What animals or insect do you have an irrational fear of

badabing106

Spiders. They are very important for the eco system. Have zero danger to anything except an insect. Are very still

Rats. Very shy creatures who don't have a sinister bone in their bodies. Didn't cause the black plaque, don't cause rabies. Despite their numbers, one of the least likely animals you will catch a disease from

em_cat

Spiders or speeeeders as I irrationally point & screech while jumping (as much as I can) up on the sofa when they sprint across the floor in the late summer. The dogs couldn’t care less & my OH seems to move at a snails pace to catch & release them back outside whilst I’m panicking…

I got bit by one while camping as a child. Not sure if the phobia was present before or after the bite.

Its odd, I’m allergic to Bees but am quite rational if one is around me even though one could literally kill me.

PsychoPete

I don't trust horses

archer22

Nobody has an "irrational fear" of Rats...its well justified.

"very shy creatures" ...the one that walked in my door a few weeks must have been on a confidence building course so.

"least likely animals you will catch a disease from"...tell that to my Dog some years ago who caught Leptosporosis from the bastards.

sam t smith

Earwiggers.

Be right back

Daddy long legs/ moths!

YellowFeather

Fking hate centipedes. One of them wrapped around my finger when I was a child and I was convinced I’d be Yellow-Nine-Fingers.

Also dislike wasps, but that’s rational because these guys love me and will follow me around at any event.

Saying that. I wouldn’t kill any of them, but I will shout at them and put them out. The little bastards.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058247082/what-animals-or-insect-do-you-have-an-irrational-fear-of

Have a Google of Noble False Widow. Also spiders live outside of Ireland and some are very dangerous.

Pauliedragon

Cockroaches. I don't know what it is but when I lived abroad they were everywhere. Spiders or anything like them no problem but those cockroaches are weird. And the way they die it's fucked up aswell. Give me rats or spiders any day over cockroaches. Assholes and u can't kill the bastards because there's 100 more where they they came from.

SuperBowserWorld

Ticks and lyme and any other disease they carry.

But I guess that's not irrational.

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104180#Comment_119104180

Came on to post ticks, dirty creatures I often pick off the dog, makes my skin crawl

JuanGreen

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Totally agree! I hate a bug that leaves anything more than a stain when you kill it.

With a cockroach, you have a corpse to deal with. And unlike a rat, a cockroach never really looks dead to me.

Have to escort it out of the house with a never-ending sense that it is going to spring to life and... I have no idea what I think it is going to do. Guess that is what makes it an irrational fear.

saabsaab

Sharks!

goldenmick

Large slugs with white hair.

Never did like bumbling thicko Boris. Tory git.

gifted

Rats.......I scream like Ned Flanders when I see one.....

Damien360

Used to have an irrational fear of wasps and bees. I’d leave the room to let my wife deal with them. This was caused by a few wasp stings and a swarm of bees around me when I was very young as they looked for a nest site. Not too many years ago, I realised their importance to the food chain and somehow lost my fear and would actively protect them, but still get them out of the house, rather than swat them.

HazeDoll

Bulls. I live in the country so I have had enough dealings with them to learn that they can be very dangerous. If I'm walking along a country road I always have an escape route in mind (over a gate, through a hedge etc.) in case I see one on the road ahead. I frequently encounter them loose on the road near my house so I never ever walk there. I was late for work one morning because there was a disgruntled fecker standing right outside my front gate and I couldn't open the gate to get to work.

I'm not afraid of spiders, I used to have a pet rat, I adore bats. I dismiss people who squeal when they see something smaller than a Yorkshire terrier as cowards and eejits, but I will not walk across a field unless I can see into every corner of it to be sure there's no bull.

I know because they're dangerous this mightn't qualify as an irrational fear but I definitely give bulls more thought than other people do.

Strumms

Wasps and bees… was stung three years ago for the first time and man… got it in the neck.. ouch. Hurt like a motherfücker.

i don’t know if I have a bit of an allergy to their stings but aside from hurting like hell there was quite a bit of swelling for a simple small sting. Half a golf ball sized lump..which im reading is probably an allergic reaction..

id have a bit of a fear of sharks too… irrational as the likelihood is I’ll never encounter one..I remember swimming in water at Clearwater Beach in the mid ‘90’s…I was in my teens and was bumped by something chunky and rough around my knee…I waited about five seconds before looking down hoping not to see blood or a huge mouth of teeth coming in for a second bite…

What I saw was a rather big sea turtle paddling away but i got out of the water….

Archeron

Anglerfish. Used to just think they were creepy little buggers but then saw the photo of the one big enough to eat a person. Unlikely to ever meet one but still, aaaaaaaahhhhhh!

blackvalley

Eels

igCorcaigh

Spiders, fat pigs (wood lice), pretty much any little thing that crawls... kill them with fire.

(No, I don't actually kill them. I call on my partner with excellent insect handling skills. Lucky me.)

barneygumble99

Snakes! Honestly wouldn’t visit a country that has a large quantity of venomous snakes.

YellowLead

Rats, snakes, spiders, wasps - don’t see how these are irrational folks.

is nobody afraid of cute bunny rabbits or anything???

SuperBowserWorld

Humans scare me a lot.

Has anybody seen what they've done to the planet and do to each other ?

Dangerous creatures.

em_cat

My husband can’t understand my fear of spiders, especially as I’m the one who deals with all the dog injuries, have rodents for pets, including rats, deal with foster fleas and sometimes lice, can remove ticks with ease and have no issues with what most people would find gross.

But god almighty if a spider scurries I’m like…

The Mighty Quinn

Maggots.

Give me the gawks. I couldn't cope with picking one up. Wiggly squirmy pulsating freaks

Spiders. Even typing the word increases my head rate. I can't begin to describe the sense of panic that comes over me. It is absolutely 100% irrational but when it happens I lose the run of myself.

My subconscious can be cruel because they enter in to my dreams. I suppose because it knows that it's a fear and so they are the 'perfect' monsters for my nightmares.

When I was a child some of the other kids in my class had a small plastic one. I remember as plain as day hiding in the girls bathrooms, standing on the toilet petrified they would throw it at me. Didn't make an odd that it was a toy. There is something not quite right with a person who gets a kick out of that kind of thing.

The odd person will still make fun of my fear and indeed the fears of others, but that says something negative about them I think.

igCorcaigh

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How is it that you even see maggots, never mind picking one up... fishing, I hope?

The Mighty Quinn

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Admittedly it is not a common sight, but sometimes in summer the compost bin will have maggots in it.

There was a horrible moment in my teen years where I'd left a sandwich in a gearbag for weeks and forgot about it til the end pocket burst open with maggots. That scarred me.

walshb

Those fooking yellow wasps that chase you…I cannot rest till fooking dead!

BrianD3

I'm glad we don't have giant centipedes in this part of the world. The stuff of nightmares, 1 foot long and can kill bats and mice and inflict very painful bite on a human.

Hate cockroaches too , thankfully we seem to have very few here.

I like seeing House spiders (tegenaria domestica and gigantea) in the house I like to think of them feasting on various insects

cj maxx

I'm not really afraid of any animals, I used to by quite scared of mice and rats but working in poultry farms soon put that to an end. The ex wife and her sisters are terrified of cats. Which I find completely irrational 😀

igCorcaigh

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God love you! I would be scarred too.

Speaking of maggots, my 7 year old self was similarly educated in a neighborhood search for that awful smell, only to find a poor dead dog behind our house, with the full exuberance of all fauna.

Jack Russell terriers.

Got bitten twice as a child by the horrible little fúckers.

cj maxx

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The evil ones are great ratters though. There was an evil one in an estate we used to train he'd bite the back of your legs

Good thing I didn't grow up in an estate then.

cj maxx

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Neither did I but we used to run around one for boxing training, and that little fúcker used to see us as sport

AyeGer

Wasps I absolutely hate, they tormented me as a child and even as an adult they will come straight for me when I'm with other people. Spiders I'm not too bothered about, the very fast moving ones can be a bit freaky though.

Ray Palmer

No irrational fears and if you have them you really should deal with especially if you have kids. You just pass it on or often give them more anxiety about it than you currently had. When I moved in with my wife she was jumping around in fear of spiders and any insect really. She split her head open on a kitchen cabinet when she reacted to a bee on the other side of the room. That is when she decided to get over it and it didn't take therapy or anything just a bit of will power. Spiders don't bother her at all but she avoids bees and wasps more than others but doesn't panic.

If you have one irrational fear you probably have more

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058247082/what-animals-or-insect-do-you-have-an-irrational-fear-of

Nothing irrational about fearing rats , dirtiest most disease spreading creatures on the planet

Aggressive bastards too

I'm terrified of them

badabing106

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119108471#Comment_119108471

Rats like all animals including humans transmit disease, but the humble rat simply doesn't warrant the bad press they get in the media

Here are the animals to worry about according to CDC in America

Bats, Ticks, mosquitoes, cattle, pigs etc

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0506-zoonotic-diseases-shared.html

whisky_galore

Can't say I'm afraid of anything which can't do me any harm. Can't understand why people run away screaming from tiny creatures esp in this country.

forestgirl

Butterflies because to me they are just so dangerous They start coming out in march if we get a hot day and this goes on until October but some hide in curtains,I am so scared.They get into the house and I get full on panic and it's so ridiculous with all the terrible things in the world and I can't shake this phobia off

igCorcaigh

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The key word in the OP is "irrational".

I was just standing in the middle of 50,000 bees. They weren't happy but I was there for their own good.

One of the little feckers stung me as well.

igCorcaigh

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Do you harvest honey? I admire your bravery.

whisky_galore

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No sh1t.

Oink

House spiders don’t bother too much, but not them hairy fookers.

cockroaches are repulsive.

but my real phobia is parasites. Stuff that crawls out of other living animals’ flesh. Feeling itchy right now just thinking about it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119109182#Comment_119109182

First year at it but that's the plan.

A bee suit, smoker and a pair of marigolds keep them from getting to you most of the time

Montage of Feck

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Slugs with hair? Now In scared!

cj maxx

Women