[JayG]

Can't say I'm too fond of picking slugs up, so I don't, and I've stopped picking spiders up by hand after one ungrateful specimen bit me as I rescued it from the bath!

Love frogs, but don't like the way they jump out unexpectedly from the undergrowth. 

[carlrmj]

I was moving some bricks, and a big black spider about 3 1/2 inches across, crawled from the

bottom of the brick.

Dropped it straight away,even though you know they can't do you any harm it was still a

shock

[Auntiemogs]

My ex was afraid of spiders around the house but I found that if I gave them a name, he could 'relate' to them and didn't try to squish them! 
I don't mind them as long as I know roughly where they are as I have a fear of squishing them, and other insects (excluding mozzies  ), due to the childhood trauma (u are allowed to laugh at this one) of my nan squishing my pet beetle, which escaped from my dollshouse....eew!
I was bitten by a spider once JayG and it b****y hurt! It was a woodlouse spider, an ugly wee beastie, so I can empathise with you there! 

[arugula]

Did the um, pet beetle have a name?

[Auntiemogs]

It was a long, long time ago Argyllie (40+ years). I think I must have selective amnesia with regard to its name, though the vision still haunts me...

[arugula]

I'm sure it does.

[snowdrops]

Surely it was Alexander beetle

[arugula]

Good thinking snowdrops.

[ulsterfairy]

I am no longer petrified of earth worms -( its only taken about 20 yrs!!!), but dont want to touch them (Marigolds r my friend), freaked out by any maggot type grubs  , slugs just make me feel ill they are just horrible  , slightly freaked out by the things that you cant see easily either ( kinda wished i didnt know they exsisted!! eelworm for 1)

Spiders and other creepy crawlies dont worry me so much except earwigs!!!

But I do love gardening and esp growing my own  but it does explain some of my past posts  , so I do get over 

Oh and I love snakes and reptiles I thought until I saw a snake in the garden  - my feet didnt touch the ground - and I chicken out of holding a slow worm of which we have plenty of on the plot (They eat slugs I think yay)

[catweazle]

i am a 23 year old, 17 stone, HGV mechanic with a love of heavy metal and off roading

i have one phobia.

centipiedes!

it must be funny to watch me run a mile because i picked a pot up and one fell on me!

[Growster...]

I found the most beautiful slow-worm this morning!  He/she was about 9" long, with gorgeous orange colouring,and he/she was so worried and stayed sedentary until I put him/her into some long grass nearby, and escape was made!

We found several more last year, and I had a sleepless night once, because one got stabbed by a fork during some digging.

I would never, ever want to hurt these delightful creatures.

[catweazle]

sounds like a male, their the bronze ones. i must admit a fondness for slow worms

[Growster...]

sounds like a male, their the bronze ones. i must admit a fondness for slow worms

I didn't know that Cat!

I was so upset when a big one got hurt; it would have never survived, but we found several more later during the grass removal!

They're beautiful creatures,, and I somehow wish they'd stay, but we need the ground...

They get taken to a derelict plot, where they'll have a great time foraging, or whatever slow worms do on their nights off...;0)

[Auntiemogs]

They are so beautiful!  I remember my mum screaming in the garden (not long after we moved 'down south') that she had found a snake.....ahh...happy days...

[catweazle]

i love snakes and sow worms (id never dream of keeping one as a pet though)

i rember when i was about 8 comeing down the garden with a snake i had found.
it was just curling round my hands having a look round, never hissed or owt. upon showing my mum she did her ablsolute nut! this snake in my hands was an adder!

for a venomous snake it was very very good temperd  

still i think i was very lucky