Which Insects Do You Like/Hate ??

[Cinnamon115]

What's so bad about butterfluies?

To me, the patterns on their wings look like a thousand eyes staring at you. It doesn't help that my fear first started when I had a giant one land on my nose when I was four.

 

[Hopeless_Aspie_Guy]

To me, the patterns on their wings look like a thousand eyes staring at you. It doesn't help that my fear first started when I had a giant one land on my nose when I was four.

Aww that was nice of it. Oh and don't look now but there's a pretty butterfly sitting on your shoulder too!!

 

[stefanos108]

I try to get rid of any roaches I happen to see. Most spiders are fine. I love ladybugs. I once had an infestation of aphids on our roses and thought I'd have to spray. I checked on them a while later, and a squadron of ladybugs had flown in and eaten them all up. Wow.

 

[Mia]

Fascinated with insects, unless they are yellowjackets (hornets) that are able to sting me over and over. Had two quite beautiful lily plants in my garden that became infested with the scarlet lily beetle. The young larvae defecate and rub it all over themselves as a fecal shield so they won't be picked off by predators. Something I discovered when I attempted to pick them off the plants. Won't be doing that again. I let them eat the lilies after that. The adult beetles themselves are quite beautiful.

 

[korbin]

I hate stink bugs. I swear if you drop them in gasoline they would just swim in it until they got thirsty enough to drink it and then thrive on it

They are the worst I can't stand the things. I just can't figure out how they survive so well they can't fly for crap, there kind of dumb, and yet there are a million of them.

 

[Dadamen]

Insects are interesting for me, but I don't like when they are attacking me. I don't like mosquitoes and gadflies, also I'm afraid of wasps and hate when they fly over my food. But I have no problem touching some bugs that I know they don't bite with my hand.

 

[Mia]

A large amount of slugs are eating my cauliflower, cabbage and rapini. Only have two of each plant in my small garden. It was a try out this year, to see if they would even grow. So I made slug traps, from a yeast solution. I trapped one slug in a week. What I did manage to kill with the trap, were two cave crickets that hunt and eat slugs. So I removed the traps, I'll let the remaining cave crickets eat the slugs.

 

[Ezra]

I like most insects. Although some have a somewhat bitter aftertaste.

 

[Dadamen]

A large amount of slugs are eating my cauliflower, cabbage and rapini. Only have two of each in my small garden. It was a try out this year, to see if they would even grow. So I made slug traps, from a yeast solution. I trapped one slug in a week. What I did manage to kill with the trap, were two cave crickets that hunt and eat slugs. So I removed the traps, I'll let the remaining cave crickets eat the slugs.

I have a problem with slugs too. This year the weather is pretty wet from May to now and there are a lot of them. Advice to kill them: Just grab a kitchen knife and cut each slug you see. The best times are after a rain or at the evening when there are a lot of then. They like moisture and moderately warm (around 20 C) and dislike sun and heat, but also dislike cold weaher. I greatly reduced their number when I grabbed a knife and a torch and examined the whole garden in the evening when it became dark. I cut few hundreds of slugs, both spanish and leopold. They number has greatly reduced after that. They were eating my: beans, tomatoes, zucchini, paprika, strawberries, raspberries and also some other plants such as thyme, mint, basil, hydrangea...

 

[Hylian]

I like most insects, but especially beetles and jumping spiders. I hate other spiders though, and crane flies.

 

[Kalinychta]

 

[Dadamen]

and crane flies.

I don't like crane flies too, they look like big mosquitoes, but they don't bite.

 

[D'Andre]

I HATE, I mean HIIZZATE!! Moths. I can't even say it or type it without shuttering. The tiny ones don't bother me. Its the medium to large ones. I know they are harmless but for some reason they are just TOO MUCH to handle. People around me just don't understand the repulsion and straight terror of being touched by one. People even tease me about it.

 

[D'Andre]

I also really hate flies, especially in my house or where I eat. Simply for sanitation reasons. They don't scare me. The buzzing is horrific though.

 

[Darkkin]

I love fireflies, moths, butterflies, bees, scarab beetles, and dragonflies. We used to raise praying mantis, monarchs, polyphemus, cecropia, and luna moths in our garage every summer.

I hate millipedes, hornets, and wasps.

 

[D'Andre]

Try a leaf blower/sucker or a hoover on these

I use an electric tennis racket called preciShock. But I think the blower is better

 

[D'Andre]

I love fireflies, moths, butterflies, bees, scarab beetles, and dragonflies. We used to raise praying mantis, monarchs, polyphemus, cecropia, and luna moths in our garage every summer.

I hate millipedes, hornets, and wasps.

That's neat! The Luna IS beautiful. I'm just not comfortable around them. My area has shxinx and humming bird moths and they are just plain chaotic so maybe that's my problem. I like fireflies and dragonflies too

 

[D'Andre]

Oh and the mother of all nasty bugs, roaches...I detest them. I wish there was something that said they are not as dirty as we think...but I doubt it. Just like mice

 

[Magna]

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

 

[Jeff T]

Hmmm, love/hate.......

Well, I kill black widow spiders (I go looking for them at night) when I can. They are super common here. Yellowjackets are another, One summer evening I discovered I was standing on their ground nest while looking up at a eucalyptus branch stuck in a tree. I was stung about 70 times.

Other critters are ok- two types of poisonous centipedes; paper wasps and baldfaced hornets are pretty tolerant of my work here. A lerp that infests my eucalyptus trees but otherwise harmless. Jerusalem Crickets are a joy to watch. The rattlesnakes haven't been an issue either.