What type bug freaks you out? Most painful?

[MaxKaladin]

Wasps and their relatives. When I was a small boy (5-7 years old or thereabouts), my father asked me to turn on the water hose for him. The faucet was hidden behind a bush of the kind you use for topiary. I brushed up against it reaching behind it and out came a swarm of wasps that proceeded to sting me all over the place while I ran around like a maniac trying to bat them away. They eventually quit on their own after I had run far enough away. My father terminated them with bug spray, but I had bites all over my arms and legs (it was summer and I was just wearing shorts and a t-shirt). I've hated wasps and their relatives with a passion ever since. I pretty much extend this to any bug that flies and I think has a stinger.

I also terminate black widows and any other spider I think might be poisonous with extreme prejudice. I also kill any small brown spider on the off chance it's a brown recluse. My father has a 40 year old magazine article hanging on the wall of his workshop describing the horrors of brown recluse poison and it made me paranoid. I'm ok with daddy longlegs, by the way, because I don't buy the urban legend about their being poisonous and I used to play with them all the time when I was a kid.

 

[AIM-54]

I pretty much loathe insects of all kinds...something about my cricket and spider infested basement room when I was 6 in Nashville made a lasting impression...

My mom also suffered a bite from a brown recluse when I lived in Tampa...no need for amputation but she was limping for a long time after that.

What I really, really hate are Canadian mosquitos...those bastards have like three months to feed and they do it with a passion. Southern mosquitos are smaller and lazier by comparison. Damn I hate those bastards!

The one that freaks me out the most though are what we call Spruce Beetles in Saskatchewan. Not only do they have a very painful bite, but they are known to lay eggs under a person's skin. Awful, awful little buggers. And fairly common at some campgrounds I've been at.

 

[KB9JMQ]

I don't really like spiders (a quick death to all I see) or bees/wasps very much.
Any recluse looking spider usually is ground into nothingness.
But it is granddaddy longlegs that freak me out.
I read a story about some caver being trapped in a cave with billions of them when I was little and have been creeped out ever since.

All other bugs are basically ok with me.

 

[Gomez]

I hate fire ants! Nasty buggers! And they are so hard to get rid of. I kill a mound and two months later another one pops up.

 

[lukelightning]

It is not really an ant but a wingless ground wasp.

You say that about everything. "That's not a mind flayer. It's a wingless ground wasp."

 

[Lasher Dragon]

Insects don't bother me much. The only things that creep me out are parasitic things, like leeches and ticks.

Other than that, I find larvae disgusting. Maggots just make me want to reach for some WD-40 and a lighter

 

[Khayman]

Sawyer beetles.

Northern Manitoba is maggoty with the things. Not poisonous but they have a nasty bite coupled with an annoying tendency to land on your head. Some Cree friends refer to them as maskwategum, or 'black bear bugs', their bite being compared to a mauling by a bear.

 

[Ghostwind]

Horseflies have an especially painful bite. The big ones (the inch to 2 inch size ones) can lay your skin open quite efficiently.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Ticks and cockroaches. Plain old houseflies just annoy the crap out of me buzzing around the house. Any that end up in the house are immediately hunted down and destroyed.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Blue screen of death use to freak me out.