Tell us a creepy bug story, exotic or domestic

[m-jean03]

We have people here from all walks of life, who have been in all kinds of places.

I'm sure you've had plenty of scary encounters with bugs.

Myself? The scariest bug moment had to be when I was four or five, and a nest of baby spiders (I know, technically they aren't bugs) hatched on the ceiling over my bed. When I woke up, there were hundreds of baby spiders crawling on the ceiling, the walls, and a few were even on my bed. Talk about horrifying! Another incident involved sticking my hand in a writhing mass of baby tree caterpillars. I was enough of a tomboy to climb a tree -- but I sure screamed like a girl when I felt those caterpillars.

Your stories?

[wicket]

1. Ewwwww bugs!

I have a couple of creepy stories. When I was a little girl I wore these big rubber boots when it was time to milk cows in the barn. I HATED bugs (still do), and sometimes would think I felt bugs in my boots when I put them on, and would turn them upside down before putting them on just to make sure there were no bugs inside. The one time I didn't remember to do that, I got the big boots and and felt a creepy crawly on my foot inside the boot. I started kicking furiously to get the boot off (they were hard to get on and off, especially for a 6 year old), the whole time the creepy crawly was wriggling all over my foot! I FINALLY got the boot off, and out came a huge centipede, EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Another time I woke up one morning and found these spider bites all over my legs. My skin began crawling when I thought of the fact that there had been a spider in my bed biting me all night long. *shudder*

[sniffa]

2. my bug story

i was captured by kahn and he put a bug in my ear, and it went straight for my brain. it made me crazy, and eventuaLLy i wiLL die of madness.

- chekov

[GOPisEvil]

3. Tales of Boy Scout camp.

I was a Boy Scout camp counselor for 4 years. Had a blast! Most of the time. We lived in a permanent structure with 8 rooms, 4 to a room. They had a roof and concrete half-walls, but the rest of the walls were wood and screen. One night, I'm having trouble sleeping and I see something moving in the light of my alarm clock. It took quite a while to pass, and I got freaked out and hit the lights. I woke up to see a foot-long centipede on the wall! Needless to say, I was a little freaked out! :scared: I called for the ecology guys to come over and capture the beast. One of them just HAD to mention that the centipede in question was known to bite humans and gnaw on their flesh. Normally I would have laughed that off, but in my state, I got more freaked out.

I didn't sleep much that night. :eyes:

[mmm]

4. God, I hate those damn things

[m-jean03]

13. Morning, David!

Have you done any other youth rec/guidance stuff? And when were you a camp counselor?

Man, I didn't even KNOW that centipedes got that big. Was it pretty fat, too?

[GOPisEvil]

15. Hi there!

I confined my experience guiding America's youth to the Boy Scouts. I worked for them 1984-86 and 1988. Just the summers. Had a blast; met some friends with whom I am still close today. Hard to believe that was 20 years ago. Where does the time go? :cry:

I'd say the centipede was 2 inches around, I guess. Just a scary looking thing! :shudder:

:hi:

[m-jean03]

16. 2 inches!

That sounds more like a snake!:o

What part of the country were you in, for God's sakes?

Camp counseling sounds like it would be fun. I have a few friends who are always trying to get me to do it. You must have been a Boy Scout yourself, then?

Sure time flies, but don't :cry: ! You are still a happening young man! :-)

[GOPisEvil]

17. This was the Hill Country of Texas.

http://www.bearcreekscoutcamp.com/

I was a Boy Scout alright, an Eagle Scout even. :D

Thanks, I am happening aren't I? Still gonna be 36 this summer though. :P

[m-jean03]

19. Hey, that looks great. I can see why you're nostalgic.

Girl Scouts was never so fun. There were a bunch of wimps in my troop who never wanted to go camping. And it was the Northwoods! The Great Lakes! "God's Country"!
I missed out. Damn girls.:eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

20. It really is a pretty place.

I haven't been there in probably 10 years. I hear it's changed some. I notice on the map that the place the staff used to reside is called the "old staff quarters". I wonder where the staff stays now.

[seaglass]

5. Last night the dishwasher was running and I went to the

sink to rinse a plate. You know how water bubbles up through the drain when the dishwasher is running? I walked over to the sink and cockroaches were just pouring out of the drain, it was the most frightening sight I've ever seen, I thought I was in a horror movie.

It turned out that they weren't cockroaches though, it was chopped spinach that I forgot to put down the garbage disposal.

My favorite all time bug story was the Night Gallery episode (?) when the earwig was eating it's way through the guy's brain and then it laid eggs.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. That is hilarious!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has mistaken

spinach for something else. ;)

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. I was on a 5th grade class trip

To a lake in upstate New York.

Our bus pulled up to the campgrounds and all you could see was blackness.

Black trees, black grass, black houses, black bushes, ect.

It was eerie...and quite confusing.

Until we got off the bus, then we could clearly see what the blackness was that was covering everything.

Big, fat, black catipillars.

Millions upon millions of them.

They were everywhere - even in the water fountains.

It was absolutely disgusting.

I also threw up five times and pooped in my pants on that trip, so it's not one of my more favorable memories...but the longer version of the story is hysterical.

[m-jean03]

14. That is just /so/ gross!

Wow. You are tied with the fly eating story. In upstate Michigan, we had tree caterpillars that would take over backyards and playgrounds at a certain time of year. Maybe the same variety? They were prolific and disgusting, but I don't think I ever saw them as bad as you describe.

Long version hilarious? Do tell...:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Okay, I've stopped shivering from your spider story enough...

Yesterday, I was watering a new plant (tropical even) that I bought last week. On closer inspection I saw a few little "things" scurrying around in the soil. Blech...bbhleeeeaaahh! Not sure what they are but hope there are not more of them!

[m-jean03]

21. Plant bugs *are* especially gross, for some reason.

I especially dislike aphid infestations *shiver*. Although once, this is funny -- I had aphids all over my lipstick plant, and I brought her outside to take care of them. Anyway, a spiderweb showed up the next day, and a day or so later, a bunch of babies hatched, overran the plant, ate all the aphids, and left! That was one time I was happy to see spiders.:)

[Bertha Venation]

9. woo hoo! I have two!

Many Lounge Lizards are well aware of my ex-Psychotic Bitch From Hell lover, Karen (of more than 20 years ago, thank God). She was easily freaked. Extremely easily freaked. She was freaked at the prospect of taking a meal in the cafeteria at K-Mart.

One day when we arrived back at the dorm after a trip to town, I opened the door to her room -- she was behind me -- and saw millions of long, gossamer-winged bugs swarming up the sheer ceiling-to-floor curtains on her window. Apparently they'd come out of the radiator at the base of the window. She didn't see them, and I turned her around and hustled her into my room, where I sat her down and calmly told her I saw bugs swarming in her room and we'd have to call Mr. Wingo to come in and kill them.

She freaked.

But the better story is this one: one evening last summer, I was out on the front porch taking some pictures of a baby praying mantis on the window screen. It was brown, about two inches long, and very cute.

After a few pics it had apparently had enough. It flew off the screen right onto my face and scared the living bejesus out of me. I screamed. I could hear Mrs. V. cracking up in the front room. :eyes: at self

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. ROFL...How's that for up close and personal? He was just giving

you "baby kisses". Giggle.

"ex-Psychotic Bitch from Hell"...that has a nice ring to it. ;)

[Digit]

11. Munching on a fly

My daughter HATES for me to tell this story, so here I go :-)

My daughter was in the family room watching TV and she had a can of grape soda sitting on the coffee table. During a commercial, she took a quick break, leaving the can unattended.
She came back to her spot when her show resumed, and took a swig of her soda. Mindlessly, she began rolling around a small rubbery- feeling object in her mouth. I was closeby, but not paying attention to what she was doing.
All of a sudden, she began to scream. She says she had realized the object was not a "floater", and had spit it out only to discover it was a huge housefly she had been munching on.
YUMMMMM

[m-jean03]

12. Hey, that one gets a prize.

A :puke: prize, that is!

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[Digit]

22. She got her laugh tho

I was, um, indisposed in the ladies room at home and a humongous camelback cricket jumped on my leg. You know, those things that look like jumping spiders and are over an inch wide.
Well, anyway, I am terrified of bugs and this big honking thing jumps on my leg as I am sitting there. I let out a blood curdling scream, and my fanny came flying up in the air as I tried to scramble away with my jeans around my ankles....and I soaked my pants.
My daughter ran in when she heard me scream and was laughing so hard, she was bouncing off the walls.
Now, I have a fly swatter hanging in my downstairs bath....just in case....

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. I have to say thanks, Digit. You are responsible for keeping me on

my diet all day today. ;) Every time I pick up a can of soda, blech, I think of this story. Everytime I go to eat something...blech, same thing. I think I have found a new weight loss plan.

Look for my new book,"Disgusting Bug Tales Can Change Your Life"

:hi: ;)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. I once had to debug self-modifying x86 assembly code.

Whenever I inserted debug code the bug would vanish. It turns out the modified instructions were already loaded in the processor's cache and the modifying wasn't taking effect. A JMP $+0 instruction to clear the cache solved the problem.

In the process I ended up with a neat program to test the length of a processor's look-ahead instruction buffer.

Oh, you meant insects? Never mind...

[everythingsxen]

23. I had a big wooden bed-frame...

upon which my box-spring mattress rested. I slept on that for years and years...

When we moved out we found something interesting.

A massive nest of brown recluse spiders living between the wall and the bed-frame.

As an interesting sidenote...

I had nightmares the whole time I slept in that bed of having armies of spiders crawling over me....

Were they nightmares I know ask myself or were they influenced by something real...

[AlienGirl]

24. Giant Water Bug

Otter and I were visiting my folks in the UP. I like bugs, but Otter is scared of them.

It was night and the porch light was on. All of a sudden a giant water bug landed right on Otter's back! I picked it off him and found a home for it in a jar--I wanted to keep it; I even had the perfect name: GWB, for Giant Water Bug.

Unfortunately, Otter wouldn't let me. :-(

Tucker

[AlienGirl]

25. Giant African Millipede

Recently Xen and I went to the pet store, and I held the giant African millipede (only $10.99). I noticed he had mites, and insisted they should call the vet in case the mites were a threat to his health.

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

26. I am going to get that millipede too!

As soon as I start getting some money in.

[AlienGirl]

27. SWEET!!

They rock!

I'm still thinking of hatching mantises this year.

[baldguy]

28. I hate bugs.

I was in Boulder, Co for the first time walking down the street. It was on the outskirts of town, so there weren't a lot of buildings - really just fields on either side of the road.

Literally thousands and thousands of grasshoppers were creeping and crawling and jumping and flying all across the road! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

My destination was less than a mile in front of me, taking another route was out of the question. I had to go forward.

[Mobius]

29. Well it was a hot summer day.....

I was all of 5 years old, yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was waiting in the car at a shopping mall, while my mother loaded the trunk with whatever she just bought. I remember being irritated and bored during the visit to the fabric store, now I love fabric stores. Anyway, I was hungry and had not had lunch yet. Lo and behold! there was a half eaten Snickers bar laying on the armrest in the back seat! GOLD! I was elated, and grabbed it and began munching away. after I started chewing, I noticed the food was moving in my mouth. I turned over the candy bar to see it was COVERED WITH MAGGOTS! :puke::puke::puke: I spat out what was in my mouth when I jumped out of the car screaming. My mother felt bad and offered to buy me another candy bar, I was like no thanx. I didn't eat candy for the rest of the summer. If I close my eyes I still see the maggots wriggling. ugh....

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Scorpion! I freaking hate the things!

I was about 12.

Was lying on the floor at Thanksgiving. My aunt and uncle had just had a brand new house built outside of Alice, Texas, out in the boonies.

I was watching the footage from Jonestown and playing with their kitten, when all of a sudden I saw this THING sidewinding across the carpet. I was fascinated because I'd never seen one before, but all of a sudden, the cat decided he'd be fun to play with, and was about to take a swipe at it.

I started screaming and my dad ran over with a shoe and smacked the living bejeezus out of that thing. Cat was like, "What the hell, man?"

I also got a centipede stuck in my sock when I was about 9. BLEEPING HELL that thing stung!

[carols]

32. Venomous spiders in Florida

Isn't actually a story - most of my personal oooogie experiences have been with flying cockroaches - but someone once sent me an article called Venomous spiders of Florida. Here is what it had to say about the brown recluse:

"A more useful method of determining recluse spiders is by using the eye pattern. Most spiders have eight eyes arranged in two rows of four, but recluse spiders have six eyes arranged in three pairs (dyads), with one anterior dyad and a lateral dyad on each side. Some related spiders, particularly spitting spiders (which have a unique domed head region), have a similar eye pattern, but these are otherwise different." http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/venomousspiders.htm

Please, please tell me how it could possibly be "useful" to determine if something is a brown recluse by looking at its eyes. Good Lord - that means you would have to get very close to it...maybe pick it up or something. That doesn't sound like a useful method at all.

For me, the Oooogie Factor is directly proportional to the number of legs something has. The more legs, the higher the Oooogie Factor. Hence, snakes and rats don't bother me at all. But once you exceed four legs, things get very ugly, very quickly. It's like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. I'll gladly be Earth Mother to anything with 4 or less legs. After that, I turn into Kali.
Carol