Insect Phobia's

Beekeeper · #1 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 07:40 PM

Seeing the thread on earwigs prompted me to start this thread, insects in general fascinate me, especially my bees and in particular dragon flies but the one insect i feel very uncomfortable being in close proximity to is an earwig, for some reason i cannot stand the things.

Anyone else have insect phobia's?

Ian

2dogs2000 · #2 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 07:46 PM

I used to dislike earwigs but I have overcome that now. I am okay with most insects as long as they don't fly around my face or appear when I least expect them.

tameblackbirds · #3 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by 2dogs2000

I used to dislike earwigs but I have overcome that now. I am okay with most insects as long as they don't fly around my face or appear when I least expect them.

That's how I feel, phobias as a child but over came them once I became a mum. I didn't want my children to be scared only interested and fascinated

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Paul mabbott · #4 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tameblackbirds

That's how I feel, phobias as a child but over came them once I became a mum. I didn't want my children to be scared only interested and fascinated

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Well done - it's probably (some) mothers who pass these phobias and stupid sayings about insects on to the next generation!

2dogs2000 · #5 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Well done - it's probably (some) mothers who pass these phobias and stupid sayings about insects on to the next generation!

My mum was and still is petrified of spiders but never let on. It was my job to safely remove them from the house for her without realising she was scared. I think my mum did a brilliant job in not passing on her fears, but not all mums are the same.

TeresaW · #6 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Well done - it's probably (some) mothers who pass these phobias and stupid sayings about insects on to the next generation!

I must say, I did my utmost to keep my fear of spiders away from my children, but when I was told not to turn round one evening, of course I turned round and there was a big black hairy one sitting on my shoulder!

I couldn't exactly keep it to myself that time

ChrisR · #7 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 09:01 PM

I don't think I have any irrational fears of invertebrates ... I think all my fears are perfectly rational!

The only things that wind me up a bit are stinging social wasps and biting things like horseflies.

BloomingMarvellous · #8 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 11:00 PM

I watched Tales of the Unexpected or was It Tales of the Unexplained that featured a story about the Earwig. Must of been 10years of age when I saw this, It scared me and I've always been afraid of Earwigs since.

An Earwig was inserted into someones Ear on the understanding that the Earwig can't backtrack, it can only go forward, so the Earwig eats through the head to the other ear. I never ever got over this...

agrumpycow · #9 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 11:05 PM

I'm not fond at all of those big house spiders that have been around the last few weeks but not to the extent I break out in a sweat or anything.
My hubby is completely freaked out by moths, literally screaming fits, sweating, shaking, etc.
A lady I work with is absolutely petrified of spiders, I don't think I've known anyone to be so phobic about them. She's also terrified of the dentist and took a very long time to recover when she had to go to the dentist earlier this week and the waiting room was all decorated up for halloween..........

Kayleigh · #10 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 11:52 PM

I hate earwigs too..
I think it was star trek where that alien thing was put into the ear scared me to death lol..

Dutchess · #11 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 12:24 AM

Crickets....I don't like the way the hurl themselves randomly in any given direction. The little green ones aren't so bad, but I don't care for the darker looking, bigger ones (especially when they come indoors

) Perhaps they remind me of those 3" cockroaches that were everywhere in India - ugh! Oh and cockroaches in general....nasssssty!

tigger · #12 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 01:12 AM

I HATE the big black spiders that hide under my TV and I HATE cockroaches.

I'm in the USA at the moment and we had to change the smoke alarm. Undid the casing for the smoke alarm and out falls an enormous cockroach onto my husband and down his shirt.... erghhhhh!

"Get it, get it" he shouts...... me? I ran

TeresaW · #13 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 08:05 PM

I used to be the same with some of the larger beetles, unlike most other kids who kept them in matchboxes

, but they really don't bother me now. I don't mind earwigs, unless they are on me..

It's only the big house-spiders that really bother me. I've tried to overcome it, and I'm now brave enough to remove them with card and glass, but they still make me shudder. Brrr

Greenish · #14 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 11:21 AM

I have no phobias of insects, but I'm petrified of spiders. Unfortunately dad refuses to throw them out of the window for me any more unless they are in my room.

Little Firewall · #15 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 12:09 PM

Am I completely irrational?

If I am alone in the house and a Spider appears I talk calmly to it and tell it I am going to put it in a see through container and put it outside where it might find a friend. BUT ..... if my husband or son are in the house I yell "Spider Alert" and go and hide till they have removed it.

I am fascinated by them and when 'contained' (the spider that is!) can watch them but I think it is just not knowing which way they are going to go next ..... and how quickly.

Beekeeper · #16 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 09:02 PM

Brilliant replies so far, thank you all for contributing, some of the stories are hilarious

Ian

ollyk · #17 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 08:30 PM

Not sure why, but the sight of mosquito larvae will stop me putting my hand in to a bucket of water. Used to be fascinated as a child and poke at them but for some reason they make me shudder these days...

Love everything else!

James M · #18 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 09:01 PM

I used to be a bit skittish around big spiders (mainly House Spiders) for a while due to being bitten several times by the blighters lol, I'm ok now though and can pick them up easily. Being bitten by House spiders doesn't hurt too bad, Woodlouse Spiders can give a sharp nip though I've found

I also can be a bit skittish around mossies, but I think that's because of the hyperchondriac within me lol, god knows what I'd be like in a tropical country lol

pammosley · #19 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 09:15 PM

I don`t like Daddy Long Legs (crane fly) I`m OK if they are outside but in the house they dive bomb me

James M · #20 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by pammosley

I don`t like Daddy Long Legs (crane fly) I`m OK if they are outside but in the house they dive bomb me

Cranes flies make me laugh, the way the just fly about as if they don't have much control

, because of this though I have become pretty good at crane fly catching lol!

ChrisJB · #21 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 10:37 PM

Insects I am fine with, except cockroaches perhaps. Not insects, but with house spiders, I am a gibbering mess, with a racing heart rate and sweats. Even pictures of house spiders alarm me. The missus has to deal with them most of the time. If I'm home alone I'm in big trouble and have to resort to a mop. Once, with a particularly large example, I had to ask the bloke next door to sort it out. It's no joke let me tell you.

Regards, Chris

Hedera · #22 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 10:52 PM

My "bug"bear is mosquitoes - scared stiff they'll bite me after a nasty s experience I had while on holiday in Canada some years ago. They bit through my clothing and I had to go to the medicentre where the doc said it mattered where they'd been before they bit me! Antibiotics prescribed and took ages to clear up. I now look round the ceiling in the bedroom to make sure none have flown in the window.

Dutchess · #23 (**permalink**) 24-10-2009, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by pammosley

I don`t like Daddy Long Legs (crane fly) I`m OK if they are outside but in the house they dive bomb me

Oooooh yessss! I forgot about those! 'Just hate the way they bumble about aimlessly (but always seem to tangle with me!!

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D.

2dogs2000 · #24 (**permalink**) 25-10-2009, 09:22 PM

I was at the garage filling my car up with diesesl just before closing time and while I stood at the pump the young man inside the shop looked like he was practising kung fu. He stopped dancing about then started again. I was highly amused.

When I went in to pay he was embarrassed and explained that it was a moth that was harrassing him. He showed me the moth which had settled and it was a Brimstone and I actually had him looking at the patterns on it. As I left I thought he probably had me down as a weirdo.
But he was the one that was acting weird.