I detest certain kinds of bugs

[Spuuky]

Guess which of these two bugs terrifies my wife!

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[Mirage]

I'm pretty sure most people detest certain kinds of bugs.

[Yerushalmi]

I usually dislike anything that flies and can sting me (although I've gotten to be ok with bees after years and years of practice - I got stung by a yellow jacket when I was five and it gave me an irrational phobia of bees for a long time).

I don't see fearing "anything that flies and can sting me" as necessarily irrational. I've often said that my phobia of bees is probably one of the more rational phobias out there, even if the severity of my phobia is very irrational. After all, most things that can hurt you are easily defeatable or evadable if you're a reasonably healthy person with a brain. You can hit a dog in the head repeatedly with something heavy. You can step on a snake or run faster than it can. Supposedly mountain lions won't attack you if you open your jacket and cow them by making yourself look bigger (not to mention when was the last time you ran into a mountain lion?). But bees are extremely common creatures, and they can come at you in three dimensions, are fast enough to keep pace with a running person and don't have to avoid ground obstacles while they do so, and are dextrous enough to easily dodge frontal attacks. If you're going to pick one thing to be damn freaking afraid of, it might as well be the one you legitimately can't defend yourself against.

[Spuuky]

Bees aren't really faster than snakes, although snakes are much more concerned with conserving energy and won't bother. Bees are about as easy to swat out of the sky as a snake is to step on (which is to say it can't always be done, but sure, you'll manage with the docile ones).

Spiders are a much more rational phobia if you live in somewhere like Australia or Brazil, and increasingly less rational as you get to more civilized parts of the world.

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[Jess]

I have a huge irrational fear of spiders. Of any size, shape or colour. They scare the living trout out of me.

Other than spiders, I also hate anything that can fly at my face.

[Shiny]

Fleas suck. Leave my dogs alone! Mosquitos also suck literally and figuratively. Moths suck because one time a moth ate pieces of the blanket my grandmother made so now I get paranoid they'll eat other things when they're in my room. Wasps suck too and there was a wasp in my bed for some reason. My dog finally found it and killed it. Centipedes maybe don't suck, but they scare me. So creepy.

I actually like caterpillars and butterflies. Sometimes I like spiders when they kill the annoying flies in my room.