Yeah, everyone at least has one insect they fear to have an encounter with, post it!

Me I have a few I dont want to encounter...

Human Bot Fly

"..its larvae burrow under skin and live as internal parasites of warm-blooded animals.."
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/torsalo.html

Brown Recluse


Jack Jumper Ant


Kissing Bug


Oh and a small warning if you google search for the bot fly, some pictures are disgusting. I particularly dont mind bugs, its just these killer ones I mind.


[This message has been edited by Keith Marshall (edited April 30, 2004).]

ok now i'm probably gonna have disturbing dreams about the human bot fly after seeing some of the images

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Psst, a brown recluse isn't an insect. =P

Their bites can be quite nasty though. In some cases the venom "eats away" at the flesh and cause large holes in the flesh, heh.

Of course those are extremely rare and in most cases the bites heal with no need for treatment.

Crickets, I seriously have a problem with crickets. They are annoying when they are alive, but I just cannot bring myself to kill them, I mean their exoskeleton seems so sharp and jagged to me I fear that crushing them is going to be like stepping on a pile of broken glass, and leaving it there for the future. Like flakes of razor sharp metal, or a handful of hypodermic needles.

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“questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”

They're insects! Well, bugs, anyways...

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There is no spoon.

I really hated the backwards walking animation bug in JA..

I'm with Spork on this one.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I'm happy I live in Finland where we only have one venomous adder and no spider (except for the cute "Daddy long-legs" variant) is larger than my thumbnail.

Which means that we don't have anything nearly as hideous as the Camel "Spider"/Solifugid.


*shudders*

All right, it's not strictly an insect, but still. It's still a multilegged exo-skeletal carpaced thingy.

On a related note, I'm not terribly fond of earwigs or centipedes or millipedes either.

I hate ants. I get so freaked out when I see one or two thousand crawling over me.

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I've got a complete phobia of bees and wasps.

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"Apples rule. If it weren't for a conspiracy on the part of fruit manufacturers we'd all have apples."

Wasps. Anything that builds it's nest in my garage is my most feared insect.

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Amen.

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Words of wisdom:
"l33t 1s g00d 1n sm4ll d0s3s,
but 1t 1s 4 drug, 4nd drugz 4r3 3v1l!"

That bot fly sounds gross.. Anyway, Darth, almost all spider venoms do that to skin. That's why its easy to tell when you've been bit by a spider. Anyway, probably the nastiest bug (bug as in the general category of creepy crawly thing) would be for me, the wolf spider. First off, the get real big around where I live in southern Indiana. Secondly, I've been bit by one before and it freaking scarred. AND IT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

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"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

I am happy i live in holland

We almost have NO venomes snakes (except in area's of protected nature) and no venomes spiders... Just these procession caterpillars are pissing me of. There hairs can cause MAJOR problems when they come in your mouth, nose or ears... Last week i got two in my throat (that somekind of DOCTER hurted me with a lot of things...), three in my nose (its strange when they pull out a stick with green stuf and a hair on it ) and one in my ear (no paine at all)

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He cuts you with the words sun san...its quistion obi one.

When youre chased. With a correlian cruiser...Watch your back. Its quistion twozer

... How the **** did you get them in your mouth, your nose, AND your ears?

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Words of wisdom:
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Bees and bumblebees are alright. I don't mind them at all as long as they don't nest on the house. Wasps on the other hand, they get in your food, your drink, they're overly aggressive, and well... they're not even cute and fuzzy.

I dont really mind bugs... just as long as they dont start trying to crawl down my shirt. After that, their *** is MINE!

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

Uh, I don't care for all the other critters, but I'm scared of wasps and bees and all those yellow and black flying bugs that sting to the point I seldom walk in fields and woods during summer.

Don't ask why, I've always been scared of them since birth.

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I hate wasps with a passion.

(not White anglo saxon protestants, but the insect variety. )

Wasps are so damn mean, greedy, and stupid. I was eating chicken outside once, and wasps started showing up. I good-naturedly threw them a piece so they would eat it and leave me alone, bu the little s***s ignored it and started coming after mine.

Bees are okay. I have nothing against bees (but that may change now since most of the bees I see now are probably africanized) Bees want pollen more than anything in the world, and they will ignore you as long as you don't do anything stupid like threaten them.

I have nothing against bumblebees either, except when their loud buzzing and curiousity catches me off guard. Most times, the bumblebees around here turn out to be those shiny blue/green beetles, so I enjoy knocking those out of the air with a stick.


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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 01, 2004).]

I think they might be some kind of bug



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If it has more than 4 legs, I hate it.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

AHHH!GET IT AWAY!!!

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The advantage is is that you can 'borrow' movies for long amounts of time without him remembering that you borrowed them.

The disadvantage is the pizza cheese grime on the DVDs

I hate when wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and so on, fly past your ears and you wind up reflexively hitting yourself in public.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

Yes, most spider bites do it, but most don't do it to this extent:

That's frelling nasty.



Curiosity killed the cat *THROWS UP ALL OVER THE PLACE*

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[This message has been edited by SAJN_Master (edited May 01, 2004).]

they don't get too big around this part of southern indiana... we used to have a brown recluse problem in my garage... but that garage burned down...

i don't fear them but i HATE roaches...

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How the hell big do those things get?! (in inches or centemeters... i don't care which).

I have a deep rooted hatred of Wolf Spiders myself (especially with the "wolf spider from hell" that i spent the last 3 days dealing with. The damned thing ket coming into the house, getting thrown out, and coming back in (the new lightly-coloured tile floor doesn't help much either). By the third day, i was sick of it, so i flushed the little bugger. If it comes back again... i'm gonna get a little scared.......

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"Iraqniphobia - The fear of non-existant weapons of mass-destruction."

I'm not afraid of them, but mosquitos bug the hell out of me. They always seem to hover right by my ear, making that unbearably obnoxious high-pitched buzzing sound.

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Ticks. I am terrified of ticks. The freak me out totally and completely. Especially the full ones. *shudders*

Also I am skittish of most species of spiders. Especially the Brown Recluse. That thing is just not cool.

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sig·na·ture n.

A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity.

The first two houses I lived in were infested with brown recluses.


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Grace is the Pleasure of God to magnify the Worth of God by
enabling sinners to delight in God without compromising the Glory of God.
-J. Piper

That's just scary.

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sig·na·ture n.

A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity.

I absolutely HATE crane flies / gnats. They are anoying little buggers who don't know when to back off. They are hard to kill too, despite their large size because they are so damn fast! Arg! Nasty critters.

-- SavageX

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Any species of the arachnid class, including ticks, spiders, and scorpions, I also hate horseflies (for allergenic reasons), wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, bees (except those cute little bumble bees), any kind of ant thats larger than half of the size of my pinky nail, and thats all that I can think of right now

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Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a *****?

I don't much like wasps, I just catch em, cut the whole stinger section off with a knife/dime/whatever is laying around, and set them free.

Yeah I'm screwed up.

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<3 wasps would be fine by me if they couldnt sting/bite(unsure if they do bite, i always run like crap when i see a bee)

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"It's OK for us to randomly attack people!"
-BV

trust me...they bite. *shivers*

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Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a *****?

Yeah, you folks with the brown recluses have it lucky. In this area of the country, we have hobo spiders.

http://www.hobospider.com/info/

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Roach - Caught in the war of hemispheres.
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[This message has been edited by Roach (edited May 01, 2004).]

Yeah, Hobospiders suck, and so do Black Widows. Found one by my rain gutter. Squished it instantly.

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