# What creepy crawlies squick you out most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656 "2020-09-03T00:29:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/21 "2020-09-03T20:08:05Z")
Spiders, crickets for the noise, and babies. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/22 "2020-09-03T22:12:09Z")
Seventeen year cicadas.They emerge from hell: the red-orange eyes, the sooty bodies. They fill the air and encrust the sidewalk, their deafening buzz drowning out birdsong, human voices, and lawn mowers. Just think…the nymphs are down there right now, 1.5 million per acre, unless you live in North Carolina, Virginia, or West Virginia, in which case…ick. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/23 "2020-09-04T14:16:40Z")
I love cicadas! Their call is one of my favorite sounds of summer, and the bugs themselves don’t bother me in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/24 "2020-09-04T14:21:13Z")
Centipedes, especially the huge ones. And huge swarms of bugs, such as army ants. Otherwise, I’m pretty chill with everything. Cockroaches, spiders, snakes, bugs, I’m OK. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/25 "2020-09-04T14:47:36Z")
I can’t abide those Jawas. Disgusting creatures! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/26 "2020-09-04T16:59:48Z")
Those flies that land on me repeatedly and are too fast to kill. The mosquito that is going to infect me with dengue fever some time I am in Barbados. Other things are just minor annoyances. I like spiders, although I wouldn’t want to meet a poisonous one. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/27 "2020-09-04T17:49:11Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > I can’t abide those Jawas. Disgusting creatures! And yet they just might give you a ride when you most need one! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/28 "2020-09-04T23:49:42Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Cicadas and flying cockroaches are very clickety. I like your style! “Clickety” is a good word for it. Mine: roaches. Can’t even deal with killing them. My Other Shoe and my Former I.T. Guy both learned what a very particular involuntary sound on my part meant. I can’t consciously re-create it, either. I saw a house centipede for the first time in my life a couple of weeks ago, and not gonna lie, that’s a pretty creepy critter. But small potatoes compared to roaches. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/29 "2020-09-05T00:08:38Z")
I like a lot of bugs if I have a camera with macro capability in my hand. Otherwise, not a big fan. One odd thing not mentioned above that I really dislike: horseshoe crabs. WRT earwigs, remember this episode? Actually it was called “The Caterpillar” even though the earwig was specifically mentioned. Sweet dreams! > **[Watch Night Gallery Episode: The Caterpillar - NBC.com](https://www.nbc.com/night-gallery/video/the-caterpillar/3972469)** > > Watch The Caterpillar (Season 2, Episode 48) of Night Gallery or get episode details on NBC.com ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/30 "2020-09-05T00:44:58Z")
Not gonna click the link Not gonna do it Wouldn’t be prudent Actually, depictions of earwigs, in any medium, don’t actually bother me, but the real thing, all weird looking and scurrying around and refusing to drown or wash down the drain (damn those things can float and swim well) and and … SQUICK! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/31 "2020-09-05T00:46:23Z")
There are regular cicadas and then there are the 17-year-kind. Regular cicadas are fine. They behave themselves and by and large stick to their own habitat. They do not hatch by literally millions. They do not swarm on your windshield, cover sidewalks so thickly you can’t avoid stepping on their bodies, or literally drown out dinner conversation. 17-year locusts are a different breed. It’s kind of depressing. They stay underground in the nymph stage for well over a decade, then they spend what little time they have trying to attract mates, thousands upon thousands of them, after which they die. It’s kind of Tinder Russian Roulette. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/32 "2020-09-07T05:54:34Z")
if you ever want to see something cool and terrifying at the same time is a praying mantis “egg bomb” hatch … its like a volcano… and the hatchlings eat the first thing they come across (usually siblings) …they destroy hornets really good too … ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/33 "2020-09-07T07:59:39Z")
that actually sounds kinda cool…in a morbid sort of way. I wouldn’t mind seeing that irl sometime Specially would love to watch 'em destroy a hornet(evil little buggers) ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/34 "2020-09-07T11:41:50Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Another vote for centipedes and millipedes. Nothing should have that many legs. For whatever reason, I find millipedes much more tolerable than centipedes. ---
**Author:** ![Jocko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jocko)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/35 "2020-09-07T19:57:08Z")
I literally won’t go to any country that has spiders larger than a small cookie. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/36 "2020-09-08T01:31:00Z")
Well, I won’t go to any country with cookies smaller than a large spider. So _nyah_! 🤪 I’ve read semi-horror stories about praying mantis egg cases hatching indoors, either because a curious family member brought it indoors or, in one memorable tale, because it was attached to the Christmas tree. In any case, you suddenly - within minutes - find yourself and your living room overrun with millions of tiny, identical little mantis babies. Vacuuming ensues. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/37 "2020-09-08T01:59:19Z")
Well, that won’t ever be a problem at Castle Vader, I have a negative emotional reaction to celebrating Christmas the way retailers want. So no tree. I still want to see them eat a hornet (evil little fummmm buggers!) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/38 "2020-09-12T20:27:23Z")
Miniature schnauzers. Yeearrrggghhhh! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/39 "2020-09-13T04:38:17Z")
If miniature schnauzers count as “creepy crawlies” now, then I’d like to nominate those bug-eyed pug dogs and Chihuahuas whose eyes go sideways away from each other. ---
**Author:** ![Courk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Courk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Courk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656/40 "2020-09-13T04:45:42Z")
Ticks are bad, I never saw one in my life until this spring when I had to pull one off of my dog on three separate occasions. ☹ I have cried when confronted with a house centipede, and have screamed out loud for “regular” centipedes and earwigs. Silverfish are also bad. I prefer spiders to be outside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656.md?page=3)