I am not at all scared of snakes or spiders - in fact I like spiders. I find their shapes, and the markings they can have on their legs and bodies, are often beautiful. I wouldn't like to have a smallish spider crawling on me in case it went in my ear or something, but I wouldn't mind holding a tarantula at all. I have held a snake before and it was fine. I wouldn't even mind if it crawled (or slithered) over me. I wouldn't hold a cockroach, but they don't bother me if I see one. But scorpions terrify me. I have even had nightmares about them they scare me so much. But even worse, maybe because you see then more often, is wasps. I am morbidly afraid of wasps. If one is near me I will run away. I have even got off the bus early because there was a wasp on there, and a few times I have phoned my Dad because there was a wasp in my kitchen and I was too afraid to go in there.