For me it's eels. They freak me the f*** out. They give me the heebie-jeebies. We were snorkeling off black rock in Maui, and I guess my wife saw one while I was following a giant sea turtle around; she was smart enough to not point it out!

 

 

Yeah, f*** that s***.

f***ing Spiders and anything with just as many legs or more (minus Lobsters and Crabs).

Worms. I'm not scared per se, they just gross me out. I hate how they feel and I especially hate the sound/feel of stepping on one. Goosebumps.

Bats.

 

Big assed Texas cockroaches. Like the 3-4" variety.

Scorpions.

Scorpions.

 

I don't know, they seem pretty harmless to me...

 

Cockroaches. Centipedes. Any relatively large bug, especially if they can fly.

For me it was cave crickets. I had never seen them before (growing up in Chicago, the only cricket I knew was the standard black garden cricket). I moved into a basement room in a house in DC a couple years. A couple days in and I'm in my bathroom and I see one of these guys on the wall a foot from my face at eye level. From then on, one of these guys would always jump up at me when I turned a lot on or opened the door to my closet, etc. While innocent and harmless, these things look like something out of a Resident Evil video game.

 

Spiders. They fascinate me, but they freak me the hell out.

Snakes. Thing is I'm not "scared" of them. There's just something about them. And it doesn't help that I've had about 34743763476234 nightmares of getting swallowed whole by a giant Anaconda.

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Ticks and leeches freak me out. Mostly ticks, you usually cant feel them until they already are doing their damage.

 

Chiggers/No see-ums are pretty irritating and annoying too

Snakes. Thing is I'm not "scared" of them. There's just something about them. And it doesn't help that I've had about 34743763476234 nightmares of getting swallowed whole by a giant Anaconda.

Ok, Indy!

Ticks and leeches

I love that song.

Cockroaches. Especially the flying variety.

 

Japanese giant hornet.

 

Nephila edulis. That is a spider that can eat birds. Yep, f***ing birds.

Fluffy Bunnies

I love that song.

 

I heart TOOL

Not a freak-out per se, but I just got back from a backpacking trip where we saw a number of walking sticks, which I had never seen in person before. One was about 6 inches long. Kinda cool, really.

 

After seeing Arachnophobia, I am sometimes still wary of sitting on a toilet without a cursory glance in it.

 

Also, this thread reminds me of that song Spiders And Snakes by Jim Stafford. You older guys may remember it.

I forgot to mention Praying Mantis and f***ing Daddy Long Legs. I freeze up if one gets on me.

 

Also, this mother f***er.

 

Poodles

Centipedes are really the only bug that bothers me. I'm not scared, I have to kill them all the time in my house, but they creep me the f*** out.

 

As far as everything else, sting rays and jellyfish. Those are probably my 2 worst fears in life.

Mosquitoes when buzzing in my ear.

Hey Steve, I just almost died on my way home from the dog park because some stupid cat was playing Frogger in the middle of a busy street. He safely made it to the median, then decided to jump BACK into traffic and almost caused a 5-car pileup.

 

I managed to avoid the poor thing, but I immediately thought of you and your love of these furry creatures.

 

Not to hijack the thread, but what is the call on something like this (when a cat or a squirrel runs into traffic)? Does one swerve or brake (or both) and make every effort to avoid the creature, or do you just continue and pray you don't hit it, but also ensure you don't endanger yourself or other drivers?

 

And yes, if it is a dog in the road, I would probably flip my car over and die in a fiery wreck from performing evasive maneuvers before hitting it.

Ants creep me out