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crickets are fine, spiders are fine, roaches are gross but I can still trap them with a glass and flush them. If I get a teeny tiny ant on me I have to blow it off because I don't want to touch it. Oh and I hate potato bugs because they look like giant mutant ants.
For me it's wasps. (Which are of course the closest living relatives to ants. Termites are related to roaches, which I find kind of cool.)
Oh! To pull it together, there's a wasp that likes to lay its eggs on a paralysed roach (this is common for wasps, to use a spider or caterpillar or some grub for the purpose.) The problem is, it's a small wasp, too small to drag a paralysed roach back to its nest. So instead, it stings the thing just enough to make it manageable, then bites off its antennae, rendering it effectively blind. Then it hops onto the roach's back, grabs one of the antennae stubs, and
steers
it back to the wasp's nest.
holy cow that's freaky.
oddly enough a cricket just started chirping somewhere in my house.
SO NOT FINE.
Spiders are superfine.
Actually, I'm not keen on them in person either. (Have you
seen
our spiders? [link] I get over it, because they're just so cool. But arachnophobia is quite comprehensible to me. (I trust it's obvious that arachnophobes should not be clicking on my link.)
OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.
um. I thought i was in the GAMING thread. When did it become NON WHITE FONTED CREEPY BUG THREAD.
:: shivers ::
Have you seen our spiders?
Wasn't it the funnel web spider that Peter Jackson used as one of the main inspirations for Shelob?
Wow, this turned into the anti-Jilli thread
fast.
OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.
Heh. I don't really have a snake fear either, but I give them a healthy respect (and as much distance or interposing glass as I can muster).
See, I like spiders when they DON'T COME FROM THE FREAKY CONTINENT OF FREAKY FREAKASSED FREAK SPIDERS. But that funnel-web thingie? It's allowed to be
5 cm long
or
deadly poisonous.
But its insistence being both at once is just showing off.
she sure looks like Shelob
re: billy's spider link (which I did not click on)
Hubby wanted me to say that when he lived in Hawaii in the 70s, his mother once thought a spider on the wall was a clock. Hubby was also once caught in a spider web that was strung between two banana trees. He was 11 at the time, but still.
edit: I also just handed him the rest of my dinner, because his glee in telling the tale made me lose my appetite.
