What’s your scariest insect moment?

Gael

Gael

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Ever have a scary close encounter with any sort of insect that left you shaken? (Hopefully not bitten too).

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Both involved large-ish spiders.

The first time was when we found a rather sick but still deadly funnelweb spider in our garden and then realised that there were dozens of them under our house. I stopped going outside at night wearing my high heeled fluffy slippers.



The second was when I was breaking camp and a very large huntsman spider leapt from inside my pack and ran over my young son. I was totally shocked and was very glad it wasn't anything more dangerous.

 
The time when I was a boy when I had a swarm of ants on my bedroom wall. There were about 25.000 of them. My bed was only 2 or 3 feet away. What could I do? Nothing. So I got in, went to sleep and in the morning they were gone.
 

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Warrigal said:
Both involved large-ish spiders.

The first time was when we found a rather sick but still deadly funnelweb spider in our garden and then realised that there were dozens of them under our house. I stopped going outside at night wearing my high heeled fluffy slippers.



The second was when I was breaking camp and a very large huntsman spider leapt from inside my pack and ran over my young son. I was totally shocked and was very glad it wasn't anything more dangerous.

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Dear God! And you've kept your sanity! I know Australia is known for their spiders and snakes. One reason I never visited.:eek1:

Well, we get spiders here too of course, but along with other insects they tend not to be nasty ones. I felt like I landed in heaven when I arrived and asked why the windows didn't have screens. I was used to mosquitoes eating us alive in the summer. They don't have them here.
 
Knightofalbion said:
The time when I was a boy when I heard a swarm of ants on my bedroom wall. There were about 25.000 of them. My bed was only 2 or 3 feet away. What could I do? Nothing. So I got in, went to sleep and in the morning they were gone.
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I' m impressed! A child with such presence of mind! I would have gone into orbit!

My childhood incident involved my poking my nose into a flower at a garden we were visiting and getting stunk by a bee in it. Guess he didn't like my interfering with his work. I screamed bloody murder and my little nose because a Bozo the clown one.:cry:
 
I have always been fascinated by insects. Don't remember ever being scared by them. However I do have a healthy respect for the poisonous ones. I have a lot of rock gardens around my house and the black widows love hiding under the rocks. I am just careful when I clean out the gardens this time of the year. I find concussion control to be a very effective method of controlling them.
 
Judi.D said:
I have always been fascinated by insects. Don't remember ever being scared by them. However I do have a healthy respect for the poisonous ones. I have a lot of rock gardens around my house and the black widows love hiding under the rocks. I am just careful when I clean out the gardens this time of the year. I find concussion control to be a very effective method of controlling them.
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That's a rational outlook. I am not as rational as you Judi. Though the concussion control seems extremely logical to me!
 
Falcon said:
I am fascinated by insects and spiders. I like to watch them as they work. But don't like it when they're not wanted and
have to destroy them.
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Believe me, I have a basic understanding of how important they are to the whole system. I just don't like how they look, move and their potential for hurting me, the big human.
 
My scariest moment was when I was getting mail out of the mail box and there was a Huntsman spider in among the letters which fell out and on to my skirt and when I tried to brush it off it ran :eek1:up underneath my skirt, I was frantic by this time and running around screaming ,the neighbours must have thought I had gone mad if they saw me.
 
Warrigal said:
:lofl: @ Nan.

I'm not terribly spooked by big spiders either - as long as I know where they are, and where they are isn't running around inside my clothing.
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It wasn'nt very funny at the time but I can laugh about it now.
Another story was when we took our children to the national park for a day out,our daughter decided she needed the toilet ,anyway we were waiting in the car for her and next minute there was this terrifying scream, we thought she was being attacked by someone and hubby went to check out what was happening, and it was a huge Huntsman sitting on the back of the door, and she was too terrified to come out,so hubby had to climb over the top of the door and remove it before she would come out:D it was a good job that there was a space to climb over,I don't know what we would have done otherwise.
I must say though, I will try not to kill any insects if its at all possible.
 
Yes, I saw this giant horsefly in my apartment once as I was getting off the shower and I wrapped myself in a bed sheet and ran outside and stood there until someone took it out. I felt dumb but I get so frightened and I don't know why.
 
Have seen some really big and scary bugs in the tropics. But worst moment? While stationed in Texas, decided to spray a wasp nest in the garage. DUH! Damed things dive bombed me, flew into my shirt and stung me all the way down my chest. OW!
 
I shriek at what we call Wolf Spiders. They are ugly, and big comparatively speaking, and fast, way fast:(

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