What animals make you cringe, either out of disgust, fear, or just annoyance? For me: Mosquitoes Humans. Yes. Many humans are cringe. Anything that creates tonnes of faeces. Eg. Rats, Crows Maggots Surinam toads. Those eggs give a crippling tryphobia °° Monkeys, especially their blood-red rear-en…

I agree there is a substantial difference between harmful creatures - which include the latest one rocking our world – and stating a general “cringe” for things ones does not like. Yes nature has its own complicated love hate relationship with itself but stigmatizing a variety of organisms that are…

I am generally genuinely curious and interested in everything, from spiders to snakes. But, maggots reduce me to a cringing sook :laughing:

[image] jasonhernandez74: maybe you don’t have such things in Russia The great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin more or less answered your question when he wrote: Oh, beautiful summer! I would love you, If not for the heat, yes the dust, and mosquitoes, And flies. Human beings are part of n…

Hmm let’s try to positive, hmm with my first animal mosquito, I love it because despite being from arthopod (less intelligent creature) they have wonderful intelligence, when I sleep I never keep my face open, I seal myself with bedsheet(since here is winter bedsheet is very thick) So its one way or…

The visual concept of flatworms is cool. There is an art piece by M. C. Escher that incorporates flatworms that I really love but in real life, they just… are not right. I also feel this way about things like silver fish and house centipedes and just any bug that moves fast in comparison to its size…

silver fish (known as fish moths in my part of the world) and ticks I kill other arachnids creep me out

Moths and butterflies, I have a severe phobia of them! Completely irrational, but my body reacts regardless of me telling myself that they are harmless

I still cringe a bit at spiders, but seeing them repeatedly on iNaturalist is reducing that. I even stop and take a photo before killing one in the house. (My wife can’t stand spiders, so leaving them alive here isn’t an option. Out in the world, of course, I leave them alone.) What still creep …

What animals make you cringe?

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dlevitis December 8, 2021, 3:49am 64

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What animals make you cringe?

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