Do you like Insects?

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Why do parents do that?? Its so cruel as we grow up around and live around insects our entire lives. Whats the point of making kids uncomfortable around them?? So cruel... So cruel...

They do it because they themselves are scared. Seriously, I have a kid brother and I got to observe this process in action. When my brother hadn't started walking yet, he was sitting with us outside and a bee landed on his knee. He looked at it, but didn't seem all that concerned. Then my father noticed the bee. His breathing sped up, he jumped up in a terrified crouch next to my half brother and started stuttering things in a panicked rising tone like, "Oh-oh don't panic it's just a BEE" or "Don't move <brother's name>, just don't move." And these words directed to a toddler who hasn't yet started talking.

My brother upon watching my dad for a few moments immediately became upset, grimaced in a cry and started waving his hands wildly at the bee, which chose that moment to fly off. My dad comforted and consoled my brother, though I think he was more consolding himself. I could barely resist making some callous remark like "It was just a bee, no problem." To do so would have probably insulted my dad enough to summon the half hour long "I'm right" lecture.

I don't have any memories of my father spooking me in that way, but those things take hold before we develop concrete memories. Well that and bee stings hurt like the dickens. Even memories as deep as these can be overridden too: living out here in dry dusty spider country I've gotten where a cranefly can bonk itself on the desk light and practically hit my face and I'll just like, blow it away with only a mild twinge of unease. We have bright orange craneflies out here, and I'm still not sure if they sting.

I like Ladybugs and Butterflies

I like Christmas beetles, elephant & rhinoceros beetles, moths, butterflies, praying mantises, katydids and cicadas, just to name a few.

Nope, I'm actually pretty phobic. *Shudder*

crunchy ....

oh sorry, wrong thread

Some insects are okay.... but I dislike all that fly.

I used to be fascinated by cockroaches but I became allergic to them. When I was a kid, I spent the day outside to play with bugs. I swear this grasshopper came to my balcony every morning and I would feed it. But once I accidently hurt it and it didn't come back, I felt awful and I cried and I cried... but I later saw it giving birth in the grass.

Lay two eggs and call me in the morning.

I enjoy all non-human creatures to the max. I love bees and saved a Bumble Bee from a spider's web just the other day (the spider had no hope of eating this HUGE bee and the bee just had her one leg caught up in the web, no spider to be found) and in front of my classmates with a bit of a show of bravado, I freed her from the teeny web. She was too exhausted to do anything but fly away and that was what I was banking on.

I often save bugs from my apartment hallway, such as moths, when they've flown indoors and are laying or fluttering somewhere. I don't mind spiders nor if they crall on me (I know, they're not insects) but I will kill a Brown Recluse or Black Widow if they're in my apartment. I still value my existence over theirs.

I only get a little freaked out by roaches for some reason. I think it's because they run unpredictably and often in my direction when I'm trying to avoid them. They particularly like to moon-bathe on my apartment stoop. That I could do without.

Insects are OK. Some are beautiful, some are annoying, some are fascinating to watch, some are best avoided, but for the most part, insects don't bother me. Well, mosquitoes I could do without.
The only creepy crawlies I truly don't like aren't insects. They're spiders.

Are arachnids part of this discussion too?

Hmmm... guess so. Commonly enough associated with insects as it is. Why not. Let the spiders in!

I once had a Huntsman (aspider the size of my hand)run over my face when I was at work. A lot of people saw it and they screamed. But I was calm People screaming bothers me more...

Are those the poisionous ones that like water?


I've killed five Black Widows today and when I get off the computer, I need to go kill two more in the bathroom before they mate. That's one of the two places inside the house I least want to have to deal with 6,000 poisinous spiders.

I hate insects! Annoying little things. Whether it's flies buzzing around that won't piss off, or ants flooding my kitchen when I don't wash something properly, they all have some way of being a pest.

Yeah, insects probably do taste better when they're crunchy...

I hate spiders, but I want a scorpion.