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    What insect do you find most repulsive?

    This year has seen me get over my revulsion of squishing slugs and snails... but faced with the sudden appearance of an earwig a few weeks ago I did squeak a bit.

    Saw another today and just didn't want to have to touch it to squish it.
    *urgh* They are just a bit not nice.
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    White maggots - the really fat ones that look like swollen grains of rice.........

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    • #3
      None of them bother me, they're only ever pretty diddy so no worries for me (thankfully ). Once met somebody that was scared of worms (yes, I know they're not insects....) but still wanted to garden - I see a problem there!

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      Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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      • #4
        George Osborne. He's a leech. IMHO.

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        • #5
          baby slugs that poke out of potatoes... I'm sure i've told the standing on a slug in socks and it bursting and not being able to eat sausages for months after story before.....
          I stood on another one the other night, and it made a really high pitched squeal, like feedback...again, not eating sausages....

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          • #6
            I hate mozzies... They bite me and leave horrible lumps and bumps for about a week. I seem to suffer badly from their activities!

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            • #7
              The other half to the one you've just eaten you never forget that feeling.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by taff View Post
                baby slugs that poke out of potatoes... I'm sure i've told the standing on a slug in socks and it bursting and not being able to eat sausages for months after story before.....
                I stood on another one the other night, and it made a really high pitched squeal, like feedback...again, not eating sausages....
                Standing on them in barefeet is the worst - or when you find they've crawled into your gardening clogs and slip your feet in, unaware of what's afoot It takes a really good scrub to rid yourself of that sticky slime
                It must have a use - any ideas? Glueing down envelopes?

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                • #9
                  Stop tarnishing the good name of insects by including snugs in their happy family

                  Horse flies - the silent kind that just arrive. There are some in the woods round here that you can beat to the ground umpteen times, stand on them and they still fly straight back up onto you. The only solution is to try and out run them...

                  One of our kittens tried to eat a big orange slug the other day and we just couldn't get the slime off him. It was all round his face, poor chap.
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                  • #10
                    I'm allergic to a lot of insect bites. A horsefly bite could be fatal if I were to be bitten on the head, chest, neck or face. Mozzies affect me badly, with huge swellings, but not as badly as the dreaded horsefly. Twenty years ago I was bitten on the neck - an incredibly miserable and scary experience.

                    I can handle moths, ladybirds, bees, wasps, small money spiders. Anything else, forget it.

                    And as for my arch nemesis, the Red Mites, uuugghhhhhhh......
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                    • #11
                      I am an absolute wuss with spiders (arachnids, I know). I squeal and totally freak out...feeling all **shudders** about it just thinking about them.

                      Also Vine Weevils !!

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by julesapple View Post
                        I'm allergic to a lot of insect bites. A horsefly bite could be fatal if I were to be bitten on the head, chest, neck or face. Mozzies affect me badly, with huge swellings, but not as badly as the dreaded horsefly. Twenty years ago I was bitten on the neck - an incredibly miserable and scary experience.

                        I can handle moths, ladybirds, bees, wasps, small money spiders. Anything else, forget it.

                        And as for my arch nemesis, the Red Mites, uuugghhhhhhh......
                        Blimey, I thought I was bad. Although yes, horseflies do also leave me in a lot of discomfort for a long time.. Anything that bites me seems to take an excessively long time to heal. I have no idea why and it only seems to have been in recent years??? I have asked my Dr. but they just tell me to buy some anti-histamines to use as and when I get bit.

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                        • #13
                          maggots

                          *shudder*


                          I once thought I'd "flood" myself (exposure therapy) by growing some in a box under the stairs. Didn't work
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                          • #14
                            Ear Wigs Horrid things
                            Ants evil ....... evil things
                            Only after the last tree has been cutdown Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then will you find
                            That money cannot be eaten
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                            • #15
                              It's slugs, they are just so gross, snails I think are pretty by comparison.....and I don't mind spiders, although walking into webs ain't my fav thing

                              But anything that moves quickly always makes me jump til I see whether it's friend or foe

                              now snakes are a different matter - I know grass snakes are not harmful but they are just so EUGH shudder shudder. I had to free one from some netting a few weeks ago, and had to be very brave!

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