Is there a living creature/bug that just scares the heck out of you and why?
Question:For me its a tie between a spider.. no particular reason on this one , they just creep me out..lol.. and..
Wasps/hornets.. this I have a reason as when I was very young I leaned into a wasp nest and about 100 of them stung my head.. had to be taken to the hospital .. It was horrible!!
So if I see one, get outta my way .. lol I am outta there!
Answers:
OMG, that's horrible and I thought I had a bad childhood experience. I also have a problem with anything that flies and has a stinger. Once, when I was probably 5, I laid on a wasp and was stung around 7 times on my chest and belly. It happened so fast and I remember feeling like I was on fire. I got so sick too. Since then I've been horribly Phobic. I would hyperventilate or take flight if one came within 50ft of me. Once I almost flung myself out of a moving car when one flew in. Thankfully my best friend grabbed me before I launched. Not to mention the fact that I almost passed out from hyperventilating during a rhetoric class in college because a mud dobber decided to join us. Anyhow, now that I'm grown and have been gardening for a very long time now, I have come to appreciate them for what they do. I've learned who the aggressors are and which ones are docile and harmless. Also, I got stung last year by a paper wasp and discovered that it really didn't hurt. I still freak a little if one flies in the car, but I consider myself pretty much cured of my wasp/bee phobia now. I feel kinda free being able to work in and walk through my garden with out wigging when a flying stinging insect darts by.
Good luck with yours.
I hate snakes! Anything that moves over land and does not walk or hop freaks me out!
armadillo - just becuase their looks creep me out.
spiders - you should have see the spider I wacked the other morning - hundreds of babies were scattering for their lives!
YUCK!
scorpions. i mean...just...uhg.
Praying Mantis!
Beside the fact that they are just ugly and scary looking! When I was a kid my dad used to scare me with them. My younger sister thinks that they are cool and will let them walk on her, but when she saw how they scared me, she started scaring me with them too!
Last summer I had a bouquet of flowers in my house - that I had picked from my garden. I had cut the stems, arranged them in a vase and a few days later I took the vase into the kitchen to change the water. I set the flowers on the side of the sink and went into the other room to dust the pollen off the table where the flowers had been. I went back to the kitchen and there was a huge mantis on the flowers!! I had to run to my neighbors house and ask her if she would take that horrible thing out of my house! She just laughed as she gently carried it outside and put it in her yard! I thought my heart would never stop pounding!! What made it worse was the thought that it had been inside my house for several days -- it could have attacked me! I know that they are beneficial bugs and I don't kill them, but they just scare me to death!
cockaroaches
there so nasty and icky
It is a tie between spiders and bees.
To be specific, the small black hairy spiders that jump. BECAUSE they JUMP! Getting chills just thinking about them. Ugh.
And yellow jackets. These would have to be because when I was about 5 or 6, I ran across a nest of these in the ground, and got stung all over my body. The doctor stopped counting after 100, and said I was extremely lucky I didn't have an allergic reaction to them. So if I see a yellow jacket, or even a bee (because I don't let them get close enough to tell the difference) I have to duck and run.
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