Ha! I'm trying to find them creepy, but all I can get is :D :D :D BUT THEY'RE SO COOL. We had ivy all up two sides of the house when I was a kid, and I always wanted it to just take over everything so I could live in a plant house.
Which I know is how many entomologically inclined people are about bugs. I am mostly over my childhood bug phobia -- in early teenaged years I thought "well, other people are scared of rats and snakes and stuff and that's clearly wrong, they're amazing, so I'm probably being just as irrational and unfair about bugs" and thenceforth worked very deliberately to override my AUGH BUG reaction with HELLO FELLOW LIFEFORM WHO IS WORTHY AND COOL IN YOUR OWN RIGHT. But it still lurks somewhere in my hindbrain, ready to give me a jolt of adrenaline when faced with certain kinds of large visible jointed legs, or something that jumps erratically and unpredictably. (Grasshoppers are cool and worthy lifeforms in their own right and I would like all of them to exist way the hell over there away from me thanks.)
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Which I know is how many entomologically inclined people are about bugs. I am mostly over my childhood bug phobia -- in early teenaged years I thought "well, other people are scared of rats and snakes and stuff and that's clearly wrong, they're amazing, so I'm probably being just as irrational and unfair about bugs" and thenceforth worked very deliberately to override my AUGH BUG reaction with HELLO FELLOW LIFEFORM WHO IS WORTHY AND COOL IN YOUR OWN RIGHT. But it still lurks somewhere in my hindbrain, ready to give me a jolt of adrenaline when faced with certain kinds of large visible jointed legs, or something that jumps erratically and unpredictably. (Grasshoppers are cool and worthy lifeforms in their own right and I would like all of them to exist way the hell over there away from me thanks.)