How would you like this then? The guy was investigating my porch this morning.

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I would screetch for sure LOL.I know they are good I just don't want to see them near me.I never walk out the doors of my house without first looking down.. Eww Just got shivers down my spine.The funny thing was I was just looking up info on Brown recluse to identify.I think that I saw one yesterday while in my garden. I was bitten bu one a couple months ago . I didn't realize it was a bite until happened to be at Dr's with daughter and asked him to look at this blister that had grown bigger since morning, not only that but it was getting red and hot.Said to call him next day if worse. Boy was it ever. That's when he said looks exactly like brown recluse bite.Anyway now I have spider fear too LOL . My daughter came outside and said there's a brown soider on your leg !1 I started jumping around brushing my legs screaming and ran in the house ..I never knew I could move that fast with RA LOL

early_bird_2007,
Looks just like a black racer- harmless snake, eats pests, like rodents, around the house- great to have around, doesn't make any noise, and doesn't carry disease (like the rodents it eats)!

Hmmmm...thinking about what gives me the heebie-jeebies...*pondering, pondering*.... Not much, I guess. At least not in the animal world. Love my snakies, love my possums and other mammals, love my birds, including vultures. I guess the only thing I can think of right off the bat is hairy-legged spiders, IF they get ON me. I must have been a fly in a former life, cuz you will see me jumping around like mad when that happens. I don't KILL them, but I don't want them ON me. *shudder* Mark will catch them for me and put them outside, if one gets in the house.

Now if we were talking people...that's a whole 'nuther story. Let's see...Hollywood stars with way too much plastic surgery and botox? Penn Gilette trying to dance the jive? My next door neighbor's split in half kneecap?

Okay, I'm creeping myself out here...gotta go!

Marcia

I'd rather have a snake in my house than any kind of rodent. EEK!

I HATE cockroaches. mammie, how can you say that? Isn't she a cutie?

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Awwwwwwwwwwwww
But needs a nail trim
Kristi (the groomer)

It doesn't look like a mouse or rat, so I'm ok with this one. :) Just for the record though, what is she/he, a Guiney(sp) Pig?

Guinea pig

SPIDERS! We use to go horseback riding in the grooves in Vero and those groove spiders were so big, Yuk!

Early bird .. Aww she is adorable Love guinea pigs. They are the sweetest pets! I loved my Willouby.

Fire ants give me heebie jeebies. I'll take snakes over fire ants any day.

i'd like to say nuthin give me the heebies, but, truth be told, those DARN GRASSHOPPERS (lubbers!) freak me out. i HATE THEM. anything that HISSES at me as i crush its head with pliers (my preferred means of dispatch...) gets the jeebies awards from me...

wasps -- for me it's always been wasps.

I hate fire ants but they don't make me want to run screaming or even back slowly away while maintaining eye contact. Wasps DO make me feel like that.

Dead stuff. Not the end stage, but the wet and colonized stage. We are presently dealing with a carcass underneath one of our sheds. No way to get to it. Don't know what it was...Coon, feral cat, armadillo???. Must just let nature take her course.

Spiders - no problem - I carry them outside. Snakes no problem. I ask them to wait a minute while I look them up in my reptile book. lol. Possums - LOVE 'em! Palmettos - eeu. I shutter when I have to kill one. I am afraid it will escape and touch me. creepy... But today I have to say slugs. I just had one 2-3" long on my prized yarrow and when I tried to step on it to kill it, it was like rubber. It wouldn't moosh. I kept stomping on it and it seemed invincible. I will have to go back out again later to check. It might have slid off somewhere.

Oh, and earlybird - very cute guinea pig...

Nothing gives me the heebie jeebies like arrogant people.
I dislike ants and gnats and mosquitoes while I labor in the garden but no heebie jeebies.
Felix

atreelady'
try salt on the slugs. they shrivel up instantly.

Salt - THANK YOU jollyip. I will remember that.

Yes, the salt thing works! (Only to spot kill one at a time, not as a treatment.) It's kind of eye-popping. One minute they're there, the next, gone.

I have some very strange slugs here, once in awhile. They are wider and tougher looking than any I've ever seen. They aren't wet or slimy looking like most I'm familiar with. Almost look like they have a furry skin. Like suede, not like actual hair. Anyone else have these?

Marcia

Hi Felix I agree with you on that one arrogant people :)

heebie jeebies, for me it is spiders. my neighbor once tried to 'heal' me of my phobia. She petsitted some tarantuals for her brother and she started with the shedded skins. I had to touch it (that didn't happen). next step was to look at a live one - on her hand *shudder* that was as far as it went! no healing for me. She tried explaining that those spiders have brains and 'know' us. that makes it even worse, since now I expect them to team up on me and retaliate!

Evelyn,don't worry about the spider brains,they're tiny brains. We can out wit them.
Hi,atreelady. With the slugs,you could try given them a little beer. either a can or a bottle with a little beer inside. Set
it horizontally on the ground where you have seed them. This ought to attract them and kill them.
Felix

Ususally I have no problem with spiders as long as they are outside! But when a huge crab spider tries taking a shower with me I scream, grab a towel and then run to my brothers room to get him to kill it for me. That just happened a few weeks ago and I did try to kill it myself before running for my brother but the dang thing wouldn't hold still and every time it darted around (it's on the ceiling by this time) I screamed and jumped back! There was water trailed everywhere throughout the house! My brother took care of it for me without complaint but I later found out that he'd been laying in bed listening to me scream while wondering how long it would take for me to come get him!

The other thing that gives me the heebie jeebies are those big flying palmetto bugs. I've had those things dive bomb me in the past and then chase me around the room!

Ohhhhhhhhhh I just got shivers down my spine Karalynn.flying Palmettos ewwwwwwwwww.THe first time I saw one was when we moved down here 10 years ago !!!I was alonw with my three young kids. My oldest at the time put on his spiderman slippers and ran and got out his plastic sword to protect me. I was screaching and flapping my arms.. I had to be brave so I ran past the thing and grabbed the vacuum hose while my 7 year old watched it and then sucked it up !! Still creeps me out when I see those things .What a sight that must have been :)

My first experience in my first new house was a flying palmetto dive bombing me and landing in my thick curly hair. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

I like snakes, lizards and frogs and have no problems handling them if needed, like to rescue some poor lizard or gecko that got into the house full of cats, but frogs do freak me out when they hide in the crack of my door and leap on me when I open the door. Not expecting that, I calm down when I realize it's just a frog and not a small green ninja trying to kill me.

I don't mind some bugs but spiders and cockroaches (especially the flying ones) freak me out. There's a couple spiny orb spiders making webs under the camphor tree in my front yard and I've almost walked into them a couple times while mowing, then the other day I walked across my yard and forgot they were there and walked right into a web and did the "Augggh! Get it off me!" crazy dance for my neighbors. Lately they've also been attaching a web strand or two to my car so I can do the crazy dance every day when I got out to my car. I think these spiders are kind of cool looking and they are outside so I'd like to leave them be but I want to do more work in my front yard and get in my car without the extra exercise so I may have to relocate them to a secluded spot in the yard somewhere but I get the willies every time I think about it.

Cockroaches always fly right at the person that is most freaked out by them, me. Gah!

I also hate the lubber grasshoppers because they keep eating my plants but they are kind of slow-moving so I managed to scoop some up with an old large kitchen spoon and dump them in a bucket to be drowned. I cannot bring myself to squish them because I know I will gag or worse.

I also do not like wasps, bees or hornets which also will fly right at me, it's not so much heebie jeebies as it is "I don't want to be stung".

Then there's those beetles and huge moths that hang out by the porch light and fly right at my head when I come home at night. If they'd stay the heck away from me I'd have no problems with them but they have to behave like little insecty kamikazes.

I have to say as a native Floridian you can't survive if you have too many heebie, jeebies. But... I have one, TICKS!! Yuck.

How about this one! I slipped my bare feet into my yard shoes kept by the front door and my big toe pushed up against "something" soft! I tore off that shoe and out jumped a toad! In those few seconds you can imagine all the thoughts reeling through my brain!

THANK YOU ALL !!!I laughed as I read all of these.. such a common thing.. EWWWW at critters unexpected especially. Wile e Coyote... yours especially. Still snickering!!! Thank you!