Which insect/animal scare you the most?

@enelym001 (8322)
Philippines
October 12, 2011 11:31am CST
We all have one insect or animal we really are scared of, be it big or really tiny one, it scare the heck out of us. Since I was a child, I started being afraid on cockroaches. I tried to overcome it when I was in college by trying to kill an upside down cockroach by putting over a dustpan on it. But I look funny to other people seeing me how it took a lot of time putting the dead roaches on the trash. Some who know it, even tried to scare me with a dead cockroach on her hand running after me. That was really scary and embarrassing at the same time. Until now I scream at the sight of roaches. I really wanted to overcome it but giving me roaches wont help at all. Mum once tried to put one dead roach on my arms and I swear I nearly had a heart attack, screamed so loud, locked myself in the room, screaming and crying coz I was still imagining how it feels on my arms and as if seeing it still lying on my arms.. dad got so nervous and got angry with mum telling her never to do it again... I feel shy about it coz people might see me overreacting on such a small piece of insect (sometimes already dead roaches) Do you have such kind of experience and insects/animals you really fear? I envy people who aren't scared of anything.
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@sumitn (94)
• India
12 Oct 11
well what i think is people always are scared of all kind of reptiles even i too scared by these....in my childhood i were afraid of cats too :-)......n the animal i am still afraid of is crocodiles .by the way in childhood also of lizards......well i also have seen and heard that there are so many people really scared of cockroaches too much but personally i never found them fearful well different people different fears....
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
Hahahaha...crocodiles are always scary. So everyone stays away from them. We all view crocodiles from a distance as we are well aware that one crocodile can snap dear life from anyone of us at anytime.
@sumitn (94)
• India
12 Oct 11
he he i really shocked by them it looks like they are just coming for killing me.....so i keep enough distance from them...:-)
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
definitely, crocodiles eat humans alive so all of us are afraid to get wholly sucked up by this monstrous creature.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
I am not scared of cockroaches, but it gives me shiver esp when it is flying. I feel like it will always landed on me (ehhhh) So,I can't avoid screaming once I saw a cockroach,flying or not. I can't get over it. have a good day
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• Philippines
12 Oct 11
Oh, i hate to see those cockroaches flying, too. They always land on some persons when they are doing that. It is their mating season for the month, I was told once they are into such things. But, I came across one good information from out of it, though. The mating season of the cockroaches coincides with the time when fishermen are able to have manifold catch of fishes in the oceans. So the best time to buy a good amount of fish from the marketplace will be the day following that night when the cockroaches are flying all over the house.
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
I don't think that I have fear of some insects or animals. However, I have developed within me that awareness and thus getting cautious at all times, about some which maybe harmful to man. Like centipedes, that type of vermin the shrew, ta take care to stay away from the back of horses, to be wary of some dogs since they bite and give us rabies, some snakes as they have venom, big snakes as they will eat us alive and whole, constrictor snakes as they will kill us by stangling...many more. Others laugh at somebody who fear insects which are unfounded. But, there are some people who are even worse who suffer from phobias of sorts. All of us have some sort of fear. I may not be aware of mine yet. I hope not to be able to unearth them if ever there are. I find it good the way I am now. It feels more comfortable to lead a life without having to live with some unfounded fears for things or whatnots.
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
I believe that the responsible husband will have to be the one to see to that, then. Good luck, friend. May you have a good marriage. All for the best.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
I wish to have a comfortable life too without fear of roaches. I simply can't imagine if I already have a baby and still afraid of roaches. How will I take care of the baby if I can't overcome this crazy fear =(
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@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
thanks for the good wishes =) but I am not gonna be married anytime soon, I was just imagining if I'd become a mother someday =)
@chan2zexy (508)
• Philippines
26 May 12
I'm not scared of cockroaches, I hate them. I could swat it with a broom but not my slippers. Knowing that cockroach is one of the filthiest insect carrying a lot of germs, I find this insect gross that's why I can't swat it using my own slippers. I don't want to spread the germs. Hehe! =D Rats and reptiles give me the creeps. I remember holding a baby crocodile and huge snake once just to try to overcome my fear. It felt like all the hair on my body was standing on end. It felt yucky, I can't explain it.
• Philippines
28 May 12
Remembering the feeling makes the hair on my nape stand on end. It's something that I am proud of but will never do it again. It works my imagination to thinking how reptiles could kill or eat a person. Creepy, scary and disgusting. Maybe you could carry around a roach spray so if you see one, spray it directly to the cockroach and walah! You get to kill one without swatting! =D
• Philippines
29 May 12
Hahaha! Smart thinking, hide in the room first and come out when the coast is clear. Very clever there enelym001. =D What if you're alone in your house and you see a cockroach? What would you do? =D
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
27 May 12
Good that you can swat it with a broom... I can't even do that. I'd call someone to do kill it for me. I am not thinking of germs or its smell, I think it's just that I am really afraid of it that;s why can;t even kill it with anything. But at least you have already hold a baby crocodile and a huge snake. You can proudly tell people that even if it gives you the creep, you have managed to hold it.
@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
12 Oct 11
i am afraid of earthworms. ever since i was a child i have been very afraid of this slimy creature that is why i don't like to do a lot of gardening because every time i dig into the ground soil i always find big slimy earthworms. they give me the creeps. i have been trying very hard to get over my fear by not running away every time i see an earthworm. i try to observe how it moves and just allow it to come closer to me but i cant bear to have it come very close... i start to scream and run as soon as it gets only inches away from me!!!
@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
hi mariahhh!!! how do you overcome your fear of worms? tell me how so i will also follow how you do it!!!
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
13 Oct 11
I feel for you mammots. I hate worms!
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
That's kinda like how I react when I see roaches. I am not afraid of earthworms as I know they can't even come closer to me like how roaches can by simply fying and crawling so fast. As a child we even played with earthworms =)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
i also am afraid of cockcroaches. it started when i was in highschool. i never felt frightened from it before but there was this incident that the cockcroach really crawl from my lower leg upto my thigh. i really screamed and stomped my feet and dropped it. i even almost dropped and removed my skirt just to be sure it's not there anymore,but i was in school at that time. i was so traumatized by that and it did not happened ones. until now, eventhough it is still so far from me, i can really identify it, and i will surely call someone to kill it, and after that someone kill it i will also step on it just to be sure. im cruel to roaches caus they scare me.LOL
• Philippines
16 Oct 11
you also made me remember a similar incident when i was still in college.LOL i had this pair of sneakers which was slightly worn out but i still used it that time cause it's my favorite, and i always put it under my cabinet. one time i was changing for school, i grab my sneakers under the cabinet, i put my right foot first and was ready to tie the shoelaces when i felt something was moving under my foot. the first thing that popped into my mind were cockroaches! so i immediately removed my foot from the shoe and jumped onto my bed, and there it was, the cockcroach just went out from my shoe. from then on until now before i wear a shoe, i see to it that no any cockcroach is inside it.LOL
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
25 Mar 13
for me the insect that really scare me and make me shout out is the cockroach especially when its flying on the air,i will always scream and jump all my body when they tap in my skin,really annoying because they are really dirty all the times.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
26 Mar 13
roaches are really scary. even if it does nothing to us it looks so creepy. good thing in this place there were only very very tiny roaches... it is very rare that i see big roaches here. but in our country, roaches are the things that I have in mind when I am going back.... and it scares me to think about dealing with roaches again.
@Kalyni2011 (3496)
• India
10 May 12
Most women are scared of cockroaches and i am not an exception, but our new hose has no more of them, totally free lol. there are house lizards on the wall, they show off at night usually to eat the crawling insects if any.. Happy posting, cheers. Kalyani
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
18 May 12
Hi Kalyani, New houses are really from roaches. Roaches and other insects hates the smell of new paints. Hopefully our house which is still unfinished won't have cockroach too.
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
13 Oct 11
Hmm I don't really have a particular insect that scare me but I am scared of all the creepy crawly things Every kind of insect scare me actually. Cockroaches, spiders, caterpillars, everything Brrr they are so scary and I think they walk too fast and disappear in the blink of an eye!!
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
True, they're all creepy... but of all these three you said, roaches are the only one I have no guts to kill =) even if it runs away from me I have no power to run after it and kill it, it simply scares me =)
@rafiholmes (2896)
• Malaysia
14 Oct 11
im afraid of the centipede... that long crawly err..insect or what ever yal call it.. scorpion too..but hardly bump into them..
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
15 Oct 11
indeed, scorpions are scary, good thing was that I have seen one... or maybe i have seen but I totally forgot about it... centipedes can be scary too becuase of its looks. and must be really itchy once it touches your skins...
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
13 Oct 11
I hate worms, especially earth worms. It's so yucky when they are cut into pieces and they still move. I started to hate worms when I was about to eat a fruit and when I opened it, there was a worm inside. I can handle rats, cockroaches, flies and other insects but not worms. Whenever I see one, I feel like the hair at my back and all over my body will stand up
@mariahhh (1328)
• United Arab Emirates
14 Oct 11
Haha yes, it's really gross.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
and i started wondering why earthworms are still alive even when cut into pieces =)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
We'll for me its snakes. I remember when I was a child a snake almost got into our house and I was terrified by the experience, gladly someone catch it and killed it before it bit anyone.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
I was away from home but anyway mum told me about it... that there were some instances they saw snakes in our backyard. And then inside our house, they have found some tiny things that looks like baby snakes... Sometimes when they are lying in the bed... they will hear some sounds up in the ceiling... That house is not our own, we have rented it for I guess 4 years, but I have only lived one year. There was big empty and grassy lot behind our house, I guess the snakes are living there. And one year after we left that place, I saw in neighbor's facebook that she posted a photo of a big, long snake they found in their house. They also believe that the previous one we rented have snakes inside since there's no one who have ever shifted again there when we moved out.
@Angela11 (46)
27 May 12
I am really scared of the cockrouch. That horrible and nuaseating little insect, i hate that they have feathers, which means they can fly across the room,and then can land on you unexpectly. That scares me mostly.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
27 May 12
Hi Angela, I hate that too coz they usually they know where or whom to land... near me or on me
• United Arab Emirates
29 May 12
Animal? I'm scared of rats. there was a time that saw one rat at our home, it was so big. I think it is an 8-inch rat. When I saw it I even went up our dining table and kept silent, thinking that it will run after me. I will never ever forget that in my life.
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
I hate spiders. I guess it has something to do with my older brothers teasing me when I was a baby by throwing spiders at me, be it a toy or a live one. I live in a tropical country so you can expect a lot of spiders here. They aren't poisonous though but the size gives me the creeps. They can grow as big as my hand and it becomes a real issue for me when one lurks in the bathroom. I would have to ask someone to kill it first before I can use the bathroom and when no one is around I would have to arm myself with insect spray and try to kill it.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
yesterday we just saw a big creepy spider at home... it was near the ceiling and really hard to reach it... my brother was the one trying to kill the spider but it fell down and ran... gives me the creeps and especially my brother. coz he said he's really scared of spiders but have no choice because none of us at home wants to try to kill it.
@buddha3 (1026)
• India
13 Oct 11
I am scared of rats and snakes. When I was a kid I was too scared of cockroaches! But now I can face them LOL:D
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
14 Oct 11
I have thought about your question, and I believe that I'm not afraid of any insect or animal that is not likely to try to harm me. The sting of a wasp is painful and causes extreme swelling, should I get stung. However, I don't panic if one flies around me. I just try to shoo him back to where he should be. As a child, I was deathly afraid of the bull. Now, I can ignore him unless he appears to be angry. Should a roach fly at me, I might appear to be frightened of it, but I would only be startled. Then I would be angry , because roaches don't belong in my house. Out would come all the roach killing equipment. I'm not afraid of the roaches; I'm afraid of the diseases they might be carrying.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
good for you bellis! i wished to be like you, not afraid to any of it =)
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
13 Oct 11
Cockroaches don't bother me. But spiders...! BLECH! I am terrified of them. I'm so bad, I can't even touch the stupid plastic rings people wear at Halloween. And those big glossy pics you see? Horrors~!! I'm not kidding. If I'm turning a page and my fingers touch a pic of one, I feel like they're crawling all over me and I have to scrub my hands and arms. Usually till they're raw. Forcing yourself to touch them only makes it worse. I know. When you start thinking about it, do something you enjoy. Do anything that distracts you from it. The more you think about it, the worse it gets. I speak from experience. Distraction will do more for you than anything else at lessening your fear. As far as people picking on me about it, they used to quite a bit. Until I got mean. Now I'm just as likely to throw it back at them or shove it down their shirt. (Then I go in the bathroom and have the heebie-jeebies and scrub my skin till it's raw) I can't stand those horrors. And no, I WON'T go see any arachnid movies!! Fly-swatters are a godsend too. Wonderful little long distance smashers. I can't bear the thought of touching those things, so I have fly-swatters in every room. Show up in my house, will ya!! SPLAT!!! Nifty little inventions. Distance, yet still effective. Outside, you'd be surprised at how effective some perfumes are on spiders. Timeless perfume, for instance, does wonders on garden spiders. (Hey, I couldn't find anything else quick!) Household cleaners don't seem to do as well. they keep walking away! Even hornet spray doesn't kill them very quickly. Fly-swatter or Timeless. Quick and certain.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
13 Oct 11
i am very scare with snake. even it just a picture.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
15 Oct 11
i get scared with them too, but i can look at them in zoos... but roaches, no way! id have to close my eyes...
• India
13 Oct 11
I too hate cockroaches especially when i see them in my kitchen running here and there and make me run. and also i hate snakes. when i see them in national geography i can't even have my meals...I can't overcome this...
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
how about Beetles? are you afraid of beetles too, remember, they can fly instantly like a cockroaches too....