how many AS folk fear bees and other little buggers?

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This describes me as well. Moths and butterflies creep me out and I can't stand being in the same room with one. I have no reason for this extreme dislike.

Bees and other stinging insects don't creep me out, but I avoid them due to the sting. However, I did destroy a mud wasp nest that was near my niece's swings. I did get stung, but I would rather it happen to me than her.

In almost all cases, I run or at least recoil in the presence of insects or arachnids. I don't have it in me to kill them (combination of fear and aversion to the sight/sound of squished bug). I rely on others to eliminate the threat.

I'm afraid of insects. When I was kid, I had scream attacks. Now sometimes I also have

I am scared of bees, wasps, hornets, and any insect than has the capability of biting.

Moths = total panic for me.
Last night there was one stuck in between the two glass panels of my bedroom window (it's one of those that slides open) and it was HUGE! I woke up my mum & told her to get the thing out but she couldn't get to it. She ended up closing the window and squashing it and although I didn't want it dead, now I've got this dead moth stuck in between the window and I don't want to open my blinds. Even though I know it's dead I can't stop thinking about it and wondering when I'm going to encounter the next live one. It's a total phobia for me, and like you I have no idea why.

I love little bees and bugs and creepy-crawlies. Some are really pretty and all of them have the most fascinating features. I use a macro lens to photograph them whenever I can and have some beautiful close-up photographs on my walls.

Next time you find a slow-moving, harmless creepy-crawly you could look at it very closely. If you look through binoculars the wrong way (i.e. put the eye-piece very close to the bug, and look in the big end) you make a crude but effective microscope. Some zoos have insectariums where you can safely view exotic insects.

I do not think I can describe adequately the fear insects cause me.
Panic, perhaps, is a good way of describing my feelings when I hear or see a bee or wasp.
I went for a vacation to Greece once (anyone who has been there before might see this coming) where every single insect is bigger.
Some ants were even 8 times bigger than in the Netherlands.
I went into an extreme panic when I got hot, because I would sweat and the bullets of sweat would go down my back which felt like ants and it was horrible.

I absolutely afraid of centipedes, bees, mosquitos, wasps ants and whatever insect or bug that can cause me serious harm or is just creepy.

But centipedes are the worst, they just have too many legs and slither across the ground like some pre-forbidden fruit snake.

OMG I have a primal fear of bees and wasps! Of course that could have to do with the fact that I sat on a yellow jacket when I was 7 years old....but many ppl get stung by bees and don't get as freaked as I am about them. They scare the bejeebers out of me. I haven't been stung since I was 7 (and I'm in my 40s) because I get so scared when I see one that I just get the hell out of the area as soon as I can! I don't like other bugs (especially mosquitoes) but bees and wasps just freak me out.

~Kate

I've never been afraid of insects or "creepy crawlies". Insects and invertabrates have always been a special intrest of mine. I am a girl.

the only thing i don't like about moths is that they are dusty and wherever they land they leave a spot of their nasty dust. other than that, i could not bear the thought of harming them because [for me, anyways] they are harmless. not cute like lady bugs but harmless. OTOH, bees, flies and mosquitos are the only insects that i cannot feel magnanimously towards. i must eliminate them from my space so that there can be peace.

I don't mind bugs as long as they don't touch me without me knowing or move suddenly but I really hate those cocoon things you find buried, they give me the creeps

i have always had an irrational fear of bees or of any kind of insect. i literally freak out whenever one gets inside the house.

a good canister vacuum cleaner with a long wand is a handy thing to have around when the little buggers come calling.

I've always been terrified of flying/buzzing insects. Really really terrified.

Sigh. As a trail runner, I have encountered 3 mountain lions, regularly encounter well-behaved bears, see rattlers all the time (well, not in winter), and it just goes with the territory. Some people think I am brave, more think I'm crazy. So what really frightens me? Bees and trees. I've been stung by ordinary bees maybe a dozen times in my life. I garden amongst them all the time and like them (they pollinate my fruit trees). But since killer bees moved into the area, I really fear encountering them out on the trail where it is a long way to shelter. Something you can't hit or spray with pepper spray. Very primal creepiness. Not crazy about the fire-damaged trees that drop huge limbs with no warning, either. But bees are worse. Shudder.

Just thought of a worst-case scenario--killer bees make a hive inside a fire-damaged tree. Hiker walks under tree. Limb breaks off, pinning screaming hiker to ground. Pissed-off bees take out wrath on pinned hiker. Now I won't be able to sleep for a week.