Exceptions

Kallie the animal freak loves animals, even the weird ones. Seriously, she has a crocodile skull she has named and feels very attached to, she went to a seahorse farm and happily touched a Port Jackson shark, she's smuggled wolf spiders back to Melbourne to keep as pets, and she was going to smuggle scorpions too but decided they might not survive the plane trip. Freaky kid.

Anyways, turns out even the animal freak has animal fears. Here are the animals she loathes:

1. Cockroaches
They disgust her. They freak her out. Watching that dude accidentally eat half a cockroach in The Mousetrap didn't help. One day there was a massive cockroach in her room, but thankfully a handsome hero came and saved her by picking it up with his bare hands.

2. Earwigs
They look evil.

3. Click beetles
This one mightn't make sense, but her sister used to pick them up and throw them at her.

4. Leeches
Argh! Eek! Scary! X.x
She just had field work in the rain. Upon arriving at the field site Matt kindly told them, "The leeches are out in force today" and then within 5 minutes they saw one climbing on him. Ten minutes later, after stumbling through the wet undergrowth, Kallie felt something weird on her arm. It was a massive leech! She screamed like a girl (to her embarrassment!), brushed it off and then crushed it into the ground about 50 times to make sure it was dead and its zombie wouldn't be able to haunt her.
"Well, at least it isn't spiders," Bryant pointed out.
"Bring on the white tails," Kallie muttered darkly. "I'd much rather be covered in spiders."