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I'm not afraid of spiders at all unless its one of the two venomous kinds that live around here. I used to play with them a lot, letting the little jumping spiders jump from hand to hand, and dangle from my fingers, etc.
Most bugs don't bother me at all.
I don't like mosquitoes for obvious reasons and will try to kill them whenever I can, especially if they're on me or trying to fly at me.
I can hold almost any kind of spider or insect and actually have fun with it and enjoy it, but I have a phobia of roaches.
It's hard for me to even look at the dead bodies of roaches. The thing that bothers me the most about them are that they fly. Who really wants a 1 1/2 inch bug that's been crawling around the sewer and leaves feces over everything to fly at your face? I'd rather have a bird eating tarantula crawling on me (And would probably enjoy that) than even a very small specimen of Peripleneta americana.
Roaches bother me on many levels.
1. They're dirty (they crawl around in unsanitary places like sewers them come up to interact with us, plus they defecate while they eat and walk in it). Yes, I know they clean themselves, but not good enough.
2. They're large. They average 1 1/2 inches long in this area at adult size and larger ones have been spotted before. There was one I saw that was much larger than average a couple of years ago. It must have been 2 inches at least. It was the largest roach I've ever seen besides the giant cave cockroaches at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This isn't a phobia related thing either because when I saw it I pointed it out to another person and they gasped at how unusually large it was for this already large species.
3. Female roaches are the worst. While male roaches are nasty enough, female roaches aren't just long, they're thick and fat too. Plus, they sometimes have an egg case attached to their butts that they drag all over the place and that could touch you if they flew at you. They deposit these nasty ootheca wherever they crawl and keep producing more for the rest of their lives.
4. Along with the ootheca they will defecate all over objects, ruining objects or papers stored in cardboard boxes. I once went into someone's house and opened a box that had a lamp stored in it for years, and the lamp was covered in feces and old ootheca. Needless to say the lamp was discarded.
5. They have hooks on their legs. This is an adaptation to help them cling to things, like walls. Still, it also means that when they crawl or fly onto you, it's harder to shake them off. Just looking at their legs can give me the heebie jeebies.
6. There are many more things I hate about roaches, but I'll get to the main point. The worst thing is.... THEY FLY. I raised a shoe to smash one on a wall one time and it flew onto my neck! AGH! One time I was sitting at the computer minding my own business and I heard a loud buzzing sound and then felt something heavy hit the back of my head. I reached back and AGH! When I shook my hair out I saw it!
They're also really aggressive about it, they will go after you and fly at you on purpose, if you enter a room and they're on the ceiling, they'll rotate their bodies toward you and bob up and down in preparation to launch!
Most bugs don't bother me at all.
I don't like mosquitoes for obvious reasons and will try to kill them whenever I can, especially if they're on me or trying to fly at me.
I can hold almost any kind of spider or insect and actually have fun with it and enjoy it, but I have a phobia of roaches.
It's hard for me to even look at the dead bodies of roaches. The thing that bothers me the most about them are that they fly. Who really wants a 1 1/2 inch bug that's been crawling around the sewer and leaves feces over everything to fly at your face? I'd rather have a bird eating tarantula crawling on me (And would probably enjoy that) than even a very small specimen of Peripleneta americana.
Roaches bother me on many levels.
1. They're dirty (they crawl around in unsanitary places like sewers them come up to interact with us, plus they defecate while they eat and walk in it). Yes, I know they clean themselves, but not good enough.
2. They're large. They average 1 1/2 inches long in this area at adult size and larger ones have been spotted before. There was one I saw that was much larger than average a couple of years ago. It must have been 2 inches at least. It was the largest roach I've ever seen besides the giant cave cockroaches at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This isn't a phobia related thing either because when I saw it I pointed it out to another person and they gasped at how unusually large it was for this already large species.
3. Female roaches are the worst. While male roaches are nasty enough, female roaches aren't just long, they're thick and fat too. Plus, they sometimes have an egg case attached to their butts that they drag all over the place and that could touch you if they flew at you. They deposit these nasty ootheca wherever they crawl and keep producing more for the rest of their lives.
4. Along with the ootheca they will defecate all over objects, ruining objects or papers stored in cardboard boxes. I once went into someone's house and opened a box that had a lamp stored in it for years, and the lamp was covered in feces and old ootheca. Needless to say the lamp was discarded.
5. They have hooks on their legs. This is an adaptation to help them cling to things, like walls. Still, it also means that when they crawl or fly onto you, it's harder to shake them off. Just looking at their legs can give me the heebie jeebies.
6. There are many more things I hate about roaches, but I'll get to the main point. The worst thing is.... THEY FLY. I raised a shoe to smash one on a wall one time and it flew onto my neck! AGH! One time I was sitting at the computer minding my own business and I heard a loud buzzing sound and then felt something heavy hit the back of my head. I reached back and AGH! When I shook my hair out I saw it!
They're also really aggressive about it, they will go after you and fly at you on purpose, if you enter a room and they're on the ceiling, they'll rotate their bodies toward you and bob up and down in preparation to launch!
) to watch fireworks, and were surrounded by June bugs. I don't mind bugs, but June bugs fly into your face, your hair, etc. My brother, cousin and I set up a game, using our flip flops, of batting them away. I think my brother won when he swatted one and it went down the back of my dad's shirt. He was not happy, I about fell down laughing. 
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