What insect do you find most repulsive?

[Cue the Toms]

I don't get the anti maggot brigade... I used to use loads when I was fishing. They are dry, they don't smell and are completely harmless???

[veggiechicken]

I don't get the fishing brigade who can stick maggots on hooks
Maggots are horrible because they appear out of nowhere. As a child I remember lifting the dustbin lid and inside it was crawling with maggots. I can't eat rice, if I have that image in my mind.

[Cue the Toms]

Wriggly rice must be a Japanese delicacy

[veggiechicken]

I had potatoes tonight so my stomach contents are quite secure

[Cue the Toms]

I had some yellowish rice... I didn't notice it moving much so must have been cooked thoroughly

[Glutton4...]

My (ex) Auntie used to live abroad (in the forces, when she was married to my Unc). In one place they lived, she threw heaps and heaps of rice away, as it had 'things' in it, and it drove her potty. Then, one day, one of the locals told her it was normal for their climate. You just boil the rice, in plenty of water, stir it regularly, and skim the corpses off the top!

*Pukes...

[veggiechicken]

Probably skimmed the corpses off because they were vegetarian

[julesapple]

Blimey, I thought I was bad. Although yes, horseflies do also leave me in a lot of discomfort for a long time.. Anything that bites me seems to take an excessively long time to heal. I have no idea why and it only seems to have been in recent years??? I have asked my Dr. but they just tell me to buy some anti-histamines to use as and when I get bit.

Chris

It depends whereabouts you're bitten. For anyone who suffers really bad swelling after an insect bite, being bitten near a major organ, or your windpipe, could be fatal. I've been bitten twice in 46 years, so I don't let it govern my life - we live rurally and I'm just careful not to go anywhere insect-ridden unless I'm covered up. I don't even use repellent very much. After the first time, I was very paranoid for quite a few years but you get over it. If you suffer very bad reactions to bites, with severe swelling then a shop-bought anti-hystamine won't touch it.

Got bitten on Jubilee Weekend by a mozzie, through my jeans, and I've still got the mark on my thigh. It looked like breast implant gone wrong, took weeks for the swelling to go down. And, boy, did it ever itch!

[cptncrackoff]

I too have reactions to biting insects, again only over recent years. - Im sure its linked to my hayfever/asthma etc but never mind.

Im also not too keen on wasps, they however, love me!

I love maggots, theyre lovely clean little creatures, I remember hanging raw chicken up in margarine tubs when i was little, 'growing my own' although that did stink a bit when it hit the 'frothy' stage!

[northepaul]

I dont have a phobia with insects, although I have to admit putting my hand in a nest of red ants, made me come close......

I really really dont like rodents......

[KittyColdNose]

This year has seen me get over my revulsion of squishing slugs and snails... but faced with the sudden appearance of an earwig a few weeks ago I did squeak a bit.

Saw another today and just didn't want to have to touch it to squish it.
*urgh* They are just a bit not nice.

I hate earwigs with a passion. Found one in the compost and chopped it in half... it kept crawling.... *shudder*. They don't frighten me, I just hate them.

[Bill HH]

I am a big bloke, and terrified of little spiders, Last night in bed a real big one ran up our bed spread and onto the bed, its was fast and had real attitude, our eyes met and i threw my book at it but missed! it actualy reared up like a bloody horse, i am sure it cursed me. It ran across the bed and down the other side. I leapt out of bed and the comotion woke my wife who lept out of bed too thinking that from my terrified girly screams there must at least be a python in the room. A good hour of searching and we gave up, but could i sleep? I knew it was somewhere watching me, waiting for me to nod off so it could spin me into a ball and lay eggs in my ears. Then the bed side lamp on my wifes sided began to tremble and I saw it walking round the shade. I ran downstairs (the wife thought I had deserted her) and came back with the vax. It went up that pipe with a loud plopping noise.
Back in bed secure at last I was just dozing off when a thought occured to me, What is to stop him crawling back out? So as the clock struck 3 am I could be seen stuffing toilet roll sheets up the pipe.
I am not proud of this unreasonable fear, but I really do think they are intent on world domination.

[veggiechicken]

I'm coming to get you Bill..............Mwahahaha

[Verinda]

I really don't like having a daddylonglegs zooming round the room. They always seem to dive bomb me and they make that creepy rattling noise and as for those long legs...ugh! I don't mind them in the garden, just not in the house and especially not when I'm in bed trying to sleep! I wouldn't actually kill one though, it has to be caught (by my husband of course) and put out the window.

[Muppet194]

I was told once that daddy long legs are the most venomous insect, they apparently have enough poison to do you proper harm but no teeth so they can't use it. True? Or someone having me on?