I do catch and release, but they still scare me!

At the time my clothes line was udner a tree, so I assume the spider decided my shorts would make a nice home. Then my mother folded them up and put them in my draw. After that, I put them on and felt the bugger crawling on my leg, threw them off and ran around the house in boxer shorts looking for something to put the stupid thing in so I could get rid of it.

I was emotionally damaged for years after that; I couldn't put any clothes on without first checking them for bugs.

But anyway, the real point is, my shorts are quite cobweb free and reci...erm..I stop now.

You are supposed to stomp on clothes, gloves or shoes that you've left outside in case there are redbacks in there. Huntsmen are your friends though, they eat the flies.

Which is why, I suspect, that he was hangin' out in your shorts.

Yep.

Oh, so here's my story.

One night, I hear this THWWWWPPPTHHHH sound all of the sudden out of nowhere. I'm using my computer, and I'm like WTF? It stopped as quickly as it started, so I ignored it. A few moments later, THWWWPPPPTHTHHHHHHHTHHFFF, ok, so something is wrong with one of the fans inside my computer.

So I get down on my hands and knees, since the sound came from the back of my computer. I'm like, Is something jamming into the fan?

I thought I saw something move around back, near the power supply fan, couldn't really make it out in the eerie blue glow of the internal lights and LED fans of my computer.

I head over, flip on the room light, get down on my hands and knees, see nothing. I feel around the back near the fan, still nothing, I have no idea what made that sound.

Suddenly, I look down, and about two inches from my hand, is an 7 inch centipede (see above), I moved it in the knick of time. Apparently, it was trying to crawl into the inside of my computer through one of the fan vents. I was like "Oh ". I ran and grabbed a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors, to come back to find it in the hallway trying to get under the rug. Snip snip snip, and a toilet flush later, and all was good in the world, and I returned to my PC.

That does not comply with the catch and release program.

Snip Snip is an instafail.

Nah, just did a quick check on Huntsman and Cane spiders, they look a lot different. Cane spiders have really really long wispy legs (that spread out perhaps the size of my hand), and move close to ground.

Edit: I just learned that the Hawaiian Cane spider's scientific name is apparently Jeezus thatsbiggus

Talk about bug in the 'puter

Wait, you expect me to catch and release a centipede? You are crazy, those things are vicious, and a bite will give you some nasty flu-like symptoms. Hell no do I want those things anywhere near my house, nor do they do anything beneficial.

Ugh. Bugs.

I used to have no trouble dealing with bugs until that day when a wasp stung me behind the knee. Since then, i ALWAYS stayed far away from any bugs, whether they can sting or not.

The only time where i really freaked out is when we had an ant problem in my house. After lunch, i was going to put dirty dishes in the dishwasher but as soon as i opened it, there was like dozens of ants crawling and running back to their lair. I was so not expecting to see this that i literally screamed in surprise and that made me gag as well. You can say ants are cute all you want, when you see dozens of them crawling all over your dishwasher, that's gross.

I dont really mind mosquitos though... except when they're thrice the normal size

Ants? We once had a square pot for plants beside the door to our house. One day I passed by it and thought it looked weird... I took a second glance at the side. There was apparently a carpet of little black ants stretching outwards... or upwards... for some reason. I poked the center with a long, slightly dried leaf I picked up, and they all just scattered.

It was a bit squishy.

As for spiders, the only ones I see in the house are... well, I think they're daddy long legs. There -are a few small ones the garden... I walked into a weak web once and the spider just hopped onto my arm. I think it bit me, 'cos it tingled for a while.

As for bugs... well, all I usually see are flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches. The occasional millipede maybe. Cockroaches are generally fine for me, as long as they don't start flying around. I think I've been desensitized instead of traumatized because of that one night when I lay down in my bed, turned my head, then stared right into a cockroach. I got up, shook it off my pillow, then backed off a bit. I stamped my foot to scare it away. It just came nearer. Stamped again, came even nearer. Then I squished it. Annoying little thing.

Toilet paper is good, but when killing spider I like to get out the lysol or get a spray bottle full of clorox and soak the bug in disinfectant/ bleach.

But why worry about spiders when you can worry about rattle snakes.

Did you pick on the boys you liked back in school, too?

Leave my fragile sense of masculinity alone. It suffers enough.

Snakes are fun (to a point of course. Biting is bad), bugs are just icky. I'm slowly getting over my arachnophobia, but bugs are nasty little critters.

I hate snakes and spiders they must be destroyed!

Sweet Jesus, Tuek.

I read your story, and was freaking out in my chair and made a really loud, weird sound in disgust, and my mom ran in and was like, "Are you OK!? You just made a really weird noise!"

Bugs give me the heebie jeebies.

England is, thankfully, mostly bug free. BUT we have wasps and bees. And for one reason or another (those of you who know me will know) I am mortally afraid of wasps.

Which means that if ANY bugs get near me I freak out and get paranoid until I can work out that they aren't, in fact, a wasp. Butterflies included.

Spiders are okay, EXCEPT when they're watching me while I'm trying to fall asleep. No, man, stop looking at me like that, get out of my room.

I don't like it when spiders creep around you while you are in bed. If you are lying down wit your eyes open and one goes over your pillow, it freaks you out.

They crawl over your PILLOW? Eeh. Mostly the ones that come to annoy me like to just sit RIGHT over my head, by the skylight. At which point I get up and get on the PS2 until they go away.

Snakes is okies, with me...spiders on the other hand?

*shudder* I have literally jumped out of a moving car to get away from a spider (and can we all say OWIEEEEE) because it dropped off the inside of the roof RIGHT in front of my face. Next thing I know I'm rolling in the grass *wry grin*

Catch-and-release my arse...I see a spider if I'm not running, it's turning into bug-goo. Period.

Lesson learned: Hawaii and PA are evil and bug infested with evil insects that eat the souls of little girls... I'M LOOKING AT YOU VEO *oOoooOooOOOOooooooOoOOoOoooo*

Nah, it's relatively harmless here. We have absolutely 0 snakes, no harmful spiders, and not a single deadly anything. Except sharks, but the chance of being bit by a shark is so small considering the thousands of people in the water every day.

Centipedes are just as bad as they get. I hate those things, they just refuse to die, smashing them is NOT an option.