What insects are you most scared of and why?

[dottiedodah]

Bad dream last night.Got up went to the loo ,To my horror saw awful bug in bathroom!.Tried NOT to scream( not easy!).DH was duly woken up and dispensed said bug out of the door.Apparently it was a Stag Beetle!?(Never seen one before ,hope not to again!).We live in the suburbs of a Seaside Town ,so not exactly out in the wilds here .I know it sounds silly ,but just wondered how it got in ? Not exactly small!.Awake for ages as Nightmare wasnt great and then to be confronted by this thing!.Anyone got any insects they particularly hate and why?

Spiders beyond scared of them to point I freeze to the spot or do one of those stupid little dancing on the spots flapping my arms about 🤣

Centipedes I think anything with more than four legs to be fair just creeps me right out

All insects - I even 😱 at lady birds

I hate the way their legs attach to their bodies. Their eyes, stag beetles would be the flying-ness issue, the big horn thing, shiny black exoskeleton - did I mention the legs and how the freak do those tiny legs hold that huge body - it just defies laws of the universe - theylre all just wrong - I bet they're alien species from the planet of pretty things that banished them all to Earth

I find stag beetles beautiful and amazing ( they are grubs for seven years I think!)

But I would not be happy with one in my house!

Hate anything that likes to live in my house with the exception of spiders. So ants, clothes moths or woodlice.

Only wasps but that's because I have a nasty reaction when stung.

Caterpillars. They are just gross. I can't even say the word and hate even thinking about them.

Everybody "Ooh you should go to the butterfly farm ".
Me "Not a chance. Have you seen their babies?"

Flying ants, but I don't know why. There is a colony of ants just outside my front door that become flying ants on one day of the year. I have to stay in, or, if I am forced to go out to collect DD from school or something, I have to go through the back door. I start worrying about when flying ant day will be from about this time of year onwards.

Wasps are mean and hurt when they sting, but I am more calm around them than I am around the flying ants.

Insects are fine. I'm not keen on large spiders though.
Would love to see a stag beetle at close quarters.

The only insects I'm really frightened of are daddy-long-legs, the way their legs dangle as they fly creeps me out completely. Yuk.

None really, although I would try and avoid being in a closed room with a hornet.

I’m not actually frightened of any bug, we even had a wasps nest by the front door that I was a bit “meh” about
BUT last summer in Germany I was stung by a wasp, ironically as I was explaining to DS how they don’t usually sting and how it doesn’t hurt much anyway! It got me on my inner arm and the pain was incredible for about 20 minutes ( I cried) and then it burnt for 24 hours and to a lesser extent for 3 more days. A year later I still have a red mark
Since then I’m very very wary of the bloody things

I had a cockchafer beetle in my bed once. They are huge and menacing!

Only spiders, and yeah, I know, not technically insects. I'm completely terrified of them. But weirdly I'm ok with the spindly pholcids since I learned they can kill the massive house spiders. I now let the pholcids live in my house - in fact I like to see them hanging out peacefully in their corners. I will move them on if they are directly over my bed, but only to a different room and very gently and apologetically

Not scared of anything else, but I would remove beetles etc from the house and into the garden.

Wasps and cockroaches. Used to be phobic of spiders but can cope with them now if I have to but wasps and cockroaches, nope.

Wasps. They approach with intent.

Wasps. Hate them hate them.
Botflies. Just urrrrrrrgh. Thankfully they're not native to the UK.