how many AS folk fear bees and other little buggers?

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i never have been able to be stoic when a bee was headed for me. i always run away in a panic. my older [NT] sister and i were in the backyard watching a hornet's nest in the ground, and i was beside her- when i saw those sentry bees commence swarming i got the hell out of there post-haste, but she continued to squat on the ground fascinated by the bees, then all hell broke loose- the bees poured out of that nest with malice aforethought, and stung the dickens out of my sister but not me because a full minute before this happened, i was cowering in the house. if a bee or a fly or mosquito get in my house i cannot rest or do anything else until i have sucked the nasty little hummer into my vacuum cleaner. i got stung by a yellowjacket once and i was so angry i pounded the little bastard into a paste. afterwards i was aware that it hurt like hell.

so am i alone in this or is there something about AS that both makes us flee from stinging insects and also be more sensitive to the pain of their stings?

I used to be afraid of bees, but I handle them much more calmly.

I was/am deathly afraid of daddy long-legs spiders. I would have major tantrums if people didn't kill them right away when I saw them, and then I would immediately need to leave wherever I was. I lived in a house in the woods for a short time and got a little bit better about them and can even kill them myself, but I still don't like them and would definitely melt down if one of them were crawling on me. Smaller spiders are not much of an issue.

I am also afraid of daddy long-legs spiders. I know that they can't hurt me, it's just their long bouncy looking legs that make me want to run away. Little spiders I don't mind, and even bigger ones with their legs in proportion to their body size I can deal with. I'm not afraid of bees.

These aren't AS things, they are people things. Insect fears and phobias are very, very common.

I am not afraid of bees or wasps, they can smell fear and will sting if you move suddenly

I am uneasy around bees mainly because I'm afraid they will sting me rather than it being an irrational fear. However, moths will cause me to scream a very loud girly scream for no other reason than I am in the same room as them. Really, really dislike moths but can't actually explain why.

I've always been scared of bees, since that one time that I got stung by one. I was petting a bee one time, when I was 6, and it stung me.

I freakin FEAR them! Heck I fear any kind of insect or bug that has the appearance of a wasp, moth, or like something out of the pit of hell.

Bugs scare me. DEAD bugs will send me straight into therapy. I won't even open one of my windows because of the web filled with dead bugs stuck to the window sill. When it comes to getting rid of dead bugs you'll see me holding the vacuum for a moment, and then 2 seconds later I'm already 2 miles away, running like mad.

I don't mind bees, but I hate wasps.

About 15 years ago, I was in England with my husband for two weeks, and it seemed like everywhere I went, there were wasps chasing me. I don't remember if I got stung, but they seemed to be very attracted to my scent for some reason.

About 11 years ago, I was pushing my kid on a swing, and this friggin wasp flew right up to me and stung me on the elbow. My entire arm felt like it was submerged in boiling water for the next 24 hours. My kid was only a year old, so it the wasp had stung him, with a similar reaction, that could have been really bad.

And the little bastards just come up and sting you for no reason at all. I can understand if they are defending their life or their young, but they just seem to do it for fun.

I don't have a phobia of them, though. I just stay away. Oh, and mosquitos. Ugh! They seem to love me as well. I had a vacation ruined because of being bitten by about 600 mosquitoes in a ten minute period, and then being ill with a fever. Being bitten and stung really takes the fun out of the great outdoors.

I am completely terrified of bees when they sneak up on me. I do have a garden, so when I tend to it I am aware there will be bees and I am not as freaked out by them... but if I am in my living room and I hear one I will run out of the room, lock myself away upstairs and flip right the hell out until my husband gets home and will get the flying, clicky, stinging, buzzing bastard out of my house so it cannot get me. Heh. I had a bee crawl on my neck when I was a kid and I broke out in the most dreadful rash. Apparently I have bee allergies, so my fear, although it is extreme, is not completely irrational. I just wish I did not make such a fuss about it all. I was sitting in a parked car in a lot once and a bee flew by my open window. I started screaming and rolling up the window and there was this woman getting out of the car next to me. She became irate and she thought she was shy I was screaming and rolling up the window in such a rush. My reactions get me in trouble sometimes...

Cockroaches, the big palmetto bugs, not the little German ones. It's perfectly rational -- those things fly! <shudder>

I don't mind bees.
Centipedes are my critter phobia.

I had an infestation of these walking mustaches in my basement.
They bite too as they are poisonous.
One crawled across my face in bed once , but no bite fortunately.

There's two vid's on u-tube of giant centipedes eating a mouse in an aquarium ,as the owner apparently feeds these to it.
unbelievable and nasty!

No

As a kid I used to be scared of bees and completely broke down when my brother and sisters ran in the house when there was a dragon fly and left me outside with it.
These days I just freak out at the brilliant blue wasp in my backyard because it looks poisonous. Oh and red back spiders, eugh!