Which Insects Do You Like/Hate ??

[Darkkin]

My favorite insect of all time is the Dragonfly. No contest.

Dragonflies always seem to find me. I've never been frightened of them. And when they land on you it is like holding history. Meganeura was the largest known species and lived during the Carboniferous about 300 million years ago.

 

[cornman]

Spoiler: TRIGGER WARNING (Centipede)

 

[Darkkin]

Screaming quietly to myself and runs to get a shoe...(One of the very few things I freak out about.) I hate millipedes.

 

[cornman]

This is a house centipede. Millipedes are completely harmless to humans (unless they are eaten). Centipedes are poisonous, how poisonous/harmful depends on the kind of centipede.
House centipedes have a poisonous bite that feels similar to a bee sting. The typically wont bite people and will usually just run away in fear.

Spoiler: TRIGGER WARNING (Centipede)

I leave them alone because they kill a lot of pest bugs that can cause issues in homes (cockroaches, moths, flies, silverfish ,termites etc..)

 

[Luca]

OMG!!! I wish this thread had a trigger warning or a spoiler or something. Hell no.
I HATE centipedes.

 

[cornman]

OMG!!! I wish this thread had a trigger warning or a spoiler or something. Hell no.
I HATE centipedes.

I apologize crewlucca_ , I forgot that most people find centipedes terrifying and or hard to look at.

I edited the posts such that the images are stuffed under spoilers. Hopefully it will prevent more freak outs from happening.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Insects I like best:
Butterflies
Ladybugs
Bumblebees
Honeybees
Fireflies
Damselflies (little dragonflies)
Furry little moths that look like teddy bears with wings
Praying Mantis
Orchid mantis

Insects I like least:
Mosquitoes
Ticks
Blackflies
Horseflies
cockroaches
bedbugs
Houseflies
Botflies (their larvae burrow into your skin and that is just terrifying and repulsive)
Wasps, hornets
Huge beetles with gigantic pincers that look like something out of a horror movie.

 

[RESleight]

Many because they are so alien and disgusting in appearance and actions.

1. Mosquito: They are flying syringes that spread disease and cause discomfort. They're always around to specifically draw blood when you are out and about in nature. It's especially annoying when you are fishing on foot, or trying to, because you are stationary mostly, unless relocating to another spot. While its also true a mosquito can stab you while fishing on a boat, the mosquito attacks are more variable, compared to on land standing there on the shore. 2. Horsefly: they are not only large, but FAST. They also bite, are loud, and they look menacing. 3. Fly: they land on your food when you are very hungry. 4. Roaches and all related: disgusting. 5. Water bug: brutal, disgusting, and horrifying. 6. Parasitic wasps: brutal, disgusting, and horrifying. 7. Praying mantis: total alien.

There's plenty more to add to the list, but I'm lazy right now. This also applies to the insects below that are in the like category.

Dragonfly, Lady bug, Butterfly, Walking stick

 

[QueenOfFrance87]

I always liked monarch butterflies the best ever since elementary school. My third grade teacher was teaching us about the lives of butterflies, and was raising a monarch caterpillar to show an example. It took a while for the pupa to evolve, but it was worth the wait.

I do not like hornworms, though. They are basically Caterpie (a caterpillar pokémon) on steroids, adorned with dangerous horns. They were all over my mom's tomato garden, and we both hated that. What's even scarier, although they are dormant for the most part, they can move quickly with barely any warning (at least, I thought it was, when I was younger).

 

[GrownupGirl]

I like praying mantises because they're kind of like a cat in insect form. I once read that some people keep them as pets and they can be trained to drink from a teaspoon of water. Unlike other insects they can fully move their heads around and it's almost like they have curious and intelligent expressions. The way they groom their faces is also a lot like a cat.

 

[Shaddock]

I hate flys, because they are really annoying and actual there is a flie who annoys me very much. but their beak is a bit cute. when they pull it out and walk over the ground, it looks like they are dust sucking. well this is ambiguos lol : D

Spoiler: fly

http://www.bullshift.net/data/images/2013/09/fliege-mit-ruessel.jpg

some flys have long beaks : D

Spoiler: fly2

https://michaelrwhitehead.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/img_3624-1-copy.jpg?w=1024

 

[Knower of nothing]

If there's one group of organisms on this planet that seem to really embody the core tenets of life to such an efficient extreme, it would be arthropods. They are incredible. They're also some of the few animals that are this easy to observe up close for such an extended period of time WITHOUT THEM CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOR DUE TO YOUR PRESENCE. Super rare for a non-professional observer!

Anyway I adore moths and rolypolies the most as those visit me in my room most often. I always escort them out after watching a bit. Other close-by friends would be silverfish, though I've only spot a single one so far, flies and mosquitos. Mosquitos are the only ones I usually end up killing, it sucks but they're really hard to get to leave when they'd rather just eat you. May figure something out for them one day.
Flies are a bit like a puzzle of herding getting them to go through a window instead of against the glass. Still, flies are fun to watch, they groom a lot (legs, wings and eyes) and just look for things to graze haha.

I'll also get a "leaf footed bug" occasionally. They startle me because of the uncommon sighting and size. They're slow and methodical until you agitate them and that startles me again. Usually requires a glass to capture and escort. They're still a good memory because it was one of the first times I bothered visually identifying a bug using an insect guide, though I did it out of concern that it would attack or something.

Last but far from least. Sometimes a panicked wasp will shoot into my room, a classic yellowjacket. Now outside, I don't mind wasps, they're a bit unnerving but I've spent enough time near them while they chew wood to come to appreciate them with caution. But when they're in my room I keep my respectable distance. As in, when they're in my room, I won't be. I wait patiently for them to leave the same way they came, which happens fast enough. There's nothing for them here. They look beautifully terrifying.

And yes I used arthropods instead of insects at the start for the sole purpose of including roly polies. They are the bestest boys. We can only strive to be more like them.

Spoiler

 

[Gee Wyles]

I hate these:
Scorpion by Lightstage Photography, on Flickr

 

[Metalhead]

I love bees for keeping the planet alive, but I get terrified when one is buzzing around me. A bee got into my soda can when I was a young boy and stung me in the back of my throat.

 

[Judge]

I love the ones that don't enter my home. And hate the ones that do.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Last night I watched a video about this amazing little bee. It's a species of solitary bee that doesn't live in a hive with a queen, but there was a female bee that was laying her eggs in these tubular constructions built just for them. Then she goes and collects a ton of nectar and covers herself completely up in pollen to carry back to the tubes to put in them as food for the eggs when they hatch. They said just one of these bees does the work of around 50 worker honeybees when to comes to pollinating plants, so they really help plants to grow.

 

[Luca]

One insect I'm not super happy about is the Deer Ked. They are common in the forest in the area I live and the thing about them is that they aggressivly follow you. You can waive your arms all day long, they are not leaving. And if they think you are a good place to live, they land on you and shed their wings. So they make it clear that they don't intend to leave. I walked into a swarm of those in the forest last summer, two hours after I came home I was still finding deer ked in my hair.

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*Screams*
I don't like that. I don't like it at all.

 

[Nick12]

I like all the insects If any of you like sesame street go to YouTube and type insects in your neighborhood

 

[Luca]

I like all the insects If any of you like sesame street go to YouTube and type insects in your neighborhood

I love that song from Sesame Street

 

[dragonfire42]

I like most. My very first special interest was arthropods, that’s never really gone away even if it isn’t my main focus anymore. I particularly like mantids, probably in part because they’re common enough to find on a somewhat regular basis but hard enough for me to find that it feels like a special treat when I do. I always get excited when I find an arthropod (or any animal, really) that I don’t see often. I think it’s adorable when ants clean themselves.

I’ve always been the designated arthropod-remover of the household. Always catch and release, I keep a cup with a lid handy specifically for the puropse of catching the wasps and stinkbugs that occasionally get in. Presently there’s a wolf spider I’m letting hang out in my pantry (or at least, that’s where I’ve seen it), I don’t have anything unpackaged in there and it’ll keep other things out.

I’m wary of wasps because they tend to be aggressive. Haven’t been stung by anything, but I’m in no hurry to change that. I get startled if something unexpectedly gets on me, but will happily hold most things that don’t have some sort of dangerous weapon. Suddenly seeing something move quickly can startle me too, if I’m not expecting it, but that goes for just about anything, even inanimate objects. And I can’t stand the noise of cicadas.