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• Added by: AlanGilham
• On: 27 Jun 2008
• Surely you forgot the animal that threatens us all: George W Bush.
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• Added by: KenG
• On: 27 Jun 2008
• The spider for me definitely, but not the funnel web, bird-eating spider is far more frightening.
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• Added by: BillP
• On: 27 Jun 2008
• Mosquitoes for me. Effectively silent, but they can carry some of the nastier and longer gestating bugs I can think of!
  
  
  
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  Bill
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• Added by: Kathryn
• On: 28 Jun 2008
• They're all scary but I think I have to go with BillP - mosquitoes can do you a huge amount of harm without you even noticing...
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• Added by: Steph26
• On: 28 Jun 2008
• For me it would be anything that could threaten my life, I hate spiders and snakes. During my trip in South Africa a long time ago now, we were sleeping in a wood cabin in a tree and a leopard came very close. In the same trip, we got really scared one night as we could hear very loud groaning noises very close to our tents- but we realised the following morning it was the driver's snoring.
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• Added by: Lady Bear
• On: 30 Jun 2008
• Hornets and rooibees in Southern Africa. They have a fearsome sting and can make you really sick if they get you.
  
  
  
  Also Tsetse flies - they hurt when they bite and leave horrid blisters for weeks and scars for years. Bit like Dubbya actually!
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• Added by: DAVE WILLIAMS
• On: 01 Jul 2008
• Got to be the spiders, hate them. This one time, at african camp, there were these fold down chairs we would leave out all night outside the tents with the backs folded down. And in the morning this guy pulled his seat-back up and a big hairy babboon spider jumped up and ran up his arm to his shoulder !!! i would've been in a coma after something like that. I even tried having hypno-therapy once to rid of the phobia and she gave me a cd to listen to as well to help me, but unfortunately irony reared its head and i had to use the cd to euthanase a rather gruesome house spider. At least the cd was of help then i suppose.
  
  There was this other time in zambia when i was in the shower hut and as i started to walk out i noticed this rather large-ish spider on the floor in the doorway. Luckily some cocky kid walked in and nudged it with his bare foot and it scooted to a corner allowing me to escape, but finding out a bit later that while i was concentrating on the one on the floor i (thankfully) missed the big babboon spider that was mountaineering the wall RIGHT NEXT TO ME !!
  
  (on a side note i remeber reading about this guy who motor cycled solo down africa and then back up who stayed on the floor in one of the locals mud huts and in the night he heard all this scratching noise on the walls and thatch roof, so he shone his torch around and was greeted by the sight of thousands of reflecting spiders eyes around him. Then the nutter just went back to darkness and sleep....weirdo)
  
  i got more stories, i could go on...like the time a guy was on an elephant ride with his mrs in thailand and they went through some trees and this big hairy 'cat' fell in to their seating area and proceeded to scuttle around. he managed to lob it out before his wife saw it and then lo and behold it happened again; and this time she saw it...
  
  happy trails
  
  dave
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• Added by: Lady Bear
• On: 01 Jul 2008
• Just to make Dave feel worse ..... I woke up one morning in the Namib and found 6 big spider bite - neat sets of 2 fang marks all over my hand - which had swelled up like a football. I felt a bit sick - like mile flu. The bizarre thing was I never felt it bite me. The scars lasted about 6 months and it was still swollen after 2 weeks - really impressed people in the office when i got back!
  
  The camp manger said it would have been a "flattie" or crab spider which go under your pillow during the day - so I always check under the pillows and pull the blankets right back now before getting into bed abroad. Checking boots goes without saying.
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• Added by: bec f
• On: 03 Jul 2008
• It has to be the spider there's just something about all those legs!!
  
  A few years ago I went on a hill trek in Thailand - settled down to sleep in the wood hut under the mosquito net, only to awake in the middle of the night convinced that the mosquito net was absolutely covered in spiders. I was so worried I woke by boyfriend up telling him not to let the spiders in!! I hope it was only my imagination!
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• Added by: Ruth
• On: 19 Jul 2008
• For me it is Mosquito's as i am alergic to their bites & no matter what repellents I try nothing seems to work & I smell not so good hehe
  
  
  
  & wasps, i really don't like these little so & so's..they stalk you to torment you lol
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