Being afraid from such a small creature makes me laugh and die a little from inside. They probably fear us more than we do them, often they only attack when provoked. Wasps come to your sweet yummy stuff. Cover it up and don't get stung, swing and flail wildly at them and you deserve to be stung in your dick.
Spiders, love them or hate them. They clear our house from the annoying creatures called mosquitos. Although adding a gecko can clear you from both problems, two birds one stone. Besides most spiders are very loveable creatures and are very gentle with our human hands where they tickle on with their hairy legs.
I blame the parents for letting their children witness the world the wrong way. They force us to love dogs and cats, they let us know bugs and reptiles and arachanoids are monsters. In reality those parents are the monsters. I hate dogs and cats and cuddle with loveable reptiles and have no fear for the so called annoying bugs. I find the dogs and cats to be monsters though, they are hairy and smelly. Reptiles have a adorable skin which feels like paradise when they rest on your naked body.
Sharks deserve a smell mention to. Ever since Jaws came out (no not the one from James Bond with the iron teeth and invincible body), people are afraid to swim in some parts of the country. Reality check losers, sharks are very lovable creatures and most of them are very gently of nature, including the great white aka Jaws. The great white ain't a maneater, he sees your flapping feet for a yummy fish or seal. Approach them like a pro and you cuddle their nose.
Maneaters, we assume one is a maneater if it eats man. Sounds nice and all but that is really far fetched. Many creatures like big constrictor snakes can eat man, in theory that is. They will eat man if they are provoked or starving. Desperate man do desperate things, desperate snakes do desperate things. When we are starving we eat anything we get our hands on as well. One of the maybe only man eater are the infamous saltwater crocodiles. They are probably the only specie that see us as yummy food even if they are not starving. If you swim in their waters or have a nice picnic close to the water with the children, they start to think 'hmm lunch arrived I snatch one of those fat stuffed childs'.
Polar bears are also well known for eating man, but I think that is more desperate as there is not much food left on the places they live. I have nothing with cuddly bears myself but even they are misunderstood and certainly no monsters.
Komodo dragons are perhaps the most misunderstood of them all. Yes they can eat man but also more of a frenzy state or maybe not? Fact is, like all monitor lizards in capivity they can be hugged and be more loyal than a dog. This is not personal opinion btw. Every monitor lizard has the abilty to be very gentle if you raise them properly. They are smarter than your dogs can ever wish to be. Maybe that is also the problem for many? as they underestimate these animals there intelligence. They learn soon enough if you are not nice for them and more often then not if you whack your monitor unlike your dog he does not return to you with his tail whiggling. Dominance over a animal? maybe that is why some people take dogs? I of course have a fond love for these monitors and that is personal opinion. But I always frown when they are deemed as monsters. Intelligent creatures figure out soon enough if you raise them properly they will love you back. Unfortanaly I had to put mine asleep as he had a bent spine which is incurable
, just bad luck as his blood and everything else was fine. To not make it confusing it was a savannah monitor, komodo are illegal to get as us common folks. Different monitor same mindset.
Moral of this story. We always assume the worst of all those lovable creatures that populate the planet earth. But do you know who the real monsters are? Us! We are the ones that pollute and destroy the planet earth, we wipe out entire species of animals just because we can and don't care. We are the disease that is brought upon this oh so nice planet. We never change, as our own intellect becomes our own doom anyway.
This page of my book was brought to you by your ever loving and/or hating Mr/Mrs Mind/Mindi.
But I of course know your love for reptiles already. That's why you also cyber with them in Unreal Tournament (Skaarj) 
