Worse than finding a spider

For me it's big hairy moths and daddy longlegs. I think it's their erratic behaviour. I'm scared if drunks as well!

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sharon103

VioletSky

I'd rather a spider than an earwig

Absolutely scare the life out of me

Same here VioletSky
Although I've not seen any earwigs for years they make me shudder.
I can remember as a child when I used to see them crawl out of dahlias. My dad used to grow them and mum would cut them and put them in a vase. They used to come out and walk over the windowsill. Yuk. I hate their pincer things at the back.

I’m the same, although not fond of spiders, I would never kill one, but earwigs do make me shudder as well, shiny little bodies, pointy little horns on their head 🤢

VioletSky

I'd rather a spider than an earwig

Absolutely scare the life out of me

Same here VioletSky
Although I've not seen any earwigs for years they make me shudder.
I can remember as a child when I used to see them crawl out of dahlias. My dad used to grow them and mum would cut them and put them in a vase. They used to come out and walk over the windowsill. Yuk. I hate their pincer things at the back.

I have a Cornish racing spider living behind my kitchen dresser. I think it’s a close relative of Red Rum!
I’m not frightened of spiders fortunately!

I am so glad to know that I am not alone. This particular specimen was seen in my living room by my DD yesterday. She was visiting and had baby GD with her. DD has herself had successful therapy to beat her own arachnophobia. She was remarkably calm though she left soon after. I spent all evening waitin for it to reappear. But nothing so far.

It is interesting to read about every ones different fears.

Frankly, not being afraid of spiders or daddy-long-legs is a great boon, but I simply CANNOT sit comfortably in any room, either in a private house or a hotel or restaurant that contains an aquarium.

I am scared of fish! (I know it's odd, but that's the way I am made.)

Kim19

Doesn't bother me at all. However, if it was a mouse, very different story!

Me too.

Spiders don’t bother me but I don’t seem to get many inside my home . However, if it was a rat I would be horrified and panicking .
I once had a bat come inside somehow, I wasn’t scare but was upset about getting it out without hurting it.

Spiders - I'm better than I used to be although I will wear a turban when I have to do anything in the garage as the thought of one in my hair - shudders. I have a lot of the long legged spindly ones in my house and I've only insisted one had to leave when I put on reading glasses to have a look at him properly as he seemed to have grown a lot .. to find he was a she and was surrounded by hundreds of tiny baby spindly legged (serious shivers just thinking about)... A tea towel and out the door into the rain, I'm afraid, and I chucked the tea towel a few days later when I was brave enough to retrieve it ....

Mice however. I work in a Grade II listed building near London Bridge Station, and we are infested with the buggers. Many a jolly hour chasing them with a bin or, one occasion, me with salad bowl while colleague moved furniture. Got him too! They live in the ceiling ductwork, or in the floor boxes, had one shimmy up the telephone cable and scamper around my desk one afternoon - not desirable co-workers at all, dreadful toilet habits, but they don't bother me.

Granny always said 'if you want to live and thrive let a spider run alive' and I do
I find them fascinating and always have a Web in the flat. We are not troubled by flies. Have to say that rats freak me out

There is a new type of spider now that jumps at you. Haha. Watch out for them!

Spiders really frighten me. ????? I dont have a reason. Im ok with rats and snakes.

I have cine film of me tickling tarantulas out of their holes in the jungle in Malaya ,with a piece of long grass (when I was 8/9), but I am now petrified of even tiny spiders! (I get all hot and bothered when I see them - even behind glass in zoos!
How does that work?

After reading Charlotte's Web as a child, I've always left spiders well alone and have never had a fear of them.

Wild rats though , we had a cat a long time ago who, one evening, literally dragged in a huge rat. It was alive and ran behind the sideboard with the cat in hot pursuit...my mum went next door to ask the neighbour for help, he was a huge man, very tough etc. The rat peeked out and all 3 of us fled!

Suzey
I don't understand the fear either. It's illogical but there it is.
I have a friend who cannot cope with birds or butterflies. Another who is terrified of snakes and one cannot handle cotton wool balls!
A colleague at work was so scared of rats you couldn't even mention the word in her presence.

My Ddil is scared of spiders; she told me on the phone late one night that she had managed to capture a huge specimen in the bedroom and put it outside. When I soothingly said that she must feel better now and could sleep easily, she wailed 'But they ALWAYS have a friend!'.

I like them and gently take them outside.

I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders but I joined a spider identification group on FB. It seemed to lessen my fear until I was sitting in bed during the summer last year and I felt something run up the inside of my thigh. I brushed it away and immediately I could tell it was big. I shot out of bed and put the light on. I couldn't find it anywhere so I popped to the loo and when I came back there sitting in the middle of my bed was a huge spider. I caught it in the bug catcher and put it outside. I didn't get any sleep for a few nights after and needless to say my phobia returned. I now spray around my door and window with pure lavender essential oil. That seems to keep them out with the added benefit of the lovely scent of lavender.

I currently have a spider occupying our en suite, which is dark most of the time - he appears to only have seven legs so I call him Septimus. A good way to evict them is to pinch together one end of a kitchen towel tube and put the other end over the spider - they nearly always crawl into the dark tunnel, and then just shake them outside.

Love spiders ,fascinating ,dont understand the fear at all

Don’t mind many things though I was roused to action when I found ants in the kitchen a couple of years ago. My cat is a determined hunter, never kills anything, just brings it to the bedroom and drops it on the floor. I am now an expert mouse catcher and liberate the poor things - probably to be caught another night. Birds are not so easy to catch as they panic, dashing themselves against the walls. I have learned to open the windows wide and just wait until they find their own way out. He did bring in a small rat once. Now that did disturb me. The memory of that long, fat, pink tail still makes me shudder.
(My little cat is currently in the vet hospital recovering (thank goodness) from a nasty infection. I am ridiculously fond of him so have had a very stressful few days not knowing if was going to be okay. Like me he lets spiders live in peace.)

Worse than finding a spider - finding a snake in your broccoli!! In our local paper….

www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23628409.aldi-man-shocked-finding-snake-bag-broccoli/

NotAGran55

I don’t mind anything except dogs. I’m not scared generally , I just don’t like being ran at, jumped up on, or slobbered over when I’m out for a walk 🤮

I'm with you I can accept anything and give it a wide birth. Dogs I am terrified of and they know it. I hate it when out for a walk and they bark at you or try to get your sandwich. Their owners smile and say they won't hurt.
NO they will not hurt them but what will they do to me slobber and lick or try to mate with my leg?YUK I even had some sort of mountain dog jump at me put its paws on my shoulder and knock me over.

You wouldn’t muck around with some of the ones we get, they can give you a nasty bite which can be fatal. Some of them make your skin rot and sometimes it just doesn’t heal for years. I never touch them.