What insect do you find most repulsive?

[julesapple]

[kirsty b]

Daddy long legs here too. Did some nightshifts at the hospital when it was really hot and the bladdy things were all over the ward, dive bombing us at the nurses station all night! Hate them, but fun to watch the pussy cats hunt them when at home.


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[julesapple]

I particularly dislike whatever it was that bit me in the night. I now have a huge weal on that V of thin skin between my right thumb and index finger, and a very swollen thumb. And it's itchy as hell, despite anaesthetic cream. I hate to think how bad it would be if I hadn't had a Kenalog jab.

I need to make a cushion today for someone today, too

[Inastate]

Snails are canny... when they're not eating all my hard work.

Slugs... not so.

[StevePerth]

Cockroaches and Red Backs.


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[Plot10]

House spiders for me too. Grass spiders and other spindly ones can run all over me outside and it doesn't bother me one bit but faced with a great hairy house spider I go to bits. Down my Mum's last weekend and found a massive one hiding in the fold of the bedroom curtains. I (45) screamed for my brother (52) to come and get rid of it - he tried to shake it out the window but it just ran further up the curtain. Along comes my mum (88) with a dustpan and brush and calmly knocks it into the dustpan and chucks it outside.

We both felt about 5 years old.

[wizzbang]

I'm with everybody with the spider thing. I keep my spider catching glass and stiff piece of card in the lounge next to where I sit so I can catch them as soon as I see them. It saves me the embarrassment of running round screaming (only my dog wizzy can see or hear me but its still embarrassing ) looking for a receptacle to catch it with so I can put it outside without hurting it at all.
BUT
I know frogs aren't insects, and I know they are a godsend in the garden and I do encourage them, want them and think they are gorgeous but I am sooooo frightened of accidentally chopping into one with my spade or fork or hoe, or accidentally treading on one and causing it harm that I am very anxious about it most of the time i'm gardening so I do have that sense of trepidation about them too as well as SPIDERS eeeeekkkk!!!
Lynne x

[Nicos]

I,m not too keen on handling spiders but am happy to watch them.

What makes me shudder are earwigs.
Not sure why , but my mom hates insects and we used to have an awful lot of earwigs coming into our holiday caravan when I was a nipper. Maybe it,s something I picked up from her reaction????