I get the heeby-jeebies about pretty much all bugs, except maybe butterflies and dragonflies. But here in the spring when it alternates with warm days and below freezing nights, the sowbugs have woken up, but don't want to spend the night outside, so they come in through where the foundation meets the walls, they can squeeze through any tiny crack. So we have them crawling out from the walls in the basement. We treat them with chemicals that we spray along the baseboards, and it kills them as they crawl out. One spraying lasts about 90 days, so we only need to do this once a year. I wish we could put the chemical in the wall so I don't have to see them. Last spring was the worst and I vaccuumed up around 100 bug carcasses each day (*shudder*).
But the absolutely worst bug experience was when we went camping up at Turkey Point on Lake Erie. We were late arriving at the campsite, and although we had a reservation, they must have given away the best spots earlier in the day. We had 4 tents on our campsite, and if you looked straight up, the tree canopy was split into 2 equal halves - one half - leaves, the other half - no leaves. The tent caterpillars were eating away the leaves and the caterpillar line was right above our site, and they dropped heavily all day and night long, they sounded like heavy rain or hail, and you couldn't cook or have an open drink or they would fall in. It was disgusting!
