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Animals that genuinely bother you, and why.

Picture very much related. Many fond memories living on a small farm as a kid with tons of horses and these little fucking monsters.
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i'm not spooked by insects in general, but i always had a special aversion to camel crickets... probably thanks to childhood memories of seeing the spidery, jumpy bastards in the walk-in basement where my grandparents lived (we kids would play in there and pretend it was a cave). also at my parents' house, one would sometimes some up from the basement to say hi. DO NOT WANT.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, whenever I flipped over a rock when I was a kid and saw one of those things it weirded me out.

It's a cricket that looks like it could fucking hurt you, little mutant freaks.
>> Anonymous
daddylonglegs spiders. Bastards freak me the shit out
>> Anonymous
>>260627
JESUS FUCK! BLACK HORSEFLIES!
Those little motherfuckers run you the fuck down. They are attracted to large things moving and are aggressive as fuck they CHASE THE FUCK AFTER YOU waiting to tear into your tender childflesh with their scimitar mandibles.

A mini flying fucking chainsaw.
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>>260657

I lol'd so fucking hard. .. but then I cried on the inside because I know all too well it's true...
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>>260643
fuckin headcrabs, hit them with your goddamn crowbar
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MORE HORROR STORIES
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Maggots and leaches... Couldnt tell you why, its just a phobia. I fucking hate them. All other bugs and other animals? Fine. But I hate Maggots and leeches... A close runner up is botflies. But Im not phobic of botflies.
>> Anonymous
Spiders and flies are definitly at the top, but moths are just as bad. Coming around, flapping in front of you and generally being annoying.
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CICADAS

i love the sounds they make, but too many bad memories at my grandmas house of these HUEG fucking insects flying out of rosebushes or dropping out of trees on my fucking heads when they felt like dieing

fuck
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roaches......I live in new york so im used to them.
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>>261584

I want those, but I can only buy them in a store.
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>>261584
ARHGHUGRHRHUFSSSJ FUCKING ROACHES
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EVERY FUCKING INSECT.
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MOTHS, dont know why but i think its the way they fly around and the loud clunk they make when they hit stuff
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The pork chop tapeworm (Taenia solium)... it gets in your brain... and makes you have seizures. bad shit.
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mothflies, bees, wasps
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>>261584
Let me introduce you to my pets.

Also, CRANEFLIES GOD FUCK
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moths, because I had an infestation of them in my house for 3 years.
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ROACHES. I moved into an apartment that was so fucking infested it was a nightmare. When they lifted up the old carpet the day we moved in the little fucks just erupted all over the place. So we had to live with them for a solid 3 months before moving to another apartment in the same building. But I feel like a badass, because within that first 3 months I beat them into extinction. Still, there is nothing worse than going to bed knowing there are roaches in your room, not because thats where they are coming from, but because your kitchen is so infested that they are just freely roaming around the house. We learned later that the people before us had rotting rat carcasses and food everywhere. Jesus christ.

There's nothing worse than seeing those little roach sacks with little white critters crawling towards a crack. When we moved in to the new roach free apartment we managed to bring a total of 3 roaches (one baby, and two that carried sacks). That just shows how crafty they are, and how badass I am, that I caught those fucks at night before the could spawn more broodlings.
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>>261584
>>261959
>>261988

ROACHES. GODDAMMIT.
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>>261711
This. Except for Moths which I catch for my cats to play with/eat. I can't stand the idea of some tiny thing that can easily fly over and sting my ass whenever it feels like it. I mean at least with spiders and scorpions they can't fly like fucking attack helis on crack.

I actually never used to mind bees, as I was told they would never attack without being provoked. Bull. Shit.
One day I was just standing around the front of my house waiting for someone, doing absolutely nothing. And I feel a burning sensation in the center back of my neck, off course I smack the thing and it falls down dead. But damn if I don't have a borderline phobia of the bastards now.
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Ausfag here...I'm spoiled for choice. I'm torn between this fucker, a taipan and...
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...a Sydney funnel web spider. We moved north to get away from the funnel webs, and now we only have to worry about the taipans and brown snakes and death adders and black snakes and tiger snakes and fierce snakes and....
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Roaches? I would have preferred a whole house full of the things rather than what I had to put up with growing up.

There, its not how yuck they look, or how creepy, or any of that shit. THEY FUCKING KILL YOU.

KILL YOU THE FUCK DEAD.

We even had scorpions, for fucks sake. Personally, I hate spiders. Funnel webs are gods damned evil, they rear up, venom dripping from those huge fangs, just waiting to sink them into your flesh, and turn your internal organs to stew.
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leeches

*shudder*
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crane flies. only when they are inside the house though, i get absolutely terrified of the way they keep crashing about and leaving legs everywhere. one of the most pointless creatures on the face of the earth.
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>>262072

Yeah they're pretty funny, they fly against a window and legs just fall off lol
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>>262072
seen a legless one once
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This fucker.
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Something about caterpillars really wigs me out. Things that are just a long twitchy body bug me to begin with, but then a lot of them have fur too, and that's just freaky.
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>>262060
See this is why I don't want anything to do with Australia. Everything is fucking poisonous there. At least here, the things that kill you just eat you straight up. It's more honest.
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Centipedes. Fucking centipedes. They move so goddamn fast you won't know what hit you. Man, and I read people keep them as pets. WTF? ?_?
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>>262072

Craneflies fucking rock. I remember beings scared of them as a kid, since they look like x-bawks hueg mosquitoes. I figured, if a mosquito's bite swells and itches, then you don't want to get bitten by the mother of all fucking mosquitoes.

That being said, I always thought they were cute, and liked the sound they made. After I had learned the truth about them (the fact that they were another species, and an entirely harmless one as well), I was fucking relieved to be able to catch them and play with them. Of course, I always released them after a while.

Nowadays, they don't bother me at all. They're easy enough to catch, so it's usually a matter of moments from spotting one and evacuating it through the window.
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Hay guise I caught a spider last night and put it in a candle with a lid and blew pot smoke into it and closed it... the spider chilled in there all night then when i woke up i let him go now hes in my room eating insects (munchies?)

Also I'm not sure of the species but I am in upstate New York and its about the size of a dime. I normally hate bugs but my cable was out and I was bored.. plus alot of flying insects are coming in through my air conditioner so I figured I would let the bastard live.

Is this awesome y/n?
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>>262148

I'm calling shenanigans. If you blew a shitload of smoke into a small space where the spider sat, it would've just chocked, and not chilled.

You're still high, dude.

Of course the idea of not killing spiders is good. They're excellent pest control, as long as they're harmless. And spiders usually are harmless, unless you live in Australia.
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>>262148
was it one of these?

http://www.insectpod.com/2008/05/30/phidippus-audax-4/
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>>262157

In Australia the spiders decide whether the humans are harmless or not.
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>>261959
That thing is cute.
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fucking shit, id be scared shitless if i saw something that big with 8 legs on my wall. I cant kill anything that will make a crunch sound or bigger than a fingernail.
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>>262625
holy mother of god!
Get me my shotgun.
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MY god............. if i was tha tthing irl, id prolly crap my pants
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Naaa you rarely ever see them that big. ther eusualy about hand size or smaller. thast a massive fuking huntsman i havnt seen one that big b4
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>>262625
Amazing creature ain't it? Most of the things down here in Aus will generally leave you alone, unless you step on it or something. Unless its one of those animals that strikes without warning, like a Death Adder, or is hungery, say a Crocodile.
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Picture related to thread but not this post.

If there was something who's existence I'd unmake it would the squid, or more specifically the giant squid. Basically when I was little I heard that their eyes were one meter across. After that I started having a nightmare where I'd be swimming, then I'd look down and see nothing but the darkness of water and a single giant eye a few inches directly below me. Can't go swimming anymore.
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oh god. I remember having those things chase me all over the place when I was up at my cottage as a kid. The fuckers didn't even give up when I dunked underwater in the lake. They just buzzed overhead till I came up.
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anything that flies and stings has an unfair advantage and subsequently freaks me out
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>>263514
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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scorpions

those fuckers hurt like hell
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Anyone here ever get strung by a Mud Wasp?
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Ichneumon-fucking-flies. Oh, god...
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Ahm layin sum eggz.
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Oh gods, ditto. I hate them things... It's like the bastard spawn of a normal centipede and a spider. I used to find them in my basement all the time.
I thought I made one explode once though, which was kinda funny. I smacked the sucker with a shoe and all I found was leg bits, no body goo. (the body actually landed on the floor, but it was still sorta funny)
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FUCKING brown recluse.
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>>263956
It's beautiful
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When I was a kid, I DESPISED these things. Every other insect I knew of had it's wings folded flat on their back, like a cape or coat. But then these fuckers came along, with their wings standing upward, they just looked too weird to me. Not to mention they smelled terrible, they clung to everything even after the 50th time you've shooed them off, and they were EVERYWHERE.
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>>264090

Yea, I remember those when I lived in northern Michigan. We'd spend a week at Houghton lake and oftentimes during the mayfly hatch. There were billions of those things, they covered roads, houses, your car, boat, everything. There were mats of mayfly bodies on the water an inch or two thick. Bowfin gorged on them, you'd see absolutely huge ones swimming on the surface with their mouths open just going to town.
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Is it a bee, a moth or a humming bird? They just aren't right.
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>>264102

Is that even real?
>> i r not anonimis, lol.
dude, lmfao at the spiders with healthbars.
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>>264110

It's real. I've seen plenty of those things too
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hummingbird hawk moth
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>>264133hummingbird hawk moth

WHAT HAS NATURE DONE!
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>>264110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum

Blew my fucking mind.
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>>264102
What the hell? Hawk-moths are so beautiful, how can anybody hate them?
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A challenger appears.
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creepy crawlies
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Once there, it attaches itself to the fish’s tongue and begins feeding on the rich blood pumping through the artery underneath. As the parasite grows, it drinks more blood and eventually causes the tongue to atrophy and disintegrate. But does the Cymothoa mouth-squatter leave its fishy friend tongueless? Of course not. It does what any crafty parasite would do and replaces the old tongue with its own body.
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>>264173
Imagine if we could genetically engineer it to live in air and use people as hosts.
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>>264169
i think they look cute. :(
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>>261584

I used to live in Canada, we didn't have these fuckers. Then I moved to the southern states and my first night there had one crawl across my legs. I'm not normally bothered by anything but those buggers have creeped me out since!
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>>264133
>>263956

I've never even seen these two critters before. Both are pretty awesome looking.
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>>262072
I used to tear off all their legs, and their wings, and just leave the body there to bake in the sun. Needless to say, I had a mass grave of them in my backyard.
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>>263951
Oh yes. Many, many times.
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>>264215
Where in Canada did you used to live? I've been all over, and there's roaches everywhere I went. Not very big ones, and not en masse, but they're there all the same.
Or else they're following me.
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I have no idea why little kids love them,I was always afraid of them and still am.
The only animals/insects im not afraid of are worms,caterpillars and ladybugs. Anything else makes me shit my pants
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They have orgies on the tree in front of my house and fly at my windows

>>264090Awww its cute :3
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>>263962
>Ahm layin sum eggz.
IN ANOTHER INSECT GODDAMN YOU'RE A CREEPY SHIT.
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ANGRY MOTHS LOOK ANGRY OH GAWD THEY GONNA EAT ME

Also I don't know what the FUCK they are, and so I can't find a picture to post of them, but I work stock at a Petsmart, and every now and again if there's a can of cat or dog food in a flat that's gotten cracked open slightly, these bugs SWARM into the can, and the flat under the plastic wrap, and it smells FUCKING AWFUL.

Worse than rotting garbage, worse than a sewer, worse than the stankiest port-a-potty in summer sun, worse than skunk spray ... It smells just .. like death. But death and rot in something that wasn't even alive to begin with. UGH.

You find mostly larval forms, and occasionally an adult, a little flying thing maybe a quarter-inch long.
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>>264158
DEAR GOD WHAT THE FUCK
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Maggots of any kind.
I hate them.
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>>264297
those are grubs.
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>>264297

Strange. You call them maggots, the filename says maggots as well (in German at least), but here I thought these were grubs. Can anyone clear this up>

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I saw one of these a couple of years ago, and I was fucking paralyzed with awe. I live in Poland, which has a temperate climate, so the insects we get are usually pretty mundane. Plus, I'm a big fan of insects and some other arthropods, so seeing one as amazing as this one did more for me than it would do for the next guy.
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>>264173
There are no words for how this makes me feel.
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Well I'd have to say the bug I hate the most is the fucker that birthed its babies right onto my fucking desktop crawling fucking everywhere and there's probably more it could be in my fucking monitor or speakers.
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I hate all bugs and the only bug I can sort of stand would be bees but then I find out when they sting you they rip their cuts out all over your arm.
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>>264322
I hear you
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THESE
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>>264380

Bees are nature's suicide bombers.

ALALALALALALALA FOR THE QUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEENNNNNNN
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>>264436

I lol'd.
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Fire ants. Both the imported species and the one that naturally occurs here. They should be wiped from the face of the earth.
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>>261555
I hated maggots too till I went fishing in the UK and used them as bait. Nothing like taking a small handful of artificially colored maggots and putting them on a hook to make them feel less creepy. Also why I'm not creeped out by beetle grubs anymore.
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>>264316
There is no word for "grubs" in germany.
That's why I wrote maggots in the first place.
For germans, all these larvae are maggots.
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>>264606

But since there is a word for grub in English, you'll hopefully start using it, unless you're one of those folks who don't give a shit and will refer to any type of arthropod simply as "bug" (or Käfer, when you're using German).
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>>264144
That is fucking badass.
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>>264606
Engerling
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>>264148
I got an incredibly excruciating bite from something when I was a kid and saw one flying by when I looked down. I know their harmless now but they scared me shitless for years as a result.
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>>264706
right
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>>264706

The more you know.
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More.
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G'damn TICKS!
I had a lot of dogs and cats, in an area where those fuckers were EVERYWHERE

I once found a tick on me where the sun don't shine, sucking my blood...I was fucking pissed off.
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>>265353

There's nothing quite like finding one of those audacious little assholes just hitching a ride and helping itself to a free meal. And when I was little, it was oh so much fun to find one on my scalp after having a shitload of fun at camp and having all the adults coming after me with tweezers and matches and clear nail polish. Thanks, Mama Nature.

I'm freaked out by the buzzy ones, all except bumblebees which are like the stoners of the buzzy world. They just hang out, fly by lazily and chill out on flowers. None of that dive-bombing bullshit. Spiders get to me too, and big, fat tomato worms. I know they're harmless but they're huge and nasty and just LOOK horrific. And I've seen these huge, furry ants in California that not only look like Satan-spawn but also give you a bad rash if you happen to brush against them. Good times.
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Even though I've never encountered one, I heard chiggers are rather sickening.
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>>265373bumblebees
>None of that dive-bombing bullshit

What bumblebees do you know?
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>>265377

I've never had a problem with them. My grandmother had a large flower garden that attracted insects by the droves. I used to afraid of any kind of bee or wasp, but she told me that bumbles are much less prone to aggression and as long as I didn't try to hurt them they'd just go about their business. Not the same with other bees, those fuckers seem to attack me any chance they get, and I go out of my way to keep out of their business.
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I know they're completely harmless, but that doesn't stop me from freaking out whenever I see one.

I found one in the shower last week.
I immediately got out even though I was only halfway done, cried, and killed it while I was still crying.
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Ugh, junebugs. They don't scare me or anything, they just make me ill every time I see one, especially dead ones. Which is all you ever seem to find.

When I was really young the neighbor boy next door kept a big jar of dead junebugs in his room, which was about the worst thing I had ever smelled. And when he was in a bad mood, he'd chase after me and try to stick them in my hair.
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>>265396

Junebugs in the fucking swimming pool. Goddamn.
>> Anonymous
>>265396

those things are pathetic, the larvae sits in the ground for 7 years and when they finally come out they live only one week just to mate, sad
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The ONLY animals/insects that bother me are brown recluses. spider crickets(not sure if thats what they're called), and FUCKING ROACHES.
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This son of a bitch. When I was young, around 8 or so, I was living on a farm my family owns (In east Texas). I've never liked bugs, ever, but I could generally handle it. Then, one day, I was walking through a field and one of these assholes JUMPED INTO MY FUCKING NOSE. What - the - fuck, Nature. I flailed around for a few seconds before my blowing and his scrabbling separated us. For at least a year after that I always held my hands in front of my nose/mouth when walking through grass.

It's the thing I hate most about the fuckers - there's no defense. They're fucking everywhere, for one. For another, they'll jump right at you, no matter how you try to avoid them. Not to mention that in summer, where I live, the towns' sidewalks can be covered with their corpses, rotting on the baking concrete. *Crisch* *Crisch* *Crisch*
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Army ants.

Just...a;ghdhgaklhjghdkj they creep me out so much. I used to have nightmares about these fuckers when I was a kid.
>> Anonymous
I really fucking hate dogs.

You can't tell the difference between "Bark-I want to play" and "Bark-I'm going to rip your fucking leg off."

Seriously, riding my bike on the way to school when I was 11. I did this everyday. And then all of a sudden the neighbour's dog starts chasing after me and bites my leg WHILE I'M ON THE BIKE.

15 stitches because of the damn thing.
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>>265568
Think of yourself as a very large tennis ball.
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>>265375
The only reason to approve of fire ants:
They ATE the chiggers and ticks.
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>>265576
And it's nice that they (fire ants) don't suck your blood. They poison your blood, attack en masse, and build nests on your corpse, but they never, ever suck your blood.
>> Anonymous
>>265396when he was in a bad mood, he'd chase after me and try to stick them in my hair.

That just means he had a crush on you.
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>>265381

I call bullshit on that. First memory I have of getting stung (I've been stung by bees/wasps a dozen times, meh) was of a BUMBLEBEE. Unprovoked.

Admittedly he was not divebombing. Just chilling out on my ankle.
>> Anonymous
>>265651
>>Admittedly he was not divebombing. Just chilling out on my ankle.

So you did something to scare him. I don't think he'd sting you unless you made some jerking movement.

Besides, you people must have really fucking aggressive bees overseas. I spent my childhood in Poland and Germany, and got stung by a bee maybe once or twice, and that was because I stepped on them. So either knew more about handling insects as a kid than you did, or our bees are much more docile than yours.
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>>265680Besides, you people must have really fucking aggressive bees overseas. I spent my childhood in Poland and Germany, and got stung by a bee maybe once or twice,

I live in finland, and I've never been stung by a bee. Wasps, several times, but a bee, never.

Also, I've never been stung by a bumblebee even though they're practically abudant here. Much more numerous than bees.
>> Anonymous
>>264158

Honestly. What the heck is this?
>> Anonymous
>>265642
tsundere childhood friend tsundere
>> Anonymous
>>265688
In America, we frequently call yellow-jackets, a small kind of wasp, a bee. They are much more aggressive than a normal honey bee.

Where I live (Southern Michigan) we actually don't seem to have honey bees, just yellow-jackets, other kinds of wasps, and bumblebees.

Plus the south has Africanized bees, so yes, "bees" in America are on the whole more aggressive.

But I agree with you, bumblebees are pretty docile. And I've never been stung/bitten by a wasp either, unless I bumped their fence post with a lawn mower, or ran it above one of their ground nests I hadn't realized was there.
>> Anonymous
>>265688

Another finn here. I've been stung by a bumblebee twice, but never by a wasp or a bee. Yes, I've stepped (barefooted) on a bumblebee's nest twice.