waaaassspppp

[moggssue]

oohhhh, yes, with you on the earwigs - why do they exist??? ..... and yes, I'm the one to put spiders out in our household as well - maybe a man thing?

[Sirius]

Sorry to let the side down girls, but I can't stand spiders!!! Eeeeeeeeeek!!! Living on my own most of the time (OH is in Canada), I've had to learn to deal with them, and being in a first floor flat thankfully they tend not to visit me. Just as well!!

Earwigs are one of the most horrible things I've ever come across in my life (after spiders of course!), they're just so ewwwwwww!

[SarzWix]

Earwigs don't bother me ('cept when they're chomping the dahlias...!), nothing crawly does really, but put wings on 'em....

[HeyWayne]

LadyWayne hates earwigs with a passion, she's none too keen on birds or flappy things either.

I'm chief spider putter-outer in our house, she can't sleep if there's on in the bedroom - even if it's all the way over the other side of the room.

Biggest spider I ever put out was in the doctors surgery last year (I think I may have posted about it on here come to think of it).

[Flummery]

I manage to catch my own spiders these days - glass and card method again. However, when we hadn't been married long (back in the Dark Ages!) I found a HUGE spider on the landing. I upended a bucket over it, then, strangely, I put my hiking boots on top to weigh it down! No, the spider WASN'T big enough to grasp both sides of the bucket and heave it upwards - but it didn't half give Himself a laugh when he got home from work!

[JanieB]

I've always been terrified of the BIG spiders, and have had to get some brave man to put them out for me. I won't have them killed as they eat flies. Since Brian died I've had to be a lot braver and do it for myself. He did give me one of those "stick things with a brushy thing at the end for picking them up" for a Xmas present a few years ago. Couldn't for the life of me understand why at the time as I wouldn't get THAT close to the things .

Mozzies I hate as I get a very bad reaction to their bites. I went round Ephesus with my legs bandaged 'cos of mozzy bites .

Wasps are fascinating creatures and have a very bad press. Read up about them. Even the BBKA site isn't particularly against them .

I'm not scared of snakes, rats, mice or anything else really, just spiders, weird.

[HeyWayne]

Mozzies I hate as I get a very bad reaction to their bites. I went round Ephesus with my legs bandaged 'cos of mozzy bites .

With you on the bite reaction thing (see my blog last year), Bladdy biting bug things!!

[SueA]

We have been finding lady birds all over our house all winter, at least one a day. Thought they were supposed to be sleeping too, perhaps they've all decided to sleep at our house without telling us.

Hi Newbie, check that they're not harlequin ladybirds as people are reporting a lot of them hibernating in houses this year. They're a bit bigger than normal ones & come in different colours. They're destroying native ladybirds. Here's a link.
Harlequin Ladybird Survey - home
Having said that I think you do get the odd one or two 'normal' ones in houses as they creep in under roofs, cracks around windowframes etc. & hibernate.
I get bitten by everything on earth & usually end up with bites that won't go whatever I try, I've still got a small bite on my wrist from something that bit me last summer that comes up & itches every so often!

[rustylady]

I react really badly to mozzy bites. Love bees, hate wasps, tolerate earwigs and spiders, loathe daddy-long-legs. Bees and spiders get evicted from the house using the glass and card method - sorry to admit it, but wasps and DDLs get squished. AND THE WORST OF ALL - JULY BUGS!!!

[workhorse]

Had two enormous bumble bees flying past the other days, and I mean big.

[piskieinboots]

they weren't bumble bees workhorse, that was a Royal Air Force fly-past

[shirlthegirl43]

I loathe most insects. I am a super food to mozzies and any other biting bugs ( yup midges, gnats whatever) I dislike spiders when they jump out at me but if I know where they they don't bother me. Hate earwigs, Madmax will tell you about my run in with cockroaches, dislike waspses with a huge passion (what is the reason for their existence please?). I think butterflies are extremely pretty and even admired the huge ones that we saw in California (no flies or wasps there) but can't go to a butterfly place in comfort - always scared I will swat them. Love bumbly bees though