For me, flying bugs can be annoying, but they’re seldom creepy or disgusting, unlike crawlers. A former roommate felt the opposite way, and I’m wondering which of us is in the majority.
Bugs that crawl are bugs that hide…until they don’t. Yeah, they’re worse.
For me, flying bugs are the creepiest, because bugs don’t bother me unless there is a possibility of them touching me. Bugs that can change their position on all three axes at will, therefore, are creepier than bugs that can only change their position on two axes.
I don’t typically have any bug issues at all. For the most part I like them and find them fascinating, often beautiful.
But I do have a slight aversion to urban cockroaches and as a child one sultry evening in NYC, a large American Cockroach came flying along and for a couple of nightmarish minutes ( seconds? years? ) got stuck in my hair. I was perturbed.
It all depends on the specific bug.
I detest cockroaches, flies, maggots but I do not mind caterpillars, or inch worms, or regular worms. There is just something specifically oogy about maggots that is amazingly revolting, and I hate flies and cockroaches, flies because they do touch and go flights and annoy me by tickling the skin, and cockroaches are little disease vectors.
A crawling insect or spider can’t crawl across your face, unless you are asleep or something. The ones that fly, they GO FOR YOUR FACE all the time. Ahem. So yeah, it’s about the face with me, and crawling insects/arachnids (sorry, can’t bring myself to call them “bugs”) seem quite benign in that regard.
Bugs aren’t bad.
I voted “bugs that crawl,” but that’s only because there is no “bugs that squirm” option.
It honestly depends on the bug. But flying critters can be batted away. And the bugs that scare me the most don’t fly at all. Centipedes and maggots seriously give me the oogies.
Bed bugs crawl and they creep me out. At least with roaches and such, if there’s no food they usually don’t bother you, but bed bugs, lice and itch mites feed on YOU and that’s…Well yech…
Now I’m all itchy
I chose flying bugs specifically for the cockroach. When the damn things take flight they head straight for you and they can’t just be batted away because if they touch you they instantly switch to crawling shudder
Bees and wasps also seem to have that fly straight at you tactic and also you really don’t want to bat them away.
I hate spiders, no, I fear spiders but I’d much rather be trapped in a room with a spider than a flying cockroach.
But if spiders start to grow wings … all bets are off.