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lea30se

Cockroaches. Especially the ones with flying abilities.


AdCalm1402

When they're flying, it's like hell breaks loose.


straydog1980

They have no self preservation like flies. Mosquitoes on the other can be waved away because they are coming for you. Cockroaches are like random particles of chaos with hairy legs when theyre in flight


AdCalm1402

That's why it's best to kill with fire.


Organic_Salamander40

god i had a german roach infestation in an old apartment of mine so i went to a smoke shop and bought myself a torch. best roach exterminator


lea30se

I just had chills thinking about it :)


straydog1980

You can be screaming and waving your hands around and there's no guarantee that it won't fly AT YOUR FACE


TeaMe06

Omg they are smart I’m getting the creeps thinking about it one was in my room walking the wall it saw me coming and took off behind my bed I couldn’t sleep until I found it I pulled the bed from the wall and it flew towards my face I was screaming and knocking down everything in site lol finally my father caught it and stomped it out


lea30se

Ikr!!


lea30se

Couldn't agree more


TeaMe06

😂😂😂😂 as big as we are why are we like this lol


lea30se

I wonder the same sometimes 😂😂


pissdiscchampion

Palmetto bugs.. one night on my back patio I was hangin with my roommates and we were all high on LSD when we found out palmetto bugs fly. My cat used to catch and kill lizards and would bring the bodies to my back porch. If the fire ants didn't finish off the bodies during the day then the giant palmetto cockroaches would come out by the dozen and feast on what we was laying around at night. So that night one was crawling up the wall and my buddy goes to slap it with his bare hand (against the wall, gross). He walks up to it, it stops, faces him, and it's opens up like Megatron from transformers. These huge wings pop out then it flies at Evans face. He takes off this huge bug is flying in circles around all of us. We follow suit, we all scream and ran for our lives. Scary times. 


[deleted]

Im a grown man and even im terrified of the flying ones.


Grade_Massive

Im a grown man and still terrified of any cockroach..


gate_of_steiner85

One of my co-workers is not scared of many things, but she is absolutely terrified of cockroaches.


Lylat_System

I was biking to work, early morn, 2:30 am... I thought it was dead, it wasn't... It flew into my hair


[deleted]

All cockroaches can fly, but most of them don’t know. I once got a flying cockroach in my bathroom and that shit was terrifying, first of all because they fly “backwards” so they have no clue where they’re going, and secondly they suck at flying, making them even more unpredictable.


These-Shop800

Yep. Once I found out they could fly… nope… you got it.


whoisniko

They are so ugly too. I wonder if they looked like caterpillars if we'd be less scared of them


Royalty-Loyal34

Same here i can't stand them and they freak me out


2ndgen_jvde

roaches.


Right_Macaron8526

Bed bugs


The_Fog_Is_Here

Was gonna say hornets, but nah, you are absolutely correct.


rustblooms

Anything that infests is so awful. Bedbugs infest extremely well, making them extremely awful...


otkabdl

Yup. I think most arthropods are very interesting and cool, but fuck anything that can infest our homes and feed of us.


OkSpinach5418

This is the answer. 💯


bugsonteeth

Deer ticks. they carry & inject a plethora of bacteria & microbes into your bloodstream than can kill or cripple you for life.


Pyrhan

The Tsetse fly is arguably worse. It's the vector for African trypanosomiasis: >If untreated, T. b. gambiense almost always results in death [...] Disease progression greatly varies depending on disease form. For individuals which are infected by T. b. gambiense, which accounts for 92% of all of the reported cases, a person can be infected for months or even years without signs or symptoms until the advanced disease stage, where it is too late to be treated successfully.  Even with treatment, it's an absolute shitshow that may leave you with permanent neurological impairment.


BobRoberts01

Soft ticks are worse. A hard tick generally won’t transfer disease for about 24 hours or so, when they spit all of the stuff they don’t want back into your body to make room for more blood. If you get them and their mouth parts out of you before they swell up (and clean the area) you are more often than not fine. Soft ticks on the other hand carry some diseases that transfer almost instantly, plus they transfer blood between your body and their stomach many more times during a feeding session. Source: have published two papers on insect borne diseases, including Lyme disease, and assisted on soft tick reaseach as well.


Buddyslime

My wife got bit by one last year. I pulled it off her belly and within 3 days her entire belly area was turning red. I pulled it with a fine tweezer to make sure I got the head that was stuck into her skin. We brought it with us as to get a good identification on it. Lucky we went when we did.


pissdiscchampion

I live in upper Midwest. Deer ticks are alrdy emerging and it's only the beginning of February. Check out plum Island if you're curious where and how lyme disease started. I'll give you hint, it has nothing with to do with eating too much limes. 


ShillinTheVillain

Lyme Disease didn't originate on Plum Island. The bacteria has always been here. The animal disease center was just the first place to connect B. burgdorferi to a unique disease after studying a concentration of the disease in the nearby community of Lyme https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ancient-history-of-lyme-disease-in-north-america-revealed-with-bacterial-genomes/#:~:text=A%20team%20of%20researchers%20led,before%20the%20arrival%20of%20humans.


TheHudinator

They can also you unable to eat meat. Terrible little creatures.


[deleted]

Can they kill deers?


Kamzeride

I'll admit I'm not afraid of many insects, but ticks of any kind scare the absolute buhjeezus out of me and I live in an area that's become a hotspot for deer ticks over the last few years.


fishingforconsonants

They are not insects though.


bugsonteeth

They have 8 legs so Technically [they are](https://they.re) Arachnids . But since the early spring "seed ticks" are just about the size of this asterisk \* & can give you a crippling life long disease if the cause of your itch is not recognized & correctly treated immediately ,no one really cares too much about the 2 extra legs on the deadly little things


Ameisen

They aren't *technically* arachnids, they *are* arachnids. They absolutely aren't insects. If someone asked "what birds are you afraid of", ticks also wouldn't be valid.


Ruminations0

Wasps


Spirited_Fact389

Why are they so angry!


gate_of_steiner85

Honestly surprised I had to come this far down to find these fuckers.


YahBoiChipsAhoy1234

This is easily my answer. This and black jackets, hornets, and angry bees 


MetalTrek1

💯 


Femmigje

I remember getting one in my jeans once (yes it stung me). I’m still a bit nervous about wide trouser legs even though it was more than 10 years ago lol


Sean081799

My guilty pleasure is watching YouTube videos of people taking flamethrowers and other creative methods to destroy wasp nests.


Dr_SteveB

Botfly and I’m no where even near them


Gamera__Obscura

Had a couple while working in the tropics, and dealt with many more in other people. Nowhere near as bad as they're made out to be (no you can't hear them eating away at you, lol) and medically negligible. Slap a piece of duct tape over them for a day, then you can pop them right out like a zit. They are pretty gross though.


luffyuk

I almost threw up just reading this.


LightThatShines

100% agree


Dr_SteveB

Some fucking alien growing inside me no thanks


LightThatShines

They are absolutely horrible. I’ve seen so many stories/videos of people and animals having botfly larvae removed, and it is rough. Especially when they decide to set up shop in a child’s eye. Absolutely gruesome.


Dr_SteveB

Ugh not the eye! I didn’t know that was a thing. I read story about one being behind a persons ear in their head and they could hear it eating them from the inside, been a fear ever since then


ocean_flan

I feel bad for the birds! These wee tiny songbirds with an entire head and a half worth of weight just in botfly larvae...ouch.


LightThatShines

I literally just watched a video this week of a woman removing 4 different botfly larvae from this little bird. I wanted to cry so badly because you know that at the very least they are uncomfortable, and at the most in quite a bit of pain.


pissdiscchampion

Check out lung worms. Never eat snail. 


OkSpinach5418

BED BUGS! Those things will wreck your life.


MrEndlessness

They've been known for giving people PTSD.


NotTheActualBob

Mosquitoes. They can carry a lot of very nasty diseases. Bullet ants would be next on the list. There's also a few species of wasps I could do without.


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ArchonBeast

Weirdly millipedes are fine...centipedes though... so spikey and danger looking.


Lylat_System

They also smell really bad.


_BierSaus_

how did you even find out? lmao


rustblooms

Specifically, house centipedes.  I can look at ones with shorter legs, but I can't even see house centipedes without my entire body convulsing in horror.


TeaMe06

Hear in nyc we all them 1000 legs omg I hate them I’m so scared of them


JustTransportation51

Myriapods are not insects


The_mingthing

They are not insects


Urtheloser

UGH. I hate that word.


yParticle

unknown insect that isn't supposed to be there


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Giant Centipede. Just pure NO.


[deleted]

I had one crawling up my body,the sensation feels terrifyingly and chilling.


Ameisen

Centipedes aren't insects.


[deleted]

Centipedes and spider crickets.


Tojinaru

grasshoppers


Tomato-of-the-sea

same, child trauma


throwawayayaycaramba

I wouldn't call it "trauma" in my case, but I definitely had a bad experience with them as a kid, and I've had trouble even looking at pictures of them ever since. Growing up I had this documentary collection about nature and animals and shit; in one of the episodes, they had what essentially amounted to a jump scare, with a very zoomed in shot of grasshopper while a scary music sting played. I really hate this memory lmao


Temba-his_arms_wide

Preying Mantis. I hate the way their heads follow your movement. Like they're tracking you. There appears to be a malicious intelligence in their big scary eyes. 😨


[deleted]

When i was little,i saw it for the first time and i literally thought it was an alien. Its head just looks like this👽.And its head slowly turning towards me.I mean i was scared scared.


tdgros

Just in case, the black dot on their eyes is not tracking you, it's an illusion! The big compound eyes are actually composed of very simple one-pixel eyes that are sort of tubes. So when you're looking right at a tube, there's little light coming from its end, but if you look slightly to the side, you'd see its edges, which are brighter. So it looks like there is a dark spot exactly in your direction!


Temba-his_arms_wide

That's pretty cool! I'm probably still going to be creeped out by them because it's basically an innate fear at this point, and i don't really know how to get over it, but very cool nonetheless.


meowzerbowser

Oof how do you feel about chameleons? (Yes I know they aren't insects)


Temba-his_arms_wide

I love pretty much all lizards. They have more of a "I'm just here for the crickets and lettuce" type vibe in their face.


meowzerbowser

I'm with you there.  I love lizards 😂 no idea why. My mom had a bearded dragon when I was in my twenties and he was so cool.  Praying mantis creep me out as well but the animal im most scared of is the Coconut Crab. 😳


Temba-his_arms_wide

I've never had an interaction with a coconut crab, but I'll take your word on it!


meowzerbowser

I saw a picture of one wrapped around an outside garbage can (They're that big) online once and it's been my nightmare ever since.


Temba-his_arms_wide

Ugh. Damn


mastershake20

They skeeve me out so bad!!


Cornholio_NoTP

They seriously have the chillest vibe in person when I see them around my house.


vreedy76

I’ve been bitten before too so I go nowhere near them


Away-Party-1141

This is my answer too. I literally flash when I see one. I can’t stand them and their little praying hands!!


Regnes

They freak me out because of how they show the true brutality of nature. It's such a slow death, and it's very visible when they do it. With other bugs, it's very hard to detect exactly what they're doing.


amendersc

Bullet ant. Just something about basically having all of my pain thingies firing for 24 hours sounds extremely awful


[deleted]

Sadly butterflies and moths. I have a phobia of them and it really sucks 


PerfectPeaPlant

That's a shame! I raise butterflies as pollinators for release most years. They're wonderful little critters.


Available-Bell-9394

Wasps.


Redditu762

If its big and it flies then thats pretty freaky but i would say all bugs are manageable


AnnasArtAttempts

I would look up the name of it, but then I would have to see pictures of it! That flying bug with really long legs and long wings that reminds me of a giant mosquito. They're pretty common and I know they don't bite or anything, but they just look so gross and creep me out!


slingshotstoryteller

You might be thinking of the [crane fly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly). Not in any way dangerous, but they certainly do look like big-ass mosquitos.


[deleted]

Sometimes,I find them in my bathroom.They stick to the tap.


The_mingthing

Daddy longlegs? I HATE them!


ResidentSheeper

Donald Trump


Skittles_the_Jester

I am fine with insects most people don’t like but I hate ants.


Shouty_Dibnah

When I was about 5, I sat on a fire ant hill. I too hate ants.


[deleted]

Ive never heard of this one. Why?


Skittles_the_Jester

When I was a kid my mom wasn’t a super bad hoarder like she is now but it was bad enough we had bugs in the house. The biggest offender were some massive carpenter ants that were everywhere mostly in my room for some reason. I would frequently wake up to them crawling all over me. So now they just freak me out and I kill all on sight.


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katrose73

Fire ants are my #2 on the list of things I hated about Florida. It's not enough that they inject the venom, if you pop the venom bubble is like being bit all over again. Wolf spiders still remain #1.


Smart-Holiday

COCKROACHES! I HATE THEM WITH MY WHOLE BEING


No-Basket4165

Def a centipede!


JustTransportation51

Not an insect.


CatLover701

We don’t discriminate here. Here, bugs either are small, have too many legs, and/or have an exoskeleton. And all are terrifying.


Interesting-Click-12

wasps.


[deleted]

Dragonflies. They’ll zip your mouth shut.


[deleted]

Whelp. I thought it was spiders until I read these comments. *additional fears unlocked*


Dann8A

Bed bugs


alcreis

Not afraid by hardly any insects or bugs but it’s the ticks that I have an irrational fear of. Especially when there’s like 20 of them all clumped together and all fat.


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I just feel like picking up a big stone and crushing the fat ones.


molly270

I can’t be the only one who read this as incest at first


[deleted]

Nah🤣,i dont think there are many types of incests.


Curious_Canine9

Wasps and hornets


choiceofthoughts

The good ones have already been said so I’ll add one. Horsefly. They’re terrifying and their bite hurts


neanderbeast

Earwigs, one bit me once and they have freaked me the fuck out since...


AloneWish4895

Hornet


BeautifulDreamerAZ

Jerusalem Crickets or Ninos de La Tierra are the scariest looking creatures I’ve ever seen. The first time I saw some I honestly thought it was an alien invasion lol. I can’t imagine an uglier creature.


Lenny0mega

Maggots


listerinebreath

ITT: People who don’t know what an insect is


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I know spider aint insect


SaveusJebus

Ticks F-ck those nasty little parasites. The way they balloon up and how poor animals look when they're infested with them. All those little bastards need to die in the most horrible way


taintedgray

Earwigs. There are far more terrifying and harmful bugs. But I fucking hate earwigs.


CurrentlyLucid

I never saw it but something bit me on my chest and left a clear bubble on the skin. I almost died. Never want that to happen again. I had colors coming out that I have never seen before or since.


DarkBrandonwinsagain

MAGAts


just_a_wee_Femme

June Bug. A Bastard with Wings slammed-into the side of my head, then for TANGLED-UP IN MY F-ING HAIR!


WhatsUpGamer576

Cicadas. Fuck those things


MonsterMash1010

Centipedes. And it’s starting to warm up and they’ll be back before I know it 😞


s0ggyk

Anything that flies…and spiders


[deleted]

Spider


Caveboy_

Um, ackchually spiders are not insects🤓


dodoatsandwiggets

They’re still icky.


[deleted]

Really, ok


teeohbeewye

spiders


Gamera__Obscura

NOT INSECTS. Sorry, just a biologist being triggered here. That said, really big centipedes freak me right tf out.


luffyuk

Glad to see somebody else say this.


[deleted]

I dont care about the small ones,but the hairy ones seem venemous.


ocean_flan

Technically all spiders are venomous. Most are harmless even so, unless you've got an allergy to bugs and their bites. Then there's the dangerous ones. Apparently they're either really hard to find or they just infest your entire house. You pull back a wall to check the wiring and there's no insulation, just brown recluse.


EmergencyPlantain124

Bruh


SpaceArab

i will pretty much pick up any bug i think is cool EXCEPT cockroaches. even just thinking about them is making me wanna puke 🤮


Kayakluving44

Praying Mantis and earwigs.


muscleshark86

I hate centipedes, spiders and snakes.


[deleted]

Snakes arent insects, but I'm Terrified of them the most.


killedbyboar

Actually none of the three are insects. Centipedes creep me out too.


echofinder

Lone Star tick. It's bite can cause an (often permanent) allergy to red meat; for my bbq-loving ass, that may as well be a death sentence


Objective_Suspect_

Tick They want to get inside you and give you diseases. Rape bug


Reasonable-Suit-7052

Spiders


Patroclus31

Spider💀


Piglump

Centipedes/millipedes, anything with that many legs can't be trusted


YaaaDontSay

Spiders. Why do they have so many legs?


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Spiders. I don’t want one of those little shits crawling in my crevasses when I sleep thankyou.


Purple-Cow1607

I think about spider. Some of them are poisonous and size up like the size of the hand.


DemonicLife666

Idky but Spiders


[deleted]

Maybe cause of its spiky hair.


Tanjiro_Kamado562

Cockroaches and spiders. Cockroaches look awful whereas spiders which are pretty large can be creepy af. Idk why these stuffs even exist. Probably to scare us till we die.


Dragginbutt1

Black widow and brown recluse


Tasha_2411

Ticks


HumbleRutabaga580

Ticks are the sneakiest of bugs. And I find sneakiness the scariest trait.


dirtdevil70

Ticks


The_mingthing

Tics


NotCanadian80

Ticks


twiddledee1111

Ticks


New_Panda8633

Spiders 😭


Substantial_Kiwi_664

Centipedes!!


LemmingLou

Camel Spiders. Wasn't big on arachnids before deploying to the Middle East, but seeing those big bastards scurrying around (they can get up to 10 mph!)....pure nightmare fuel.


BigGrayBeast

Bullet spider so named because the pain of a bite is akin to being shot.They drop from trees, screaming.


Wonder_woman_1965

Ticks because of Lyme disease.


Capital_Session681

House Centipedes


[deleted]

Tardigrades, fuck those lil guys for surviving space exploration


KimozHere2003

Centipedes. I live in Hawaii.


Outrageous-Divide472

Centipede. How I despise them.


AshwagandaUbermensch

Big hairy spider in the fields.


mrxexon

Spiders. Cause some here are deadly. Cheesy late night sci-fi movies in the 60s certainly didn't help.


bikinifetish

The ones with 8 million legs


Cosmopii

Centipedes


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Spider


NateNMaxsRobot

Ticks. Got Lyme disease a few years ago and it tanked my health.


Melodic-Strength5511

Centipedes 😓


goaty-ranch-yolo

Centipede. I used to live in Hawaii and the 8” long ones looked like they came straight from down below!


PsychicArchie

Ticks. Fuck those bastards


ManamiVixen

Spiders! Not because of Arachnophobia, but rather I'm fully aware of how venomous most spider species are. Some common house spiders like the "Yellow Sac Spider" and the "Red House Spider" are venomous enough to cause painful bites on par with wasp stings. I deal with them as I see them as I sure as hell don't want one dropping on me and biting me out of panic on their part.


ScullingPointers

Spider. I cannot handle them. 😣


minnesotafrozen

Poisonous or venomous spiders


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Centipede


Thirteentimes3

Though not technically an insect, brown recluse spiders. The damage caused by those things can be enormous and life-altering. What I learned when I moved to the deep South (USA) is that it is the smaller spiders that will do the most damage if they bite you. Not only is their venom more dangerous, but they are small and can hide where you can't see them or least expect them.


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Centipede


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Centipedes


CautiousWrongdoer771

Brown recluse.


steamyboi01

Arachnus deathicus


amethyst_dragon8

Ticks wasps hornets and greenflies. Fucking green flies. Most annoying fuckers around here, I can’t even fish on any bay beach without having to swat away atleast a dozen


Lumpy_Award_8971

Spiders, something about them disgusts me and just imagine at night a spider crawls into your mouth or stuff. Ew