# Creepy Critters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-critters/6413>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 20, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-critters/6413 "2000-01-20T19:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hunsecker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d78d45/32.png) [@Hunsecker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunsecker)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-critters/6413/21 "2000-01-22T06:43:00Z")

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I’ve lived in various places east of the mighty Miss., and our junebugs have always been the little brown stupid things. Didn’t seem so bad to me. Now silverfish… ::shudder::

What the hell is it about insects that creep people out? I can’t stand 'em personally. I mean some of 'em, like ants and butterflies, are fine. But the rest I just can’t stand. Did we evolve to think bugs were icky, or is it all cultural?

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