling up my stomach. I freaked out and hit it off and it curled up in the corner not wanting to get wet. Poor thing met it's demise with a shampoo bottle. Fucking scary shit right there.
The other day my roommate left without telling me. The next night I was woken up from half-sleep around 5:15 because a mosquito was stalking me as it had been the past few nights. I got up and turned the light on and saw the mosquito resting on the corner of the wall and ceiling. Then I saw some idiot/badass spider halfway up the wall trying to go eat the mosquito. Really? He can just fly away. I know he's got the energy because he's full of my blood. Anyway, I smashed him and got my blood all over the wall but was too stupid to kill the spider before it got to safety. I've been sleeping in the other bed now.
Edit: Once in a blue moon when I put my shoes on I will find a resistive force inside them. I immediately pull my foot the fuck out and throw the shoe as far as I can so the thing that tried to make my shoe its home gets lost.
Edit: One time at school I had an unsealed window or something and when the weather rolled around I had swarms of ladybugs around my light. Had to vacuum those disgusting fucks because all they do is make little popping noises every time they slam into the light. Found a stinkbug in my shades when I was moving them around to fix my window.
I begin to freak the fuck out whenever I see a bug of a certain size, and the amount of freaking out I do increases exponentially based on it's size/proximity to me.
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
I pretty much hate all insects, especially wasps/bees/anything that stings, luckily though there aren't any really bad ones in this country (those Japanese hornets and humongous Australian spiders and various other massive bugs from around the world would scare the shit out of me). I got stung by a wasp once (under the ear -_-) when I was about 10, and any time one enters my house I will destroy it.
Moths are another really annoying one just because of the way they either fly right into your face or insist on sitting on your monitor if the room's dark, and our flat seems to be infested with them, we keep killing them and their damn eggs but they keep coming back, they've demolished the carpet in parts of the house. I think a candle is the best anti-moth weapon to employ though ^^
Spiders don't bother me as much as flying or even walking insects but I still don't exactly like having them crawling around my room.
Oh and if anything is flying around my room I will swing at it straight away, or use something other than my bare hands if it's a wasp/bee.
Thank god i live in sweden and thus don't have anything close to some of the bugs posted here. I do hate almost all bugs in all situations but I do acknowledge that spiders kill other bugs so I don't always kill those on sight.
wasps, bees, bumble bees that are in the house or are bothering me somehow are killed. Since child I've learned how to kill these with my bare hands so when others try to wave them off I go for the kill.
Most arthropod and other armored bugs, fast spiders and ticks gotta be what I hate the most. Ticks are the only real threat but im vaccinated against TBE at least.
Oh I almost forgot, I fucking hate the common fruit fly. My girlfriend loves fruit so we always have a ton at home and a few of those guys appear once in a while
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
On June 12 2011 15:23 x-Catalyst wrote: I'm really only uneasy around spiders. Especially if they're fast. If they're slow, non-aggressive and they're just chilling, then it's all good.
My dad has some tarantulas as pets. Super pretty. + Show Spoiler +
I catch one of these fuckers (wolf spider) every so once in awhile in my house but when I do, holy shit does it scare me, these guys are fast as hell too. If you see one, please do me a favor and kill it.
I dislike anything that bites or stings, while most of the time even they are harmless. Another are the ones that keep making really annoying buzzing or mosquitoe like high noises. Thankfully I found some almost transparent net things to put on the window, no more bugs getting in unless someone else lets them.
I actually really like spiders (there aren't large species here as far as I know) since despite their webs they make sure no other random bugs keep pestering you for too long, I don't know how but it seems they always somehow end up in the tiny web the spider has made somewhere.
On June 12 2011 14:54 tbrown47 wrote: we just need to fly out into space, nuke the planet to kill all the bugs then land and restart civilization without them
on a nuked, heavy radiated planet? P.S.: insects like roaches survive the radiation like it's nothing
its either bug infested or radiation infested
and radiation doesnt have a bunch of creepy fucking legs to crawl all over me with
On June 12 2011 15:23 x-Catalyst wrote: I'm really only uneasy around spiders. Especially if they're fast. If they're slow, non-aggressive and they're just chilling, then it's all good.
My dad has some tarantulas as pets. Super pretty. + Show Spoiler +
I once had a moth fly into my room so i decided it would be a good idea to try and stab it with a pen knife, I got it in the end took like 40 minutes and it made my knife all sticky. It was funny.
whenever small black shit flys to my room my heart literally starts beating at twice higher rate and I start sweating, my eyes become bigger and I'm just like O_O omfg..... If I can avoid killing it's great because then I can stay 400 meters away from those fuckers. E: Most of the time I just run out of my room.
I really hate summber because it's so freaking hot that I sweat all the time and my keyboard and mouse becomes incredibly sticky and slimy. -_- Then those fking insects can't leave my alone.
My huge irrational fear is TOP 1 thing that stops me from travelling around world.
Got stung by a bee on the palm of my head when I was very little, been deathly scared of bees ever since :<. Spiders as well (but I'm cool with Daddy Longlegs 8-]).
Cockroaches frighten the daylight out of me. Once I had a 30 minute battle with a cockroach where I had trapped it in the corner but was too scared and disgusted to go in for the kill. Finally I went in with a war cry (at 3am), killing the cockroach in a glorious victory. Then I spent 5 minutes working up the courage to scoop up the corpse.
holy shit, reading this thread made me appreciate living in a city in the netherlands where the only bugs i encounter are bees and flys.
Fucking hell at some of the spiders and insects posted here, giving me fucking chills over my body. I am paranoid for each insect i see and i must slay it immediatly, but some of the things i've seen here i'm afraid will fight back (and win)
it's that not i'm afraid of bugs, it's just they're so FUCKING DISGUSTING i'd rather not let them get close to me with the possibily of touching my precious skin
so what i usually do for any bug is i evade them at first, and when i've detected it, i proceed to try to kill it and won't stop until it's dead.
On June 12 2011 08:46 Assault_1 wrote: I hate these more than anything, I see them in my house every so often
I would leave the country.
Yo fuck off, nearly shit my pants when i scrolled to the bottom of the page. And i especially hate fucking spiders. I spray them with windex then blast them with my beebee handgun. Like I legit hate spiders.
Living in a country where the most dangerous insect is probably a wasp or something... I'm curious to all the pictures posted of the giant spiders, centipedes etc. How often do you guys encounter things like that, are they actually just crawling around in your house? Also, do they appear in a certain climate or specific area of your country? For example I see a lot of Australians with pretty large insect pictures, are they for example only in dry area's inland or more at the coast, or just anywhere?
On June 12 2011 19:50 jlim wrote: good OP, nice survey
it's that not i'm afraid of bugs, it's just they're so FUCKING DISGUSTING i'd rather not let them get close to me with the possibily of touching my precious skin
so what i usually do for any bug is i evade them at first, and when i've detected it, i proceed to try to kill it and won't stop until it's dead.
That's just another way of saying you're scared of them.
I've only ever been bitten by a bee once and it wasn't that bad, needless to say I still have an unending hatred towards all forms of biting insects. Just yesterday my dad was bitten by a huge black wasp
and his palm swelled tremendously as well as his forearm becoming incredibly red. If I ever see one of those insects approaching me with malicious intent (I guess they are all malicious), I will certainly kill it.
I took invertebrate zoology last semester, so I'm not really afraid of them, more interested in them. I'll admit I still jump when something flies straight at my face, but I'm not going to see a bug and freak out.
On June 12 2011 19:50 jlim wrote: good OP, nice survey
it's that not i'm afraid of bugs, it's just they're so FUCKING DISGUSTING i'd rather not let them get close to me with the possibily of touching my precious skin
so what i usually do for any bug is i evade them at first, and when i've detected it, i proceed to try to kill it and won't stop until it's dead.
That's just another way of saying you're scared of them.
yeah, just checked the dictionnaires and you're semantically correct. still, when someone declares himself afraid or scared of something, i don't portray him fighting it back till it's over.
it's like when u see a punk in the streets: most people would evade him, but not because they think he will win them in a fight or w/e, but because they know there is a good chance that the punk will bring them problem. it is pointless to engage in a fight against something you gain nothing of, unless you can win without recieve any harm. imo it is a wise approach to beware yourself from being harmed in any situation.
anyways i'm not trying to man it up, i'm just a city kid who hasn't seen any huge ass bug ever and i'd probably be actually scared as fuck if i saw some of those big hairy spiders and huge ass flying bugs. i'm just trying to make you see what's the difference in my mind between being cautious and being scared.
On June 12 2011 19:50 jlim wrote: good OP, nice survey
it's that not i'm afraid of bugs, it's just they're so FUCKING DISGUSTING i'd rather not let them get close to me with the possibily of touching my precious skin
so what i usually do for any bug is i evade them at first, and when i've detected it, i proceed to try to kill it and won't stop until it's dead.
On June 12 2011 19:50 jlim wrote: good OP, nice survey
it's that not i'm afraid of bugs, it's just they're so FUCKING DISGUSTING i'd rather not let them get close to me with the possibily of touching my precious skin
so what i usually do for any bug is i evade them at first, and when i've detected it, i proceed to try to kill it and won't stop until it's dead.
If I can positively identify it as something that will likely sting/bite me, then I'll whack it. Everything else, no matter how wriggly with a thousand legs and big fluttery wings it may be, I'll catch in a glass or something and put it outside. As long as it's not gonna injure me in any way, then I'm cool with it. I'd still duck out of the way if a moth was flying right at my face though.
Also, I don't count spiders in the 'likely to sting/bite' category. I'll generally just leave them alone, or even rescue them if they're hanging out in the bath or something like an idiot. I live in the UK so the only spider I'm even a little worried about picking up are brown house spiders:
and they aren't actually venomous, but they can bite through skin so I avoid picking them up with my hands. (For those living in the US you might be thinking 'AHH, HOBO SPIDER'. It's in the same family, but it's not venomous. In fact, if you have house spiders they will keep the hobo spiders out by competing for their food supply.)
Stop being scared of non-venomous spiders people! They're on our side! They eat all the irritating flying things that get inside - I never have flies buzzing against the inside of my windows for long because my spider buddies take care of it for me. SPIDERS 4 LYFE o/
Edit: Wikipedia seems to think it's called a giant house spider, I think. I've heard them called all sorts of things. Is there some sort of centralised database for identifying spiders?
Bugs are not allowed where I sleep or where I shit. I usually don't go out of my way to murder any insects that follow those two rules.... unless company is coming over...
I mean the big fuckers. You know, that fat, ugly, staining piece of shit that flies at your god damned face and scares the shit out of you + Show Spoiler +
I know how you feel man. I used to have a cat that would bring these fuckers in the house at night and we would be knocked out of our slumber only to be terrified by the sound of it's monstrous fucking wings flapping and it's beefy fucking thorax slapping mindlessly against the wall in the PITCH.FUCKING BLACKNESS. AND BEING SCARED SHITLESS TO GET UP AND TURN ON THE LIGHT SO YOU KNOW WHICH DIRECTION TO FUCKING SCREAM AT.
Couldn't have said it better.
Spiders, I can deal with (I mean regular-sized, not those American/Australian dog-sized monstrosities, I never faced one before). Mosquitoes, I have to kill them or I can't sleep. Wasps, they scare me but I can control it and make them go away.
But moths.. with their characteristic brrbrbzbrzbbzzbbrbrrr, mindlessly crashing against the nearest wall, in the darkness, with their completely random flight patterns... I would gladly exterminate them from the planet. And by extension butterflies, which are just moths but with ooooh such nice colors. Fuck them too.
On June 12 2011 20:26 Hexaflex wrote: If I can positively identify it as something that will likely sting/bite me, then I'll whack it. Everything else, no matter how wriggly with a thousand legs and big fluttery wings it may be, I'll catch in a glass or something and put it outside. As long as it's not gonna injure me in any way, then I'm cool with it. I'd still duck out of the way if a moth was flying right at my face though.
Also, I don't count spiders in the 'likely to sting/bite' category. I'll generally just leave them alone, or even rescue them if they're hanging out in the bath or something like an idiot. I live in the UK so the only spider I'm even a little worried about picking up are brown house spiders:
and they aren't actually venomous, but they can bite through skin so I avoid picking them up with my hands. (For those living in the US you might be thinking 'AHH, HOBO SPIDER'. It's in the same family, but it's not venomous. In fact, if you have house spiders they will keep the hobo spiders out by competing for their food supply.)
Stop being scared of non-venomous spiders people! They're on our side! They eat all the irritating flying things that get inside - I never have flies buzzing against the inside of my windows for long because my spider buddies take care of it for me. SPIDERS 4 LYFE o/
Edit: Wikipedia seems to think it's called a giant house spider, I think. I've heard them called all sorts of things. Is there some sort of centralised database for identifying spiders?
Hell yes, spiders representing o/ When I see a spider inside I usually just grab it and put it in the garden. Last summer they kept the flies away and I even spotted one of them trap and kill a wasp. Funny thing was that the wasp was maybe five or six times the size of the spider.
I'd probably say that the only bugs I really hate are wasps since they're so aggressive. They're really up in your face and if you do a bad move they'll get mad and sting you. Such idiots. Bees and humblebees are peaceful and good but wasps are ridiculous.
All in all, as long as they don't hurt me or bother me too much I'm fine with bugs.
Theyre just disgusting. Dirty and stuff so i dont like to touch them nor kill them -_-.. Being in NYC, i really havent seen all these varieties of bugs o_O.. flies, mosquitoes, moths, cockroaches, spiders are all that i see but only cockroaches and mosquitoes really annoy the fuck out of me because Cockroaches: the dirtiest of the dirty and mosquitoes: why would you embrace them?
Definitely a combination of swatting with my hands/whatever I'm holding (though it would be closer to hysterical flailing) and jumping backward while screaming for help.
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
WTF WTF WTF. So you abandoned your clothes and bag until that spider left right? o.O
Don't really care, except for wasps flying close to my face, ever since one of them bitches got tangled up in my eyelashes and went friggin haywire. German insects, spiders etc, aren't all that scary though.
Got stung 15 years ago when I was cycling in the woods. One of those mofos flew under my t-shirt and stung me in the middle of my chest. My skin got all red and had a "leathery" and dead feeling. Had to take some drugs to make it go away.
I simply cannot be in the same room as a wasp and if I eat outside and there is a wasp around I go inside immediatly.
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
WTF WTF WTF. So you abandoned your clothes and bag until that spider left right? o.O
I actually have a short video of a couple of local dudes trying to kill it with a broom. Even they were a little scared, those fucking spiders pounce. Here's the aftermath:
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
story of my life: me 3 yo chilling on the couch, summer breeze and shits made me sleepy as fuck so i took a nap only to wake up realizing that there was a motherfucking hairy peter parker on my face ... pissed my pants and screamed to high heaven ... almighty mum heard me and got the little fucker out of my face -_-
Oddly enough, looking at all of these pictures has helped me deal with my fear of spiders, I think. After seeing a fucking spider badass enough to eat a motherfucking bird, no little, furry bastard spider around here is gonna scare me...
LOL this thread is so hilarious :D i want to add my fears and not fears to it: I'm for some reason 100% fine with spiders, i have spiders in my room sometimes and i've even woke up with some right in front of my eyes on the wall, or climbing on me. Doesn't bother me one bit i think they are cute. However, ants freak me out they are evil and disgusting creatures. Those pretty small black ants are usually ok as long as they aren't ON me and theres only 1 of them, but the larger or the red ones make me extremely uncomfortable and if anyone ever gets on me i panic a little and swiftly try to get rid of it. I don't fear wasps as much as fucking hate them, theyre always out to get me... these things can fly in front of you and never fucking go away until they have stung you or you get far far away from those fuckers. Bumblebees and bees are very nice though! i pet bumblebees when i get the chance (ie, bother them when theyre trying to gather nectar) and i've never been stung by one edit: fixed typo
On June 12 2011 19:43 AlphaWhale wrote: I live in Australia. If I was scared of insects I would've died at the tendrils of one these horrible beasts a long time ago.
What about an Australian Funnel-Web Spider? Now those motherfuckers are scary, i've had one of those little bastards pounce at me before. DEM FANGS.
Also, Huntsman or Clock Spiders as some people might know them as scare the shit out of me. I had one land on my head once, then I panicked, flailed around and ended up running into a wall and splitting my lip open.
i dont like mosquitos, therefore i love spiders. They are the guardians of my home. Ive tried feeding them bread but its very hard to throw a piece in their web, and it freaks them out also cockroaches dont seem to likeable to me, but ive never encountered one :3
On June 12 2011 23:35 TheAwesomeAll wrote: i dont like mosquitos, therefore i love spiders. They are the guardians of my home. Ive tried feeding them bread but its very hard to throw a piece in their web, and it freaks them out also cockroaches dont seem to likeable to me, but ive never encountered one :3
I'm pretty sure that they won't be able to eat bread, right? O.o
On June 12 2011 23:35 TheAwesomeAll wrote: i dont like mosquitos, therefore i love spiders. They are the guardians of my home. Ive tried feeding them bread but its very hard to throw a piece in their web, and it freaks them out also cockroaches dont seem to likeable to me, but ive never encountered one :3
I'm pretty sure that they won't be able to eat bread, right? O.o
naaw spiders are insect eaters, they don't bother with non disgusting or non scary food. We need to find a way to communicate with the spiders so we can form an alliance.
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
This made me uncheck India on my "Countries to visit before I die" list
I work at a Pizza Delivery place in Central Florida. We close at 230 am on the weekends so im there till about 3am cleaning up.
At about 1am all of the other stores in the area close down and go home.
At this time the cockroaches come out. All shapes and sizes. They climb all over the doors and windows of the store, front and back.
You can hear them crawling all over the building.....Just trying to find a way in.
Inevitably I have to open the door to make a delivery.
I feel like the star of a zombie movie, trying to escape to save humanity from starvation.
At first the cockroaches run from the moving door, but like a loud shadow they rush towards the closing light, most dont make it in time, a few get crushed by the door,
The few that get in, die due to the insecticide and bug killers before they even make it a few feet into the lobby.
When I return I park away from the store, I dont want Cockroaches to invade my car. Its not as secure. I come back to repeat my door dash, except this time i jump over all of the bodies that have accumulated in my absence.
At night they have to be swept away, but in the morning there are always more bodies.
Moral of the story: Give us a decent tip. Drivers remember who doesnt tip or tip well
I am so afraid of insect, it's my worst phoebia. They are disgusting, scary, i can't help it but i just wanna run far far away, even if it is just a fly. Spider and bee scares me the most.
The only thing keeping me safe are my cats, they are badass insect killer. I have a deaf cat (White hair blue eyes) and she is the real terror: You just need to show her the insect and 2 second later it dies under her feet.
Of course during sumer your facing a dilemna: Die from heat or from fear? My answer is to close shutters and open windows ^^
After reading this thread more, I realize that not all spiders are evil motherfuckers trying to fuck my shit up. Even so, the only kind I am moderately okay with are the teeny tiny ones about the size of a new pencil eraser. Frank the Garden Spider was a good friend.
I hate insects, whenever a wasp flies into my room i grab the first solid object i can find and hit it as fucking hard as i can. Then i throw it in the rubbish bin when i'm sure it's dead. `-´
I just really hate all kinds of flying bloodsuckers. Live out in the country so every summer im bitten all over my body. gaah wish i could do some sort of fire aoe spell IRL
Normally I don't really care at all - the only time I care is when those fuckers are in the water that you're swimming in or some shit. I never really encountered any insects I didn't just kill without much thought or just ignored.
Except moths, those fuckers are so annoying, like when you're watching tv and they just keep fucking flying into the tv screen, and if you smack them, you get all this nasty stuff on your hand -.-
Edit: I would imagine if I saw a real fucking big insect I would be scared shitless, or anything venomous really. Nothing like that in Denmark though.
After all this scary pictures of this thread, i need to post something to balance the whole thing, to share some love around this harsh world. Behold the cutest things ever living on earth:
Hard to believe they are in fact furious bugs killer without any kind of remorse.
I keep a couple of these in the appartment. They make all the flies and bugs go away () and they just stay at the corners so why bother.
My worst nightmare tho... Seriously guys, how can you sleep in these locations? I would have to wear a protective suit to get an hour of sleep wherever these spiders live.
On June 12 2011 22:45 nttea wrote: Bumblebees and bees are very nice though! i pet bumblebees when i get the chance (ie, bother them when theyre trying to gather nectar) and i've never been stung by one
Yea when I was little I found out it took a lot before a bumblebee would sting, so I picked one up, threw it on my friend and it stung him. He wasn't happy.
I have a pet scorpion. Scorpions are badass they will fight anything that tries to harass them, cats, dogs, snakes, humans... them scorpions are crazy mofos!
Big motherfuckers need to get out regardless. I won't kill most if any insects unless it's pretty unavoidable I always prefer freeing them outdoors.
I quite like bees though when I was like 9 I was shit scared of bees and my Dad made me spend the day researching bees after that I've never been afraid to walk near them or being stupidly close to them. It helps when you know quite a bit about what they do.
I am actually fairly sure I have entomophobia. Like seriously when there is a bug nearby and I see it I just freeze up in terror. If I had a bug fly directly at me man I would have a full on panic attack.
the only thing is ants, cause they crawl around, and they usually vrawl on my bottle of liquor and go around the bottleneck and you cant get them off, so i ahve to throw out my alchohol and they always bite, little motherf*ckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Assault_1 if i saw that i would go like to the highest place in the house and hide there for my whole life, cause i hate these bugs with like 10000000000000000000000 legs! they crawl, bite n scare the shit out of me!
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wouldn't live in a country where those Fire trUCKERS live! and poor mouse, what did she do to him omg, that guy who raised it is a monster! raising something like that should be punished :D probably that "thing" one day will crawl onto his neck and eat him, or at least bite him so hard that he will bleed to death! this will happen, the same thing with lions, theyre cute and all but after a little while it eats everyone who fed them and lived with them!
Like a lot of people have said, spiders are actually our allies since they eat pretty much the rest of the bugs. Good thing is that here they're also not poisonous. Scandinavia is kinda nice in that we also have cold ass winters, half the year is bug free! Anyone who complains about the cold doesn't understand how grand that trade is.
If I would ever see one of those giant centipedes somewhere, I'd leave the country with the next plane, they're just stuff of nightmares. Also, all mosquitoes must die.
I'm not necessarily afraid of insects, but that doesn't mean I like them flying at me trying to bounce off my head, or into my ear, or up my nose. Size isn't an issue for me, but I absolutely HATE moths, butterflies not an issue, moths yes. Praying mantis, dragon flies, grasshoppers, crickets, most fairly common insects/larger ones don't bother me much at all. Hornets, wasps, mosquitoes, and horse/deer flies bother me as much as the next person, but I'm not scared of them. Whenever an insect does annoy me (that is to say, it repeatedly flies at me attempting to attack), I'll usually simply walk away from the area until it stops. Swatting at them usually makes them more aggressive, and doesn't result well in getting them to leave you alone. I have a pet tarantula and it crawling on my arm or my hand is not an issue for me at all, it hasn't bitten me, but that's because I am not scared of it biting me, if you are scared, then it probably will. Like I said above its mostly moths for some reason that I am actually somewhat scared of.
For some reason I hate bees so much that even if I see a shape of fly and I keep thinking it must be a bee... Afraid that I have big allergetic to them;(
I'm only scared of bugs that can actually hurt me, or have really annoying bites like mosquitoes. So stuff like wasps are bad, spiders are good, moths are fine, and deer flies are terrible.
On June 13 2011 00:02 Corvette wrote: I work at a Pizza Delivery place in Central Florida. We close at 230 am on the weekends so im there till about 3am cleaning up.
At about 1am all of the other stores in the area close down and go home.
At this time the cockroaches come out. All shapes and sizes. They climb all over the doors and windows of the store, front and back.
You can hear them crawling all over the building.....Just trying to find a way in.
Inevitably I have to open the door to make a delivery.
I feel like the star of a zombie movie, trying to escape to save humanity from starvation.
At first the cockroaches run from the moving door, but like a loud shadow they rush towards the closing light, most dont make it in time, a few get crushed by the door,
The few that get in, die due to the insecticide and bug killers before they even make it a few feet into the lobby.
When I return I park away from the store, I dont want Cockroaches to invade my car. Its not as secure. I come back to repeat my door dash, except this time i jump over all of the bodies that have accumulated in my absence.
At night they have to be swept away, but in the morning there are always more bodies.
Moral of the story: Give us a decent tip. Drivers remember who doesnt tip or tip well
If i know the bug/spider is harmless, i don't really care how it looks
If its harmful well, i will treat it like a threat and do whatever i can to avoid it neutralise
if im not sure its harmful, i will treat it as harmful.
The fuckers i hate most are ticks, because at least here they can infect you with some pretty nasty shit like lyme disease or encaphalytis
Just the other day i felt smth in my hear and pulled out a tick before it managed to embed himself into my skin, and today i caught one crawling on my jeans, shitty motherfucker.
Did i mentioned they embed themselves into your soft and precious skin? + Show Spoiler +
Good news is that they embed only partially, bad news is that they are a bitch to pull out fully.
Where I live we dont have too many scary insects. Im ok with spiders but the jump spiders kinda freaks me out. And those big nasty flying things that always get into your room in the summer nights when you have the window open due to the heat. They cant even fly properly and just crash to the floor all the time. So you lie there in your bed and hear them flying around and bumping into things and you know its just a matter of time b4 one of them come crashing down on your face.
For a while the apartment I lived in had a problem with those fucking nasty ass "house centipedes". They're already been covered in here. Uughghghghghhhh those things should be eradicated from the Earth.
Anyway the way I dealt with them is a dustbuster filled with moth balls. Suck them up, and they die horribly in the chamber. You can hold it like a gun too and pretend ur hunting zerglings.
Just be sure to remember to hotkey ur comsat station in case they burrow under the door.
On June 13 2011 04:19 Haemonculus wrote: For a while the apartment I lived in had a problem with those fucking nasty ass "house centipedes". They're already been covered in here. Uughghghghghhhh those things should be eradicated from the Earth.
Anyway the way I dealt with them is a dustbuster filled with moth balls. Suck them up, and they die horribly in the chamber. You can hold it like a gun too and pretend ur hunting zerglings.
Just be sure to remember to hotkey ur comsat station in case they burrow under the door.
For me, it really depends on the characteristics and behaviors of the bug in question. Flying bugs in general annoy me with how unpredictable they are and I prefer to kill/relocate them, especially wasps and bees. Small crawling bugs aren't a problem, unless they bite or have some other bothersome trait. Spiders just making webs and killing off insects I don't mind at all either, unless they're doing it in inconvenient places.
The only bugs I really despise are mosquitoes (really annoying and serve no beneficial purpose, plus they transmit diseases) and certain large crawling types like cockroaches (outright disgusting). Fortunately where I live there aren't very many large insects, so I rarely encounter anything that really puts me off.
Bees don't do shit.. unless you proxy harass them... just let em be... and they won't fuck your shit up..
WASPS on the other hand, are solely instated in the world to annoy, irritate and wreck havock in ANYBODYS business... humans, animals, other bugs... WASPS don't give a fuck.. they just want everybody to have a bad day..
Solution:
Kill these motherfuckers with an electrified slapper.... THIS:
If there are a lot of WASPS, kill that fucking shit with Fire... Run ... OR get some smoke..
On June 13 2011 00:02 Corvette wrote: I work at a Pizza Delivery place in Central Florida. We close at 230 am on the weekends so im there till about 3am cleaning up.
At about 1am all of the other stores in the area close down and go home.
At this time the cockroaches come out. All shapes and sizes. They climb all over the doors and windows of the store, front and back.
You can hear them crawling all over the building.....Just trying to find a way in.
Inevitably I have to open the door to make a delivery.
I feel like the star of a zombie movie, trying to escape to save humanity from starvation.
At first the cockroaches run from the moving door, but like a loud shadow they rush towards the closing light, most dont make it in time, a few get crushed by the door,
The few that get in, die due to the insecticide and bug killers before they even make it a few feet into the lobby.
When I return I park away from the store, I dont want Cockroaches to invade my car. Its not as secure. I come back to repeat my door dash, except this time i jump over all of the bodies that have accumulated in my absence.
At night they have to be swept away, but in the morning there are always more bodies.
Moral of the story: Give us a decent tip. Drivers remember who doesnt tip or tip well
Do humanity a huge favor and burn that pizza place down to the ground i can't imagine any jury would convict you for a crime hell ... they would probably give you a medal.
<~ Completely terriffied of insects/spiders. Especially spiders..
Tho those "house centipedes" would be enough for me to move out of the country... would only take one of those be4 i gtfo of there.
seriously this thread is going to give me nightmares and i am just soooooooo happy i didnt see this thread be4 going to sleep.....
uuggghh hate spiders/bugs. ><
there is literally not a single bug or spider in ehre that i am not like "GTF away!!!" except for the butterfly..and the prayingmantis is sick..but only if you respect them and give them their space. Everytime i see a praying mantis i expect it to perform some sort of kung fu attack on me maybe thats why i fear/respect them... like the old chinese guy who never speaks but always has a serious look on his face.
mosquitos are my nemesis tho.
Went to Mammoth in the summer for family vacation... drench myself in bug repellant every day. End of the trip i have over 30 mosquito bites in a 4 day trip... am expecting to die of malaria.
My family that all slept in the same motorhome as me.. the most any one of them had was 4...
and NO I DONT EAT BANANA's AND I HATE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT TO ME AS I AM SUFFERING FROM MOSQUITO BITES.
There's no reason to be afraid of spiders... they basically eat all the other bugs that piss you off and spiders basically never bite anything as big of a threat as a moving human. I regularly save insects (moths, centipede, beetles) if they are stuck somewhere. The only ones I really kill are mosquitoes. I like to catch flying bugs and throw them in spider webs and watch them get eaten. Go team spiders!
The only bug I don't want to land on me is a wasp/hornet. The rest I usually deliver to safety.
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.
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 !
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 :>
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
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.
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).
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:
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.'
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!
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).
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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? + Show Spoiler +
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
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.
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.
I'm getting better with my arachnophobia. Now I don't completely freeze up and want to enter the fetal position if the spider is no larger than a couple of millimeters long.
[QUOTE]On June 12 2011 08:52 zizou21 wrote: [QUOTE]On June 12 2011 08:46 Assault_1 wrote: I hate these more than anything, I see them in my house every so often
On June 14 2011 06:28 Nqsty wrote: I just can't stop myself from jumping in the air when looking at this video, it just gets to me even when I try to prevent it..
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.
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.
Blizzard this has gone on long enough! Bugs need a nerf!
OMFG I'm just sitting here innocently browsing TL and this fucking moth flies right into my ear for no reason. By the sound I made my flatmates probably think I was just murdered -_-
Bugs and shit i don't really mind. I usually just let them run along long as they aren't in the house. Spiders i kill usually just because theres dangerous ones around here. Snakes mostly is what gets me. Usually kill them if i can.
On June 12 2011 10:47 OneOther wrote: I'm scared as shit of all bugs and insects. Except mosquitoes. Gotta kill as many of them as possible.
YEAAAAAAH DUUUUDE this is the same mindset I have! I'm scared as shit of spiders though. I watched the movie Arachnophobia one time at night (yeah I don't know why I did this either) and that movie opened up my fear of spiders even more T_T please hold me =((
On June 14 2011 08:11 Slow Motion wrote: I fucking despise insects. I have mixed feelings about spiders because they are nasty, but they also eat other insects.
Also I think the insect I hate least are ants. Any other insect haters feel the same way?
Actually pretty much the same. Ants are cool, as long as they're not rafting through a stream with the bodies of their dead comrades or some shit. What do you think about worms or moths?
On June 14 2011 08:11 Slow Motion wrote: I fucking despise insects. I have mixed feelings about spiders because they are nasty, but they also eat other insects.
Also I think the insect I hate least are ants. Any other insect haters feel the same way?
Actually pretty much the same. Ants are cool, as long as they're not rafting through a stream with the bodies of their dead comrades or some shit. What do you think about worms or moths?
I don't mind worms if they not freakishly huge like some I see on youtube. Don't particularly like moths but they don't freak me out either. And I actually kinda like fireflies and butterflies (as long as they're not in my house).
If its a reasonable sized insect, I don't want it touching me, or in a place where it could easily fly/jump over to me. I'll usually just avoid them, or throw something from a distance to coax it off its perch. Spiders have never bothered me, but im not in an area that gets any large ones.
I hate bugs and spiders with a passion. I'm not so much afraid of insects as I am spiders though. I've never really been afraid of ladybugs and fireflies though for whatever reason. But anything that startles me by crawling on my skin or flying at me makes me freak out and flail about until it dies.
On June 14 2011 06:28 Nqsty wrote: I just can't stop myself from jumping in the air when looking at this video, it just gets to me even when I try to prevent it..
On June 13 2011 00:02 Corvette wrote: I work at a Pizza Delivery place in Central Florida. We close at 230 am on the weekends so im there till about 3am cleaning up.
At about 1am all of the other stores in the area close down and go home.
At this time the cockroaches come out. All shapes and sizes. They climb all over the doors and windows of the store, front and back.
You can hear them crawling all over the building.....Just trying to find a way in.
Inevitably I have to open the door to make a delivery.
I feel like the star of a zombie movie, trying to escape to save humanity from starvation.
At first the cockroaches run from the moving door, but like a loud shadow they rush towards the closing light, most dont make it in time, a few get crushed by the door,
The few that get in, die due to the insecticide and bug killers before they even make it a few feet into the lobby.
When I return I park away from the store, I dont want Cockroaches to invade my car. Its not as secure. I come back to repeat my door dash, except this time i jump over all of the bodies that have accumulated in my absence.
At night they have to be swept away, but in the morning there are always more bodies.
Moral of the story: Give us a decent tip. Drivers remember who doesnt tip or tip well
Do humanity a huge favor and burn that pizza place down to the ground i can't imagine any jury would convict you for a crime hell ... they would probably give you a medal.
Its not a matter of it being the pizza places fault. Thats just how it is here in florida, and if your the only store around, then all the bugs go to you
Spiders don't bother me at all. One time I went swimming, put on my trunks and noticed a spider crawling on my leg, so I brush it off. Then there's another... hmmm. Undo the knot on my trunks and look inside, there's a sack of eggs and little spiders crawling next to my junk. I do up my shorts, walk back in side, take them off, clean them out and go swimming, just one of those things.
There are way worse bugs out there. Mosquitoes, horseflies and ticks are real pains in the ass and I have to deal with them all the time when I'm out in the woods at my cousins place. Some times the horseflies are so bad you can't go outside, you'll have bleeding bite marks where ever there is exposed skin in minutes. Spiders get rid of the real asshole bugs, that's why I never hurt spiders, even if they lay a sack of eggs in my swimming trunks.
Insects are the worst. Even ants freak me the eff out, especially when I'm just walking down the street in my flip flops, don't watch where I'm going, and step too close to a huge ant farm in the sidewalk. FFFF. Why do most bugs move so sporadically? Like they're sprinting in a line and instantly change direction into another line. ffs, walk sensically.
I hate summer for one reason--because I find these creatures in my house. + Show Spoiler +
I don't care they're relatively harmless. I want them out. Fortunately, I have an effective way to get rid of these things. 1) Freak the hell out. 2) Spray the thing with bleach. idgaf if they're on the wall, carpet, whatever. I refuse to touch those things alive with any extension of my hand. 3) Get an oven mitt, 50 rolls of toilet paper, and the largest textbook I can find. I smash the thing with the textbook. 4) Pick up the bug with my ghetto super glove (because I'm deathly afraid that if I smash it just with a magazine, it'll survive and crawl on my arm) and throw it in the trash. 5) Curl up in a ball on my computer chair for the next hour in paranoia.
This is a house centipede. They feed on spiders and insects. They're relatively harmless. They're not insects, belonging to the Class Chilopoda (containing centipedes and millipedes). Centipedes are poisonous and predacious, though the house centipede is harmless. Millipedes + Show Spoiler +
, that can be found in dark corners of the house occasionally. They can be easily identified by the guitar/violin like pattern on the back of its cephalothorax. The second spider is the Black Widow
Really nothing too poisonous or anything you'd really have to worry about where I Iive (vancouver island) so for that reason, I'm not too bothered by most things. Any sort of flying creatures I just open up my windows and try to convince them to go outside. Spiders in my house I quickly kill unless I'm feeling generous and they're in an area that I don't eat/sleep. Outside though, no bugs really bother me. Cockroaches are quite disgusting and I encountered them when I was a bit south in the states. Jumped on them every chance I got. First time I saw them, there were like 20 on this pile of cat/dog poop and I decided right then that we can't be friends.
But yeah, if there's a little spider in my room, I grab some paper towel or something similar and squish it. Big spider? Trap it under a glass, turn compressed can of air upside down and freeze it :3 Works well as long as they have no room to blow away.
I remember I saw a big black widow in my garage once and I flipped the fuck out. I closed the door to the garage and hope the black widow left was too scared as shit to kill it at the time.
Dammit, I looked up that word that means toxic poison effect on a body and saw a boy's rotting leg, decomposing on him while he is still alive. From a bloody snake bite. God those images make me sick.
Not afraid of any bugs really, I kind of like spiders, I think they are awesome in concept. I do however have an intense, unyielding, hatred for: . As we speak, I can see about 5 of them flying around stuck inside the florescent light cases of my office. There are probably another five in various corners of my office. They are in literally every corner, nook and cranny of this office building.
Reading this thread reminds me of that article on Cracked.com. Personally, bugs have fascinated me, with the exception of roaches and mosquitoes. Those just... bug me. *rimshot*
I have a huge fear of most bugs and I've always wondered why we hate bugs so much, especially the ones that don't hurt us. I know it's an irrational fear, except if it's a cockroach (which can spread disease) or something that can bite us, make us itch, etc. Any thoughts?
If I'm playing starcraft and I see a bug I don't care at all, had a spider crawl up my arm and onto my neck once and just sat there till i finished.... I'm pretty sure that spider lost me the game though
I don't care about bugs. But spiders freak me the fuck out. Someone posted a picture of a big spider in the funny pics that make you laugh thread a few weeks ago and haven't clicked that thread since.
Also when I see something like that I will check where I'm walking and under my chair / table etc for at least the rest of the day. Seriously man, I'm gonna invent a special spider nuke and fuck their shit some day.
I am the designated spider, bug strange small insect killer, or else I have to hear my girlfriend whine, cry , freak out when the smallest thing she sees crawling. If it is a spider she sees she screams and tells me to kill it. I grab it with my bare hands and I show it to her then for the ultimate gross out factor I eat the spider.... gg newb increase your apm. zerg underpowered lulz.( Only done that once ) lol.
Insects are my enemy! I was raised with two girls (Mother and sister) who were both insanely afraid of all forms if insects. Then my brother was a tyrant who used their fear and exploited it for his twisted lame humour.
Growing up, I was the insect slayer who had no fear because none other then me could restore preace to the domain I protected.
I don't hate insects cause that would be silly. I view them as creatures that would kill me and eat me if they could. Since i'm bigger and invincible to 99.9% of insects, I might aswell show them i'm boss around here and overcharge my birthright.
I used to make jokes with my ex-girl friend about having a JIHAD against insects. Sparing only those ones who would flee. In my room, any insect detected by my scanners (eyes) will be destroyed and leff as a carcass to warn any new wanderers of their fate.
I also host a giant genocide a few times a summer. Outside my apartment building, there is a night lantern. There thousands of insects gather around the light and have a daily party. Spiders feast, but their evolutionary success is short lived within such proximity of my Lair.
I take a raid can, light a smoke, and state the following.
On June 12 2011 10:13 Supamang wrote: I love spiders, at least house spiders. Theyre a natural insect control so I like keeping them inside the house. I hate any blood-sucking or infestation-capable insects. Mosquitos, bed bugs, fleas, etc. give me a slight allergic reaction to their bites and it pisses me off. Ants are annoying because they could take over your home if youre not careful. Fleas are a combination of the two, I hate them with a passion.
Oh and bees. Bees piss me off. Just be glad you dont live in Japan and have to deal with these bad boys:
Honeybees are awesome though. But that isn't a bee it's a hornet, the fact that people actually are not able to distinguish a bee from a wasp kind of disappoints me.
This is a bee Notice the brown colour (the yellow is pollen, but underneath it is brown) and the furry body? A hornet on the other hand is what you linked, it is yellow with no fur on it. Bees are actually quite nice :3 unless you crush them they will NOT sting you, because if they sting you they die. It's a reason why you can see people having their whole body covered in bees and not get hurt. (This rule doesn't apply to killer bees unfortunately)
i'm not afraid of insects now, but when i was young i had a bad experience. this bug + Show Spoiler +
(i search in wikipedia, i think his name in english is european hornet), stung me 4 times on the hand. i was only 5 years old, so i cried a lot. and i had to take 2 different drugs. thanks to boy scouts i don't hate bugs now
I'm afraid of any flying insect bigger than small mosquitoes. I've never been stung by anything other than, well, small mosquitoes. So I'm not sure why I'm scared of them.
On June 12 2011 15:36 Kojaimea wrote: Lived in India last summer, by far the worst part was the fucking spiders lurking under everything. Had to deal with this shit:
WTF WTF WTF. So you abandoned your clothes and bag until that spider left right? o.O
I actually have a short video of a couple of local dudes trying to kill it with a broom. Even they were a little scared, those fucking spiders pounce. Here's the aftermath:
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