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Post by andy on Jun 4, 2013 17:49:58 GMT
Got any beasties that your petrified of in the garden. I can tolerate pretty much all the bugs etc but im a bit of a woos when it comes to large house spiders and i must admit to being absolutely terrified of wasps !!!
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Post by Tig on Jun 4, 2013 17:58:44 GMT
Same for me too andy, and I'm not that keen on hornets either! |
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Post by Jasmine on Jun 4, 2013 18:50:56 GMT
I'm not fussed about any bugs unless we're stuck in a small space together then I would like to be able to see what I'm dealing with! Birds are quite different - can't bear the flapping and feathers and couldn't share any enclosed space with them.
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Post by Auricula on Jun 4, 2013 20:08:49 GMT
Ants, I absolutely cannot abide ants  |
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Post by Geranium on Jun 5, 2013 5:16:21 GMT
I'm not fussed about any bugs unless we're stuck in a small space together then I would like to be able to see what I'm dealing with! Birds are quite different - can't bear the flapping and feathers and couldn't share any enclosed space with them. I agree, Jasmine, I can't even dispose of a dead bird. What a wimp I am!  I don't like rats, either.  |
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Post by Jasmine on Jun 5, 2013 11:05:54 GMT
I could just about do that but I would have to have gloves on. Didn't even think of rats  |
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Post by bagpuss on Jun 5, 2013 11:42:55 GMT
I'm not really a fan of rats. Daddy long legs I cannot stand and I'm not overly keen on the idea of a close encounter with a snake or slow worm.
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Post by Ladygardener on Jun 6, 2013 4:51:53 GMT
Wasps have been my phobia all my life, however in later years so long as they're not in the house with me I can tolerate them in the garden but am still very wary and try to keep my distance. Earwigs, they give me the hebe jebies. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 6, 2013 5:38:17 GMT
Can't say that it is a Phobia but the huge black hairy spiders that we get here - don't really make a web, just a web over where they live. They are often in the plant pots and under them...'orrible things. OH has a thing about mice but I can cope with those and rats I threat with a hell of a lot of respect..
RF
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Post by Jilly on Jun 6, 2013 9:25:27 GMT
I can't say I'm worried about any critters really, probably because in my youth I knew people who had all sorts as pets (rats, snakes, tarantulas etc). Not keen on being in confined spaces with wasps though  |
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Post by Chuckles on Jun 17, 2013 10:17:21 GMT
I'm generally not worried about any critters really either Jilly. I just can't do with snakes, we've had a several grass snakes in the garden and I just freeze and dither, they have to be removed and even after I know there gone even just thinking about them makes me go all of a dither. Don't particularly like it if a spider gets on me but I can tollerate them about the garden. |
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Post by chickengirl on Aug 26, 2013 10:00:17 GMT
Oh, I enjoyed reading these. We don't have snakes in our garden Chuckles and Bagpuss, although my boys would love it if we did!!! Like LG, I hate hate hate earwigs, they freak me out completely, but other than that, I can cope with everything I have come across so far  |
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Post by andy on Aug 26, 2013 13:50:33 GMT
One thing we had in abundance when i worked in the nursery was cockroaches...they loved the warm dry areas such under the heating ducts and they came in their thousands !!!! I was absolutely petrified of them.
One of the park police nicked a pot plant out of the palm house once...a month later they had to call pest control in as they were infested with cockroaches.
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Post by chickengirl on Aug 27, 2013 9:04:20 GMT
Hehe Andy, that's a great story! I don't really like Cockroaches but we don't have them up in the cold wet NW. (Although today is set to be another scorcher  ) |
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Post by Chuckles on Aug 27, 2013 20:53:13 GMT
Now thats what I call justice  |
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