how do you feel about bugs?

[zato]

LOL, I like that dude!

i need this made into a movie now. lock, stock, and two smoking roaches..."mind your language in front of the nymph!"...just a less musical more violent version of joe's apartment.

 

[John Wick]

i need this made into a movie now. lock, stock, and two smoking roaches..."mind your language in front of the nymph!"...just a less musical more violent version of joe's apartment.

I only shot the cockroach after running out of stuff to hurl at it. The TV remote, shoes, books.

I thought, stuff this. I'm a crack shot and there's a perfectly good shotgun there, so that did the trick.

I had to replaster the chunk of wall I took out, but what can you do.

 

[zato]

I love bugs, my favorites being praying mantises and bumblebees. The only varieties I don't care for are spiders, earwigs, and centipedes, though I won't kill any of them and prefer to just take them outside!

I agree with you re: mosquitoes though. Those aren't bugs; those are just whining disease factories that can stay FAR away from me unless they like being unapologetically swatted.

bumblebees are sooo cute!! i also like wood bees because they are big fuzzy and non aggressive.

 

[Mayor Monday]

I hate bugs- they're irritating and disgusting, especially ants, wasps, flys, spiders, etc. All the household annoyances. I squish/spray them as soon I catch them mooching in my house. Last summer I went on a huge wasp genocide. They got into my house through the windows. Every morning, I'd have to spray 8-10 of them large buggers. I don't even question why I hate bugs so much.

 

[KazooSquirrel]

I love them and often to the terror of my husband will scoop spiders I recognize as non poisonous up in my hands and quietly admonish them for skittering out into the open where my husband with smoosh them, then escort them outside to my garden.

Poisonous ones are taken into a cup and escorted out.

As a result I have a bush outside covered in webs, and sometimes one will be on the window looking out from where I wash my dishes.

I bid them "salutations!" if I see them as I work.


Everyone else in my house is terrified of spiders and have decided I am simply certifiable, but appreciate that I will escort spiders out of their space.

My mom often tells this one story about me as a little girl. We were in the car and in a voice that she mistook as fearful rather than excited, I pointed out a spider that had found it's way onto my clothes. She smooshed it immediately and hurled it out the window. I bawled and accused her of killing my "friend" and barely apoke to her for a week after! XD

 

[michealsmells]

This is funny cause I've actually been thinking about this lately.

I love bugs! All kinds of bugs! Even if the bug is creepy crawly like a spider? I love that bug! Big bugs, small bugs, fluffy bugs, chirpy bugs. I love me some bugs!! I just can't stand them touching me, it freaks me out. They're allowed to be anywhere as long as it's not in physical contact with me.

However, flies and crane flies are both the worst things in the world and I hate them. They are not valid.

 

[Kaiaa]

do you just open and toss or do you walk to the grass and gently place it down? cuz my oldest sis like flings them but she also prefers to kill them while me and my other sis like to catch and let go.

I usually take them to the grass and tell them ?Next time I might not be so nice!? And I think they listen because they never come back hehe

 

[Xara]

i’m lowkey terrified of them - pathetically so, might i add. the only bugs i can tolerate are ants, ladybugs, caterpillars, butterflies (though, those are technically the same) and any other small insect.

spiders and centipedes terrify me the most, however lmao

edit: i forgot about bees and wasps. one comes flying at me and i practically zoom away lmao

 

[Halloqueen]

I find them to be interesting and beautiful in their own ways, as with any other creature. I'm doing my own thing, they're doing theirs, it's all good (so long as they're not going to give you a disease, like a mosquito or tick). Generally if an insect is in the house, I'll take it outside rather than kill it, unless it's some sort of pest like an ant or fly or something, which get smashed on sight.

I've frequented a website for a number of years now that has made articles about various types of bugs, parasites, etc., and as such, I've grown to appreciate them more. Also, a good friend has been raising mantids for a couple years now and his enthusiasm about them is nice.

I tend to leave spiders alone because they're going to be eating any other household bugs.

All that said, for as much as I respect most of them, I don't want bugs touching me physically. I could probably get over that with some practice, but my automatic impulse is discomfort.

 

[Balverine]

number one buggy buddy?

oh geez that's tough

Spoiler: fav dragonfly and damselfly

ebony jewelwing (damselfly)

and the dwarf scarlet dragonfly

we have giant pondhawks around here, so I'm pretty partial to those, too, lol

Spoiler: fav butterfly

Helena morpho

Spoiler: and i love all mantises so here's a gif of mantises

 

[zato]

I hate bugs- they're irritating and disgusting, especially ants, wasps, flys, spiders, etc. All the household annoyances. I squish/spray them as soon I catch them mooching in my house. Last summer I went on a huge wasp genocide. They got into my house through the windows. Every morning, I'd have to spray 8-10 of them large buggers. I don't even question why I hate bugs so much.

wasps are mean and scary so i 100% don't blame you. i got stung in the palm of my hand once by one cuz it fell from a light onto my head and i reached up then bam! ugh. you are stronger than i for being able to smoosh/kill em though. i am weak to tiny things.

I love them and often to the terror of my husband will scoop spiders I recognize as non poisonous up in my hands and quietly admonish them for skittering out into the open where my husband with smoosh them, then escort them outside to my garden.

Poisonous ones are taken into a cup and escorted out.

As a result I have a bush outside covered in webs, and sometimes one will be on the window looking out from where I wash my dishes.

I bid them "salutations!" if I see them as I work.


Everyone else in my house is terrified of spiders and have decided I am simply certifiable, but appreciate that I will escort spiders out of their space.

My mom often tells this one story about me as a little girl. We were in the car and in a voice that she mistook as fearful rather than excited, I pointed out a spider that had found it's way onto my clothes. She smooshed it immediately and hurled it out the window. I bawled and accused her of killing my "friend" and barely apoke to her for a week after! XD

you are the spider queen!!! jk but really wow thats really cool i wish i could do that so bad as i think alot of em are cool looking but i grew up down south (i'm up north now) and bugs are HUGE there. there was a banana spider (it was a shiny blue/green and yellow orb weaver of some sort but it's guts were yellow cuz one of the neighbor kids smooshed the poor thing so we called em banana spiders.) i would watch it all the time because it built it's web outside our living room window but it scared the beejibus outta me cuz of how big it was and i saw it eat things...big things..but it was pretty. have you named your spider kingdom?

This is funny cause I've actually been thinking about this lately.

I love bugs! All kinds of bugs! Even if the bug is creepy crawly like a spider? I love that bug! Big bugs, small bugs, fluffy bugs, chirpy bugs. I love me some bugs!! I just can't stand them touching me, it freaks me out. They're allowed to be anywhere as long as it's not in physical contact with me.

However, flies and crane flies are both the worst things in the world and I hate them. They are not valid.

lolz i don't much care for the creepy ones but they are fun to watch, the fluffy ones ohh yes please big ol fluff butts chomping on leafs. what ones do you enjoy most?

i?m lowkey terrified of them - pathetically so, might i add. the only bugs i can tolerate are ants, ladybugs, caterpillars, butterflies (though, those are technically the same) and any other small insect.

spiders and centipedes terrify me the most, however lmao

edit: i forgot about bees and wasps. one comes flying at me and i practically zoom away lmao

nothing pathetic at all about being scared of em. there is a reason to be tbh as some are meant to be feared and kept away from. just means while some of us are going "awww" at some new cute but deadly bug you'll be on a nope boat to safety.

I find them to be interesting and beautiful in their own ways, as with any other creature. I'm doing my own thing, they're doing theirs, it's all good (so long as they're not going to give you a disease, like a mosquito or tick). Generally if an insect is in the house, I'll take it outside rather than kill it, unless it's some sort of pest like an ant or fly or something, which get smashed on sight.

I've frequented a website for a number of years now that has made articles about various types of bugs, parasites, etc., and as such, I've grown to appreciate them more. Also, a good friend has been raising mantids for a couple years now and his enthusiasm about them is nice.

I tend to leave spiders alone because they're going to be eating any other household bugs.

All that said, for as much as I respect most of them, I don't want bugs touching me physically. I could probably get over that with some practice, but my automatic impulse is discomfort.

thats pretty cool. oh yeah same i mean spiders scare me but i admire them and they keep me safe. only time i move them is if they get too close. they know the rules...i'm pretty sure the same spider that i evicted a week ago is back. they chill by my computer by the window and catch the intruders before they get far. if not the same one probably offspring. but if we make eye contact again i gotta show em the door.

oh geez that's tough

Spoiler: fav dragonfly and damselfly

ebony jewelwing (damselfly)

and the dwarf scarlet dragonfly

we have giant pondhawks around here, so I'm pretty partial to those, too, lol

Spoiler: fav butterfly

Helena morpho

Spoiler: and i love all mantises so here's a gif of mantises

OH MY LOOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOO I WANNA HOLD ONE NOW!!!!!! LOOK AT THOSE CUTE BEANS!!!! i've never seen one where i live but oh if i find one i wanna hold it now. i looked it up for where i am...only one dang type and only in September and October. =( poo

 

[Alienfish]

They are annoying. Especially crane flies and ticks can be eradicated all they want. Also I hate those small spiders with long legs. I don't care what people think swat those and above without hesitating.

(also to anyone thinking they deserve to live, can i remind you about asambaddha adharma).

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Then we of course have some beauty bugs like butterflies and dragonflies and such but since the main bugs I encounter are like crane flies and wasps yeah not my thing really

 

[hamster]

i used to have a huge fear of bugs even flies they were just so disgusting to me i remember when my dad was taking me home with his van and he used to go fishing a lot and his friend left maggots at the back for ages so they grew into flies and escaped and at the front was just this tiny little space with flies just everywhere swarming around me so i covered myself and cried

 

[zato]

They are annoying. Especially crane flies and ticks can be eradicated all they want. Also I hate those small spiders with long legs. I don't care what people think swat those and above without hesitating.

(also to anyone thinking they deserve to live, can i remind you about asambaddha adharma).

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Then we of course have some beauty bugs like butterflies and dragonflies and such but since the main bugs I encounter are like crane flies and wasps yeah not my thing really

i have nothing against those who kill them and i have more than once killed one by accident or it was what i had to do. tis just life. i respect your decision. it sucks that some places miss out on some bugs but then that would kill the earth so it's kinda good lolz. cuz i think it'd be nice to have butterflies everywhere of all kinds they are like tiny flying paintings. do you have a favorite beauty bug you enjoy? or any type of buy you might not have in your area that peaks your interest?

- - - Post Merge - - -

i used to have a huge fear of bugs even flies they were just so disgusting to me i remember when my dad was taking me home with his van and he used to go fishing a lot and his friend left maggots at the back for ages so they grew into flies and escaped and at the front was just this tiny little space with flies just everywhere swarming around me so i covered myself and cried

oh no that just sounds horrid =( i'm so sorry that happened. how did you get over your fear? i eased mine by watching videos and reading information....also lucas the spider kinda helped too...darn the cuteness.

 

[LadyDestani]

oh no that just sounds horrid =( i'm so sorry that happened. how did you get over your fear? i eased mine by watching videos and reading information....also lucas the spider kinda helped too...darn the cuteness.

Awww, Lucas the Spider is so adorable! My husband bought me a Lucas talking plushie last year. It's soooo cute!

 

[zato]

Awww, Lucas the Spider is so adorable! My husband bought me a Lucas talking plushie last year. It's soooo cute!

my best friend got me and herself one too lolz. though mines voice box is iffy at times but it's still so cute. she said the second she saw the pre-order she pounced at it. we had ended up finding him cuz his creator worked on big hero 6.

 

[sleepydreepy]

I respect them, but I dont like them. bugs have a purpose within their ecosystem, as long as their ecosystem isn't inside my house...

 

[zato]

I respect them, but I dont like them. bugs have a purpose within their ecosystem, as long as their ecosystem isn't inside my house...

is there one you dislike the most? or like the most? at least to look at.

 

[sleepydreepy]

is there one you dislike the most? or like the most? at least to look at.

nope not really lol I generally dislike all bugs, like even butterflies. I mean, butterflies are "pretty," and there are other "pretty" bugs, I just dont like any bug around me or especially on me. they make me uncomfy, I can only tolerate them from a distance. but like I said, though I hate bugs, I know that they are necessary and have a purpose (I took a lot of ecology classes in college).

 

[zato]

nope not really lol I generally dislike all bugs, like even butterflies. I mean, butterflies are "pretty," and there are other "pretty" bugs, I just dont like any bug around me or especially on me. they make me uncomfy, I can only tolerate them from a distance. but like I said, though I hate bugs, I know that they are necessary and have a purpose (I took a lot of ecology classes in college).

understandable. oh nice why alot of ecology if you don't mind me asking?