Posted on 02/02/2020 10:35:37 AM PST by SamAdams76
When I was growing up, we used to catch bugs all the time. In fact, us boys used to catch flies and such and toss them into spider webs to see how the spiders would dart out from their spider hole and wrap their prey into a cocoon and suck the fluids out of them. Pretty cruel stuff, I know.
This was way before their was an internet, video games, and other ways for boys to entertain themselves indoors. In fact, if us boys were indoors at all during the day, our mothers would shove a broom into our hands and put us to work. So we never went indoors and allowed the mothers to hand us peanut butter sandwiches and Kool Aid out the window. We would not come indoors until dinnertime if we could help it.
So anyway, the girls would hang out with us from time to time too and they never wanted anything to do with the bugs. But the ladybugs were a totally different story. They thought the ladybugs were "cute" and they would allow us to put the ladybugs on them and they would watch the ladybugs climb up their arms and who knows where else where.
Thing is, when you remove the pretty shell, a ladybug is a pretty ugly creature, right up there with cockroaches and spiders.
Same with chipmunks. They are so cute until they get into the garage and chew up everything in site.
I will let those guys move onto my body if they like. I let them crawl on me.
I don’t understand why I do this.
Listen to me, 1FreeAmerican, I am almost certain that this does not resemble a tiny wolf spider!
They bite!
We raise farm girls here. They seem to tolerate the bugs pretty well. If you are not keeping a close eye on them you might end up with all kinds of critters living in the house with you.
Sow bugs, aka pill bugs or folly-pollies were another bug girls weren’t scared of.
Not that us boys were unsafe aid of all bugs.
Plus they bite and stink when you smash them.
I hung out with a more fun class of girl.
Growing up my father taught us it was against the law to harm a praying mantis. We would allow them to walk on our arms without any fear. I still would.
I used to like to catch fireflies. We called them lightning bugs.
Neither do the rest of us......
LOL! That is a Hawaiian style cane spider. Very docile creature but lighting fast when moving through your house...
Although it is an arachnid and does have fangs it does not bite. The size reference to the hand is correct (though I think the hand is not a large).
My elder daughter when she was little, decided they were named “Jameses,”—she had a chubby little friend named James—and was always bringing one or more to us. “Oh, Daddy, lookie, here’s another James!”
Ladybugs are aphid terminators. We love seeing them and spiders on our plants.
Chipmunks are the bane of my existence. I do everything I can to eradicate their destructive beings.
Yeap, praying mantis, walking sticks, daddy longleggers, lady bugs rolly pollies,females carpenter bees, and fire flies were all safe with. Loved them all
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