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Which Bugs are you Afraid Of?


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:devil My cornball sister is afraid of centepedes,she really freaks out when she finds one in the house.She calls them either a moving eyebrow,or a trainbug,because of the way they move.

The onle bugs that I have a fear of are Yellow Jackets,hornets and wasps,because I am highly allergic to them.

I also know some people who are afraid of spiders,and Dragonflies.

Basically most bugs donnot bother me,just what I mentioned and of course Mosquitos and flies,also annoy me.

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speeders creep me but i'm not scared.

any flying innsect at night i can stand till the thing lands on me (phee and rayne, if you heard me crashing about downstairs on the last night a moth landed on me and i was on a mission to hunt it down in the dark and kill it.

bee's and wasps... grandfather kept 22 large hives, and an extra docile hive in his back garden. my grandmother is really badly allegic to them but they wont sting you unless agrevated and keep the wasps away

but crane flies... lets just say i'm known for trying to shoot one with my air pistol i was so nerved by it (btw i did hit it as well which even i was amazed at)

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Alright, I can handle lady bugs, lightning bugs, chinese beetles (Cool green/blue and shiney) and "Bumble" or honey bee's I used to live by a guy with a bee's hive box thing, and he showed us cool stuff with the bee's.

I have the most horrible horror story about Yellow Jackets, I have posted it somewhere before....I can't seem to find it...

When I came out and my truck was SWARMING with them. Inside and out. Millions of them. crawling all over eachother in big clumps poking the metal with thier stingers.... :doh

it was absolutley horrifying.

Turns out I parked right where there was a nest recently removed. The nest was in a dead truck that was parked there for years.

*shudder*

Horrifying

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When I came out and my truck was SWARMING with them.  Inside and out.  Millions of them.  crawling all over eachother in big clumps poking the metal with thier stingers.... :doh

it was absolutley horrifying.

Turns out I parked right where there was a nest recently removed.  The nest was in a dead truck that was parked there for years.

*shudder*

Horrifying

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YIKES!!! I would be running away at that point... no thanks, I didn't need that truck anyway... *shudders with you*

Hmm... bugs.

My most hated nemesis is the boxelder bug. They used to seasonally swarm a house I lived in as a kid. GROSS!

After that... basically anything that crawls, or might possibly ever touch me. All those little tiny legs on my skin make me want to explode.

Mosquitos, I don't like them, but I don't get the urge to fling my body around to get them off of me like I do other bugs.

Yesterday, I was carrying some pillows out to the car and felt something kind of like a piece of rolled up grass under my fingers. I pushed it into the pillow, it fell down into my sleeve, then I realized it was a spider, and threw the pillows across the yard, tore my sweater off, and shook my arms around like I was covered with acid. Yuck. Bugs feel gross. *shudders some more*

The statistic that we eat about five spiders in our sleep every year... I have a hard time with that one.

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Something like that.  Even if they don't kill you, most people end up with really nasty scarring if they get bitten.

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they have awesome flesh eating venom........ its horrible

The serious bites form a necrotising ulcer that destroys soft tissue and may take months and very rarely years to heal, leaving deep scars. The damaged tissue will become gangrenous and eventually slough away. Initially there may be no pain from a bite, but over time the wound may grow to as large as 10 inches (25 cm) in extreme cases. Bites may take up to seven hours to cause visible damage; more serious systemic effects may occur before this time, as venom of any kind spreads throughout the body in minutes. Deaths (1.5% of all cases) have been reported

google found me a bite picture http://www.brown-recluse.com/images/bite6_sm.jpg

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they have awesome flesh eating venom........ its horrible

The serious bites form a necrotising ulcer that destroys soft tissue and may take months and very rarely years to heal, leaving deep scars. The damaged tissue will become gangrenous and eventually slough away. Initially there may be no pain from a bite, but over time the wound may grow to as large as 10 inches (25 cm) in extreme cases. Bites may take up to seven hours to cause visible damage; more serious systemic effects may occur before this time, as venom of any kind spreads throughout the body in minutes. Deaths (1.5% of all cases) have been reported

google found me a bite picture http://www.brown-recluse.com/images/bite6_sm.jpg

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This is true, my bubbie works construction and well he got bit by a violin spider. He had a huge "eye", the source to the ulcer forming and starting to destroy the tissue. They had to replace it with a skin graph. The Brown recluse is very common in California, at least in a professoin such as construction. Infact we have a shit load of poisonus animals in Cali... now that I think about it .. :erm

But most of them get a bad wrap, at the most they just want to get the hell away from you. I've come to incounter more then one rattlesnake in my life or vingeroun and or many other things that could kill me if they really wanted to. But I have NEVER been bitten ... or hurt in anyway.

I like bugs,snakes,sharks, spiders.

I am particularly taken with snakes, the are so graceful ... I use to be afraid of them a bit as a child, but now I just find them so beautiful, of course I would never own one, I think its said to see them in cages, they belong in an open space to roam as they please and hunt =)

I thank my mother for not having fear of bugs, as a child she would pick them up and show me that they meant no harm, she would tell me what they were, what they did for the ego system ect ect ... (yes total hippie). So I had no real reason to fear them at all. I still don't =)

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