It'd be a shorter list to name the ones I wouldn't be afraid of at 6' 1"....

I wouldn't be afraid of a ladybug....

Okay this is me calling myself a


Whatever people...you'd be afraid too!

pardonme4livin said:

I believe a ladybug is as mean as a praying mantise...

I once saw one (praying mantise) at the side of a swimming pool. She had the same color as the side, sandy so I saw her very late, I almost shit my pants. She was doing all kinds of kung-fu actions towards me, scary. And I know it was a girl because later that night I found her in the bushes chewing on a little male, brrrr.

I wouldn't want to run into these:

Anxiety said:

Humans.....

CJanssen said:

Your praying mantis story gives me the willies
And I can't imagine the dustmite or silverfish being life-size either

Anyway, the leeches...more
When I was a kid swimming in one of our beautiful lakes here, I had six
of those beauties attached to me, and for some reason I didn't know it
at first. By the time I realized it, they were huge like this one....
needless to say, I went bananas and my dad got out the matches!

obsessed said:

My god, they DISGUST me, your pic gives me the chills, I feel like slicing him up with something sharp. What a creepy animal. I'm sure you went bananas
When I see documentaries of people in the rainforest or in some oozy place I just can't stop but think about them leeches hanging on to their legs, arms, back whatever, sucking themselves full with their blood, bleh. Or these persons who have them on them and show on tv how they fill themselves, idiots.
Or these worms who go through the sole of their shoes into their feet and into their body.... I think I'm going to pass out.

My neighbours had silverfishes and now we're starting to have them too. They are quick, they are gross and they suck. I can't get rid of them. In France I saw them for the first time in my life, they were HUGE, at least like a thumb! Here they are, thank god only like a fingernail.

ugh .. that leech is just nasty

CJanssen said:

Don't even start in about the rainforest!

One of the houses I lived in as a kid had silverfish,
and Mom tried everything it seemed to get rid of them.
I don't remember now if she did or not, but I know
that I really didn't like them....they were always in
the bathtub of course.

I can't imagine those guys bein' thumbsize...yikes!
Let alone human size!

Flowers2 said:

I know what you mean....but I feel badly even saying it,
because afterall, they're God's creatures too.

And I guess they're just being what they are...trying to exist too.

obsessed said:

you are absolutely right.. God created them and they do have a purpose..

Flowers2 said:

not everything god created has a purpose. What purpose do lice have????

CJanssen said:

Some times it makes you wonder....

prime said:

Indeed and I could name plenty more! I'm starting to have an itch.

CJanssen said:

believe it or not CJ.. they do have a purpose... I'd have to look up info on lice.. but everything has a job and plays apart here in the earth....and even the flying cockroach (my #1 phobia) .. even that has a purpose

Any.

Flowers2 said:

I give you a tip (I'm an expert on killing these suckers) NEVER ever crush them with a shoe or so because they're mostly filled with eggs and they will fly around the room and come out later

Just throw a mix of some detergents on them and when they're on their backs let it drip slowly into their mouths

CJanssen said:

wow...you don't, like, pull off their legs n shit as well, right?

Insects the same size as me?

Insects usually have odd colored goop on them and frightening looking mouths and deep, dark, endless pools for eyes.

Oh, I don't know. How about any of them?

CJanssen said:

... if I even go near one of those .. but I'm gonna remember your tip, thank you lol

There are some scary pictures on this thread.

CJanssen said:

you're sick

reneGade20 said:

I'm .....

You know, if you had holidays like I had years ago, whatever I moved (my shoes, a badmintonracket, a box with oranges), where ever I looked, I always saw something run away, brrr.
They were everywhere and they were disgusting and it was impossible to get them killed, they are so strong.
So I found out that a couple of detergents mixed helped

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CJanssen said:

I didn't lie about the kung-fu actions I found the pics I made





I had never seen one "live", although I was a little scared, she was very interesting. I provoked her a little and she waved her arms around, like the "grasshopper" David Carridine

CJanssen said:[quote]

obsessed said:

Too cute.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

OMG!!!!! Look at the size of that thing!!!!!

CJanssen said:

At first I thought you guys were talking about lice? Expert on Lice? But it's the cockroach..... Dang CJ...U cold blooded.... I hope I don't ever make you mad....

prime said:

Who, me???

obsessed said:

You provoked her? No wonder she waved her arms around
She was brave to deal with the likes of you!

CJanssen said:[quote]

obsessed said:

It looks like the praying mantis is dancing in those pictures.