i have an uncontrollable fear of butterflies

like I think butterflies are cool and awesome looking but when one gets too close to me I flip the fuck out for some unconscious reason

just thought there should be a thread abt this

butterfly houses are a stressful experience

I have the also. And for moths. It's the furry bodies.

my first wife had this. freaked out when she wandered into a butterfly house one time - she didn't realise they'd be flapping free.

Don't look now, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_vibrator

I don't specifically have a thing about butterflies but I get nervous around anything that could fly at my face. Insert piranha joke here. If I were in a room with a free flying bird I'd get pretty tense. I'm not sure if butterflies would have the same effect on my because they seem so small and harmless but I have a feeling they would.

When I was little we had a parrot that my dad would sometimes let fly around and it made me incredibly anxious.

DUDE I HAVE THE SAME PHOBIA!

http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/lemon-of-troy1.png?w=512&h=384

All my friends used to mock me mercilessly for this. I'm like this with moths too. I'm always afraid they're going to fly into my face and their wings will crumble and get mixed into my eyes.

thread title sounds like the opening line of an excellent novel

Call me Ishmael. I have an uncontrollable fear of whales.

I have a friend with this phobia (also moths), she blames the erratic, unpredictable movement. And, more mothily, the way that if they land on you no amount of shaking will get them off.

seeing the SO THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE... WHEN DOES CRY moment when two other friends learned they share a mayonnaise phobia (...) was a beautiful thing.

lol @ milhouse hug

I have a friend with this phobia (also moths), she blames the erratic, unpredictable movement.

Don't mind moths or butterflies but I don't like craneflies flapping around near me in their unpredictable dangly way, like they might just stray into your face and dangle their legs in yr mouth or something. Pthhthhhht.

(I mean the extra dangly kind of cranefly that Britishers call a "daddy long-legs" but I didn't call it that because iirc this will mean a type of spider to our American posters?)
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9188/tipulidae11.jpg

welcome to yr personal hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0m_rK_WpjQ

My brother was terribly afraid of moths from age 8-12 or so. He said when he was on a scout camping trip, he went into his tent, and there was a moth on his sleeping bag, which he swears turned to look at him & then hissed loudly. He would cry if he saw a moth. Me & the other siblings were, of course, assholes about it, catching moths so we could release them at him at opportune times. :(

Lol I knew this would be a crut thread <3

ice cr?m apparently when I was a kid my parents took me hiking and it was butterfly mating season and they had all gathered in the place we were hiking much like that video. this may have something to do with my fear.

i don't mind butterflies nearly as much as moths, probably because they operate in daylight and stay outside. i hate how moths bash against the windows at night, showing off their horrible pale bellies, trying to get in so they can dumbly thunder around the room and thrum their wings against our hair. the feeling of insect wings thrumming against my hair fills me with horror.

Yeah esp when accompanied with whirring sounds :/ Blech!

there was a cute bright green grasshopper sitting on my tire yesterday when i went to go out. i tried to brush it away gently but it didn't want to move. it looked like it trusted the world to show it a good time on a sunday morning, plainly the thought of getting run over had never crossed its mind, so i got a leaf and it climbed on adventurously and gripped the edges with an air of anticipation and i carried it to a safety zone. it had alert eyes and a calm, cheerful demeanour, why can't all insects be like that.

totally fine with butterflies, reasonably fine with moths... but those wing'd daddy-long-legs things make me borderline hysterical.

i love moths, something very strange about them
butterflies are beautiful

I can totally imagine chipper Mr Grashopper jauntily enjoying his leafy ride!

I <3 butterflies too, thats why I knew Crut'd started this thread cos once on AIM I was all "hey you should come to melb and check out the butterfly house at our zoo its awesome" and he went &*^^&%^#%$#

lol @ being invited to australia for a butterfly house

ah chut up!

SO THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE... WHEN BUTTERS FLY

Spread your wings and prepare to fly!