Any small creature venturing up a limb unexpectedly would be disconcerting to say the least!

This goes along the same lines as putting a shoe on barefoot and feeling something move at the toes (ie- spider, cockroach, scorpion...etc).

JK

 

snakes. i hate freakin snakes. so far this summer i have seen rattlers almost every time i'm out fishing. god knows how many i didn't see. it's gotten so bad even a bull snake will make me jump.

 

Guess I have it pretty good up here in Michigan. We don't have any serious spiders to worry about. And the only poisonous snakes are the Missauga (prob. misspelled) rattler, which is a small rattler that lives in swampy areas whose bite is rarely if ever fatal. Also no fire ants and so far as I know, no chiggers either. Hey, if it weren't for the winters, this might be paradise (there is a Paradise, Michigan, BTW).

 

Oh, the snakes, lizards, etc. don't bother me one bit. I will jump if surprised by one, but I don't freak out over it. Bugs on the other hand, yuck. My husband just laughs at me, but one day this HUGE (someone said it was a june bug) came in the house and was stuck on its back flapping around trying to get flipped back over. It was so big and I HATE that crunch when you step on them. So I let my big tough (and scared of snakes) husband take care of them for me.

 

im not creeped out by much but back over the summer when i was working on my demo car, there was a snake skin laying in the drivers door panel and another one hanging out of the rear bumper. later on we were looking under the hood at the motor and one of my friends started pointing at something and i said yeah its the motor. then i realized there was a bull snake sitting on the firewall. i said my usual cuss words and told him to get it outta there. it only creeped me out from the thought that i had been driving the car around with that snake in there with me.

 

FWIW: Most big spider webs made in the woods are made by orb spiders. The big black and yellow ones that look like they have eyes and weave a web with Zs in the middle are harmless . I know, I got a book on them at the library recently because they are huge and fierce looking and I was wondering if it was safe to let them stay near my front door

The only bug I really can not stand, especially running around on me, are roaches. Flies are pretty dirty so I do not let them land and stay on me if I can help it. Sometimes after cutting down a tree I am covered with so many different kinds of little bugs the only way to get rid of them is taking a very hot bath and having short hair so they wash out easy. Even with a helmet you will be surprised at how many bugs can get in your clothes and hair.

 

Snakes definatley snakes, even the harmless garder snake i will turn and run as fast as i can in the other direction! I'm what is known as an ophidiophobic. Just the thought of them creep me out!

 

If there was a black widow in my bed, I think I'd set my bed on fire. Spiders bug the crap out of me, I can't stand them.

 

I LOVE snakes! I wanted to be a herpetologist at one point but more important things like reading sci fi books all during class came up so I never quite realized that dream.


Isn't that strange? I hate spiders but whenever I see one the last thing on my mind is to kill it. I don't know why...I can have an irrational fear of something but I guess I can't justify killing it just because I fear it or don't like it. Now, if it is bothering me too much then I'll crush it. I guess this is a Buddhist nature- live and let live but if you interfere with my personal space then God help you deal with what you brought onto yourself.

I'll catch flies and throw them on the table to stun 'em then set them free outside (just kidding...the slam to the table typically kills them).

 

I'm like that old 70's song i think it was Jim Staffard(not sure),i don't like spiders and snakes!!

 

I almost lost my leg as a child to a damn spider bite. Needless to say, I am the spider hunter. We have it pretty good up here in MA, but you bet if I see one, its gone!


Rich

 

And Hell freezes over every winter! (it is in southwest Michigan, near Kalamazoo as I recall)

 

LMAO just foolin' with ya!

That guy is a weirdo, isn't he? Seems nice enough, but gives me the creeps.

XXL

 

Orb spider, hugh. In Illinois we had a big black and yellow spider that we called a golden garden spider. It liked to make webs in the corn fields that we worked/played in. I always hated those things and would either smash them or run the other way.

Vietnam had its share of critters.

One night I spotted this wierd thing in the tent that looked like a daddy long legs on steriods. It had a body about 3" in diameter and real thin legs about 8" long. It moved like greased lightning. I never could catch it and finally had to go to sleep not knowing where it was.

Another night I was sleeping out in the jungle on an air mattress. In the morning I picked up the mattress and there was a small snake under it. Someone said it was a bambo viper, better known as a cigarette snake, cause if one bites you, you just got time enough to smoke a cigarette before you die. I chopped it up with a trenching tool.

I have been attacked by a rabid monkey and a cobra and have seen enough spiders, snakes, scorpions and 8" long centipedes to last a lifetime. I've also heard stories from other GI's about a tiger getting into a guy's tent and an elephant that wandered into a mine field.

 

Spiders, snakes, mice are ok. Spiders only freak me out if they land on me when I'm not expecting it.\

But cockroaches, sand gnats, and ticks I hate. I was almost asleep while camping once until a roach ran up my leg and all the way up the side of my body. By the time it got to my neck, me and the roach were both airborne.

Another time I foolishly left my car window down under a tree and a roach got in. I was on the first 50 miles of an 800 mile trip when it crawled across my gas pedal foot. It did this every 20 or so miles, and I never could get him. I think I stomped a hole in the floorboard all the way to Pennsylvania.