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Janice and I don’t usually sit around laughing about bugs (even thinking too long about them makes us squirm.)
But when the folks at Raid® asked us to host a fabulous giveaway for TWO $500 Walmart Gift Cards, we decided we’d open up and laugh about our phobias.
So here’s the deal… We’re going to pick TWO winners and give them each a $500 Walmart Gift Card!
To get in the draw, just tell us a funny or creepy bug story that happened to you.
You can blog your #RaidBugStory and share the link in a comment or tell the whole story in a comment.
I’ll include the giveaway details below, first let me get the story-telling going…
The Night of the Hawaiian Cockroaches
My full-fledge phobia of bugs began one sunny summer morning when I was nine years old. I woke, rolled over, opened my eyes and right there before me — on my pillow — was an ugly black spider. (He wasn’t big, but he was ugly.)
I screamed. I jumped up and screamed some more. I didn’t stop screaming for a long time. And inside my mind, I kept screaming for years.
(Clearly this response to a spider was not normal for a nine year old. Looking back now as an adult, I understand that my weird worries about bugs and my other paralyzing anxieties weren’t typical kid stuff, but that’s a whole lot of other stories… So back to this one…)
That wretched spider who snuck onto my pillow triggered years of true fear and panic over spiders and other creepy crawlers. My poor mother would have to perform nightly OCD rituals on my behalf of spider searches to ensure none could invade my space again.
If I saw a spider, even in daylight nowhere near my bed, I’d be unable to sleep properly for nights.
I never overcame my phobia of bugs, but it did lessen somewhat as I grew through my teen years.
Until… one night in Hawaii, my space was invaded by not one bug, but thousands!
Janice and I were sixteen year old girls on the final night of a two-week family vacation in Hawaii. Our family’s timeshare condo stay was up and we had to spend the last night in a hotel. Our father booked us a suite in mid-range hotel a block away.
At 10 pm, our parents went to sleep and we stayed up to cram in a week’s worth of homework. The lights were off except for one lamp to light our books.
At 11 pm, I went to the bathroom, turned on the light and started to wash my face. But as I turned on the tap, I noticed a ton of little bugs in the sink basin. My body tensed, I tried to stay calm and grabbed some tissue and starting trying to kill them.
But I soon realized it was futile. They were everywhere!
I ran out of the bathroom and in muffled screams tried to tell Janice what I saw. I then went to the kitchen, switched on the light and almost passed out from panic as I saw a sight I could never even have imagined.
The floors and walls were alive with swarms of baby cockroaches. Apparently equally panicked by the unexpected light, the evil insects ran in all directions and I screamed like a teenage girl in a bad horror film. Our mother was instantly awake and at my side trying desperately to quiet me so I wouldn’t wake my father. (He wouldn’t have been as sympathetic.)
Our mom turned on the light in the living room and revealed hundreds more on the walls.
I was insane with panic. I hated Hawaii and I hated those cockroaches and I demanded we go to the airport that moment and wait for our flight home to a land where I’d never even seen a cockroach in my 16 years of life.
I imagine Janice was freaking out too, but all I can remember is my own desperate need to get out of Hawaii. Immediately.
Our mom phoned the front-desk, told them of the cockroach infestation and asked that they find us another room. The clerk agreed, we gathered our bags and went to the new room.
But when we opened the door, we saw them run — Cockroaches fleeing the light.
The embarrassed staff apologized and let us check over half-a-dozen rooms, but with each door we opened, we saw something scurry out of site. Some rooms weren’t as bad as others, but none were bug free.
Janice and I were horrified and crying. We begged our mom to get us off this infested Island. But with our father asleep, our options were limited. We couldn’t switch hotels and we couldn’t make a run for the airport.
Instead, we chose the room with the fewest signs of roaches, turned on all the lights and pulled the beds away from the walls.
When the night was finally over, we told my father who, as expected, thought it was mildly humorous, but had a serious talk with the hotel staff.
They claimed the problem was that some of the units in the building were privately owned and thus not required to be part of the routine pest control program. It seemed that if even one room became infested with the bugs, they spread like sin.
The hotel manager assured us they’d do their best to solve the problem, but obviously I would never be back! (In fact it was years before I would even go back to Hawaii at all.)
We finally caught a cab and headed — hours early — to the airport. I couldn’t wait to be home in Vancouver, Canada, Land of the Mostly-Cockroach-Free!
(Okay, well lots of homes in Canada likely do have cockroaches, but I’ve never seen any here and I’m working hard to keep it that way.)
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Elisha Cosby says
This is ongoing presently. About 3 weeks, I was in bed and lights were off, only my TV and my tablet was light. I saw a shadow of legs on my tablet and look to my left, spased out, knock it off, jump out of bed, I’m hurt, have to find spider and kill it, lights on. I’m on a mission, it’s a fiddle back, after seemingly taking forever because it was late. Few weeks later, I walk outside, I notice something balled in a corner with a globe on its back, not globe, baby sack, I thought it was dead, wrong, I finally get it in a paper towel, envelope, plastic bag and then dumpster, eggs hadn’t hatched thank God, then just Tuesday, my daughter in law drops off my granddaughter and she’s stomping on the ground and I ask what she’s killing, a mama and her babies and when I saw how big the mother was, well I stomped on it and the crunching sound alerted me it was dead. Why, as I greeted the daddy long at my door this morning. I’m seeing and feeling spiders everywhere, I’m praying it goes away and I’m waiting for my pepper mint oil. Thought I’d share, even though it’s 2023 and this post was dated back 2011, mother’s day. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, so seeing this made me respond because I’m still here, through God’s Grace.
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Kaye Swain says
If it’s any encouragement, we went to Hawaii several times and only saw one bug – plus a ton of ants at a red dirt beach in Maui. (Ants, while being irritating, are nice and small 🙂 ).
Hopefully, you’ve had a more positive experience in Hawaii, as it IS full of such wonderful things, including the lovely plumeria, the coolest trees around, and those uber comfortable Hawaiian muumuu dresses :).
Thanks again for such a fun story!
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Kelly says
I was outside with my 2 1/2 daughter, and a yellow jacket I was watching on a leaf close by suddenly flew directly at me. I FREAKED OUT and asked my daughter if there was a bug on mommy and she said ” Yeah mommy right there” so I start my crazy dance trying to get this bug off I can’t see…so I asked her again, if the bug was on mommy and where, and again she said yes and pointed to my shoulder so I looked down and I hear this contagious giggle and at the moment I realized there was nothing there, ever.
Teresa White says
I live in Hawaii, and if you have seen the centipedes out here, you know they are not pleasant! I was 7 months pregnant, typing away on my laptop and one came creepy crawling at me full speed and I got up to run away, it crawled IN my laptop, yes in where it was broken and a part fell off! and of course my husband was no any help, being the scaredy cat he was, so here i was 7 months pregnant and huge, putting on gardening gloves to put my laptop outside so that the bug could crawl back out… the next day I brought the laptop back in and never saw another sign of the centipede so hopefully he left… especially since im still using the same laptop. oh boy!
vanessa hunter says
My son came home from a sleep over with a story. While sleeping on the couch in his friends living room, he woke up feeling as if he had to blow his nose. He got a tissue, and when he blew his nose he was surprised to find a creepy, crawly critter accompanying his nasal mucus. Totally gross!
Pam J says
I had my doors open one day and I saw a big bug crawl in. I coldn’t find it and I had no intention of going to bed until I found it. So I basically took everything in my house apart until I found it. I chased it around the rooms with a shoe. After about two hours I finally killed it. I probably lost ten pounds that day!
Justine says
I shared on facebook
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Justine says
I tweeted
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Justine says
My funny bug story is from when my family moved to Las Vegas….well, I had never been around cockroaches before….and one night I left some chips outside on our patio table. I opened the door to let my dog out and I heard a giant ‘CRUNCH!’, and I was like what they heck?! I turned on the light to reveal possibly hundred of cockroaches that were eating our leftovers!!! They were so load you could hear them chewing up the food. I also found out later that they’re very difficult to kill with bug spray so I would go out every night and take a 2 X 4 and crush them on the fence, disgusting!!!
lauren chan says
I was showering one night and a really BIG roach fell down the shower curtain and landed on my tush. It was so frightning!
daisycake20 says
One of my earliest memories is of my mom and me standing in the middle of her bed clutching each other in horror. I’m about 6, and we are pointing at a horrible roach. And who are we frantically gesturing to with our outstretched pointer fingers and beseeching with our screeching yellers? It’s my 4 year old brother, Michael. Yes, he was our go-to-guy when it came to bugs. As you can probably guess, I’ve grown up to be terrified of bugs and Michael is an entomologist. Just kidding. He’s a regular guy and he’s not scared to get rid of a bug now and again.
dolores,sternenberg says
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Anne says
I tweeted
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Jean D. says
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Anne says
My college roommate took me to a fancy Chinese restaurant in Manhattan and we ordered Moo Shu Pork. I came with a huge roach mixed in. The worst part was she wasn’t phased at all, she just sent it back and kept eating.
Jean D. says
My family loves my meat loaf. Last time I made it, I dumped a bag of breadcrumbs into the meaty mix. Two HUGE bugs–I have no idea what they were, but I swear they wore saddles–squiggled around the hamburger. I was afraid to get NEAR the bowl, but I had to dump it–outside. I’m sure it helped my compost pile, but it didn’t help feed us our favorite meal.
My disappointed fam ate fast-food that night.
Jennifer says
When I was first married (100 years ago it seems like) we lived in an apartment that was connected to some pretty dirty folks. We started off by being invaded by mutant ants that took over our kitchen completely – we tried everything we could think of – the apartment people tried everything – the army marched on…after the ants tried (successfully) to get into our fridge – it was no more Mrs. Nice Newlywed. I bought some Raid, and blasted them all to kingdom come, whenever I saw one. We usually had a bottle on hand after that. Another time, in the same apartment, I opened a cupboard and saw a huge cockroach (what I thought it was anyway)…I composed a letter to the management – had enough bugs at this point, informing them that I was turning them into the health department, etc. My husband came home that night and said “Okay, where is your roach?”…when he opened the cupboard, he just laughed and laughed. “Honey”, he said…”You may want to rethink your letter…don’t think that the state is going to do anything about that giant earwig you have there.” Guess my bug identification skills weren’t quite up to par!
Krissy says
I had recently moved to Georgia from the North East. I had never heard of a Palmetto bug but I quickly learned that this huge cockroach like bug not only were disgusting but the also flew. One night while watching t.v in our apartment I looked down to see one of these huge bugs scurry out from underneath the couch I was sitting on. At first my scream was so intense it was silent, then finally the most blood curdling scream came from my mouth. My husband ran to my rescue with a shot gun. Once he realized I was not in any real danger he calmly walked away and came back with some raid. I learned that night to make sure I have a steady stock of raid in my house. Thankfully now that we live in our house and no longer rent, we have the bugs under control.
Mandy Stanhope says
When I was about 19 years old I worked in a travel agency. Some days I would go out at lunch time to buy something to eat from the small grocery store next door. One day, they had a new batch of beautiful looking nectarines so I scooped one up and paid for it.
I went back to the office and started to eat my lunch. Finally I got to the nectarine and after giving it a wash I bit into it. Oh it was juicy yum!! I put it down on my desk for a second and was talking to my colleague. All of a sudden at the exact same time, we both noticed something MOVING inside the stone which was split open!! There were legs sticking out of it and kicking!! We both jumped up and were screaming, both completely terrified!!
We ran and enlisted the help of the guys from the butcher shop a couple of doors away and they took it to the store and used a meat cleaver to split it open!! Inside was an UGLY 3 or 4 inch tropical looking bug creature THING !!! OMG it still gives me the jitters now thinking about it !!!
A very scary experience for me. I gotta say, I don’t eat nectarines anymore LOL
heather c says
Which to choose? There are so many!
I guess I’ll go with the open house story. We moved to Alabama and bought our first house. We scrubbed and painted and did all sorts of things to improve the house, then had an open house for co-workers. About half-way through the party, a guest said, hey, who’s that? He pointed to our ceiling. A big palmetto bug (the first I’D seen the whole time in the state) was checking things out from above. Needless to say, the party moved to the other room and some killing began. I hate those bugs!
melanie says
My son will not be thrilled that I shared this with you now that he is 13, but he will get over it, lol. When he was a wee bitty baby (crawling age) he had the worst case of baby breath for a time. And when I say bad baby breath I mean rancid. I could not for the life of me figure out the cause nor could his pediatrician. One day I saw something stuck between his two front teeth. It looked like the hard candy shell of a M&M candy. “That’s odd” I thought. There weren’t any candies laying around.
Later on I spied him eating an M&M off the floor. I ran over to discover that it wasn’t an M&M. It was ladybugs. He must’ve thought they were mobile candies because he was eating them. Apparently lady bugs emit a stinky gas when crushed which explains his bad baby breath. Nasty story, but entirely true much to my 13 year old’s chagrin. 🙂
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R Hicks says
We went on vacation last year and had been driving all day long and decided to crash at what we thought was a nice looking hotel. We got settled in and unpacked and I decided to take a shower. As I entered the bath there was a 2″ cockroach crawling up the bathroom wall! We packed up and demanded a refund and left
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Deborah Carter says
I moved in to this old house which was loaded with those big roaches (called waterbugs I think). One night I was in bed, half awake, and felt my finger felt funny. I woke up all the way and looked to see a giant waterbug gnawing on my finger!
Shelagh P says
My bug story happened a few years ago. My daughter was about 7 and she was out on my deck doing a craft in the summer. She came running inside saying there was a giant big on the deck. I think I rolled my eyes and did not believe her. I thought how big could it be? I went out and I saw a bug about an inch and a half long, white with black spots. I got creeped out! Then I put my mommy hat on and told her we should put it in her bug box. Of course I had to catch it. She wanted no part. I tried to catch it and yellow Goo came our of it.(defense mechanism I later found out) and I thought I killed it. I captured it and then figured out it was 2 BUGS MATING! We kept them for an hour or so and then opened the cage so they could leave. The boy left but the girl stayed to LAY HER EGGS in our trap! crazy. We later found out it was a leopard moth. I have never seen one before or since.
Gianna says
We used to live in this horrible house that probably had every bug infestation imaginable (maybe some new ones too!) It was temporary house due to a job my husband had. There were carpet beetles in the old 70s style carpets and there were even carpets in the bathroom. One day I found them in bed with me! My husband called to complain and they came in and ripped out the carpets and fumigated the place. It had to have been the worst place i’ve ever lived in and don’t know how people live in those conditions. If offered temporary housing due to a job, check to make sure there aren’t going to be a million other things living there with you first!
Becky says
I remember us living in Florida, we had the BIGGEST COCKROACH ever seen in my house..I called my neighbor and told her that we were being invaded and something was wrong with the water in Florida…when she explained to me about Palmetto bugs..oops.
Lyndsey says
Oh eww! I loathe bugs. I am definatley not into creepy crawly things but I had a run in a few weeks ago! We were on vacation in PA and woke up to a few ants in our room on the air conditioner, OK I jumped and screamed and hubby came to the rescue and killed them all! We complained and were transferred to another “better room” with a jacuzzi and the works! AWESOME. We enjoyed our nite, watched TV and fell asleep. We woke up the next morning to a ROOM FULL of ants! on the jacuzzi, on our bed(only like 5 of them blah!) and the baby had on on her head I thought I was gonna flip. We were so sceeved out that we left a day early and got a refund! OMG This wasnt a regular hotel, we paid good money for it ! And that ladies is my disgusted and grossed out bug story…
Mommy Crafts says
Bugs are fine its the Spiders that I can’t stand…A couple of years ago when we moved into our new house someone had left a pile of the mowed grass. So I decided to go and take care of this pile so it wont make our yard look bad, so off I went digging, shoveling, picking up! It was moldy and spiders everywhere so I screamed throw the grass down and the shovel and left this job for my husband. They were not just little spiders they were BIG Hobo Spiders. (I’m getting chills just telling you the story) Not only did my husband get rid of the pile they didn’t like the outside warm weather so they started to come and enjoy the inside. And I was the only one that always found these BIG Hobo Spiders, they loved the laundry room…The one that I can remember that was the BIGGEST that we found, was on the wall on our way up the stairs and I of course was the one that saw it so off I screamed for my husband and said, “LOOK!” Holy Crap that is HUGE he said! So instead of just killing it right then he caught it and messed around with it and throw it in the toilet. We thought it would of drowned but I’m not even kidding you but this spider was the size of a silver dollar and he was running on top of the water. Seeing a spider run on water is just nasty so off it was flushed, I didn’t want to see anymore of these spiders, So off I called the bug doctor and he came and sprayed the inside & outside of the house. YAHOO! (knock on wood) but we haven’t seen those nasty spiders yet..Will see when Summer comes…
But all I got to say: Dear, Hobo Spiders stay out of my house and I wont kill you.
JEWEL says
i posted on my FB profile
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JEWEL says
my tweet
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JEWEL says
I was in Uganda with my mom. Friends put us at a home of their friend. We were exhausted from the long flight over and just wanted to get in our beds. We fell asleep and suddenly almost simultaneously we jumped out bed, slapping ourselves all over as we were bitten by bed bugs. They were covering both of us. We stood smashing them on each other as we were saying Nooooooo owie ow. Finally they stopped, we got calmed down and laid back down. Just as we were calm and drifting back to sleep it happened again. About the 5th time of this I sat on the edge of the bed crying because I was so tired and totally covered in bites. We just sat up until morning then grabbed our stuff and went to a guest house and slept. I will never, ever take for granted the little ditty I learned as a child, Night, night, sleep tight, Don’t let the bed bugs bite !!
WinneratLife says
And here’s a link to my faceook post:
http://www.facebook.com/WinneratLife/posts/202872016417595
P.S. My original story comment and tweet link were submitted yesterday.
WinneratLife says
Here’s a link to my blog post:
http://winnerateverything.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-terrifying-but-funny-spider.html
DanV says
I was renting an apartment and we had a massive cockroach that was very quick. When we tried to step on it we heard it just laugh and walk away. It escaped, presumably to share its survival technique with its friends.
michelle robbins says
My husband and I took a romantic weekend trip to a cabin in Gatlinburg, Tn. After a great evening, I went to a take a shower the next morning. When I went to turn on the shower I saw there was a SCORPION!!!! in the bathtub!! I’ve always hated scorpions and never saw them in person. I’m from Michigan and always thought they lived in the dessert. I made my husband kill it was a kitchen spatula. When I looked up the scorpion online it said I was “lucky” to see them in Tennesee. They are noctural – so the rest of my stay I was scared to get out of bed at night, for fear the floor was swarming with scorpions.
Linda C says
when we moved into our 1st house 13 years ago, we were so excited, being new homeowners. After unpacking all boxes & getting all furniture situated we sat down to watch a movie. I saw something run across the floor, I asked my husband if he just saw that? he said “no, you’re just seeing things because the movie is a bit scary.” 10 minutes later I see it again….he saw it too, it went under the entertainment center, he said it was just a spider, i told him it was not, it was bigger & faster than a spider! I do NOT like creepy crawly anything, i don’t care if I am a million times bigger than them, bugs just freak me out! Well it never came back out from the entertainment center, i was at ease…for the time being. The next morning I woke up and was heading to the restroom, that same “creature” crossed my path in the hallway, i turned on the lights and there it was ……A CENTIPEDE!!! EEEUUUWWW!!!! I walked quietly & carefully to the kitchen, grabbed a freezer bag & actually had the nerve to capture this disgusting bug with millions of legs that was VERY, very fast. I was able to “zip” it up & let my heartbeat get back to normal. I then attached a note to the bag for my husband that said “It’s either me or the bugs, take your choice!!” He got home & saw the note & decided to call in the Exterminators, we’ve never seen one since, thank goodness! But the last couple years we have been saving money by doing the exterminating ourselves with the one & only “RAID!”
deb c says
I HATE bugs!! When I first got married we moved into an apartment. I had always lived in a house and didn’t know what can happen in apartments with BUGS. We moved into this apartment and in the middle of the first night I woke up thirsty. I flipped on the kitchen light and there were BUGS everywhere. I started screamimg, woke my husband up and told him
I was not living in this place. It was too late to go to a hotel so I went and sat in the car until daylight and then marched into the rental office and gave a piece of my mind. They bombed our apartment and as soon as we could save a down payment on a house, we were out of there.
Betty C says
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Betty C says
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Betty C says
I purchased a rental house several years ago and tenants have almost always been very good about keeping it clean. That wasn’t the case with one family. Apparently they liked to collect aluminum cans from dumpsters and off the streets and save them inside the house. They were only there about 6 months but when they left it was a disaster!
There was an incredible amount of grunge left behind and thousands of cockroaches. My son and adult grandson went with me to assess the work that needed to be done and my grandson absolutely freaked out. Bugs were so thick you couldn’t walk across the floor without stepping on one and they were even falling out of the vents that were high up on the walls and falling off the curtain rods.
I don’t think I have ever seen an adult male as jittery as my grandson was. Even I was calmer than he was.
Nanette says
Well, a couple stories came to mind –
My husband is terrified of spiders and centipedes. When our son was about 18 months old we were playing in our living room and daddy was going to take a shower. All of a sudden daddy is yelling comes running out of our bathroom stark naked into the living room (mind you the window in there was a large picture window with NO curtains). He was yelling and brushing off his body frantically! My son just stood there staring at him very confused. He was yelling something about a bug in the tub.He had taken out his contacts and was getting into the shower (had not turned on the water yet). He noticed something in the tub and thought it was just a part of a toy from our sons bath. He leaned down and grabbed it and it squirmed in his hand freaking him out! It was a centipede! I then went into the bathroom and killed it. He decided not to take a shower and went and got dressed. We still laugh when we tell this story – he was really freaked out over the incident.
barbara wright says
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barbara wright says
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barbara wright says
When I was a kid, I didn’t really understand how those sprays worked. So one day there was a wasp in the house and I used the ENTIRE can of wasp spray on that one poor bug. Our house STUNK for weeks!
Kellie Conklin says
When I was five years old, I had a terrible run in with a bug. We had a lovely screened in porch at our house that housed all of mine and my brothers outdoor toys. One day we decided to play with the bubbles we had. I chose to use the bubble saxophone, a toy in which you blex into and the bubbles came out of the bottom of the saxophone. As I started to blow I felt something pinch me, immediately I threw down the toy, knocked whatever bit me off my lip and began to cry. My mom came in to see an earwig crawling away. It was the last time I ever used that toy. Just last year my dog came in from outside and it was clear something was wrong with her mouth. Upon further investigation me and my mom realized that an earwig had bitten her tongue and its pinchers and half of its body was still stuck in there. It took forever to get every piece of it out. Needless to say, earwigs and mouths don’t get along very well in our family. Thanks for the giveaway, reading these stories give me the chills!
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Michelle M says
We were moving out of military housing and I was at the house by myself cleaning. I was almost done when someone knocked at the front door. As I opened the door I looked down and there was tarantula trying to come into the house. I started screaming and slammed the door in some ladies face. I guess that was when she saw it as she started screaming and said she would come back later. I was so scared to open the front door up that when it was time to leave I went out the back door.
Laurie W. says
We bought a townhouse a year ago only to discover that it and the whole complex are infested with farrow ants. They seem to love our bathroom and kitchen (anywhere with water) and you can’t even blow your nose and throw the tissue in the trash cause they’ll make a trail right to it. Ugh!!
April says
Accckk!! Just hearing that story freaks me out & is making me squirmy! I have an equally disgusting bug story! When I first moved in with my husband about 12 years ago lets just say he and his roommate at the time definitly had a bachelor pad! I was cuddling one night with my then boyfriend, now hubby and as we were blissfully drifting asleep in each others arms I felt something lightly brush across my cheek and across my forehead. I was just about asleep and I thought it was my hubby gently touching my cheek as I slept, so I put my hand up to grab his and there it was…a GIANT, FAT COCKROACH!!!! I have NEVER jumped up so fast in my life, all the while screaming like someone was about to murder me!!! Needless to say, the next day and weeks to come that place was cleaned and bug bombed!! Just thinking about it make me want to run screaming again!!
Amy Delong says
I was sleeping and felt something crawling on my back and it was a stink bug and it was horrible,could not sleep after that
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I hate bugs and won’t touch them if I find them, even with a tissue but my 10 year daughter doesn’t mind touching them so one day I found a roach running on the floor and I called her her to pick it up and she brought in a tissue and picked it up but it started to crawl up her own so she flung her arm and the bug flew in the air landing on my hair. I freaked out trying to get it out of my hair and she just stood there laughing.
karin C. says
We had moved to the desert when my son was 10 years old He made friends quickly with a boy in the neighborhood who had similar interests as my son They both enjoyed nature
and use to walk their dogs together searching for creatures. One day they came home with
a tarantula in a plastic tub. Being new to this type of spider I was freaked out. I told my son he could not keep it. The other boy said they are harmless and his Mom would let him have it. So, I told him that was great and he could have it and my son could visit it at his house.
The next morning I went out to water and there on my front porch was the tarantula in
the plastic tub. I guess his Mom wasn’t so excited about it either!
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Me and my husband were sitting in the living room and we noticed something crawling up the wall… As i start to go near it to see what it was the darn rach flew towards me and I panicked! Both me and my husband ran out..lol. I came to the resuce with a broom, sure wish i had Raid!
Vicki D. says
When I was a child, a hornet landed on my back. My mother told me to be still, and that it would fly away. You guessed it. It stung me anyway! I still don’t like bees, but, especially now, because after stepping on one as an adult, I found out I’m allergic to them. Now, I have to carry a bee sting kit with me wherever I go!!
Roxann says
One night my husband and I were watching a movie. I was laying on the couch and he was in the recliner. All of a sudden I said to him, “oh, wow do you see that big spider on the screen?” He looked at me like I was crazy and said, “there isn’t any spider on the screen, you’re seeing things.” I said, “no, I’m not seeing things. It’s right there.” As I pointed to where I saw it, my finger hit the silk the spider was hanging onto…right in front of my face! You never saw anyone jump up off the couch so fast. We did have a good laugh about it later.
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Regina M says
Cockroach in the suitcase after a desert trip.
Elkaye says
About a year ago I saw a cockroach crawling around on the floor and thought I killed it with bugspray. When it stopped moving, I put it in the toilet and flushed it down. About 30 minutes later, I went to use my bathroom facilities and as I approached the toilet, there was the roach I flushed earlier slowly crawling up the side! I couldn’t believe it! I flushed several times and poured numerous liquid chemicals into the toilet. After that, I left in disgust. It took a while for me to get up enough courage to go to the bathroom but eventually I had no choice.
To this day, the first thing I do when I approach a toilet is to check for roaches.
Kimberly says
First off let me say I’ve ALWAYS been afraid of bugs, any size or shape = total fear! I was 19 years old. It was June bug season. Somehow one got into the house. It landed on a lampshade that I was seated next to. I shot up like a fighter pilot using the eject button of his diver plane. LOL My friend bravely decided to get the bug & throw it outside. She crept up on it covered it with one hand & slid it down into her other hand. YESSSS problem solved. I go open the front door for her when she begins to laugh a little, then shout “It tickles!” & she straight throws the bug at me holding the door open for her!! I felt it hit down on my right ankle. I run out the door & begin doing some sort of tribal mating dance as all of a sudden a tribe of aboriginees walked up. j/k I was jumping around & using my left foot to repeatedly kick my right ankle so as to knock off the June bug. All while facing much uproarious laughter from my family & friend present. Once I sufficiently believed that bug had to be gone I stopped & had my friend & my dad look. They both said there was no bug on my ankles so I walked back into the house. Once inside my friend nonchalantly pointed out “the June bug’s still on your ankle.” At which point I ran outside again & repeated my tribal dance. After another minute of the dance my friend made me stop jumping & picked the bug off & threw it into the air where it flew off into the night. I’m so grateful that in the past few years June bug season hasn’t yielded as many of those darn bugs!! 🙂
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When I was about 17, I would use half a package of hot chocolate and some coffee to make a nice mocha treat. Since it was in one-day intervals, I would just roll up the bag. One time, I make my little drink concoction and, as I was drinking it, I noticed something chewy in my mouth. I immediately spit out what was in my mouth and guess what I found – a HALF of a worm! That’s right – half! So where was the other half? I’m sure you can guess . . . To this day I am very sensitive to anything unusual in my drink, including the film created from heated milk. Ever since I have been very careful of how I store food, including powdered items!
Stephanie says
My creepy “bug” story is from about 10 years ago. My husband and I lived in a small apartment in Tennessee. We came home for a friend’s home late one evening and groggily climbed into bed. As I stuck my foot under the covers something stung me on my foot. It hurt so bad that I started hollering to my husband that something bit me under the covers. He jumped into action and threw back the bed sheets and started looking around for whatever this was. Next thing I knew he was beating something to death with his shoe at the foot of the bed. I kept yelling, “What is it? What is it?” He says, “Babe, it’s a scorpion!” What? I was from the North and I didn’t know that there was a such thing as wood scorpions that didn’t kill you when they stung you. I immediately clutched my throat. “Do I feel something?” “Am I poisoned?” My husband decided to call poison control just to check and then we learned about those crazy wood scorpions and how they are not the poisonous kind. It was a crazy event indeed!
Marcus says
About seventeen years ago or so, my nephew who is now in college was about two years old. We were outside and playing with a ball on the driveway. At that age, he wasn’t the most coordinated and balanced walker in the world. He would waddle back and forth in the way that a youngster his age usually walks. Anyway, he looked down and there was a spider crawling around near his feet. He started screaming and tried to stomp on the spider. Now picture this: Here’s my little nephew swaying back and forth looking like he could lose his balance at any second tying to squash a spider with his foot while he’s screaming. Every time he’d bring one foot down, he’d miss the spider by a mile and immediately he’d counter-balance himself by lifting the other foot and then bringing it down to try and hit the spider–all the while screaming in staccato-like shrieks. Try as he might, he couldn’t get either foot to make contact with the spider. While watching this, it occurred to me that it looked like he was dancing a jig…or the Mexican Hat Dance or something like it. All I know is that this entire situation struck me so funny that I started laughing. Then it became so humorous that I actually had tears running down from my eyes. My little nephew never did come close to smashing that spider. When I finally regained my composure, I just took his little hand and led him away from the “scary creature.” It was one of the best laughs of my life. [Now that this topic refreshed my memory of that hysterical situation, I think I’ll ask my nephew the next time I seem him if he remembers it at all. Probably not.]
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My creepiest bug story, is not about an actual bug, but what I THOUGHT was a bug! LOL
I was traveling in Arizona in 2000. I was deathly afraid of the Tarantulas, scorpions, and rattle snakes there. We were traveling at night, so I was scared to stop at rest areas. It was all quiet when we were going down the road, and all of a sudden something falls and hits my arm. I scream BLOODY MURDER. I screamed like you hear the people in horror movies! lol. If you know me, you know I never ever scream like that.
I thought it was a tarantula. I get the flashlight and look… It was the casing that came off the dome light on the side of the door! I felt like a fool! lol. I think the funniest part was my boyfriend at the time, was just looking at me when I screamed. He was looking at me like I was insane. He didnt even ask what was wrong! I think he was baffled.
11 years later, he still teases me about watching out for those venomous dome lights!
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Kat Emerick says
I remember the first time I had moved from Pa. to Louisiana and since living in Pa. never had any bug problem. Well I remember putting my kids to bed, my husband just left for work, ( he was on graveyard shift), and finally sitting down , feeling a little scared being in a new place and all and out of the corner of my eye thought I saw something….did I ? Nah, I am just getting paranoid… WAIT>>> there it is again…OMG!!!! A bug the size of a mouse was crawling up the wall!!!! I have never seen it or a bug sooooooooooooooo big in my life!!!!!!!!!!! I flung off the chair and grabbed the broom to try to kill it and it fell onto the floor and starting running toward me… OMG!! I grabbed my husband shoe and started pounding on it and lifted the shoe up and it was still alive!!! I had to grab a hammer to kill it. I found out the next day it was a tree roach from out side and it has a hard shell and very hard to kill but they do die in the house for some odd reason they can not survive indoors. I will never forget that day for the rest of my life.
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I moved to Costa Rica in the late 1990s. I didnt speak much Spanish at first. We moved int a little bamboo hut with a thatch roof on the Pacific Coast. Perhaps the 3rd day we were there a Tci gentleman walked up to our door dressed in a suit and tie with a backpack on. I had enough Spanish to know that 5 people within a 3km radius of my home had recently contracted malaria. Through a lot of hand gestures etc we found he wanted to take our blood to test us for malaria and give us some quinine. We did these things but I lived in great fear of the copious amounts of mosquitos for the rest of my time there…this is not to mention alll of the other indigenous creepy crawlies. I slept under a mosquito net for the year I was there….
Shelley Mitchell says
OMG! I hate centipede’s – UGH just typing that words gives me the creeps. Anyway one morning I went downstairs to iron my clothes for work and a centipede crawled across the floor. I went screaming like crazy upstairs woke up my son and husband and made them come downstairs at 5:30am to find this centipede and kill it. I made them move furniture and everything until they found it and killed it. They just creep me out. My family now says they know my exact scream when I see a centipede. LOL!
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Amiyrah says
I have a dozy of a bug story! It’s actually the reason why I have arachnophobia to this day.
When I was four, I was the worst sleeper. I wouldn’t go to bed on time, needed my light to stay on until I fell asleep and I also needed the TV blasting. One night, when I was supposed to be in bed, I decided to quietly play with my toys in my room. Somehow, one of my toys fell under my bed and I reached under it to get it. When I looked under the bed, there were eyes staring back at me. More than 2…more than 4! I screamed and ran into my parents’ room, but I wasn’t alone. The black TARANTULA that I found under the bed ran after me into the next room! My dad caught it and tried to make me look at it to instantly get over my fear but it was too late. I was petrified and couldn’t sleep for a week. Now, whenever I see any kind of spider I turn right back into that little girl. Ugh! Bugs!
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Ronda Garnett says
When I was 1st married, almost 40 yrs ago…I heard a noise in the night and woke my hubby up to check it out…it was a huge cockroach carrying a cheeto across the linoluem floor…we were renting then and I went to the store the next day and bought a cart full of Raid! And started looking for a new place to live…bugs…yuk!!!
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Allison Mygrants says
My Story is short, but kind of funny/creepy. I was going to get my son a sippy cup of milk and I opened the fridge door to grab the carton. I stood up, looked towards the window across the room and hanging from the light above my head was this ugly spider hanging on his ‘string’ inches from my face. Not something I like to be experiencing in any situation, let alone as a surprise.
chester moon says
When I was in the navy i was stationed in japan. I got a house out in town and on my first sleeping there geji geji bug walked across my face. scared the hell out of me because a lot of japanese bugs are poisonious and im didn’t know which ones.
susan smoaks says
when my husband and i were first married we stayed with relatives. at one of our relatives house there were a lot of bugs. we tried to kill them and used spray but nothing worked. we would leave cups of koolaid out and the next morning there were a lot of dead bugs in the cups. that’s how we knew there were a lot of bugs. it was gross and i was terrified that they would get on me. i am sure that they did but i never woke up to one in my mouth or on my body.
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I grew up in Ohio; it’s too cold for bugs there. When I was old enough to move, I decided sunny Florida was for me (and I lived there and loved it for the next 18 years). What I didn’t realize upon initial entry, however, was that in addition to the beautiful sand and sea, there was also an abundance of new creatures to be found at every turn. My first month living there, alone in my tiny, new apartment, something moving on my wall caught my attention through my peripheral vision. I instantly turned my head and froze. There was a dark brown Palmetto Bug (a bug I’d never even heard of at that point in my life) at least four inches long on my white wall. I was scared to death to kill it (remember, I’m an 18-year old kid who never saw a -bug so big in my life), but I knew I had to try. I walked towards it and it moved. I froze, and it did too. I went back to my couch and looked at it through the corner of my eye. What to do, what to do?? I had a book on my coffee table; a rather large book, and though I loved my book and didn’t want to harm it, I more did not want that bug in my house. But instead of a firm whack up close to ensure death, I threw the book from afar in the general direction of the beast that was making me a nervous wreck. Much to my chagrin and utter surprise the bug began to fly. A six inch cockroach-looking bug was flying right at me. I screamed and jumped up on my couch batting towards it with my hands to keep it away. It was the most terrifying, and later hysterical, event of my life up to that point. I can still, many, many years later, feel the trepidation I had towards that big, nasty bug. The bug disappeared and I went out and bought bug spray and (later) white tablets designed to kill them. Coming home I must have sprayed half of the can around the house trying to reassure myself that I’d keep it from coming back into sight. And then I left the house until it was dark, returning home only because I felt I had to. And I slept with the lights on, probably for weeks, but def. for that night. I still hate bugs to this day, and though we recently moved back up north due to my father-in-law’s health issues, I did live down there for 18 years, and I never could bring myself to find enough courage to kill one of those things when I happened across one (and I did happen across them, many times over the years). They are so big you can hear them walk, you know, if everything is very quiet in the place they’re walking. Nasty, nasty, nasty. I hate bugs.
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My funny bug story happened when I was in 4th grade. We were learning about bugs and supposed to collect them at home and bring them to school. I saw a huge bug on our porch and yelled to my mom to bring a container so I could catch it. She hurries outside with the container and as she steps out onto put porch she steps on the bug and kills it. There goes my science project she killed it.
Lisa G. says
Growing up we were pretty poor,there wasn’t many snacks to be had,so when we got something all 5 of us kids were thrilled.
We would s it in the living room floor ,huddled together with only the flickering of the old,black and white TV for light.Our dad had brought us a big box of raisins,we were happy…
We rolled and savored every raisin there in the dark,that was until my brother took his handful into the kitchen and turned on the light…that’s when it turned into a nightmare! He started screaming”DOOKIE WORMS”,we all knew what that meant,MAGGOTS!
We all looked secretly wishing he was the only one who ate them,he wasn’t.Needless to say we all got sick and I will never eat another raisin in the dark (or light) again!
kathy pease says
my creepy bug story just happened a few weeks ago when i was in the woods behind our home. I was gathering leaves in the woods to mulch one of my gardens raking them into piles and putting them in a 30 gallon garbage can..well 3 nights ago i went to itch the top part of my back right in the center and i felt a big bubble..Im like what the hell is that???? so I hollered to my daughter and her boyfriend and they came into the room..she looks at my back and startS saying OH MY GOD,OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!!! and im like what what what..it was a tick embedded in my back so my daughters boyfriend took some tweezers and pulled it out..that thing didnt want to budge..it took quite a few minutes to get it out.yesterday my hubby was looking at it and said that it looked like the head was still in there so he spent a half hour digging it out with a needle and tweezers..i did not care about any pain i just wanted that creeper out of there..YUCK. I will buy my mulch from now on..lol
jen gersch says
I had a huge black spider crawling on my sandaled foot while driving.I almost crashed when I saw it and pulled over and tried wiping it off without it biting me
Erin G says
My 2nd year of college my roommate and I were having a movie marathon with the Saw movies. We had the lights off and I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. There was a huge palmetto bug (larger than a cockroach and can fly) on the wall! I, of course, immediately screamed and turned on the lights. Neither of us were very good with handling bugs. I tried spraying it with hairspray since we didn’t have any Raid and it darted straight at us. After running out of the room, we came back and tried again. It continued to fly straight at us, with us running away screaming, every time we tried to sprayed it. About an hour into this it finally crawled into a bookshelf. Both of us refused to go to sleep after so I turned on the tv and we were up to nearly 5:30am. Eventually we both fell asleep and woke up a few hours later. Since we had drenched it in hairspray we expected it to be dead. I pulled things off the bookshelf and found it in a pack of paper in a bin. I pulled out the bin and it started crawling again! My roommate and I ran out of the dorm and I dumped all of the content in the bin on the lawn. It quickly ran away, we collected our things, and it was finally over!
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I had just moved to San Antonio, TX from Colorado. I got an apartment with a patio. It was a nice summer evening and I had the patio door open. I was in the bathroom when I was dive-bombed by a REALLY BIG flying roach. I’d never seen anything like it and ran screaming outside. It was really scary. I moved back to Colorado where we don’t have those things.
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Kristen B. says
My creepiest bug story starts out like any normal Sunday with my family. Were sitting around having coffee and chatting. As I start to tell everyone how my week at work went I spot a huge cockroach climbing up my moms back…..I very calmly asked her not to panick because I know my mom is terrified of bugs. “Mom, please stay calm, there is a cockroach climbing up your back.” Well instead of staying calm, she freaked out and screamed so loud and hard that she farted!! Everyone was laughing so hard they forgot to help her get the bug off of her back so she was running around trying to get it off, beet red mind you. I finally smacked it off and saved her from the bug. Needless to say, it was an interesting Sunday morning that we still talk about to this day.
Marisa says
I didn’t think I had a story, but I had been thinking along the lines of creepy rather than funny. Then I remembered the time that I had purchased a whole container full of crickets to feed to our bearded dragon (a frequent occurrance–she eats several dozen a week.) But this particular time I left the container on the floor within reach of my 2 year old! Big OOOOOPPS! You guessed it, the crickets were set free to live a happy and noisy life in every corner of my house. Think summertime camping noises in the middle of winter– “chirp chirp chirp” CONSTANTLY! It was several weeks of catching crickets in random places throughout the house and throwing them in to the lizard’s cage. Needless to say, I never left the crickets in reach of the toddler again!
RefreshMom says
I tend to block out things like creepy bug encounters, but there is one that was too memorable to ever forget. Keep in mind I’ve spent most of my life on the west coast. Apparently most of the big nasty bugs never made it across the Rockies to our side.
We were visiting friends in Dallas while Hubs looked at grad schools. We told our hosts to go out for the evening while we stayed in with their sleeping child. I was at the mirror in the bathroom when this cigar-sized thing came flying at me from the ceiling. Trying to muffle my terror so I didn’t wake the baby, I did some kind of jumping/dancing/swatting/completely-grossing-out routine while I ran to get Hubs to deal with it for me. My first encounter with a cockroach!
Kristi says
I have a creepy wasp story. It was soon after my second daughter was born and we were living in Navy housing. It was a 4-unit building with a carport on each end and 2 carports in the middle, but all buildings were essentially linked. My mom was out visiting and was sleeping downstairs in our living room while we were all upstairs. She woke up in the middle of the night with wasps all over in the living room. She found a fly swatter and started killing them. She kept this up all night – and didn’t come up and wake us! We couldn’t believe the amount of dead wasps when we came downstairs the next day. We immediately called the housing office who sent someone out. Turns out they had been out the day before because one of the neighbors had complained about wasps outside. They had sprayed and forced the little buggers inside! They took care of the problem the second time – but imagine if one of those would have gotten to my newborn! Grandma to the rescue!
Juanita Violet says
My parents had two large maple trees in their backyard. The trees always had the big black ants crawling all over them. I would ask my parents if they couldn’t spray the trees or something. We were having a cookout on their deck which was under the trees. As I was drinking my iced tea I crunched on what I thought was a piece of ice – no it was an ant!
Melinda Gordon says
We recently moved to florida. I work up at 5am to get my baby a bottle. I noticed my husband dropped his wallet on the middle of the tile floor in the living room!!! I went to go pick it up (he had left for work). As I got closer I saw a HUGE, BROWN, HAIRY!!!!!!!!! Spider. I went to get some spray cleaner and started spraying it. This made it RUN at ME!!! I ran backwards. I found a box and threw it on it. I stepped on it and heard it crunch/pop. It was HORRID!!!! I am scarred for life truly!!!
rebecca says
I am a really old fart, so this occurred many moons ago. I loved to swing as a child, and could spend endless hours swinging and daydreaming. I was just about to slow down and get off when there was, what seemed, a swarm of flies about my head. As I jumped off, one got in my ear. I recall grabbing at my ear, and am told I went into something like those mad cows that twirl round and round. My older brother had to grab me and drag me into the house. Since I could not run in circles, I shook my head fiercely accompanied by much screaming. Again I had to be picked up and carried to the bathroom sink where several people tried to hold my head still, to pour hydrogen peroxide in my ear. The horrific buzzing in my ear finally quieted to the bubbling sounds of the peroxide doing its job. They had me lay my head on a pillow with a towel to collect the few remaining pieces of the dastardly fly. I have never enjoyed swinging since.
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Tracy says
I used to live in Florida, where some of the cockroaches are big enough to saddle up and ride down Main Street! Well, not literally, but those horrid things are around three inches in length and THEY FLY!!!! (And they smell, too. Yick).
In the last house I lived in before I moved from Florida, there were a lot of these cockroaches. I’d have to regularly set off bug bombs, which helped for a week or so. The clean up was gross because there were dozens of these three inch bugs on their backs with their legs still twitching. I was so glad to leave the state and move way up north, thinking that I’d never see another one of those horrid creatures again.
Well, I was wrong….
You see, my mother sent up several boxes of my items that I wasn’t able to pack and take with me during the move. You wouldn’t believe it, but those horrible cockroaches were trying to come out of the big boxes. They had hidden in some of my things I guess. Anyway, they got stuck in the packing tape, with their legs twitching, still very much alive, when they arrived at my destination in Minnesota.
I’m shuddering at the memory of it. I HATED those things!
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We have really big Wolf Spiders where I live. One night when my son was 6 he was taking a shower and he started hollering for me. I walked in and a huge Wolf Spider was crawling up his leg. He was frozen still and I got the spider off and killed it. He is 11 now and still looks to make sure there are no spiders in the shower every night before he gets in.
Alyssa says
I don’t like ants. At all. A couple years ago, they attacked our house…or that’s what it felt like to me. Suddenly, ants were everywhere! I started wearing sandals/shoes to go into the kitchen so I didn’t have to step on them. I would NOT do the dishes because there were ants crawling around inside the sink. During a brief break in the ants’ rampage, I thoroughly cleaned the kitchen. But they came back! This lasted for quite awhile. One day, in desperation, my youngest brother and I smashed as many ants as we could with our shoes and tried to sweep every last one (alive or dead) out the door with a broom. As we were doing this, my brother said, “There are ants from all over the world!”
Darcy B says
I’m the youngest, and when I was little my older siblings always beat me to the prize in the cereal box. One morning I got up early to be the one to open the new box of cereal so that I could get the prize. My Mom came in the kitchen as I sat on the floor with my entire arm deep in my box of cocoa krispies–just as I heard my Mom telling me to get my arm out of the cereal I found my prize. I pulled it out and held it in my hand –as I stared at it trying to figure out what it was my Mother began to scream–my prize was a huge potato bug!
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Amanda S. says
Last summer my husband and I were cleaning the garage. He found a plastic spider that belonged to our son, and showed it to me. A minute later, he threw it at my and I screamed and just about cried too, I was so scared! Pretty dumb considering he’d just shown me it was fake right before, lol. I’m not a bug fan!
Kim says
This past winter, we went on vacation with our best friends to Cuba. What a lovely time. Well, the first night as we were settling into bed, I heard a scream from across the hallway. Little did I know that my friend had turned down the covers of her bed only to discover a HUGE bug (she was too mortified to take a picture) on her pillow. The story she tells is great too – as each time she tells it, the bug gets bigger!
Auriette says
I hate roaches, and living in Florida, I am surrounded by them. I remember waking up once and opening my eyes to find myself face-to-face with a gigantic roach. Another time one came running at me in the bathroom and I leaped on the toilet, and the seat shifted and I very nearly broke the toilet and my neck. Afterwards, I kind of laughed at myself, because I always made fun of people in movies who would jump on chairs because they saw a mouse. Well, heck, mice are cute and furry, not like nasty roaches. The creepiest thing though, and I don’t know why I watched a movie about fire-starting roaches, but I did, it was called BUG, and as I was watching this movie on TV, giant roaches kept coming out and staring at the TV screen. It was horrifying.
Ann says
My creepiest bug story is from just a few years ago. I had two small children at the time. It was a hot day in Arizona and I was going out to run a few errands. I did the usual – opened the garage door and helped my kids into the van making sure they were buckled and ready to go. I walked around the front of the van to get to my seat when I caught a glimpse of something standing in the garage doorway. A tarantula!!! I think I let out a small scream. “Please please please don’t crawl in my garage,” I pleaded. It ignored me heading straight for the mess of lawn chairs, bikes, and baby equipment strewn on the garage floor. Ack!! If it got in there I would never get it out and then I would always know there was a killer tarantula hiding in the garage and, well, that’s it….I would have to move. At that moment, a stranger happened to walk by my house. I flagged him down and pleaded for him to be my hero for the day. It took a short while but he managed to trap the hideous thing under a flower pot and toted the thing outside. “What are you going to do with it?” I asked, suddenly feeling more humane regarding the creature now that it was out of my abode. “My daughter loves these. I’ll save it till she gets home.”
Ugh! Not a spider person. That’s my story 🙂
SnowflakeDay (Audra) says
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SnowflakeDay (Audra) says
Have you ever seen a grass spider? The really big, hairy kind…that run super fast? Well…back when I used to be a smoker (yep, I’ve been off the cigs for going on 3 years now), I went outside one Summer night to have a smoke on our back porch. I had on a pair of thin sleep pants, the long kind. I hated going out there at night. Not because I was afraid of the dark, but because these big grass spiders would come sit at our back door near the light; catching bugs I suspect. I was always afraid of stepping on one or having one run across my foot…crazy what a nicotine addiction can make you do. I finished my smoke and turned to go back in the house…and…what the…I felt it. Yep, I felt a grass spider went right up thigh. I imagine there’s no telling how long it had been sitting on the inside of my sleep pants around my calf, just sitting there, waiting to make its move. I never felt it until it was up the front of my thigh where the material was closer to my skin. I jumped in the house, started screaming “There’s a spider in my pants, there’s a spider in my pants.” I grabbed what I hoped was the spider with my fingers in a big bunch of pant material. Then I stood there frozen. What did I do next? How did I get my pants off and not let go of this spider at the same time? I didn’t want to squeeze too hard or spider guts were going to ooze everywhere. Somehow hubby helped me manage out of my pants, while I calmed freaked, and we killed it. I get the heeby-geeby-willies every time I think about it.
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Pauline M says
I remember getting stung by a bee in gradeschool and a few weeks later I started having some really weird dreams. One night, I woke up screaming at the top of my lungs thinking that I was being attacked by a swarm. My mother ran into my room and turned on the light and they all went away (thank goodness).
About a week later, I felt a little tickle on my forehead, thinking it was a swarm of bee’s again, I starting screaming at the top of my lungs again (mind you, with four of us in a small home, I woke up EVERYBODY!) to get rid of the bee’s, but this time, it was actually a black widow on my forehead. My mother starting screaming and managed to kill the spider without giving me a black eye (but just barely!).
Though it totally freaked me out, I think it scared my mother alot more. Our house was sprayed for weeks after this and to this day, I remember those dreams very vividly!
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Becky Horn says
Oh no, a bug story!!! Creeps me out just writing about them. Ok Hmm which one should I choose. Well when I was growing up we had a big…BIG problem with waterbugs. I am scared to death of most bugs,spiders,wasps. You name it. Well I remember going to the bathroom one night, after waking up. And sitting on the toilet. Mind you I was always on the look-out for the big scary nasty looking waterbugs. I finally relax thinking that Ok.. I think I’m safe now, as I sit on the toilet I feel a big thump on my head. OH MY!!! I started freaking. You know the kind where your whole body starts to twitch cause you don’t know where it is or if It is still on you. I literally ran out of the bathroom pants down and all. I think I felt something crawling on me for 2 days afterwards. I still get shivers just talking about it now. They were so bad that when my sister moved back home with the kids, one of her daughters cried all the time and was too scared to go to the bathroom alone. Thank Goodness that they managed to get rid of them now.
Urailak says
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Tracy says
My daughter was trying some old rubber boots on at my dad’s house to go out to see the horses. They dumped the boots out to make sure there were no bugs – nope! She put the boot on and it felt wierd. She took it off and my dad stuck his hand in to see if the liner was bunched up. YIKES! A giant cockroach looking bug came out! I have never seen a bug at their house but this bug was enormous! So gross! AND, that really leads to paranoia (sp?) when putting ANY shoes on! Thanks so much for the drawing!
Leslie Talley says
I’ve had soooo many bug encounters that I have multiple blog posts about them. Here they are in order:
http://mygirldelia.blogspot.com/2008/09/talley-family-petting-zoo-is-now-open.html
http://mygirldelia.blogspot.com/2009/07/picture-of-not-so-itsy-bitsy-spider.html
Thanks for the fun contest!
Pamk says
My youngest son was about 4 when he brought the biggest Katydid in the house. It was a big as his little hand. He brought it right up to me and stuck it in my face and said see mama bug. I told him to get that out of the house before it bit him and he let it go. No sooner than I’d gotten the words out of my mouth he yelled and through the bug across the room. I yelled for my oldest son to come get it. Him and their daddy finally found it but not before it bit my husband. He said no wonder that Jacob hollered that that darn bug bit him hard and it hurt like the dickens. We found a plastic cup in the house. That was the only Jacob would go near it after that.
Urailak says
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Urailak says
Lately, ladybugs have been invading our home, especially our boys’ bedroom. My youngest son counted up to 103 ladybugs in their room at one time. Most of them were dead. One night, he was staring at one ladybug in particular. I asked him what he was doing. He said, “I’m watching a ladybug race.” I went to take a closer look and saw one ladybug taking a stroll on a lamp’s cord. I puzzled, “How is one ladybug having a race?” He replied, “I want to see how fast it takes for it to go around the cord.” I smiled, “Oh I see!”
Deborah says
Where do I begin? Which bug to tell about? I lived in Australia for 4 years where the bugs are bigger, hairier, scarier, creepier and crawlier. Termites rattled our door frames snacking on our town house. Cockroaches rivaling any I’ve ever seen my years living in Central Florida, would creep out from under my oven and loiter, staring me down, until I threatened them with a huge phone book. Spiders the size of my husband’s hand scurried up the wall and jumped down the hall, all the while my heroic husband chasing them and coating them with fly spray. Ants and other bugs I’ve never seen in the Northern Hemisphere marched through daily on parade. Each night I prayed that I wouldn’t wake up with any in my bed. I never did. I’m so thankful.
April says
I watched in excitement my sweet beautiful dog tossing a cricket up and down to “play” with it. She would gently toss it up with her mouth, catch it as it came back down and maybe even paw at it I guess to see if it would play back?? All the while I’m just imagining: what is the cricket thinking? He has to be having an out of body experience and wondering am I going to die or is this beast ever going to stop? I just couldn’t stop wondering what that poor cricket was thinking so I had to eventually save him and put him outside to hop off. Just wondered if he was ever the same after that. 🙂
Karine Traverse says
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Karine Traverse says
At my old house to walk into our house you had to walk under a grapevine, so you can imagine all the fallen grapes on the ground below. When the grapes began to fall we alternated daily on who was to remove all the ripe grapes so that the squished ones wouldn’t attract bees or be tracked into the house. On the day it was my turn I came out with a bowl to remove the grapes and when I was done placed the bowl into the sink and began running water over them to wash them. Within seconds of the water hitting them I noticed spiders running out of the bowl away from the water and I freaked out. I then realized I was covered in spiders, my hair, my clothes, crawling all over me. I began to rip off my clothes and ran upstairs to the shower to wash them all off of me. After getting out of the shower I headed to my sisters room to grab a shirt of mine she borrowed and as I was walking into her room a spider jumped off the door at me, it was like he knew I had just washed and killed all of his relatives in the shower. To this day I freak out whenever I see a spider and it is like I have been branded because it seems like rather than run away they always come after me.
Sydney says
I tweeted it @forevaftdesigns! http://twitter.com/#!/forevaftdesigns/status/65244804740689920
Thanks so much for this ultra-amazing giveaway, Janice and Susan!
Melissa E. says
I was living in a garden level apartment during my senior year in college, sleeping on a mattress on the floor because I was broke. I woke up one Saturday to feel something on my arm. I flicked it away, because I’m not easily freaked out, and went back to sleep. This happened two more times before I awoke fully and realized that I was covered, simply covered, in black ants. They were migrating across the floor, and they were everywhere. I had them in my hair, up and down my legs, and all over my bed.
To this day, I cannot stand ants. I’m sure you can understand why.
Christy Schultz says
So last summer was my first summer in my current house, and it was a bad year for yellowjackets. One evening I saw a bee flying around the lights on my ceiling. No huge deal, but not happy about it. Then I look up again and there is a second bee next to another light. Then a third and then a fourth. Now I was not a happy camper at all. It seems that since the house is a little old, somewhere in the walls is a nest. So we kill all the bees we can see and set off a bug bomb the next morning. I plug up all the holes where I think they are coming into the house. After the bomb…I vacuum up all the dead bees that I can find…but they are resiliant little suckers. I was finding them…some of them still alive but growing weaker for weeks. And the icing on the cake…one of them fell down into my hair and I could hear it buzzing. NOT FUN at all. So thats my bug story…
Sydney says
My bug story (shudder!):
A few years ago, during the summer, cicadas came out. They are these extremely creepy bugs that come out only once ever 17(?) years, and that was the first time I had ever encountered them. They were EVERYWHERE, so much so that i stopped going outside as much as possible because they freaked me out!
One day I was at Wal-mart with my mom and my sister. We were walking to the car, and I discovered there was a CICADA ON MY SHIRT! I screamed as loud as I could and ran around making a total fool of myself screaming, “GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!” Somehow, we got it off of my shirt and we were going to get back into the car. There was this lady at the car next to us with a questioning look on her face. My mom explained that there has been a cicada on my shirt. The lady proceeded to tell us that, “Oh, I had a cicada on me the other day, and I just picked it up and threw it off.” And this is after I made a gigantic scene in the middle of a Wal-mart parking lot. Yeah!:)
Kristi says
Tweeted about it as well: @kristigriem
Rikki E. says
Im not particulary freaked out by bugs…but my husband on the other hand is worse than 10 year old girl when it comes to spiders!! He is a true manly man…atleast I thought! We live in the country and apparently around these parts as soon as the weather starts getting cold the house spiders start pouring in everywhere! It does make me a little squemish but I have never seen a grown man jump so high. One night when getting ready for bed my husband lifted up the blanket to crawl in and there was a spider in his spot. He jumped and ran! Now every night I have to check the blankets and everything before he will even get near the bed! Its great……oh the teasing he gets for this!
Mimi says
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Kristi says
When you travel overseas you begin to realize the value of showers. While traveling in Central America one summer, I finally got to take a shower. I was excited! It was hot, humid, and sticky. I happily adjusted the water temp and jumped in. Only to realize that a huge taranchula was ALSO taking a shower at that moment. I hopped right out, screaming all the way. Keep your towels close, girls.
Kim H. says
My Raid Story. It is true and very disturbing to those of us that it happened to.
My sis in law (then only my best friend) and I lived in an apartment together when we were 19. This was in 1986. It was a nice apartment in a very nice neighborhood so we never expected this to happen.
One day we saw a roach in the kitchen. We weren’t used to that and so we decided to fight back. We went to the store and bought 2 cans of Raid roach spray. I forget the exact title, but it was supposed to also sterilize the roaches. Cool! We’ll get rid of that bug!
We went back to the apartment and I took one end of the long (not wide) apartment and sis took the other.
Once sis got to the kitchen they came out all over! I guess we were effective! She was standing on a chair with a half can of raid screaming as a roach ran up her leg. I gave her my half can and I was sent to run off for “reinforcements”!
The nearest store was 10 blocks away, but I couldn’t wait! My sis was under attack! I ran the whole way stopping at every bus stop to see if there was a bus to hurry me along. I got to the store and bought as many raid cans as I had money for and then had to run the entire way back!
We then did a very good spray with the Raid.
We knew that the apartment complex sprayed every month with a professional company, but after we used Raid we never saw another bug. I like to think we have a reputation around those bugs. They stayed away!
This is a story we recall and really do fondly think of Raid. It works!
Noname says
Okay, I am going to be no name on this post, because yea this is not only creepy but gross… I live in the South, and we get these big wood roaches. Well, I was taking a shower got out to dry off and felt a burn in my ear, I thought I got water in it, so I put a little peroxide in my ear to bubble out the water, that did not fix my problem. I still felt for months that I had water in my ear I would clean my ear with a qtip and I always had this funny smell coming from my ear. After about 3 months I got one of those baby syringes, and started pumping water into my ear. I was so sickened what was coming out, bits and piece of dead roach. I googled to see about this issue and sure enough it is a common problem. The roach tries to get to the heat do not ask me why my ear it was burning up in here as it was!
Mimi says
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Lorraine says
My story happened about 10 years ago. My mom lived by herself, and she called me to tell me she found this huge black bug in her house. I said, “what is it?”, and she said, she didn’t know and she put it in a jar to show me the next time I visited. I lived about 2 hours away. So the next time I came down for a visit, we were eating dinner when I said, “hey mom where is that bug you caught?” She said, right there on the counter. So I got up and I looked in the jar, and I started to laugh so hard I cried and wet my pants from laughing. You see my mom’s eye sight was not so great, and it was after the grandchildren had gone to a carnival.. In the jar was a very huge and very black plastic bug. Everyone at the table started laughing and some couldn’t even swallow their meal as they were laughing, well almost everyone, my mom didn’t think it was so funny. To this day when I see the a plastic bug I think of the one in the jar on the counter.
Jenny says
Just what I think is funny, I am terrified of killing bugs… unless I’m the only ‘adult’ around. When I was a camp counselor I had no problem being the bug killing hero… but when I’m with my boyfriend or at home and my dad’s around, I scream!
Mimi says
I got my blog post up with a few of my stories!
http://wovenbywords.blogspot.com/2011/05/its-just-bug-right.html
Jenny says
Our bug story was from last summer. I went to have my hair cut with my 2 girls after school. After getting my hair washed, blown dry then getting it straightened…. We hear a shrill of terror. Thinking my then 3year old had gotten a hold of something hot and was burned… As we are all looking around and didn’t see any signs of her getting hurt. I was pushing down her old Easter dress and felt something… It was the biggest grass hopper ever was stuck to her dress, then it got on my arm and then I screamed and flung it across the floor!! Luckily for us there was one nan in the hair salon that probably thought we were all crazy.. He picked up the grass hopper and released him to the side of the building. I really don’t think the grasshopper had a chance except for that man who saved it’s life. Needless to say we laugh still about it everytime we go in there. Where is a video camera when you need it. Funniest home videos would have loved it. I have most girliest girls ever I believe. None of like bugs! #RaidBugStory
Breanne says
Hehe I live in Hawaii and the bug problem is insane! We’ve had a really bad ant problem and now they’re coming in the bathroom window. It’s only 6+ feet up the wall and I have no idea what they’re going after. Well this morning I almost brushed my teeth with an ant. Luckily I noticed movement first!
Sammantha K says
I used to manage a chain restaurant in the 90’s part of the protocol was to have monthly bug nights. Pulling the bug night was not a managers favorite job. We had to have the staff WRAP the entire restauran in plastic – EVERYTHING all the tables, linens, pans. One particular time I had bug night, usually we would get out by 2am – this one time I didn’t make it home until the sun was coming up! We had seen a few roaches. so the bug team came and I showed them the area I thought might have a problem, so the guy pulled out his drill and put a hole in the wall…..and out came hundreds of roaches they just started running everywhere. The walls were infested! I had no where to run, so I jumped on the counter and screamed like a girl. They continued to drill holes in various walls and I sat there surrounded by roaches all over the floor, it was like a horror movie. Salt in my wound the bug “guy” was cute and I was interested until I saw his job up close and personal. No way was I going ot go out with him, I felt like insects were crawling on me for days
Courtney Bentley says
I work at a daycare where we were having brownies for snack, a little boy walked up to me in the kitchen to give me his cup and I pointed at him and told him that he had a bug on his neck. He misunderstood me and thought I said brownie, picked up the bug and popped it in his mouth…needless to say I screamed, grabbed a napkin and he made one of the funniest faces I’ve seen him make haha got to love kids!!
cheri says
When we moved to Florida, I reminded my husband that I don’t really deal with monster sized bugs well. I could handle the Chicago bugs fine. Seriously? They are tiny compared to FL bugs. So one day at school, I actually made it to use the restroom during the school day, between supervising lunch shifts. I pretty much have no break from the time I aarive until the time I leave. I sat down, pants around my ankles and took a breath, as I looked down and watched a huge roach run over my feet. Since I was in mid-stream, there wasn’t mucu I could do other than act like a girl and scream (which I hate doing!!) Naturally, this brought people running from the office to find a locked bathroom door…and they were panicking about what was happening on my side of that door. Luckily, I gathered myself , without soiling my pants as I was trying to end stream and get my pants back up, before they were able to break into the bathroom.
Janet and Maya says
I blogged here http://giveawaysonblogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/enter-to-win-one-of-two-500-walmart.html
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Thanks for the opportunity to win such an awesome prize!
Sylvie W. says
Listen up Waterbugs. The moral of my story is YOU need to stay out of people’s homes or their pets will shorten your lives.
My first experience with this was with my cute, cream colored cocker spaniel. I turned to see him one day with something black sticking out of his mouth. As I approached him I realized that he was holding a large waterbug halfway in his mouth. The bug was still alive because his legs were wriggling. When I said “Muffin, what do you have in your mouth?”, he gave me such a “What, me?” look. He ran away with his bug. I later found it dead in a bedroom. This happened severl more times.
Years later, my big gray tabby cat did the same thing. She though only transported them to hardwood floors so she could bat them around like hockey pucks. Sometimes they got away and sometimes not.
I never could let my pets “kiss” me (lick my face) after having seen this but amnesia would eventually kick in and a day later it was a love fest.
Gloria says
I have a funny bug story. I was living in a dorm for girls and working in Salt Lake City, Utah. Several of us decided to rent an apartment together and become roommates, and so it was that we rented an apartment and made our plans.
In the meantime, a good friend from the dorm (who wasn’t moving) along with several others were carpooling to our various homes for a weekend visit. The day was warm and lovely, and we were enjoying our time together, laughing and joking and just having a wonderful trip.
In the midst of our sharing fun stores, my friend suddenly said, “Don’t move!” She meant don’t move out of the dorm, but I thought she meant don’t move there is a big, hairy, monstrous sort of ugly bug on you that is ready to go for the jugular. So naturally I freaked out. I screamed, “Get it off! Get it off!” Well, everyone else was dumbfounded because they couldn’t see anything on me, so they just sat there (well, the driver did keep on driving, thank goodness). As I remember I escalated my pleas until I was nearly in tears.
Finally, my friend figured it out, explained herself while calming me down. Then we laughed ourselves silly over such a misunderstanding. As you can tell, I am not a person who deals well with the dear bugs of our planet, especially spiders.
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Staci A says
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/MommaStaciA/status/65225436749242368 Thanks!
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Janet and Maya says
I often wish I had a video of the time I tried to kill a wasp with hair spray. I still laugh every time I remember it…. I ended up “hairspraying” an entire room and the wasp? Well, his “do” was looking good and he continued to fly and live on. I kept thinking that when it dried he would be stuck at least, but nope. Must have been “flexible hold”….. hehehe, still laughing….
Staci A says
When I was 6 1/2 months pregnant with my son, hubby and I went on vacation to the Dominican Republic. I was exhausted when we finally got to the hotel, so I crawled into bed for a nap. An hour or so later when I woke up, I looked up at the ceiling to see a spider the size of my hand directly above me. I screamed and was out of the bed as quickly as possible.
We had to call the hotel staff because we were too scared of this enormous creepy crawlie to get rid of it. Even after they assured me it was gone, I could barely sleep the whole week!
Susan Wiener says
My husband and I were just married and decided to honeymoon in sunny Florida. The hotel where we stayed was beautiful, that is, until we spotted the hugest palmetto bug in the world. Howie tried to kill it with hairspray as it was the only thing we had that might do any good. The only thing it did was get that the bug to smell nice! Then we decided to call housekeeping and told them what was going on. I was screaming quite a bit and I’m betting the people in the hotel thought we were having a wild time. 🙂 Finally, the maid brought us Raid and it worked right away. The poor fellow was dead and we were at peace. We tried to get it to leave with newspaper, but it wouldn’t go. Maybe because it was raining outside. We’re just glad we had a happy ending, though we felt badly for the bug…Thanks, Raid. You saved our honeymoon!
BrassyDel says
We moved from California to Texas when I was a kid, or we can describe it as “from roaches the size of grapenuts to roaches the size of a large candy bar”. One day my dad was reading on the couch, and when he looked up to answer one of us kids one of those 4-inch long flying cockroaches smacked right into the bridge of his glasses! THWAP!
In the following excitement, it even managed to get away.
webly says
My creepy story happened when I went to Miami to take care of something for my parents. I was staying at my parent’s friends house who are basically like family. The think is that they are super old fashion. Their grass was so tall that I had no idea why they didn’t have creepers all over the place. So I went to bed that night with a nice cup of tea and I was to go back home the next day. While I was sleeping I just felt a little itchy on my stomach from time to time. It got so annoying that I thought I was sweating too much (remember Miami around August and no AC in my room), that I woke up to change into something lighter. When I turned on the light, right there in the middle of the bed was a cockroach, a huge one. I am really scared of cockroaches and never saw them that big before. Now the stupid pest starting flying all over the place and I put a towel in my mouth to scream because i didn’t want to wake up my parent’s friends (him and his wife) because I didn’t want them to feel insulted (really old fashion folks). So here I am running in circle in the room, screaming through a towel and scared for my life because the cockroach was just flying all over the room. I cracked the door open finally and he/she left.
I was seriously petrified, so much that I spent the whole night sleeping on the corner sitting down with a sheet over my head because I did not want the cockroach to eat me. I know I am bigger than the cockroach but I am seriously scared of them.
When the couple woke up, I skipped breakfast, called a cab and went to the train station as fast as I could to get away from the cockroach that haunted me through the night.
THE END
Irena says
My family has moved to Alaska one year and started building a small cabin, so this one summer when i was 16 yrs old, our small cabin was invaded by what seemed like thousands of ants, during the night. I still remember how, while I was sleeping they were crawling on my face, I just brushed them off not even know that it was ants. When i woke up I saw them EVERYWHERE, On my bed, walls, floor maybe even a few where on me. I started screaming of course. Got out of bed and the ants where everywhere. So my job was to RAID all around the cabin and inside. Will never forget that summer! LOL
Fritter says
I moved to South Carolina from Michigan almost 5 years ago. We have bugs up north, but NOT like they do down here. My first month here, I was renting a room in a woman’s home out in the country. It was steamy, hot and humid that August of 2006 and I grew to HATE the walk from my car to my door. I saw bugs that could pick up my brother in law and carry him away! There were bugs that flew and their huge wings would flap against your neck (no exaggeration) or creepy crawlies that could scurry up your leg before you knew it. I had the unfortunate experience on more than one occasion of being woken up in the middle of the night with something scratching on my arm…..Oh gosh. This gives me the willies just thinking about that 3 month period. UGH.
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Laura Day says
I am TERRIFIED of spiders. It’s so bad I have dreams about spiders. The problem is I don’t know if I’m awake & they are real or I’m hallucinating or if I’m asleep & dreaming, but I always end up on the floor trying to get away from these spiders
One night (when I was still married), I screamed & fell to the floor & the ex was wondering what was wrong, so I told him there was a spider. So he starts looking around for a spider, and I was like “no this was a HUGE spider like those huge spiders in the old Tarzan movies.
One night, my youngest daughter was sleeping with me when I had one of these dreams/hallucinations & spiders (a lot of little spiders) were crawling in her hair, so being the good mother I am, I started pawing at her hair trying to get these spiders out & she wakes up crying cause I pawing at her hair as fast as I can trying to get these spiders out of her hair, except there were no spiders. (Yes, my girls think I”m insane.)
Another time, I was in bed lying on my back & these spiders started floating down from the ceiling, only they were hot pink & lime green. Yes, they were pretty, but they were still spiders & I ended up on the floor trying to get away from them.
No wonder I wake up in the morning still tired 🙂
NSWDWMom says
The very first time I went to a movie alone with a boy, it was to see The Wrath of Con. There was one scene in the movie that involved bugs in the ear. I had a horrific nightmare that evening and my fear of bugs in or near my ears has not diminished all these MANY years later. To this day, when a mosquito or black fly goes near my ear I feel like I’m going to vomit. I blame this irrational fear completely on that movie. My husband and kids laugh hysterically whenever they see the movie listed on the channel guide and threaten me with it. They may be joking, but it’s no joke to me. If I could “unwatch” one thing, it would be that movie!
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Clemens says
Not sure if my story will make you laugh…or cry….I grew up in Brazil, in a country house so there were a lot of bugs around but one night, when I was 10 years old, after taking a shower I grabbed my towel and as I was drying myself up I started to feel some pain/burn on my right thigh. Not sure of what was happening I started to scream, my older brother and my mom came in, they looked at my leg and couldn’t see anything, but the pain kept getting worst, so my brother took the towel and shook it and out of it falls a little yellow scorpion, yes a scorpion. I started to cry, not because of the pain but because I had just learned in science class about scorpions and how dangerous they were. My brother took the scorpion and put it in a empty jam glass and meanwhile I kept hugging my mom, telling her how much I loved her and that I knew I was going to die, for her to forgive me for all my acting up ( can you imagine my poor mom). They put me i the car and drove me to the ER . It was a 30 minutes drive and I cried all the way there…i couldnt belive I was going to die so young. The doctor saw me right away and when he saw the scorpion ( we brought the glass with us) he laughed, said it was a baby scorpion and that I didnt even need an antidote, but that I was very lucky and that the burnt I was feeling was going away soon. Oh boy was I happy!! Needless to say that I took the glass with the scorpion to class the next day and told the whole class how was to be stung by a scorpion 🙂
Jill L says
This is just a plain, horrible story. Quite a few years ago, I started noticing a bunch of bees buzzing around the house. I had a little one at the time and started to worry he would get stung. It seemed to be getting worse and within a week, we knew something was really wrong. I was having to keep the vacuum close by to suck them up. We took a walk around the house and we saw the problem. They were coming in through a little place near the attic that the roofer hadn’t calked well the summer before. We had to get into our attic to check out how bad it was. Well it was bad. Their nest, or whatever it is called was huge!!!! So big that we actually called to see if we could get someone out to get rid of it. It was over a holiday weekend and no one would come out. We couldn’t wait so my husband bombed the attic a couple of times and then armed with a 5 gallon bucket and the baby monitor (so that I could hear him scream and call 911 if need be), he went in and started disassembling it. He had to make two trips. It was that big!!! Of course it wasn’t quite the end. They had gotten in the wall (no wall barriers as our house was so old), and they were crawling into our bathroom. We had to seal off the bathroom and I would go in there every hour or so to kill more. It took a week before we were able to get them all out. Horrible!!! My husband seriously became my hero.
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While visiting my mother-in-law in the hospital in Florida my husband and I went to an ocean-side restaurant and tiki bar for dinner before going back to the hospital for the remainder of the night. Not thinking anything of it upon finishing our meal, we get back into the car and roll the windows down and start to head over the 6 lane causeway bridge to go back to the mainland from the island. Just as the red light clearing the bridge turns green, a 8 1/2 inch in diameter Florida Brown Recluse spider comes walking in my passenger side window. As i straddle the back of my seat attempting to crawl in the back seat my husband sees it and began to freak-out just as bad as i was, however at this point traffic is flowing and we’re in the middle lane. We planned on pulling over to kill the poisonous and ridiculously HUGE spider once we safely got to the other side of the inter-coastal water way, but the spider had other plans; as soon as we broke 25 mph the spider started running full speed across the dash board towards my husband whose freaking out like a girl. We crossed into the lane to our left, almost side swiped the barrier but managed to smash the massive spider with a plastic grocery bag before my husband and i bug bombed our car like 5 times before driving it again…….. we kept the spider for some time as a momentum of our “courage” and proof that my husband is scared of spiders… plus it was cool to show this massive spider to all our friends who thought we were exaggerating its’ size.
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Lisa says
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Melanie Woolard says
Our son Parker has always loved bugs. In fact he had an extensive collection of dead ones. One day I opened my cosmetic bag to find a former member of his collection ( a HUGE cicada carcass!) lying on top of my make-up. I screamed! I then called for Parker proudly keeping my composure and calmly explained that he had in fact “gotten me” and while it was funny, would he please refrain from putting any bugs dead or alive on my stuff. To this he replied “OH, so does that means I should probably take the dead moth off of your pillow and the dead grasshopper off of your toothbrush, and ….” ACCCKKKKKKKK, composure gone.”YES, PLEASE!!!!” As my husband is rolling around laughing. It is funny now!
Lisa M says
I hate bugs. They creep me out so much. To my horror, I started noticing little fuzzy things on the walls in the house. Then I started finding little beetle like bugs on our window sills, most of them dead. I think that I have finally figured out what they are, carpet beetles. The fuzzy things are the larval form of the bug. They eat things like cotton, but also things like cat dander if I understand correctly. I no longer have a cat, but I can’t seem to get rid of the bugs…
@Vidia2be says
I was very young (that’s my excuse)and I felt a tick on top of my head.
Dad wasn’t home to save me so I panicked.
I had always heard if you light a match…blow it out then stick it to the tick…it will let go.
I could smell burning hair and some was falling out but the tick was still there.
They lied.
I was almost entering coniption fit mode.
What to do was racing through my mind.
So I got in the ice box and got out a new jar of Miracle Whip.
You heard that too?
LOL
When my father finally arrived home and walked in the door he found me sitting at the kitchen table crying w/an extra large glob of Miracle Whip sitting on top of my head.
His response: What are you doing?
I cryed more…and said: I’m smothering my ticks.
He just shook his head…wiped the Miracle Whip from my burnt hair and pulled the tick loose.
I quit crying as I was finally saved.
Yes…I really did that. :O/
Anita says
My husband and I had just gone to bed when the cat started sniffing around at something. We ignored it for awhile figuring the cat was going after a dustball or something. But then I looked down as the cat headed for our white bedspread and a GIANT wolf spider started crawling up the side of our bed! This thing was was at least 3-inches wide, with legs. I am not afraid of spiders and just wanted to get it outside before the cat ate it. My husband, however, wanted it dead. As I was trying to get the cat into the bathroom, my husband had gone to get a pan from the kitchen. So when we passed in the hallway, I was on my way to get some sort of container with a lid, he had his weapon. I returned to the bedroom just in time to see him beat the crap out of the poor little bugger – right on the very white bedspread! Ugh! After removing the bedspread, we tried to go to sleep but the cat angry with us for taking his kill LOL
Dina S says
a long time ago we owned an iguana and once we went to clean out his metal cage and their were hundreds of roaches, eeeeeewwwwww and the thing is we have NO idea how they got there as we didn’t have them in the house before and have never seen the until then, yikes!!
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Jen says
Okay well.. This takes place in Florida. I have always tried to be calm about these things.. until they are on my person! Well I had just loaded my son’s laundry in the washer and sat down at the computer to finish writing and talk with my husband. My son was there too. I thought I felt something on my side around my waistband and I brushed at it. Well I felt something hard and something bit… I raised my shirt up and it was a Scorpion!! On me!!!! HAHAHHAAHAHAHHHH Well I freaked out and ended up screaming and pulling off my pants to get it off me but not before it stung me twice. I have since found out these things like water and are typically found in the bathroom. ughhh… So I check everything by shaking it in the bathroom or before putting it on….
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Last year my husband and I were sitting on the couch having a relaxing evening watching a movie, when a giant wolf spider crawled up his pant leg (the INSIDE). We both totally freaked out, and now every time we cuddle to watch a movie I’m always afraid there is a big giant spider in our future. Thank you for the lovely giveaway.
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sugar98662 says
I am 54 and have had a lot of bug tales but last year I heard one on local TV that beat any of mine. This boy about 8 in Salem OR had problems with his ear so the doctor checked and their was a spider living in his ear!!! They got it out and the brave young man showed it on TV…totally grossed me out and beat any bug stories I have had.
Nancy Dixon says
Long time ago in a faraway land called Punta Gorda Florida my mom and I lived together… I saw a huge spider, and I mean HUGE.. A Florida spider, Did I say a HUGE spider.. well my mom and I went after it.. We were brave and we were going to kill said HUGE spider.. We chased it, it would run away, and then stop and jump at us.. Well it ran in the laundry room. LIving in a trailer we had the vents on the floor and ceiling.. This HUGE spider made it’s escape down the vent.. Later on when lying in bed I looked up and there was the air vent right above my face.. All I could think of was that spider creeping out and falling all over my face…. I slept on the couch that nite..
Carol F says
My bug story involves my son who was three years old. We were visiting friends in Florida so we were taking lots of pictures. My son was standing for a picture in front of our friends new house. We took the picture and came home when we downloaded and printed the picture there was the biggest roach I had ever seen in my life on the wall behind my son. Honestly,it looked like it could carry him away it was so huge.
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Claire says
My house isn’t “sealed up” very well for whatever reason, so there are lots of places for bugs to crawl in from outside. I learned this the hard way when, after leaving the back door open a crack one hot summer day, I went into the kitchen for a snack and found myself staring down a cockroach under my kitchen table. I swear, we had a stand-off… and then he apparently called in his friends as back-up or something because he was joined by at least five more.
I didn’t have any Raid so the the best option at the time was to run screaming to my bedroom. I stayed in there the rest of the day.
Maggie says
One night I was lying in bed reading Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Anansi is a spider trickster in African mythology. I felt this tickling so I looked down and was COVERED in baby spiders. Needless to say, I was totally creeped out!
Charla says
We were traveling through Arkansas one time and got in late to our motel not far from rice fields. When we went to bed, we kept noticing mosquitoes and would get up to kill them, lay down, then notice more and get up to kill them. This happened for an hour or so. We counted over 100 mosquitoes. The next morning when we went to get our continental breakfast, there were even a few mosquitoes in the milk. The owner acted like it was no big deal, but it was a big deal to us. We learned to never stay there again!
noelle says
I think the funniest to me was about 5 years ago.
I was at work and a friend of mine called me totally freaking out! Like, having a panic attack, not able to breath…
I LEFT WORK to go see what was going on…
I got there and there was a little cockroach that she saw in her living room… She had trapped it under a glass and was standing on her kitchen table, still in a panic when I got there…
I handled it, but then I had to crack up laughing at her… 30 something years old and totally in a for real panic!!!!
Needless to say, we bought plenty of raid and she was to calmly use that the next time…
Not to say I did not get calls more after that, I just had to coach her through it… and yes, I did warn her “boyfriend” at the time, so he knew what he was getting into when he proposed!!!!
Lauralee Hensley says
My creepy and scary bug story is when my Mom came in our home one day from doing some yard work. She went in the bathroom to clean up. I heard her yell my name and I went in. She said her leg was on fire, that something just bite her. She shook her pant leg and out fell a large black bug. She said I didn’t think crickets bite. I looked down at the bug. It was a monsterous size black widow spider. She’d killed it when she slapped her leg right after it bite. I scooped it up with toliet paper and put it in a zip lock bag. We hurried to the Doctor. My mom lived, but she was in misery for about three months. The Doctor gave her several medications, but still you have severe nerve pain and muscle spasms. The Doctor said that was the biggest black widow he’d ever saw. He asked if he could give it to a professor at the university, as he studied bugs. We said sure, we didn’t want it. He called my mom a few days later and said, she was lucky to be alive, as that black widow was about five times larger than a normal black widow and since my mom only weighed about a hundred pounds soaking wet, she’d was lucky the venom didn’t kill her. He said if it had bite her up higher on the leg, he thought she would have died.
Carrie K says
Once when I was a kid, I went and got my favorite pair of jeans off of the clothesline on a bright sunny day. I took them in the house and when I went to put them on, as I put my leg into the pants, I felt a sticky cotton candy type of stuff on my foot. Turns out, a spider had woven a gross nest of that white stuff. I could not get my leg out of the pants fast enough. Every time I wore those jeans afterward, I always checked them inside and out, just in case!
Deborah says
On a camping trip with my family when I was a little girl, there were nine of us traveling in a Station Wagon and camping through a trip from Washington State to Colorado. In the car one evening while driving I felt something crawling on me and looked down on my shirt to see this huge beetle crawling up my chest. This beetle must have been at least 3 inches long, the biggest I’d ever seen and it scared the life out of me. I brushed it off me and it went flying around that station wagon landing on each of us in turn and back again until my dad had had enough and finally pulled over to stop our screaming and let that beetle out of the car. Though the screaming may have died down after that, the creepy crawly feeling persisted for weeks and I continued looking for bugs to make sure I stayed away from them.
Amanda says
I have very poor eyesight wihtout my contacts in. I got up one morning to wash my face, grabbed a washcloth, and when it got about an inch from my face (when I could see detail), there was a daddy longlegs! Needless to say I threw the washcloth across the bathroom.
Amy Reynolds says
The night I arrived with my three children and niece to our vacation destination was quite eventful and unsettling. The three girls were sharing a room together. After haggling over which beds everyone gets, the girls were ready to get in a bed. As soon as I walked out, I heard a commotion. I thought they were bickering again when I came back in the room. My oldest daughter was telling the youngest one to get out of the bed. She was very demanding in her voice. “Leaver her alone I say”. My daughter says, “No Mom, there is a really big spider on her bed. The younger daughter jumps out of the bed just when we see a huge spider crawl on to the pillow. It kind of stops and looks at us. Poor Emma screams bloody murder running. My son comes running from the other side of the house scared to death. My husband has not yet arrived to our destination so I have to be the savior and get that spider out of there! It was as big as my hand, all eight legs of it. I run for a paper towel and swoop in and whisk it up. I run to the toilet and flush it down – risking a clog because it was a paper towel. NOBODY wanted that bed or that room. If I wasn’t rational, I think I would have loaded back up and drove all the way home. Needless to say, Emma slept with me the whole trip!
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None of the bug stories I could tell are humorous (in my opinion). What immediately comes to mind: while on a visit to the in-laws in MN, my middle daughter & I were fighting off mosquitoes. When I complained about all the bugs/bug bites to my husband, he acted like he didn’t know what I was talking about! Apparently, the mosquitoes don’t bug the natives–only the foreigners. My daughter had welts all over her body from these bites.
I also remember when my daughters got head lice. I was horrified. Thankfully my next-door neighbor, a stay-at-home dad, offered to check their scalps and he also said I could do laundry at his house (because, of course, my washer & dryer were going to be in use for the next several hours).
Finally, a scary bug story: My daughter got bit by a brown recluse spider (this was when she was at Ft. Lee, I believe). When her Sgt saw redness on her thigh, he made her go to the hospital. There, she was given an antibiotic that caused her to have an anaphylactic reaction which resulted in her being hospitalized for days.
These are probably not the kind of bug stories you were looking for, but it’s what comes to mind for me. Thanks for the giveaway.
Wendy says
A barn spider the size of a silver dollar made a web across my front door. I didn’t see the web or the spider until the spider hit be in the face & bit me. This is also how I found out that I’m allergic to barn spiders. Within a half hour that little bite was the size of a softball! I’m now spider-phobic but working on it.
Vanessa says
Well in college my hubby and I were dating. I lived in the country 20 minuntes from town. Just as I was about to step into the shower, I saw a HUGE spider. I freaked and called my then boyfriend (now hubby) and demanded he come rescue me by killing it. He refused and I literally wanted to break up with him because of it.Yes I was and still am deathly afraid of spiders and he has since learned to come kill one for me if I ask! 🙂
ashley says
when my son was little, he was scared to death of bugs. if we put a plastic bug toy on someplace he wasn’t supposed to go it was like putting up safety nets! early one summer, we were having a bbq, and he was out “helping” his dad with the bbq, and my friend and i were in the kitchen getting stuff ready. thru the screen door he started yelling “mom, a gug, a gug!” and i told him to step on it. my friend looked up & then elbowed me. it was a crane fly and my son was hopping around on one leg trying to stomp the bug out of the sky. my friend and i both cracked up!
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Hubby and I were making our first visit to Maui in beautiful Hawaii. We decided to stay in a Bed and Breakfast just off the beach instead of a hotel or condo. It was a lovely home and we’d booked the “garden room” with it’s own private tropical outdoor space. We arrived to a warm greeting by the host who showed us the public areas of the home and our lovely room with tropical bliss just outside the door. After we were settled he asked us to join him and brought out a binder. He proceeded to explain that he lived “organically” which meant…no bug sprays on the property. The mysterious binder contained photos of insects we might see, especially in our little garden. No problem, though, they stayed outside…mostly. Since we were in the garden room it was more likely that we would see some creepy crawlys in there. He showed us some photos and said not to worry unless we saw one in particular, the Hawaiian version of a centipede. In my experience centipedes were cute, little fuzzy creatures with lots of feet that curl up in your hand when you pick them up. Not here! These centipedes are big and they bite. It would be extremely painful and poisonous! Great. Our host assured us that it was very rare to see one and not to worry. “If you see one” he said,”just come get me.”
We had a wonderful time on the island and didn’t give the centipede another thought, until the seventh day. I woke up to warm sunshine streaming through the windows. I put my foot out on the floor and rose to traverse to the bathroom. That’s when I saw it! There it was! Halfway between my foot and the bathroom door lay the monstrous, poisonous Hawaiian centipede. Good Lord, that thing was eight inches long. I swear it was looking at me and laying in wait. I froze. Then I screamed and jumped up on the bed. I was not going anywhere. Hubby bolted upright to see what was the matter. The centipede in question scurried into the closet. Hubby turned into a knight in shining armour and threw a towel over the offending creature before he ran upstairs to get our host. I stayed put on the bed and kept guard over the towel.
It wasn’t more than a minute before Hubby returned, sans the host. His helpful reply had been, “Well, kill it!” Goody…how are we supposed to do that? Hubby found a container to scoop the offending bug up. Now what? I didn’t want it thrown outside cause I knew it would just come right back in and we still had another night to sleep there. Ah, the pocket knife! He’ll stab it. Easier said than done. Ever try to stab a wriggling, poisonous bug? It’s not easy and Hubby quickly learned that this bug had skin like rubber. To make matters worse, one stab wound wasn’t going to kill this thing. He had to actually cut it into pieces and the thing sill wriggled for awhile. During the little sleep I got that night I had dreams of being invaded by an army of Hawaiian centipedes, perhaps regrown from the one we’d killed.
I’ve been to Hawaii several times since, including Maui. I haven’t seen another one, but I am always on the lookout!
Josie says
My hatred of spiders began when I was around 6 or 7 years old while laying on the floor under a beam that stretched across our family room a spider fell on my face right between the eyes….I am convinced that somehow I have been cursed as I have had more horrible experiences with spiders throughout my life then any one individual should have to endure. The worst was when i was 21 and living by myself on the third floor of an apartment building. After living there for a month or two I would encounter these rather large spiders builing webs on my balcony every night. It started with one or two and then progressed to five or six at which point I had called my parents crying about the tarantula sized spiders infesting where I lived. After several minutes of laughing at me and the “size” of the spider I described they recommended I contact the property manager to have the place exterminated. I contacted them the next day and was told that they would send someone to spray while I was at work. Feeling better about the situation, the next night I deciided to pull back the curtains and go outside to enjoy my balcony only to find more spiders and there webs. Several more nights and several more attempts to exterminate had no effect on these relentless spiders. Did I mentioned that noone believed me that they even existed since the only time they came out was at night? After a futile attempt with a shoebox to capture one of the nasty suckers to have proof, I gave up and resigned myself to having to live with this until my lease was up. Hey, at least they were not inside my place, right? Well they never did get in but upon returning home from work to have lunch one day I had to pee so bad that I was taking two steps at a time to the top floor as I rounded the corner to my door I was stopped dead in my tracks by a web covering the door from practically top to bottom with one of those dreaded spiders sitting in the middle. OMG!!!! I ran back down to the parking lot where two men were walking to their car to ask them if they had a broom or some bugspray because a spider won’t let me into my apartment.. Again I was laughed at not taking seriously. One of the men went back to his place and retrieved a broom and can of bugspray and proceeded to go up to my door to kill the so called spider keeping me from gainging access. As I stood in the parking lot with the other man we watched as his friend nearly jumped the railing when he finally came face to face with the spider, then tried to beat it to death with the broom and unloaded the whole entire can of bugspray on it before it still got away. Needless to say I finally got a witness (who btw was not laughing when he came back down ) to prove I was not crazy and moved from the apartment shortly after.
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maggie bunch says
TRUE STORY: We try hard to avoid chemicals because we live near a water source. I tolerate creepy crawly outsiders, just don’t cross the threshold into MY space!
I was letting the pups out after dark one night. I opened the door and a BIG spider waltzed in. Not a fan of spiders, I took a deep breath, grabbed one of the man’s big shoes and smashed the Spider. I was VERY proud of myself that I was doing all of this without screaming and waking up the children. Only to realize MAMA SPIDER had one point six millions junior spiders on her back and now they are going every which way.
I sprinted to the kitchen cabinet, grabbed the RAID, dashed back and sprayed and sprayed every inch of the door, threshold and foyer.
UGH! I thought those things only happened in horror films! Film at eleven. maggieb!
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Elisa Adams says
Okay, my “Bug” story is set Jacksonville, Florida. The south is known for our big bugs & let me tell ya we have some BIG BUGS! When I was about 8 or 9 I was lying in bed one night & was woke up by a strange sound. At first I ignored it but then I heard it again fluttering around my room! The sound was like a thin paper winged critter flying into the walls of my room. AHHHH! I was so scared because then I knew what it was. It was a HUGE palmetto roach bug. I was just paralized with fear. Not just because of the bug flying around the room but because of the dark. I wanted to yell for my dad but was affraid to beacause I did not want the bug to fly into my mouth! EWWW & gross! Finally I got the nerve to scream out for my dad & he came running & got the Raid roach spray & killed that sucker dead! YEA, daddy to the rescue! The End 🙂
Patricia Merry says
When I was a 19 year old bride, I moved with my husband to Dallas from Oklahoma. One night as we were on the balcony of our apartment, this HUGE thing came flying at my head. It was one of Texas’s infamous grass roaches and it was at least two inches long. I screamed. Then proceeded to beat my husband with a pillow (safely indoors) while yelling “You didn’t tell me that the roaches flew in Texas!”
Katie S. says
When I was fresh out of college with no job offers to speak of, I ended up moving back in with my parents for a while and living in the basement. Cliche, right? Well, they neglected to tell me that in the 4 years I was gone, they had developed what I would consider to be a fairly aweful problem with ants! I woke up in the middle of the second night I was sleeping there covered with huge black ants and I freaked the hell out. I must have woken up the whole neighborhood and a cop car rolled by later because one of our neighbors thought someone was being murdered or something. I moved back out the next day! It took years, but now we joke that my folks had the ants delivered to scare me off again. The ended up getting an exterminator to take care of the problem a few days later and use Raid for touchups as necessary and haven’t had any issues since. I never moved back again and I still don’t like to visit.
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stacy says
I don’t have a bug story about myself because they really don’t bother me that much…but, my hubby is another story. We’ve been married almost 30 years and I can’t tell you how many times he’s woken me up in the niddle of the night because there was a spider or a cockroach in the house. Ummm, yes…he sits on the bed or the couch while I kill it. My funny story happened several years ago. My mom and 20 something nephew were at our house…my dh had just come home and I was in the back room. I hear screaming and run into the living room. My dh is screaming, jumping up and down and swatting at his shorts. My mom and nephew are looking at him like he’s crazy and when I realized what was going on I started laughing so hard I was crying. He looked like he was trying to do some sort of crazy dance.Turns out a bumblebee (the big black kind) had crawled up his shorts leg and was trying to get out. My hubby lost all of his “coolness” in my nephew’s eyes that day.
Kelli Norstrem says
I woke up to a black beetle crawling across the covers in front of my face when I was about 13 years old. I freaked out and from then on had to whip the covers back on my bed every night and check for bugs. I also couldn’t eat raisens for a very long time because the color and shape reminded me of that beetle! I still can’t stand beetles, I can handle other bugs but not beetles!
Jennifer B. says
Miss A is deathly terrified of bugs, has been since last year (age 3) in fact we had a crying episode today at a restaurant because there were flies nearby….one of the reasons I hate warmer weather. She’s sooooo scared!
The worst episode happened when we were in the van on our way home. A ladybug (cute to us but terrifying to her) got into the car and she was crying hysterically, screaming and freaking out, I pulled the car over as soon as I could and tried to get the ladybug out but it ended up being stuck on the van door and I didn’t know it, so again hysterics all the way home. Needless to say she took a great nap after all the crying that day, but my poor girl, I wish I could calm her fears, we love bug spray, sorry bugs!!
Cynthia DeMates says
Mine isn’t so much a moment, as a series of them! After moving into my newly built (and first of my own) home in 2006, I found that the new construction had stirred up many of the bugs/creatures living on my land (nearly 4 acres of undeveloped land in a rural area of Florida). The first week of living there, I killed 2 scorpions attempting to enter my front door. After screaming like a girly-girl, I quickly dispatched them with my shoe…then threw away those shoes. Week two, I found several spiders trying to hone in on my place — some normal, but several freakish (black widows, wood spiders [they are HUGE], etc.). Even after shoe-killing (which I had to realize I couldn’t throw away every pair I killed with) I invested in a lot of granule bug killer to spread around the perimeter of my house, cans of Raid and then eco-friendly traps! It’s very difficult to see anything in the carpeted rooms, because the carpet is dark forest green, sapphire and burgandy in those rooms. After a couple of months of living there (and becoming more and more paranoid of living and sleeping in my house), I was taking a shower one morning. While applying shampoo to my hair, I felt something move. I whipped my head and it fell to the floor of the shower…a nice, big scorpion. More screaming ensued before I got brace enough to get in and kill it. Needless to day, I finished my shower in the other bathroom. Since then (2006), I have killed more (inside and out) scorpions, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, and a variety of other (what I believe were…according to what photos I could find on the internet to compare them to) dangerous pests known to the region (from 4 legs to a billion) and each and every time, my heart rate speeds to triple digits and I begin to almost hyperventilate!!!!! I hate bugs/pest…but they seem to love me! The builders’ theory had been that new construction and new paint is an attractor…but after 5 years of living there, that theory’s shot! *shudder* I re-make my made bed every night before crawling into it, shake out any pair of shoes I have before putting them on, shake out folded bath towels from my linen closet before using them, etc. All of these precautions have helped to prevent me from getting bit by any of these yet (that and a good helping of luck, I believe), but I am knocking on the proverbial wood just in case!
Amanda Sunshine Brown says
Wow… I HATE bugs. Who doesn’t (besides bug people of course). When I was 13 years old, we went camping as a family and decided to ride a large log down the river. We are comfortably riding along when I here “oh God, oh Jesus” and loud breating from behind me. I turn around to see whats the matter and there, on my back was a spider the size of a small horse (this is NOT an exageration). It was a water siper and it was HUGE. I immediately did what any smart girl would do and I jumped off the log and into the water (while creaming hysterically and waving my arms). I swam to shore swearing I would never EVER get back into nature made ponds, lakes, rivers…. Well….The only way to get back to the camp site was to either A.) get back in the water and swim (ummm….no. Just took a solemn oath to not do that) or B.) Walk through a corn field. I selected B. Oh, did I mention I am allergic to the silk strands on corn. So, I walked back to the campsite and spent the rest of the weekend broke out in hives because no way was I getting into the water to rinse the corn strands off of me (again…. Binding, solemn oath).
I hate bugs…
michelle says
I posted my bug story entitled Super Swarm today.
Debra Bouchegnies says
This #RaidBugStory comes from college days, living in downtown Philadelphia. My very first apartment, a brownstone walkup near Rittenhouse Sq., was shared with a Drexel student of fashion design and fine arts, while I was at Temple U studying film. On the ground floor there was one tenant, an older woman with special needs and a great sense of humour, and above us the soon to be famous Buddhist Punk Rock band named Ruin. We both had a crush on Glen, a poet with steely blue eyes and jet black hair. Top floor, a student of the french horn. We knew, along with all of us inhabitants, we were sorely outnumbered by roaches of various types, shapes and sizes. The place was infested, but it didn’t dampen our excitement of being out on our own. While timid at first, using various utensils to kill them, we soon became quite brave, knocking them dead with the back of our hands. Even got into it by reading Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”. Turns out we both had a film appreciation class taught at both universities by the same teacher. One afternoon, we were both reading from the required text, studying for a mid-term, when we decided to take a break. “Gee, I’m tired of that cloth they have glued to the wall behind the stove/sink unit” I said to my roommate. “Me too!” said my roomie! “Let’s get rid of it!” So we put our books down and each of us took an end and started peeling the ugly orange flowered cloth from the wall. As we did, we heard something like rain almost, and soon discovered that beads of glue from the back of the cloth was coming off the wall and hitting the sink, stove and floor. Ahh but at second glance, these were not beads of glue. . . but roach eggs. Empty roach eggs. Hundreds and hundreds of hatched roach eggs. Each of which we soon learned contained between 40 and 100 or so roach babies. Yes, we just dropped everything, ran out the door leaving our books behind, and spent the rest of the day (and the rest of our money for the month) drinking Gimlets at Penns Landing until we could manage to stumble back home to deal with with something a good deal of gin would help get us through…
Dayna says
We moved to South Carolina a few years ago and I was completely unfamiliar with the Palmetto Bug. Palmetto trees are nice, right? It didn’t sound too bad. Then I let my dogs out the first night and as soon as I opened the door I was struck in the EYE by a giant, flying roach. GIANT FLYING ROACH!!! In my backyard! Then my neighbor told me oh yeah, you’ve met the palmetto bugs! I was very careful every other time I opened the door, ha.
Carol G says
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Carol G says
My daughter was using her bathroom sink to rinse her mouth after brushing her teeth. She looked down and there were bugs crawling out of the drain pipe and into her cup. The screams were deafening. I ran in thinking the worse. Sure enough, the bugs were coming up by the hundreds. Seems there was some sort of bugs that live in the pipes and ate the tooth paste. The little disgusting things hatched or what ever they do and popped up at that moment. Tiny little things with clear wings. Needless to say, my daughter didn’t go near the sink for a month. Called the bug killing people and they came the next day and got rid of those nasty little things.
Gene says
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Michele Christy says
Ok…some of these stories are so good I’m not sure if mine will stand up but here goes: We live in Southern California, in a mobile home. One night a few years back, I had gone to bed early while hubby stayed up to work on the computer. Around 2:30 in the morning he comes in and wakes me up to tell me there is an “animal in distress” crying outside…I told him to leave me alone and rolled back over (lol) only to have him return a few minutes later saying, “you gotta come do something, you don’t work tomorrow, get up!” So I got up and came to see what the fuss was about…as I approached our carport door I could hear the noise….kind of a soft screaming if that’s possible…somewhat intermittent but I could hear it. I turned on the outside light and began to look for what I thought would be a baby bird maybe…that sound was sure strange. I walked out carefully to the edge of the carport to look in the bushes…being careful because I knew there was a large black widow spider web near the ground. As the sound continued, I kept trying to locate it, walking around and turning my head from side to side to pinpoint where the sound came from, now using a flashlight to look…the light caught something shiny near the ground about the same time as the sound came again and I saw the source of all the noise…a HUGE beetle with shiny red eyes was caught in the black widow web, the spider had bitten it, and the beetle WAS SCREAMING OUT OF IT’S BACK END! I’m not usually grossed out by bugs, I used to play with them as a kid, but I never heard a bug scream….I was so creeped out I had to go back in the house and have some warm milk so I could go back to sleep. The next morning I Googled “screaming beetle” and found out it is a six-lined June bug…and they scream. I thought June bugs were just those little golden beetles but I found out I was wrong…and I’ve seen 2 or 3 of those bugs since. They’re about 2 1/2 inches long or so….no joke. *shudders*
Nikia Hunt says
My creepy bug story:
When I was younger, I was playing outside as a normal child would. A HUGE bumble bee was buzzing around where I and my brothers were playing, and they panicked. Screaming like little girl’s themselves, they ran back from the monsterous bug. I, being a sarcastic brat, stayed where I was, teasing them and saying very matter-of-factly that “if you leave it alone, it will leave you alone”.
That’s when it happened…. the ungrateful bug flew INTO MY EAR. It stung me, but more importantly, it scared the bejezzus outta me! I screamed and flailed, threw myself on the ground, and finally lie sobbing as my older brother’s took pity on me and got my dad. He came out, removed the bee, stepped on its already dying body and took me inside.
My ear was so swollen that I lived with a stinger within my ear for a whole weekend until I returned home to my mom’s house. She promptly removed the STILL pulsing stinger from my inflamed ear, and with ample hugs and reassurances, life went on…. mostly bee free.
NIKIA
Annette D says
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Annette D says
I moved from NC to Texas in 1984 and was not familiar with those nasty pests known as fire ants. I was in my early twenties and enjoyed going barefoot. The weather was warm and I decided to go get the mail with out shoes. I stepped in an ant bed, but did not think much of it, after all ants never bothered me before. It was just a matter of seconds and my legs began to burn! I looked down and I was covered with ants, fire ants and they were biting me! I ran to the apartment pool and washed the ants off but I already had hundreds of bites. After that, I always wore my shoes and waged war on the fire ant.
Amie says
I tweeted!!
http://twitter.com/#!/audriesmom/status/65108618747457536
Heather Rauschenberger says
My bug story – is a spider a bug? Officially, it’s an arachnid, but I had one creep me out in high schoo, giving me a complete terror of the things ever since. Zoology class, and the teacher, one Mrs. Tosto, brought in a tarantula to show off to the class. It’s crawling around on the lab table, and at that point, I’m not too thrilled by spiders anyhow, but I’m not totally creeped out by them. So I’m standing at the back of the group of students “admiring” this thing, and it spots ME. It starts crawling across the table to ME. Me, the one who doesn’t like spiders and creepy-crawleys at all anyhow, and it’s heading straight for me. It drops off the lab table onto the top of a student desk that’s butted up to the lab table. I’m about two desks back. Nobody wants to grab it, and the Mrs. T. can’t get through the kids to get it fast enough. It drops onto the seat of the desk, then to the floor. I’m backing away from the Hairy Buick With Legs that was growing bigger by the SECOND, as fast as I can, turned and leaped over a couple of desks in my way and headed for the door at a dead run. I WAS OUTTA THERE. Last thing I recall is running down the hallway shrieking in terror and hoping like heck it wasnt following me.
Gene says
I will never forget the phone conversation I had with my wife a few weeks ago. I had called her from work to check in her. (She was pregnant with our sixth baby at the time.) I asked if everything was ok, and she proceeded to tell me that a wasp had gotten in the house. Being pregnant, she didn’t want to use any harsh chemicals to kill the wasp, so she grabbed the next best thing: Spry Butter. Apparently, she loaded the wasp up with butter until he couldn’t move, and then she put a coffee mug over top of him so he couldn’t get away. She then decided she was just going to leave it there so that I could take care of it when I got home. Only she would think to kill a wasp with spray butter!
Amie says
I am TERRIFIED of bugs, literally I feel like I could have a heart attack when they come around. Does not matter the type or size, I FREAK!!!! A couple months ago, some of my co-workers thought it would be funny to place a grasshopper in my chair at my desk. I pulled my chair out to sit down and the hopper jumped on my shirt. I danced around screaming for no less than 5 minutes until they finally screamed out that it was gone. I wouldn’t sit back down at the desk for weeks! To this day they call me hopper, and laugh about it constantly!
Jennifer says
When I was a young kid I was laying with my stepmom on her bed. We heard this squeaking & scratching sound but couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. About the time she looked straight back and up a water bug landed square in the middle of her forehead. We both screamed. It had gotten wedged between the wall and a hanging picture and was trying to hang on but lost it’s fight. I’m so glad it was her and not me!
Jennifer says
When I was about 8 years old I was running in circles on my patio. I was screaming while running. All of a sudden a fly, a bee or some other kind of little insect with wings slammed into the back of my throat. I came to a halt. I could feel it fluttering against my throat. I wanted to spit it out but couldn’t. I gagged a few times but was forced to swallow. I hate bugs!
jc says
i wear glasses so everything is blurry when i go in to shower (since i take them off). and once i saw a black blotch, i just shrugged thinking it was like something else. then i felt squishhi feeling under my feet when i stepped on it. so i looked closely and saw bunch of leg-looking thing. I literally jumped out of the tub and screamed my heart out. my sister was sleeping and i woke her up. she thought a thief entered the house or something.
I washed my foot like thousand times. i can never forget that feeling. now when i go into shower, i make sure first to see if there are spiders.
Angelique J. says
Living in an apartment makes you susceptible to alot of things, especially bugs. So by my neighbors next door to me having a roach infestation left me dealing with the little creatures too. I was in my kitchen one day and saw something black crawling around and quickly realized it was a roach, i grabbed a chair and proceed to kill it with my shoe. Well the thing was smart and missed my shoe and fell on me, i jumped down and started to scream while shaking my head yelling get off of me get off of me, but then i looked down and saw it by my foot. But this time he was not so lucky, i killed him quickly,.
sandy north says
#Raid bugstory
thank got this is a random draw cause my bug story is rather pitiful. ok..i do live in Minnesota..i could probably go on and on about the mesquitoes that could eat you to the bone within 7 minutes on a summer night.
anyway..here is my bug story..
i bought cocoa bean muclh for my yard. oh the joys of having a back yard that smells of chocolate..how can that not be good? I placed all the cocoa bean mulch behind my house in the dirt that surrournds all my pretty flowers. beautiful! then i noticed the cocoa mulch was moving? turned out it was FULL of pincher bugs. now i had never seen pincher bugs in my life? are they even native of Minnesota? then i googled them and read how people belive they can get in your ear? and that is why they are also called ear wigs? WTF?? pincher bugs started showing up in the house too….i had to remove all the mulch and spray raid bug spary for weeks iniside and out until the infestaion was about gone. hate to say it i still see a pincher bug now and then…
lace says
ugh! I can’t read the comments and just reading your story was YUCK!
I was around 12 years old and getting ready for school in the morning. I put my shoes on and was about to head out the door when my foot just didn’t feel right in my shoe. It felt like something was in my shoe. I took it off and out came the uglies, largest black spider I’d ever seen. I screamed, smashed the thing with my shoe and proceeded to do the creeped out GETTHATSPIDERAWAYFROMEITTOUCHEDME dance.
Michelle says
Just posted on FB! I’m Michelle Sweepstakesgirl
LaVonne says
House we rented in Belen NM had cockroaches. The whole town was infested. It was gross and terrfying! I hate big bugs with shells.
Carla Bryant says
I had started a new job recently at the time. It was in a kitchen at a college. I was working the grill. It was hot back there and I began to get very thirsty. So, I went and got a cup of fountain pop, Pepsi it was. I’m taking orders, grilling up students food. I turn around take a drink and, um…Oh MY GOD, NO – what’s in my mouth. Low & behold, I spit out a dead cockroach…The HORROR!! I was mortified. I am surprised I didn’t puke right on the grill. People still give me crap because I inspect every cup I use & I only drink clear/yellow pop so that I can see what’s in there. I know it’s a short story – but it was GROSS and I still have anxiety over that dang cockroach. BLECH!!! Ew, Ew, Ew!!
Michelle says
I literally lost my voice while screaming my head off because I found a millipede in our bathroom. It was about three inches long and doing “the worm” to run away. I sprayed A LOT of bug spray on it, needless to say. ICK!
Valerie C. says
We were staying at a condo in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I got out of the shower one morning to find a GIANT spider on my towel next to my hand as I was grabbing it off the towel rack!! I screamed so loud that the neighbors knocked on our door with phone in hand ready to call 911. So embarrassing!! lol
valerie says
When my mom was a child she was eating fig newtons and noticed a strange flavor. She looked down and they were covered in little tiny red spiders. Gross!
Haven’t looked at newtons the same.
clynsg says
When I was in the Navy (remember this was almost 50 years ago, and the buildings were not as hermetically sealed as they mostly are now) I was working nights in the newborn nursery and one of my friends was in the Preemie area when I heard a blood-curdling scream. I, of course, couldn’t leave my area, but I heard running footsteps of the corpsmen who were on duty and then a loud WHACK through the wall. One of the guys came in, laughing to himself, to let me know what had happened. Apparently an extremely large beetle of some sort had gotten in and was crawling across the floor and my friend was scared out of her wits by it. I am not certain what the corpsman used to kill the bug, but I do know it was large enough to make a noise I could hear in the other room. The bug had gotten nowhere near the isolettes with the babies, but the next day, there was definitely one of the periodic ‘bug-a-cide’ missions that were fairly common in those old buildings!
Cindy (Prime Beauty) says
It was the summer I was 15. My best friends family had a trailer they shared with another family in Lake Havasu Arizona and we going to have a long, fun-filled weekend there. The place was packed with both families and their kids and friends. My friend and I got ip one morning and decided to make hot cocoa for breakfast–there were some packets left over from her last visit. Keep in mind, this was a weekend retreat and only used a few times each year.
We heated some water in a tea pot on the stove and poured into our cups of powdered hot chocolate. When we stired the powder into the water, we noticed something strange but didn’t think much of it, so my friend decided to have her younger sister taste the cocoa first. After she drank the cocoa, she said “why did you put coconut in the cocoa?” Yeah, you know the answer–we didn’t put coconut in it-those were bugs floating in cocoa! Needless to say, my friends sister was horrified at being the unwitting taste tester and ingesting bugs! It still creeps me out!
Karin says
I was never gave bugs much thought… that is until I moved to Houston, Tx from the Pacific Northwest. You see, in Seattle, we don’t have much of a bug problem. Sure, we’ve got spiders, ants- basically your run of the mill every day bugs but they typically didn’t bother me and I left them alone as well. That all changed the day I moved to Houston. They say everything is bigger in Texas. What they don’t tell you is that everything is bigger, there’s more of them, some you’ve never seen before nor ever wanted to see and some that have wings that I swear are the size of a small bird! Sure, I heard that these types of things existed but until I first moved into a rental house in Houston, I never truly got the pleasure (note saracasm) to experience it myself. I knew from day 1 I had a battle on my hands. Turns out that extermination is not “standard” in rentals down there (nor did I know to ask). Day 1, my cat, dog and I met our match with fleas. These were not your standard run of the mill fleas. I swear these things came marching out of the wood floors, walls, ceiling- etc.- you name it, they came out in full force to attack. Multiple flea treatments later for my cat and dog, permanent scarring for me on my legs and three trips from the exterminator, the fleas were gone, but only to be replaced by German roaches.
I had never heard of a German roach nor had I ever seen a German roach… and if I ever see one again, you might actually have to send me to a roach treatment center- I’m sure those exist somewhere. I learned in my short time in the great city of Houston that German roaches will actually hitch a ride with you from the grocery store to your house. And once they do that, it’s war. Those nasty little critters were everywhere- this time it took another three trips from the exterminator, the removal of all of my dishes from my cabinets, the tossing of every spice, flour, sugars, etc- basically anything edible that wasn’t in the refrigerator had to be tossed. I actually just tried to throw out the entire kitchen but that didn’t work. Those little suckers taunted me- I’d open up a cabinet and I swear they’d stick their tongues out a me chanting “hahahaha, you can’t get me!”. I finally prevailed, but not before I was scarred for life- to this day, and it’s been 7 years now, I can’t open up a cabinet without expecting one of those things to jump out at me and say “haha- I told you that you can’t get me! I’m #winning!!”.
Needless to say, I’ve very happily relocated back to the Pacific Northwest where the bugs and I once again live in harmony.
Melissa P. says
One ground nesting wasp and a fractured foot later. The story began last August while my 59 year old mother was caring for the backyard. While cleaning the pool and watering the flowers and the garden she met her match. A very large ground nesting wasp – 2 inches long. Yikes! Of course at the time my mom thought it was just a gigantic bee that she said was chasing after her. lol. One look at this creature and my mom went running for the stairs. When she got there she missed a step, tripped, and fractured the top of her foot. Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. The fear that harmless bug put into her put her out of commission for 3 months. And to top it all off, 3 weeks after the bug chasing human incident, my mom fell while using her crutches and fractured her wrist. Talk about double the trouble. Till this day we all, including my mom, still laugh about what that bug did to her. I can still picture what it must have looked like with her running to the stairs. lol. Thanks mom, you know I love you, but you just have to be careful around bugs. A little tidbit about ground nesting wasps. They have no interest in stinging. They actual are more of an annoyance than anything because they lay their eggs in the ground which can damage your lawn. The ground nesting wasp is also referred to as the Cicada Killers. NOw that’s a plus. ROFL
SueH says
A long time ago, when I had a young body, I was at the check out line at KMart. It was late spring, I was wearing a halter top and shorts. When I was trying to pay the cashier, a bee flew into my top, and stung me, With the entire store watching, I was shreiking, exposing everything, trying to get rid of that bee. My husband was with me. He was laughing so hard he almost fell over. After I got myself all covered up, I paid the bill. The cashier never said a word. I have not been back to Kmart
Catalina K says
I remember that in the senior high school my colleagues and I decided to spend our summer holiday in a seaside camp. After traveling for 6 hours by train, we eventually got there and were anxious to just lie down and rest. Our sleep was not to be peaceful, though. We realized our beds were heavily infested with fleas. We got up and started shaking the matresses and cleaning the rooms. That’s how we spent our first night and the following day there: trying to get rid of the pesky insects. That was a creepy start to our summer fun adventure!
pam says
I liked this post and it appears on my facebook wall. (pam wesley)
Anissa says
I was home from college and my bedroom was in the basement. I was trying to fall asleep but there was a very large mosquito that was buzzing around me, and I dove under the covers hoping it would go away, but it kept dive bombing me. I finally lost it and bolted out of the room, and on the way up the stairs I saw a several boxelder bugs, (which hastened my trip up to the main floor). I finally reached the kitchen, and turned on the light to see a black fuzzy object on the floor. It was a spider the size of a quarter, and I just about fainted. My dad came down from his room and found in the fetal position on the floor…
Kristle Jones says
As a little girl, I was always catching dragonflies and butterflies but when I was 7 I stepped on a bee who stung me on the bottom of my foot! Since then my deep rooted bug fear has taken hold of me. From jumping spiders in the corners of my garage to creepy crawly worms after a Spring rain–I loathe them all! Except, of course, lady bugs–the cutest little bugs around!
shirley H says
Several years ago when my x husband and i had moved to another wown for his job. A family was moving into the house adjoining my yard. we quickly became friends as neither of us knew anyone in that town……few days later she began telling me she had found thousands of roaches in her home……mostly when she would be gone ,then come home and flip the lights on….It was hard for me to believe that there were sooooo many roaches….so one nite when she came home..,.before going int, she came and got me to come look.. When she flipped the light on…..I have never in my life seen such a large amount of bugs in one room! Needless to say…..i wasted NO time getting out of there.
Tiffany (As For My House) says
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Tiffany (As For My House) says
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pam says
My family and i stayed in a cabin in marathon key, florida. I woke up early to see little bugs called no see ums crawling on the set of toothbrushes in the bathroom. Obviously these little pests were not living up to their name. i got creeped out and as i went to gather them to toss them out YUK!!!!!!!!!!! AND… in the sink basin was a Scorpion.! We left our toothbrushes and soon left the cabin for more adventures in the other florida keys. I was never so started and scared!
Tiffany (As For My House) says
My “funny bug story” is more of an ongoing “funny bug SITUATION”.
I HATE cockroaches. I am not super squeamish in general, but for some reason those big monsters just give me the creeps. But we get them in the house from time to time, in spite of the exterminator – and usually the cats will bat them around for a while, then bring them, that’s right, into my bedroom! ACK!
When I see them sitting there on the floor (dead or alive) I scream. I can’t help it. I feel stupid, but I scream.
My teenage son or husband will usually come and gather up the offending insect and dispose of it.
But I started feeling really dumb when my FIVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER was the one who came to my rescue one day!! LOL!!
Angie B. says
We have box elder bugs all over our yard, deck, and house (inside and out). They reproduce like crazy and are everywhere. My 11-year-old son saw two of them “mating” a while back and asked if they were “doing it” because they were humping each other and he thought it was gross!
Annie says
We had recently moved to a different part of the state and our new house had a wood stove. We’d brought a few pieces of wood into the house and stacked them by the stove. Later on I was on the phone with my Mother-in-law and sat down on the couch to chat, when I saw a spider crawling up my shoulder. I screamed and flicked it off of me, then whacked it with a newspaper. The spider turned out to be a black widow, which is a common find in that area, but we’d never seen them where we lived before. I learned a lesson to always sweep off the wood before bringing it into the house.
MrsNurse says
Here’s mine: Last year mid-summer, we moved to our new house with the nice, new covered front porch. My 13 year old daughter & i decided to sweep down all the cobwebs from the porch and in doing so, we realized that we had *hundreds* of spiders living out there! many of them had babies – oh it was just awful! Imagine me with broom in hand trying to sweep them down and screaming every single time I saw one go running – it was terrible – my daughter, being the tomboy she is, loved every minute of it!
Julie K says
My mom often tells this story about when her and my dad were living in Texas. She was pregnant with my oldest sister and had to get up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom. She thought she would be kind enough to my dad and leave the lights off so as not to wake him. She swings her legs over the edge of the bed and the next thing she hears is a loud crunch and feels bugs all around her bare feet. She screamed and quickly turned the light on only to find several cockroaches scattering and a couple of dead ones stuck to her feet. From that day until they moved out of Texas, she turned the lights on and maked sure the little buggers had scattered before stepping out of bed. So much for trying to be nice to my dad!
Angie H. says
My daughter is very afraid of spiders… not matter what the size…. she was sitting on the floor watching TV when I garden spider crawled right beside her… she saw it out of the corner of her eye and jumped straight up off the floor over the coffee table and on to the sofa…. She stayed there until her twin sister killed it… 🙂 it was funny to us but not to her… 🙂
Tracy says
In New Zealand they have a giant of a bug called a Wetta, I had been told it was a “large cricket” well I worked in a glass house (the kiwi version of a flower farm) for the year I lived there and I did not know that these lovely beasties LOVED the carnations I was paid to pick. The rest of the staff, all being harty Kiwi’s waited and stayed close to me, untill I met one face to face – I pulled out my arm from picking a stem and the fellow was on my sleave, being a 19 year old girl I screamed and screamed, jumped and them ran to try and get this small dog sized “cricket” off of me – nothing worked – all the while my co-workers, who where all my boyfriends family by the way, we killing themselfs laughing. Not one person game to my aide, unitll I was almost crying, a good 15 minutes later, poor Wetta, must have been scared to death of this Canadian girl as well LOL. My boyfriends brother finally came over and callmly disintangled his hooks from my sleeve. I was SO embarresed when they pointed out that they do not have a single animal in NZ that could kill a person, not one snake, bear or wolf (I had grown up in Northern BC) I was teased about this Wetta for the entire year I lived there! They would bring them to me after that, point them out – just to torment me. I still dislike them, ugh, crickets are ment to be lizzard food, not big enofe to eat a lizzard!
Christa K says
Hey girls! My story is similar. Except it was in MY house!
We were new to the Gulf Coast area and didn’t realize that the big cockroaches come inside when the rains hit. Well, not only do they come in and crawl around. They also FLY! The most awfulness of it all was that in effort to collect them they would panic and fly and land on people. <>
It was very crazy and something I *NEVER* want to live through again!
Christa
Katrina Brady says
I am absoultely terrified of wasps. When they get in the house, I simply don’t think. About 11 years ago, just after we moved into our home, my oldest daughter and I were sitting at the kitchen table having tea around 10 in the morning. I started to hear a buzz. Faint at first but getting louder. We atarted looking around to see what it was and where it was. (the windows were open, so could of been outside. In the living, at the large picture window, was a queen! Getting angrier by the second. I didn’t even hesitat. I went outside. Never even thought of my daughter! I stood as close to the road and as far away as possible from my house staring at the window. Soon, 1 or 2 or 5 minutes later my daughter came out. I asked her where she’d been and she told me she went upstairs to get dressed before coming outside. I somply couldn’t move and told her to run to the neighbors (who we’d met the week before ) and see if they would help get the wasp. My neighbor and her husband came outside. She stood talking to me while her husband went in and killed the wasp. After it was disposed of, my neighbor casually leaned over and said the little shorty nightgown I was wearing was a heck of a way to introduce myself to the neighborhood. I looked down and nearly died of embarrassment!!! I didn’t stop to say thanks or anything and stayed in hiding for the next week afraid I’d see someone who saw me!
Dawn says
I moved to Texas when I was 22 years old. I had never seen a giant FLYING cockroach before then. They are like 3 inches long and indestructible! I lived in an apartment building and was home alone one night. I was watching TV and heard one flying around (I can still vividly remember the clicking sound of their wings). I grabbed a shoe and tried to find it. When you smash them they don’t die! I kept hearing them and realized there were 5 or 6 (or 100) lurking around. I was screaming my head off trying to kill them. They don’t smoosh and spraying them with hair spray doesn’t even phase them. I was in tears hysterically crying screaming freaking out trying to kill them or shoo them out the patio with a sheet.
There was a knock at the door. It was the police. I guess one of my neighbors thought I was being murdered or beat up or something. The really nice officer came in and killed the roaches (police boots do smoosh them). I think he was also looking around a bit to see if I had some crazy boyfriend hiding that was beating me up. He wished me good night and called me Miss. He left his card in case I was in any sort of domestic danger.
I didn’t sleep at all that night and within a few weeks I had to move back to Omaha to get away from those roaches. Still gives me chills thinking about those monster bugs but since then spiders don’t bother me one bit – they are easy to smoosh.
Colleen says
OMG!! I hate spiders…like moe than you can imagine. Would rather find a snake in my bed than a spider on my celing. Anyway…we moved to a rural area after living in the city my whole life. We found that there are NON AGGRESSIVE house spiders here…the size of a friggin ….oh I cant think of anything big enough!!! About the size of a chips ahoy choc chip cookie…..these suckers are HUGE….HUGE I TELL YOU!!!
I got up one night in the middle of the night….only to find one on the BACK SIDE OF THE TP ROLL!!! Yes thats right…in the privy…I swear I screamed bloody murder…the hubby and son came running.
And do you know WHAT they did with that thing? They put it in a canning jar and Hubby took it to work to show how COOL it was?!?!?!? OMG!! YECH
Anywhay there it is…..super gross!!!
Melissa Osborne says
My husband’s family has an orchard, which both my husband and I have taken over. Steve (my hubby) and I were out picking apples on nice, warm fall day….and I was totally taken by the weather, and how beautiful and big the apples were! As I was picking, I reached up without looking, and almost grabbed a creeeeepy yellow and black spider….bigger than the size of a quarter!!! I SCREAMMMEEDDD , and I’m sure the neighbors half a mile down the road heard……it so gave me the heeby geebies!!!! YUCK!!! I REALLY don’t like spiders AT ALL!!!!!! 😉
Kim Hulett says
I was 9+ months pregnant with my son and sitting in the recliner, enjoying a rest a couple of days before the scheduled trip to the hospital. Out of the corner of my eye, saw the biggest spider I’d ever seen outside of a tarantula in Texas (another story). Spider saw me and hid and thank goodness at that moment since I was 9+ months pregnant and not quickly moving those days. However, since Mr. Ginormous Spider of Death hid, husband and mother-in-law did not see him and thought I was cuckoo. Husband turned the chair sideways and upside down and finally Mr. Nasty Big Arachnid jumped out and sprinted. Husband finally disposed of said spider and proclaimed it a “wood spider.” I still call that the spider chair. Creepy!
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Whitney says
Last year at this time I was big and pregnant and we had been seeing scorpions everywhere. One morning while getting ready for work I looked down on my big robed belly and there was a scorpion staring at me. I let out a blood curdling scream and woke my husband who thought I was in labor or something and about had a heart attack. We both just about peed our pants that morning.
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mensa63 says
My grandad was a biologist and taught in our local high school so early on he educated me as to the difference between good bugs (bugs that do us a service) and bad bugs (mostly ones that carry diseases we are suceptable to) so I didn’t grow up with a fear of bugs but rather the knowledge of what ones to leave alone and what ones to squish. Spiders seem to be the most frightening to women but really spiders are friends to man as they keep bad bugs under control. Nothing a spider likes better than a nice fly or aphid. In my first apartment there was a fly problem in the large bathroom so I went into the yard and got a couple of garden spiders and relocated them in my bathroom and soon there wasn’t a fly in sight. Anyway I came to respect and use spiders where I needed them and then wrote a poem about them for a contest. I won the contest by the way and here is the poem.
THE LITTLE ENGINEER – Shirley Hodge
I saw a busy spider climbing up my bedroom wall
she was so very tiny she was hardly there at all.
Watching her I knew there was a purpose to it all
she was looking for the perfect spot upon the bedroom wall
Browsing here and turning there, no place seemed just right
finally, I grew weary and turned off the ceiling light.
Came dawn and I awoke to a room sunshine bright
to discover that my spider had passed a busy night
For there in the corner its strands as white as milk
hung a lovely webish home made of spider silk.
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Megan says
here is my FB share https://www.facebook.com/mnmspecial/posts/128418250568951
Samantha R says
When we were first married, I was washing some sheets that my husband had- there were little speckles all over them so I asked him what it was. He said that the sheets were the ones he used on the mission he went on for our church to Brazil. There were so many mosquitoes that when he would roll over at night, he would squish a bunch which would leave little blood dots on his sheets – so gross!
Susan says
Shared on fb!
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Megan says
My tweet https://twitter.com/#!/mnmspecial/status/65075799555973120
Susan says
Mine isn’t so much about me… my dad has a spider phobia so one year I snuck a picture of a camel spider in his birthday card – scared a few more years off!
Kaylan says
I had a Close Encounter of the Bug Kind just this weekend! I was in my kitchen, minding my own business, when I saw a stray ant. I attempted to stay calm and swatted at him. Then I looked up and noticed that there were ants ALL OVER my wooden cabinets! That one little guy belonged to a whole ant army!
Needless to say, my plans of being super lazy this weekend were ruined. Thanks, ants.
Megan says
I blogged about this givaways and the whole story, pic included here http://www.mnmspecial.com/2011/05/gardening-phobias/
Hani says
Oh my here’s the worst one. When I was around 7 years old, my brother always used to find ways to scare the heck out of me. Once we were sleeping and my brother would have seen a spider (really huge like the size of your hand), it was already dead so instead of throwing it away, he placed it on my pillow. IMAGINE, I was literally scared to death when I woke up next morning to discover a spider in my bed on my pillow. Since, then I have literally developed acrophobia.
Jessi says
I’ve always had a fear of spiders. I can handle most other gross things, but spiders make my skin crawl(even now having JUST typed it). So in high school, I was in bed, reading before going to sleep and a HUGE(or perhaps dime sized) spider crawled across my sheets. I went from being horizontal to being vertical and levitating in about .5 seconds. I screamed and my step-dad came in to save the day. Despite looking for 20 minutes, he could find no sign of the spider. I spent the next week sleeping on the couch and tip toe running and dancing into my room for clothes each morning. I just couldn’t make myself sleep in there. By the end of the week my mom had had enough and deep cleaned my room so that I would sleep in there again. I’m working on it now but one in my bed still equals game over.
Barb says
They say we grow bugs large down here in FL! Well, they’re not kidding! When I came down to FL back in 1975, I had never seen a bug any larger than about 2 inches long. I was at my grandparents’ house, standing outside their carport, waiting for the family. I happened to look over on the house, and saw a ginormous multicolored–green, yellow, black—grasshopper! Oh boy, it was huge, and I’m talking about 5 to 6 inches long. I literally started screaming! My dad ended up killing it! Since then, I’ve seen huge spiders, but I usually kill them myself!
Megan says
I was fine with most bugs until 2 years ago when my husband called me out to our yard and pointed out a golf ball sized spider hiding in the weeds. Yuck! Our kids had been out playing in there! I know it is just a common old spider, but I can only imagine it latching on and draining all the blood out of them, silly I know, but that thing was huge!
Karen says
My son works for a pest control company. Last night, he called to say that while he was under a client’s house, spraying for bugs, something flew into his ear! He asked me what he should do as he had already tried ideas from the internet. How about going to the doctor?
Jen says
It’s almost too horrifying to relive but I guess for the sake of sharing we can relive those memories.
When we remodeled our home a few years ago it forced my family to use our half finished basement bathroom instead of the usually accommodating upstairs one. The ceiling tiles were not in place and the sink didn’t work, but at least it had a working shower. Although when you look up you see all the pipes and such due to the missing ceiling.
I woke up early and was a bit foggy but managed to make my way down a hall, around my kitchen, down the basement stairs, through the laundry room and into the bathroom. I turn on a nice hot shower and jump right in anxiously awaiting the refreshing warm water and it’s caffeine like affects on my tired body.
I proceed for the next few minutes to shower up and as I suds I notice something out of the corner of my eye, as if they knew I had just seen them two, not one… TWO giant silver fish fall from a tiny copper pipe onto my back. If you don’t know what a silver fish is I dare you to google image search it, you’ll be sorry you did. So not only one but two dirty golden creatures of the night fall onto me, I proceeded with the standard screaming and flailing until I am able to remove one, but where was the other? I ran out of the bathroom, up the stairs, through my kitchen, and into my bedroom to seek the assistance of my sleeping husband.
I jump onto the bed screaming and begging for assistance, at this time I am so distraught that my rant comes out in Chinese, or what my husband must hear as Chinese because he just stares at me, blank, dead stare. I try to calm down enough to say “there’s a bug on me somewhere help me!”
This is the point where he laughs but starts to check my naked dripping and by now goose pimple cover body for a giant cat sized bug with venomous pinchers and a nasty disposition. He checks me over then out of nowhere gasps and then smacks me in the back of the head hard enough to knock me over and to the floor.
Spousal abuse isn’t really his style so while I gather myself I ask, “Did you get it?”. Turns out he had and as I checked out the damage in the mirror in our bedroom I have to laugh as I see a squished buggy remain of the silver fish on the side of my head and the same on my back from the one I squished. The worst part is I had to go get back into the shower to wash off the war wounds and crusty bug parts from my back and head and the entire time all I can do is stare at the ceiling to satisfy my paranoia.
Needless to say the ceiling was replaced later that week, but I still to this day freak out a little every time I get in the shower.
pamela black says
stopping to read some of others’ bug stories. posted my story the otherday. good luck to all who posted. and good luck with those bugs! 😉
Bonnie says
When I was growing up our family lived in a small town . In the lot next to our home was the city water tower. Well at my age I had no idea what a water bug was. Until one night I when I had gotten up to go to the bathroom. I turn on the light and there are BIG ugly bugs in the sink and bath tub. Needless to say I did not sleep the rest of that night. As my family struggled with the city over the problem. Our home became infested with them. They were every where! I found them in my bed on may occasions. I started stuffing the covers in around my body tightly. All the while my pillow and head were under the blankest as well. Firmly tucked in. I slept like this for years, even after we finally moved. I never ever got up to use the restroom in the night again. I still sleep with a blanket on me no matter what the temperature is. Now I’m going to have the hee-vy gee-vies the rest of the day!
Shelley says
I was sitting in our basement one summer evening with my husband. I picked up my pop can, took a sip and felt a stinging feeling on the tip of my tongue. I tried to swipe the object off of my tongue, but it didn’t work. I panicked and pulled and off came an earwig. I’m a lot more careful about where I set my drink and take a better look before I take a sip now!
Briana Olson says
We just recently moved from Florida to Tennessee and while there Fire Ants were a HUGE concern, especially since I have severe allergies and even one bite was bad and when you deal with fireants, the bites can be in the hundreds almost simultaneously, which would have been very very bad for me…so of course while living down there I have thoughly frightened our 4yo daughter,especially since we found a nest of them under(and in) her bed one night and I panicked and made us check every nook and cranny over and over for more….
Now that we live in Tennessee, Sugar ants are the issue, they are everywhere..it doesnt matter how hard I try to get every speck of food, seal every container, etc, they still are everywhere..now I know they are sugar not fire ants but the 4yo doesnt, so you can imagine the ear piercing screams that happen hourly..ive ALMOST gotten used to the sound as it is a completely different scream then no-ant ones..lol..so a few days ago she screams again, me “(insert daughters name), its just an ant”, she continues screaming and is now crying, I take my time getting there, and when I do, I panic but try not to freak her out, It was the biggest spider Ive ever seen! LESS THAN 3 feet from her face! As calmly as I can, I move her away(not looking away from the spider of course) and reach for the closest thing I can find that I think is suitible to kill it without risk of it getting me, well, nothing seemed too enought so the next best thing was a big glass jug that I covered it with and then placed a massive stack of books on to wait for my hubby to comehome and kill…and then promptly packed up the girls and left the house because it was all I could think about! Ugh..makes me shiver even now….
Erika says
When we were in our old house we started getting those big black ants everywhere in the kitchen area. I tried everything to get rid of them. We would even see them climbing up the walls. The REALLY creepy part for me was when they just started appearing in the dishwasher! I had never heard of ants getting in there and that freaked me out! I then got a little more motivated and the ants were gone for good a week later:p
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christy davis says
the only story i can really think of is when i was about 16 i was sleeping in bed and my grandma was out at bingo so i was home alone and i got startled awake becasue i felt something on my shoulder and i was soooooo scared i did not want to turn around but i ever so slowly turned my head and there was a huge roach on my pillow i scream and jumped up and sat on the recliner for about an hour i swear i thought i was going to have a heart attack!!
Londia says
Creepy is the first year we received the green bins to put our food scraps and so on outside. Is the warm weather came and opening the green bin and seeing maggots all over it. Hearing me freak out was not good. I am sure neighbours heard too. I still can’t stand opening it in the warmer weather. Hearing me screach still happens.
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Jennifer Hagen says
My daughter really loves bugs, including worms. After it rained heavily one night my husband was getting ready to go to work. He walked out of the garage and saw over 20 worms laying on our driveway so he thought my daughter would like to see them. She runs outside to look at them and then when my husband wants to pull out of the driveway she yells WAIT!!! She picked up every one of those worms and carried to them to safety so Daddy wouldn’t run them over with his care. She is one special girl!!
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Melissa D says
It was Halloween, and being a fun-loving person, I went to a local party store and bought some giant rubber bugs and gave them to my coworkers. The newest girl in the office thanked me, then went on to explain that she once had a bug phobia but had gone through therapy and was okay now. She was speaking a little too brightly and quickly, and I knew she was completely freaked out. A few days later, she confessed that she’d started building a fortress of pillows in her bed at night in case a bug tried to get in. I STILL feel awful about causing her angst. Bugs are terrible any way you look at it… even rubber bugs!
Tammy says
My mom was not big on spanking her little ones. When I was 4 years old, we were visiting my Grandma in Mississippi and mom was getting me ready for church. I kept squirming. She kept telling me to be still and I just kept squirming. She swatted me on my butt and still I wasn’t still. She lifted my dress to fix the lining and there was a little roach crawling up my leg. After she got it off of me, she felt SO bad for spanking me. I am in my 40’s and that story still comes up every now and then. 🙂
Krista Myers says
I am terrible with bugs…pretty much don’t like any! Anyways, when I was about 12 years old, i was taking a bath and all of a sudden I noticed a black spider about the size of a quarter in the tub with me…floating/swimming in the water. I screamed and ran down the hallway to my room to hide, never bothering to put clothes or a towel on. I couldn’t get to my room fast enough! My Mom was pretty worried when she heard me screaming and came to see what was wrong. I don’t think she was all that impressed to find out that all that fuss was over a little spider.
Tami says
My story isn’t as long as most but it is true none the less!
One time when we went camping as little kids we were all sleeping in our family tent and of course us kids could not sleep. My brother noticed that there was a spider on my moms chin. We did not k ow what to do as it was crawling towards her mouth and we also did not want to wake her up and get in trouble.
I noticed that there was a glass of water sitting in the cooler my mom was using as a nightstand and as we were getting desperate we thought maybe if we knocked the glass of water off we could lay down and fake sleep and the water would fall on her and wake her up. My brother tripped trying to get over there, knocked the water off on my dad who sat up so quickly he backhanded my mother on his way up and she snapped her mouth closed on the spider and swallowed it. My mom was mad at my dad all weekend for smacking her and us for not waking her up lol. Can’t win for losing!!
Doreen R says
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Doreen R says
My bug story is happened about 5 years ago. I was travelling with my sweetheart and we stayed at a hotel in Kitchener ( won’t say where). It was very late and we were tired. I went to the bathroom. My bladder was so full. As I was relieving myself, I noticed ants around my feet. Holy man. This was a well known hotel. Well, when I stood up, there were more ants behind the toilet and in the bathtub. Oh, big yucks. We called the front desk and had our room changed. I didn’t see anything in that room.
I decided to take a hot bath. I was so relaxed and then noticed ants along the edge of the wall. I guess they wanted to say “welcome”. 🙂 Well, I thought I would just relax and continue my bath and then, I saw some on the edge of the bathtub. That was the end of my bath. Yap.
Jaime says
My mom likes to tell me about the first time I got stung by a bee. I was 2, and we were playing outside in the yard. I saw a big fat bumble bee on a flower, and grabbed for it while yelling, “Pretty!” and it stung me right on my palm. Then I started crying, “No pretty, no pretty!” I ended up squishing the bee, so I got my revenge.
Michelle says
My story involves some bugs and hornets in a port-a-potty. I was out walking with a friend and when we were done I had to go and a nearby port-a-potty was the closest. I went in, did the air chair and noticed small bugs around the upper part of the port-a-potty and a HUGE hornet’s nest in the corner. I freaked out. I didn’t want to run out of the bathroom with my pants down in front of my friend so I’m trying frantically to get my pants pulled up all while the whole port-a-potty was shaking (what must my friend have thought!). I thought for sure I’d get stung but thankfully I made it outside without any incident and my pants mostly pulled up. It was crazy but I’m glad I didn’t get stung and no little bugs fell on me!
Wendy Bosley says
My dad travels a lot with his job. He was staying in a hotel one night and decided to stay in and order a pizza. He got into his PJs, turned out all the lights, and brought his delivered pizza over to the recliner and watched some T.V. while he ate. He eventually got full and dozed off in the recliner for a couple of hours, T.V. still on, and pizza box with half a pizza left in the box. When he woke up, he decided to polish off the rest of that pizza. So, he reached down and grabbed a piece and took a big bite. As he was eating, he felt some “crumbs” on his face, so he wiped his cheek off. A few seconds later, he felt more “crumbs” and it felt like they were crawling on him. He became suspicious, so he reached over and turned on the light. To his dismay, he looked down at the pizza box and saw that it was COVERED in small little ants. Literally, the pizza was BLACK because there were so many. He was pretty grossed out when he realized he had just eaten almost a whole piece of pizza that was covered in these ants!!
Tina H says
I don’t like bugs! Actually, I think I can say with 100% certainty – I hate bugs! One very late night, my daughter came to my bed and asked for a drink of water. Being the good mother, I sleepily got up from my bed and headed to the kitchen. As I turned on the light, some sort of bug ran across my path. I jumped and screamed…and then proceeded to miss the last couple of steps on the stairs. Yes, I fell down – flat on my face. I managed to get up, get the water, and hobble my way to my daughter’s room. She was fast asleep, of course. I managed to fall back asleep, but when I woke up in the morning…I was in so much pain that I headed straight to my doctor’s office and found out that I had severely sprained my ankle. Just one more reason that I hate bugs!
Michelle Sweeney says
I have done quite a bit of travelling and when I was younger the travelling involved staying in less than adequate hotel rooms and the like. At this stage of my life I was in my early 20s and happened to find myself in a hotel in the Victoria area of London, England. I had met a couple of backpackers who had said the hotel was decent for its price and I took their recommendation on board and booked it for a couple of weeks until I found my feet.
It was late November/early December at the time so the room was quite warm in comparison to outside and quite comfortable. The first night I fell asleep no problem as sightseeing can take it out of you and I woke up to hear all kinds of noises in the room. As I was by myself in the room I was quite taken aback and was not sure what was causing this strange sound.
I ran for the light and quickly turned it on only to find that about 20 cockroaches had crawled out of the floorboards or wherever they were living and were crawling on the walls. First I was shocked and then disgusted. I am not a fan of one cockroach let alone cockroaches in double figures so the sight made my skin crawl.
As it was early morning – I endeavoured to put my head back under the blankets and tried to go back to sleep – with the light on! Needless to say I checked out of the hotel the next day.
Mom in MN says
My 10 year old daughter is terrified of bugs, but when we proposed moving her to a bedroom in the basement so she would no longer have to share a room with her little brother, she jumped at the chance – even at the risk of having to deal with bugs. She has been fine with a basement bedroom for a couple of years now. And there are perks too. She always keeps her room clean because I told her that bugs like to hide in warm places so anything left on the floor could be a nice home for them. Also, she has to really clean her room each spring so my husband can do a complete bug spray of her room. 🙂
shawn says
I clean a vacation home here in Missouri for a lady that lives in the city.(little farm home in the country) One day I was cleaning the shower and pulled up the plug from the drain. Out came this ALIEN creature! Some sort of ginormous centepede looking thing. Legs everywhere, anntenae…I swear to you I screamed like a little girl…and I’m the type of woman that can run a chainsaw…yeah, I’m still scared of that drain.
christine coleman says
When I was in college, I shared a room with two other girls, both of whom were not from Florida and had never seen a palmetto bug. For those who do not know what these are, they are huge (and I mean like Oreo cookie size) and fly. We had only been in our room about a week and had discovered ants in our bathroom and had been killing them with Raid. One morning I was awoken at o’dark thirty by my screaming roommate Tabitha. She had been getting into the shower and it had jumped out at her. My other roommate and I rushed into the bathroom and she was on the counter, half dressed and completely freaking out. Being the braver roomie, my other roommate Tracey, grabbed the can of Raid but it was empty. By this time, the bug and flown out of the bathroom and was crawling on the door jam in our room. Panicked that it would soon take cover in our closets, I grabbed a can of Rave hairspray and started spraying it at the palmetto bug. The bug was still “running” but I kept spraying him with the hairspray. Within about a minute, the hairspray started to set and the bug became stuck until he could no longer move. Tracey sprang into action, grabbed a chair and smacked the bug with Tabitha’s sandal. She then picked him with a paper plate and carried him out into the hallway and dumped him in the garbage can at the other end of the floor. After that, we always had 3 or 4 cans of Rave hairspray around to deal with the bugs/ants. To this day, I still use Rave hairspray and keep 2 or 3 bottles on hand in the bathroom and in the kitchen to battle ants and the unfortunate palmetto bugs that stray into our home from time to time. It’s safer for the kids to use as well and my younger son, Matt is the resident bug killer. The moral of the story? Thank goodness for the 80’s and all our poofy hair and hairspray needs because when we were desperate, the hairspray worked and our whole floor of girls became hairspray exterminators. 🙂
WinneratLife says
I am so terrified of spiders it’s nearly debilitating, particularly living in the south where they are quite abundant. Unfortunately, my son has inherited this phobia and will often swear there are spiders crawling on him (in bed, at school, in the shower and in the car, especially) even though none are ever found. One night (of many) while driving home my son was in the back seat and began screaming that a spider was on him. He thrashed around and screeched to the point that I nearly wrecked. As soon as it was safe, I pulled over and got out of the car and searched around to see if I could find anything (better safe than sorry, right?). As usual, nothing turned up, so I was sure, once again, that he had imagined it.
The next morning, as I am leaving for work, I toss my briefcase behind the driver’s seat and hop in the car. As I lean slightly to the right to start the ignition I catch something glittery out of the corner of my eye and turn to see a GIANT web (barely an inch – okay a foot – from my face!!!) extending from the passenger seat across most of the back of the car, in the middle of which is the creepiest, hairiest, shudder-inducing-est spider I have ever seen!! Later research determined it to be a wolf spider, which makes sense. It was as scary as any wolf I can imagine. Roughly quarter-sized, this spider elicited a sound that surely made my neighbors’ hair stand up on the backs of their necks, which would have perfectly imitated mine. Needless to say, I was out of that car so fast someone could have drafted off my backside.
Late for work already, I began pacing as I considered my options. 1) Donate my car to charity and never have to deal with the aforementioned spider. Work would surely understand my indefinite absence, right? Hmm. Probably not. And new cars are expensive. 2) Call for Mr. WinneratLife to leave work and come home to handle spider disposal duty on my behalf (as usual). This would have been perfect if I’d thought he would agree. And not think I was crazy. 3) Atttempt spider removal on my own [shudder, shudder, shudder]. THIS was not a pleasant thought, but I quickly and sadly realized it was my only real option. HOW I was going to dispose of the spider then became the next big dilemma. No way was I putting my bare hand anywhere near this thing.
I decided that gloves were in order and that a shoe was the only thing I could allow to come in contact with the spider so off it came for squishing duty [SHUDDER]. With no intention of getting into the car to deal with this, I roll down all of the windows and stand as far away as possible as I reach in the car (with only one eye open) to swipe at said abominable spider. In hindsight, the RAID house and garden bug killer that is always on hand would have been a better solution. Alas, with danger so imminent, I was NOT thinking clearly. The spider quickly began to run up the web and away from my attempts to end its life. At this point I am panicked and yelping wildly as my teenaged daughter comes out of the house to leave for school. She immediately erupts into peals of laughter as I dance around the driveway screeching and shuddering like I have lost my mind. She then calmly takes the shoe from me, removes one of her own and, placing one shoe in front and one shoe behind the web, deftly squishes the spider then pulls the spider and web free from the car. MY HERO!!! Who would have thought a daughter of mine could be so brave and fearless!! Of course, I still wasn’t happy to have to get into the car after having a HUMONGOUS spider in there for so long. Sadly, Mr. W.A.L. would not agree to trade in the car based solely on my spider encounter. Thankfully, weekly RAID treatments keep the spiders (and my shuddering) to a minimum these days and go a long way toward giving me spider peace of mind.
Melissa R says
When in high school I woke up with a swollen eye… you could see where something (a spider) had bitten me. I went to the doctor because the whole left side of my face was swelling and bruising! While examining me the doctor asked if I had a boyfriend… (my first thought was ewe are you seriously hitting on me right now)! I answered… “yes. why?” Then the doctor asked me if he had hit me??!!?? I started to laugh pretty much out of relief but also because at the time my boyfriend lived 3 hours away! I still have to chuckle at myself for thinking that the doctor was about to “hit” on me!!
Arlene says
When I was 15 I went to camp and part of the session was a 7 day backpacking trip. We didn’t bother with tents, it was summer and we all camped under the stars, laying our sleeping bags on our tarps. One night we camped under a bunch of trees, and in the morning there were literally 100’s of maggots crawling around on our tarps. We think they fell out of the trees during the night. It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw, to wake up amid maggots crawling all around me.
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Tiffany O. says
When I was in middle school a couple of my friends and I were playing on the back porch. We were enjoying a nice game of air hockey! We didnt have our shoes on because we were on the porch and my best friend all of a sudden felt something wet and squishy under her foot. When she lifted her foot, there was a huge slug!!! I was traumatized from that and I never ever go outside with bare feet!!
Tawna says
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Robyn says
At the age of 10 I had my worst nightmare take place. The family was sitting outside on the farm by the house and enjoying a beautiful day. I was on my sister’s tricycle and just moving within a small distance. Out of the blue I look down and there is a caterpillar on my foot. Well I screamed and upon finding out what it was my family told me to keep it quiet. Easy for them to say. I jumped around and danced and finally someone knocked it off. My younger sister loves bug and picked it up. The same, oh he’s so soft. I didn’t care what he was but he had been crawling on my foot. Never again did I wear those lovely gold slippers with a little heel that I loved. How could I, a caterpillar had crawled on them.
To this day I have a tingly, crawling nervous reaction at all crawling insects and flying ones.
Robyn says
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Tammy Darling says
Last week, I was getting ready for bed and I kept hearing a buzzing sound. It sounded really close to my head but I couldn’t find anything so I finally fell asleep. The next morning when I woke up the inside of my ear was itching. I stuck my pinky finger in to scratch it and when I took it out there was a tiny dead winged insect. Yuck!!!
Jennifer says
Being a New Yorker, I always thought “Lovebugs” were just a cute term of endearment that developed over time… UNTIL this week. We spent the week in Orlando with our family and it is LOVE BUG SEASON!
In the pool with our kids on Easter Sunday, my mother-in-law was resting on one of the chaise lounges at our hotel. The funniest thing was seeing her swat the HUNDREDS of lovebugs with her flip flop. Cursing, screaming and swatting, the lovebugs were ALL OVER her.
I have to say I have a good relationship with my mother-in-law, so when we got out of the pool we helped her!
Jenn says
I wrote a blog post about how a moth gave me a scare at midnight:
The Flight of the Midnight Moth
http://coolestfamilyontheblock.com/2010/10/06/wordful-wednesday-the-moth/
ElleBee says
I tweeted (I think). @workingdiva
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Tawna says
Tweeted!
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Julie says
I live in Florida where we have lots of very large and creepy bugs. On occasion, one of these gigantic creepy crawlies comes into our house. One particularly memorable creepy bug incident happened to me on a Saturday night when I was home with my three kids. I was in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner. I happened to look up at the plant shelf that seperates our kitchen and dining room. To my shock and horror, there above me was a very large brown roach. I ran to get my broom, in an attempt to quickly smash the unwanted visitor. As I reached back to smack the roach, it took off and flew across my kitchen. I ran across the room to smash the pest on the other side of the room. This time, I swung the broom so hard that I did hit the roach, but I also sent myself falling backward. As I landed firmly on my backside, the roach fell to the floor and started running toward me. I picked up the broom (from a seated position) and hit the roach two or three more times, until it met its demise. All the while, my kids were watching my duel with the roach and laughing their heads off. It must have been quite a sight.
Lily says
I just blogged about this the other day…
http://lilycontadino.blogspot.com/2011/04/buggin-out.html
ElleBee says
I was a camp counselor during my college summers. Our camp drew lots of international campers, particularly from Mexico. Because they had to fly into Chicago, then take a 90 minute bus ride, the Mexican campers often arrived in the middle of the night. One of my campers, a brand new 9 y/o, arrived alone. As we quickly made a bed for the sleepy little girl, she spied one of the ever-present palmetto bugs scurry across the cabin floor. Her screams of “la cucaracha! la cucaracha!” woke several other girls. Quite the welcome!
Tawna says
I blogged about my bug at link
http://www.btrbb.com/2011/05/why-i-fear-grasshoopprs-big-time.html
I also gave credit to your blog with a link to fin you!
Tawna
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KathyG says
I live in Texas where everything is bigger – including the bugs. I was taking a shower one morning, half asleep, rubbing shampoo into my hair when a giant water (tree) roach crawled up out of the drain! I could swear I heard the music from the shower scene in “Psycho” as I shrieked, grabbed the bottle of shampoo and repeatedly smashed the roach. It was weeks before I could take a shower without keeping my eyes on the drain.
Kathy says
When I was a little girl I was at the beauty salon for a haircut and the stylist found a tick in on my head. It was removed but I felt creepy afterwards. A few weeks later I thought that another tick was on my head and I took the scissors and cut a large section of my hair off. No tick but a good spanking resulted!
Mona Lisa Smith says
I’ve shared the contest on facebook 🙂
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Jean M. says
When I was young, our apartment was full of bugs. Roaches in dresser drawers, on the ceiling, in the pantry. My mother once showed me two bugs fighting between the lettuce leaves as she was making baloney sandwiches for lunch. The worst incident happened as I was lying in bed, and I saw a huge, black bug trudging down the middle of the hallway. It was so big it actually cast a shadow on the wall (no, really!). Then I saw it stop, turn its little head and look straight at me! My little feet didn’t touch the floor for days!
Trish says
I will never forget this creepy encounter with cockroaches. I was about 9 or 10. I had gone to bed then something woke me up. I heard fluttering noises like something was flying around my bedroom. I was so creeped out and frightenend I knocked over my lamp and broke it. I was so afraid to get out of bed because it was dark and the fluttering insects, I assumed, kept flying around me and a couple of times hitting me. I was so grossed out! So there I was in the dark flailing my arms about, trying not to wake anyone up because earlier I had gotten into big trouble and my parents didn’t want to hear a peep out of me for the rest of the evening. So as quietly as I could with the insects still flying around me, I rushed over to the hallway outside my bedroom and turned on the hallway light. When the light went on, the insects stopped flying around and I could see they were cockroaches. I grabbed a shoe and killed one and the other flew out the window. I was completely frightened and grossed out. I couldn’t go back to sleep for another few hours. Yes, I loath cockroaches…
Pam says
I was a new SAHM with our daughter, we lived in the downstairs apartment, after my hubby left for work i hopped in the shower, after coming out of the bathroom i spied a HUGE black spider crawling in our kitchen! I screamed loud enough to wake the upstairs neighbor, who thankfully was a very kind guy, and he helped me, by killing it. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Brandy says
when we lived in North Carolina we lived next to a wooded area, we wood see deer, rabbits and bugs. well our house was a pur hideout for everything when it snowed. One day I was cleaning and clearing out cob webs. I stood up to take a breath and screamed, I was covered in spiders. They were harmless I think, but they were 3 times the size of a normal daddy long legs. I started knocking them off and ran to the shower. I have never touched another cob web since!
Karen says
Bug story, how about BEE story.
So, we were finding dead bee’s in our house for weeks. They would be on the couch, the blinds, the windows and the floor. I am so allergic to bee’s so I was FREAKING OUT!!! I called a company to come out and paid $$$$$ to have them check the whole house and spray. They went into the crawl space and said they saw nothing… After they left, the bee’s kept showing up.
Cut to 5 months later, the dead of winter. My husband had to go into the crawl space to fix our sump pump. He started SCREAMING!! There was NO way I was jumping down into the crawl to help him. He jumps up and says you can’t believe what I found. I ask him, WHAT? A BEEHIVE. That’s where they were coming from. They were getting into the vents. We called the company back out and they went back down there. The Beehive was the size of a garbage bag. IT WAS HUGE!!!!!!!!
I hate bee’s…….
CRAZY!!!
Gosfam says
While renting a home in North Carolina we got roaches. Nothing like waking up in the morning to them living in your CD player, microwave, toaster, and kitchen cabinets. Grossest thing ever. They would pop up out of no where, and were so hard to completely kill. It was a BIG pain. They had to come treat the house 3 different times. I didn’t even want to cook in my kitchen. Nothing electronic could be around or they would burrow in there to live. We ended up getting rid of everything and buying new once the problem was taken care of. It still gives me the chills thinking about those nasty buggers.
paige says
I lived in an all girls dorm in college. One night I heard screaming from a little ways down the hall and thought we might have had some “boys” on the floor from the neighboring dorm doing their best attempt at a panty raid. As I came awake to pounding at my door, I answered it to a little short blonde who screamed “Help, there is a large, mammoth bug in my room and I don’t know what to do.” I grabbed my broom, put on my shoes, walked across the way and looked in expecting a spider. Nope, just a water bug, I walked half way across the room threw my shoe at the bug, killed it and turned around as five “grown” women were standing in the doorway shivering at the icky bug. Apparently, they were all sorority sisters who then in great legally blonde fashion started clapping that I did it. I shrugged….left through the gaggle of “learned helplessness” and became known on the hall as “THE MIGHTY BUG KILLING WITCH”…(witch cause I carried my broom across the hall…and my pjs were black)….Wonder if they ever killed a bug after that… The RA on the floor made a sign for my door sayin just throw a show at it and let me sleep….
Rebecca Manning says
Here in western PA, we have these bugs called stink bugs. They don’t bite or sting, but instead they fly around and crawl all over everything in the house. They also love to divebomb your head when you are outside. There is no chemical that can kill these bugs, and they are hard to get out of the house – we usually have thousands of them inside and outside our house in the spring and fall. Anyway, these bugs are called stink bugs because if you step on them, squish them or threaten them in any way the give off this horrid smell…think dead skunk mixed with some rotten meat and gym bag of a teenager! Yes, they are that gross.
So one morning, I was sitting down eating my granola cereal while checking my e-mail. I thought I saw a stink bug crawling on my computer but didn’t give it a second thought. A few moments later, as I was eating my cereal, I suddenly smelled that horrific smell…somewhere VERY close to me was a dead stinkbug. I looked all over but could not find it. I shook out the pantleg of my jammies, checked my hair – nothing. Then I started getting this funny tingling in my mouth. It then dawned on me that the stinkbug had crawled into my cereal and thus I accidentially ate it! The smell was so strong and the thought that I ate one was so disgusting that I threw out the granola and didn’t eat anything for the rest of the day.
So what do you say, Raid? Can you come up with a spray or trap that can get rid of stinkbugs for us? You would make the hundreds of thousands of residents in western PA so happy!
Rita A says
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Kirsten says
I had recently purchased my first house in a St. Louis suburb. Young and single, I was terribly proud of myself and my independence. Until they day THEY arrived. At first I thought it was on ordinary spider staring at me from the doorway of the office. I was in the bathroom washing my face for the night and didn’t have my contacts in, so I couldn’t be sure. I walked over to the doorway, put my face right down on it (no contacts in = 12″ distance vision), and it jumped at me. A jumping spider! A jumping spider that can jump two feet in the air! I had no experience with this. After considerable chaos, I was able to capture the mutant spider under a glass canning jar, but I had no way to transfer it without it escaping. Poor creature died a slow painful death over several days while I analyzed what it could possibly be. Looks like a spider, but not really a spider. I scoured the internet with searches for “jumping spider,” “giant jumping spider,” “what is this bug?!?!?!” Another showed up in my kitchen and scurried under the refrigerator. Another was in the extra bedroom. What are they?! Why are they jumping AT me?! Finally, I found a horrible picture online that looked exactly like my little houseguests. Camel crickets. Crickets. Seriously? Crickets are little and black and make noise. Crickets aren’t huge and brown with Michael Jordan verticals! The night of my 30th birthday, I came home very late and very tired. I pulled back the covers of my bed, and there sat a camel cricket on my pillow. He was wearing a party hat and held a sign that said “Happy Birthday!” I smashed him with my shoe, stripped the bed, and slept on the couch. I called the exterminator the next day.
Rita A says
I was packing my home up for a move from Oklahoma to another state. Not really paying close attention, I grabbed for some of my dishes in a lower cupboard. As I pulled out one of my glass vases, inside was a mean looking spider. Then he moved in the vase! My heart went in my throat. It turns out it was a Brown Recluse spider which are known to inhabit the area we lived in. A Brown Recluse! You could clearly see the distinct violin shape on its back. I was so glad it was in the vase. I filled that vase with so much Raid then covered the top with plastic wrap until that spider was a goner! Then all the thoughts of what if, hit my brain. I could have been bit while packing something. What if there were more? Needless to say, the cupboard….I had someone else, wearing complete body armor, remove all the dishes while I stood some 15 feet away in the other room. Scariest Spider moment ever!
Angela says
I have to say, your Hawaii story gives me the creeps! I am going to buy Raid Max® Bug Barrier on my way home!! GROSS! Anywho, When I was little, around 8 or so, my dad was on a six month deployment, when a mother mouse decided to have a nest of babies under the tub. The crawl space for that tub??? Was in MY Closet. And my mother couldn’t stand to kill them – was too grossed out – so she decreed I had to put a trap in my closet every night to kill them. Each and every night, I lay in bed, waiting to hear the snap of the trap. OMG. Then I had to change the trap each morning. It was YEARS before I could stand the smell of peanut butter. And I REFUSE to have anything to do with mice, or gerbils or hamsters!
Linda Stewart says
When I was a teenager I had the privilege of being allowed to spend the summer in Florida with some family friends. I had to decided if I wanted to stay at Lake Okeechobee with the older folks in a small trailer or stay in Ft. Pierce with the younger and stay in the ‘big house’ by myself. The younger folks lived in a small one bedroom trailer at the back of the orange grove and the ‘big house’ set empty at the front of the grove. There was a cute path between the two so the obvious choice was to stay with the younger folks and actually get to do some really fun stuff rather than being at the lake and living the retirement life. Not cool at 15!! The first few night were great. I had full run of the ‘big house’ and decided I would explore a new room or area every night until I knew every nook and corner of the house, and it was huge! Parts of the house hadn’t been used in five/plus years. As I made my way to one of the most secluded bedrooms, anxious to see what the room held I never dreamed of finding a room filled with roaches! Not your typical everyday roach … those suckers were HUGE. I just knew if they got hold of me I would immediately become roach meat. I screamed and fell just short of freaking out. My screams were heard and the young couple I was hanging out with came running from their little trailer out back. By the time they got to me I was totally spastic and refused to go back in the ‘big house’ even to get my clothes. I ended up spending the rest of my summer vacation sleeping in their living room on a lounge chair! Anything but going back to the ‘big house bug room!” The couple I was staying with ended up going to the ‘big house’ to gather my things and only after they went through every item, piece by piece, would I even offer to touch anything. I still shudder today when I think about how huge those roaches were. Totally gross!
Mona Lisa Smith says
I tweeted the contest. http://twitter.com/#!/colliecountry/status/65038139873439744
Mona Lisa Smith says
There are so many interesting bug stories here 🙂
To add mine I’ve chosen a very simple one. When I was 5 years old, I was at my grandparents house. They had a farm with many apple trees on the property. I was playing outside, wearing a bathing suit (I think we were playing in the water, too). I went to the apple trees for some reason when a honey bee stung me right in the belly button. Ouch! It really did hurt and I haven’t forgotten it. But I am not afraid of bugs. I think most of them are very interesting.
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Karla says
I don’t know why, but little boys are fascinated with bugs. One night we had friends over for dinner. My son was all excited and told my girlfriend he had something to show her. He walked her over to his swingset and showed her a huge spider. Turns out she’s deathly afraid of spiders. My son was absolutely shocked that she didn’t think it was cool!
Heather D says
So many bug stores, so little space. Here’s one that’s kinda funny – at my expense.
When I was about 8 or 9 I was very naive and impressionable. I was visiting my cousin’s house – at the time my Aunt and Uncle had a beautiful back yard with an in ground pool. After a fun afternoon swimming, my cousin decided to trick me. She said I had to change outside. The neighbors weren’t home so nobody would see.
Naive me believed her, so I changed outside and got stung by a bee while changing. My first every bee sting and I haven’t been hit since but every time I see a bee I think of that story.
Kristie says
Last summer, as I went to hang a second load of laundry on the line, I noticed a big dark spot on a pair of my daughter’s shorts that were already on the line. I quickly realized that the dark spot wasn’t a spot but a HUGE bug! I ran in to get the camera and took several pictures…it was shades of green and about 2 inches long. I then researched what it might be in my North American Wildlife book and still couldn’t figure it out. I then posted the pictures to facebook asking if anyone might know what it was….turns out it was a Cicada…apparently my book just showed them a different color, so it didn’t occur to me that is what it was. Nice to know it was harmless….but it still gave me the heebie-jeebies! 🙂
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Jennifer m says
I have dozen of bug stories, from our latest scorpion my son found on my dryer and even a (NON BUG) horrifying snake stretched out in the hall, we moved after the snake. The funniest bug story is a ugly Cockroach with wings, you know those big boys.
I had a trailer in the country and my husband had just moved in with me. We was going to bed for the night and all of a sudden. He said there’s a big roach, he gabbed a shoe and went to chasing it. It was one of those roaches on steroids. I’m standing in the middle of the bed, pointing there it goes. It goes to flying everywhere, oh there it is landing in the floor. He goes to stomp it…. His back goes out from and recent injury to it. He is there stuck in stomping position…and missed the roach.
I jump out of the bed and had to chase the bug, the roach finally went to roach heaven. I had to then help my husband get out of stomping position. We have never forgot that and I still laugh about it.
Lolli says
I just remembered a funny bug story from my childhood (don’t know why I didn’t think of it before!). I started taking ballet when I was 3. By the time I was 8 and 9, I was taking classes almost every day of the week. I was quite accustomed to arriving at the studio, taking off my sneakers and slipping on my ballet shoes, and setting my shoes and my bag on the bench before heading in to meet my teacher.
When class was over one particular day, I went back to the bench, slipped off my ballet shoes, and stepped into my sneakers. I noticed some straw sticking out between the velcro straps on one of my shoes and picked as much of it out as I could before running out to my mom’s car.
When I got home, dinner was ready, so I sat down at the kitchen table in my ballet clothes. I started taking off my shoes….and discovered that the “straw” I had been picking out had actually been grasshopper legs. While I was dancing, a grasshopper jumped into my shoe. I dressed so quickly that the poor thing didn’t have time to jump out before I squished him and pulled his legs off one by one.
Because I was wearing ballet tights, the grasshopper guts were stuck to me. I remember shaking my leg, trying to get the dead grasshopper as far away from me as I could, screaming for my mom to get it off of me FAST!
Stacey Cochran says
I was riding my bike home from a friends house late one evening and decided to cut across the parking lot of a local store…As I did, I noticed the shadow seemed to shift on the ground and heard alot of crunching beneath my wheels…as I approached the light, I realized the whole lot was covered in crickets…it took weeks to get all the guts and parts off of my wheels….
S. Greiner says
My funny bug story is not so much about me…but my sister. She HATES bugs…I of course do not mind them. Last summer I was showing her daughters and my sons a fuzzy catipiller…her daughter took it, walked over to her and said…”Mom, don’t be scared it’s soft.” of course…my sister who was getting lunch ready did not realize what was going on, swatted at the bug, it fell and she stepped on it in front of all the kids…needless to say we had to do some explaining!
Katharine says
On a missons trip to Mexico, we were staying in an old schoolhouse. We put down blue foam pads on the classroom floor, underneath our sleeping bags. At the end of everyday we would come back to a long, moving, blue line, as ants carried away bits of the mattresses! We would pick up the foam, sweep away the bugs and try and sleep, the next day… it started all over again…. we didn’t bring the matresses home! (((shudder)))
Danielle says
Alright, I’ll give this a shot…
I don’t have the best story in the world, but my kids like this one:
When I was about 10 yrs old, a bumble bee went up my pants leg. Of course I did not know this until I sat down. And got stung in the butt. Yes the butt. It was not fun. My mom made me drop my pants (we were in the middle of nowhere) in the front seat of the car so she could find out what was wrong with my butt 🙂
Erica C. says
We recently had a huge outbreak of bugs at work. The worst was when one fell from the ceiling and landed on one girl’s neck. There was definitely some screaming involved!
Gretchen says
My friend brought me a wooden candle holder from Thailand when she returned from a mission trip. Several mornings I would wake up to find a small pile of sawdust on the mantle next to it, and every day I would sweep it up, until we realized there were tiny bugs chewing on the wood! I zapped the candleholder in the microwave for a few minutes and the problem disappeared!
Angie says
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cheryl h says
A few years ago, hubby and I were at a carnival and I ordered some fries. At one point while eating, I had opened my mouth to take another bite and a fly flew into my mouth and I started to choke. It was the worst feeling, not to mention embarassing. Normally that wouldn’t happen but that year the flies were really bad. It sure doesn’t compare to alot of the other stories here but I dont really remember any other situation.
Angie says
I don’t like bugs… at all. I’ll never forget when I first moved out on my own. My first night alone went well, but the next morning, I hopped in the shower only to find the world’s biggest spider! I freaked out, and immediately called my mom. I begged her to send my brother over to kill the spider. He came over and swore he was never coming over to kill a bug for me again. After that, I got real good about throwing shoes to kill spiders, then I just had to call someone over to clean up the dead bugs, because I sure as heck wasn’t touching them!
So glad I’m married and have lots of kids now. There’s always someone here to kill a bug for me! (And clean it up!) 🙂
sandra says
we have a big flour bug problem and so we’re constantly trying to pick them up and trash them. i found a cuople “nests” this weekend and vacuumed them up
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Lisa says
In 2007 my husband and 2 children, moved to texas , and there were black crickets everywhere, we have never seen such a thing. I mean you had to walk through hundreds of them to get any where, while they are jumping up all around you, my then 7 yr. old girl was trying to step on them.We went to get our drivers licence, and the maintainance man was vacuuming them up alive, it was gross to say the least. We were having to stay in motels until our house was ready and one night our room had the crickets in the room, in the fridge, the tub, and then one jumped on me in the bed, that was the last draw, we jumped up, packed, and they got us another room.
Bess says
When I was 10 or 11 years old, I had a favorite pair of black Keds. I went to put them on one morning, and I instantly felt some wiggling. I screamed, pulled my foot out, and out hopped a big cricket. My grandmother (who spoke only Spanish and could barely communicate with us grandchildren), realized why I was screaming and killed the cricket for me. 🙂
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arochel52 says
My worst bug story is when I was talking to some people and a bug flew in my mouth and down my throat so that I swallowed it. Yuck!
djackson1958 says
My creepy bug story wasn’t so humourous at the time. I was drinking coffee and a chinese beetle must have flown into it. It wasn’t fun in my mouth.
Wendie Rodgers says
I don’t like to think of my bug story – it literally made me throw up – That’s because I woke up in the middle of the night with a spider stuck in my throat. I woke up coughin and gagging and not able to catch my breath – I ran to the bathroom from the gagging and when I got sick in the toilet, there was the source of it all – a spider covered in saliva – which in turn, caused me to throw up again!!
Not a fun night for me as I stayed awake the rest of the night trying not to throw up anymore from thinking about it. This must have happened almost 6 years ago and it still brings a lump to my throat!!! Bleh!!
Michelle says
My creepy bug story occurred when we replaced our old well with a new one. The old well was in an old underground cement room of sorts. As the well installer lifted the lid to the entrance, I peered inside the 10 x 10 area to be scared out of my wits. The walls were covered with huge white spiders!!! Ewwwwwww! Even the well guy was freaked out because he had to climb down in there to disconnect the electrical before this area could be filled in. I have never seen any white spiders before and I didn’t know spiders that huge even lived in Michigan. As I write this I still get the chills. Sometimes I still wonder where all those spiders are now since they filled in that room before they built the new well. I haven’t seen those kind again but I still get goosebumps thinking about them!!
Susan says
My creepy bug story takes place every day in the spring. I teach library classes to primary children, namely Kindergarteners. Every day there are several winged ants on the carpet where the children sit to listen to stories. Needless to say I am upstaged by these little creatures that crawl around with a room full of Kindergarteners crawling behind them. The children try to catch them, squish them, protect them… and in a matter of seconds, my entire lesson has flown out the window! Just wish the flying ants were flying out the window!
Melissa says
Back in my younger days, I was living alone in an apartment I had just recently moved into. I had jumped in the shower, wrapped myself in a towel, and headed into the kitchen. In my kitchen was the largest palmetto bug I had ever seen, it looked like some kind of giant bug that you see in museums. I had no bug spray or anything so I quick ran and got a can of hairspray. My heart was racing as I sprayed my hairspray towards it, and it immediately took flight and landed right on my towel, which produced horrifying, toe curling, screams from me. I cannot believe the neighbors didn’t call the police hearing me scream like that! The worse thing was that I didn’t know where the giant creepy mega-bug had gone. I quickly dressed, called my boyfriend and told him while I was at work he must come and kill it for me or I was not sleeping in my apartment that night, I’d have to stay in a hotel. He found it lurking under my dining room table and properly disposed of it. My “boyfriend” (my husband now 16 years later) and I still laugh about it to this day. 🙂
Lisa M says
When I was 6 months pregnant a friend of mine gave us an antique bassinette to use. It was beautiful with white lace draped all around the sides that swept to the floor.
I was cleaning out the nursery to get ready for baby and we had placed the bassinette in her room while we arranged the furniture. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something black hanging off the side of the bassinette and immediately jumped. I looked at the lace and saw what looked like a HUGE bat hanging off the side of it. I ran so fast I tripped out the door. I slammed the door shut and called my husband at work.
Now generally he would be working from the office close to our home but he was in a meeting at an office about 45 minutes away. When he got my frantic call, he was very nervous that something had happened to me and the baby. I was hysterical. “There’s a bat in the nursery and I can’t go in there!!! It’s HUGE and about 6″ long and it was staring at me!!! What if it flies into the rest of the house,” I told him. My husband, the ever calm, expecting dad told me he’d come home in an hour and get rid of it. I was only partially relieved because I was afraid it would somehow crawl underneath the 1/4″ door space and “get me.”
He arrived home within the hour and took a broom upstairs to the nursery. He ducked down as he carefully opened the door and began creeping towards the bassinette. I was instructing him from the hallway (with the door closed) as to where it was hanging on the lace. He finally made his way over to the bassinette in the far corner of the room and found the “bat”.
He then walked calmly out the room and asked me to come in. I was still trembling with fear and said, “no way! I’m not going near it. What if it bites me and I get rabies?” My husband, who was trying to not crack a smile said it would be safe and dragged me to the bassinette.
He then informed me to look closer at the “bat” which was actually a moth with a circle patterned on the outside of it’s wings that looked like eyes. He started laughing hysterically. “Homey, you cannot get rabies from a moth,” is what he said to me.
It was a moth. It was 2″ long. It did have a creepy eye pattern to keep predators, such as a hormone-hysterical, pregnant women, away. It was also DEAD.
To this day I have never lived this down. Everytime I am afraid of a bug my husband reminds me gently that “No honey, it’s not a bat. It is probably just a dead moth.”
Dar says
My parents took me on my first camping trip with family and friends. I ended up in the E.R. Found out I was allergic to most insects. I swelled up like a balloon from mosquitoes. Since then “I FEAR INSECTS”!
clenna in NH says
First, I hate spiders. I stopped at the local drug store to pick up a prescription . As I was dashing across the little grassy, tree lined divider in the parking lot, I had to duck under some tree limbs.
I ran into the store and was standing at the pharamacy counter when the clerk looked at me and gasped. I had baby spiders all over my head!!!! Ahhh… I did a crazy swatting dance with squeaks and squeals. I kept saying ‘do you see any more?’ in a high pitched panicy voice. I had the creepy crawlies for days. Apparently when I duck under that limb, I had walked through a web filled with the newly hatching spiders. I hate spiders.
Lady Old Soul says
Then, there was the time when I was 6 years old, visiting my very favorite cousins down in teeny Weimar, TX. They lived literally out in the middle of NOWHERE, and the only thing to do for fun was go exploring. On the day of this story, we had decided to go out into a neighboring farmer’s cornfield, to see what we could see. A large passenger plane passed directly overhead, and was flying REALLY low considering how far they were from any airport. We of course stopped to marvel at this wondrous sight (we were 6…what do you expect?), and didn’t pay much mind as to WHERE we were stopped. After about 10 seconds, I started feeling crawly and sting-y, and looked down to see what that was about. Turns out, I was literally COVERED from thigh to toe in a swarm of those dreaded fire ants, and they were biting the bejesus out of me!! This set me to howling unmercifully, since I was straight TERRIFIED of all manner of insects. Our trip back to their house seemed to take a lifetime! On hearing my caterwauling, my aunt came outside to see what on earth could be the problem. I knew I was in trouble when my aunt (who was, shall we say, a hardass) turned as white as a sheet and flew into a panic. She turned their waterhose on me, trying to get all those damnable ants off. It took a while, and I had to be stripped of all my clothing to rid myself of them completely. So at the end of the ordeal, I was naked, soaking wet and freezing half to death. Not to mention covered in about 1000 fire ant bites!! I don’t know how many of you have ever been bitten by a fire ant. But their bites itch like an LSD hallucination, and once you scratch them, it burns like hellfire. (Hence the name fire ants.) I was covered completely from the waist down, and also had bites on a great deal of my torso and arms. A MASSIVELY unpleasant thing for any 6-year old, to be sure. Since that day, I’ve been the victim of a highly unbearable ant phobia. I can’t even see one on TV without flying into a terror. Hubs once thought it would be cute to let me be surprised by the ant scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. After I accidentally broke the vacuum cleaner into 4 large chunks in my haste to escape the room, he didn’t think it was so cute anymore. Now, he takes that phobia VERY seriously. LOL!
Lady Old Soul says
Yeeeuck, cockroaches!!! *shudders*
When I was 7 years old, we lived in a tiny town in Southern California called Niland. It was a short-lived residency, but it resulted in several of the worst stories I have in my arsenal. This is one of those stories. My mom has this thing about bugs. She can’t see a bug, lest she freak out to an extreme most people don’t experience. (I strongly believe she passed this down to us kids, since all of us are total bug-phobes just like Mommy.) At any rate, our time in Niland was during the early summer months, when weather was the hottest. So any vehicle that had been recently driven with the A/C on was a prime target for creepy crawlies of all varieties, so that they could cool off, too. My mom had a brain fart on one of these days, and left the windows down after leaving the car. She of course rolled them back up once she got in to drive the car again, and that led to our problem. While the windows were down, one of those horrifyingly HUGE Madagascan beetle/cockroaches climbed into the car, and took up residence under the passenger seat. Of course, once the windows were back up again, the car was a veritable oven to bake trapped cockroaches in. Once it was time for us to move on to the next town in our string of new towns, we began cleaning out the car. I’ll never forget as long as I live the bloodcurdling, utterly ear-piercing scream my mother let out when she discovered that damn beetle/roach!! It brought neighbors around to our neck of the woods from literally BLOCKS away! Since she couldn’t deal with the sight of a bug that was literally longer than her hand, she had fainted dead away in the parking lot where the car was sitting, and had to be revived. Us kids had to see the monstrosity for ourselves, since kids never do the thing that will cause them LESS grief. I have never forgotten how gigantic that bug was, and I have nightmares about it to this very day. (The incident I’ve described happened in 1987.) So I’m not a fan of any type of cockroach/beetle. And that fact is NEVER going to change.
Soraya says
I tend to avoid bugs and creepy crawlies…Even when I was seven and got a much begged for container of slime to play with, I couldn’t bring myself to open it because my mom accidently bought the kind with fake worms in it. I couldn’t get my sister to take them out so I could play with the slime. It still gives me shivers!
Sheila Christensen says
I don’t know whether to tell the story about the scorpion that I stepped on while carrying my 6-month-old baby, and the bite caused me to develop “milk fever,” which nearly killed me and my baby. Or there is the time I went into the baby’s nursery and there was a huge black widow, engorged with blood, lying on its back dead near the crib. Or, there was the time the jumping tarantulas nearly landed on my foot while I was carrying the baby out to the car in the night. Or, there was the time I drove home across the desert, and as I entered through the kitchen door, I looked down and saw a huge violin backed brown recluse spider lying dead on my gleaming white kitchen floor thanks to Raid. My daughter had sprayed it to death with a can of Raid she found in the garage, and then she was too afraid to pick up the dead creature with a cloth. Or, there was the time my excessively cheapo ex-husband didn’t want to pay for camping or hotel fees, so he positioned our sleeping bags under the limbs of ancient fruit trees, and hundreds of ear wigs began falling on us through the night, and then there was the time…Oh, the adventures of living in Arizona. So glad I don’t live there now.
Robert Phillips says
Me and my co-workers were standing around drinking hot chocolate the we had purchased from the vending machine at our shop and one of us noticed that the little brown bits at the bottom of our cups was not unmixed hot chocolate mix bvut was actually ground up cockroaches!!!! Well…that was sickening, disgusting and just awful.
Alida Rodriguez says
Please delete my previous comment. This is my bug story!
Once while visiting my aunt in Louisiana ( I am a yankee, born in Iowa) I woke up, I heard this odd little sound. I can’t quiet describe it. Kind of like a wing flap then a slight scampering of tiny feet. Weird. I got up and my eyes immediately scanned the room when lo and behold I saw a HUMONGOUS cockroach. I SCREAMED in horror and grabbed a shoe and throw it on the bug. The shoe MOVED slightly! YUCK!!!I I picked up the shoe to hit at it again and it FLEW at me.FLEW! And to my horror it wasnt even slightly damaged! Cockroaches don’t FLY do they? I was totally unaware that cockroaches fly! Well in Louisiana they DO! This caused me to break out in a frenzied screaming hysteria trying to search for bug spray ANYWHERE, trying to duck for cover. The roach was VERY angry at me and kept flying at me. Worse yet it summoned a few of it’s friends. I was being chased by a small swarm of ginormous disgusting ROACHES! I hid in the bathroom crying paralyzed by fear until my cousins came and rescued me. I don’t know where those dag gone hideous repulsive little critters went but I haven’t wanted to visit Louisiana since. Later I went to the bathroom late at nigh and when I went to wash my hands two very different looking bugs were on the faucet handle! One a very bright red that I have never seen before or since and a greenish bluish florescent looking creature unlike and I’d ever seen! I am embarrassed to see this but Years later I STILL sleep with a scarf on my head covering my ears because you just never KNOW what creepy crawlies might visit you in the night while you sleep!
Alida Rodriguez says
Once while visiting my aunt in Louisiana I woke up, I heard this odd little sound. I can’t quiet describe it. Kind of like a wing flap then a slight scampering of tiny feet. Weird. I got up and my eyes immediately scanned the room when lo and behold I saw a HUMONGOUS cockroach. I SCREAMED in horror and grabbed a shoe and throw it on the bug. The shoe MOVED slightly! YUCK!!!I I picked up the shoe to hit at it again and it FLEW at me.FLEW! And to my horror it wasnt even slightly damaged! Cockroaches don’t FLY do they? I was totally unaware that cockroaches fly! Well in Louisiana they DO! This caused me to break out in a frenzied screaming hysteria trying to search for bug spray ANYWHERE, trying to duck for cover. The roach was VERY angry at me and kept flying at me. Worse yet it summoned a few of it’s friends. I was being chased by a small swarm of ginormous disgusting ROACHES! I hid in the bathroom crying paralyzed by fear until my cousins came and rescued me. I don’t know where those dag gone hideous repulsive little critters went but I haven’t wanted to visit Louisiana since. Later I went to the bathroom late at nigh and when I went to wash my hands two very different looking bugs were on the faucet handle! I am embarrassed to see this but Years later I STILL sleep with a scarf on my head covering my ears because you just never KNOW what creepy crawlies might visit you in the night while you sleep!
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David says
My wife and I were out to eat at a buffet. I went to get a plate and I sat back down. I ate a few bites and wiped my mouth with the red cloth napkin that sat on the table. We chatted a bit and I went to pick up my fork. That’s when I saw it. A huge, and I do mean huge, black beetle (a lot like this one: http://is.gd/VNunQm ) on the napkin I had just used to wipe my mouth. It was 2 inches long and waving one tentacle at me. It had to have been in the napkin the whole time because it was BIG and we definitely would have seen it walk across the table if it came from somewhere else.
I called my wife’s attention to it and we both jumped out of our seats. We must have looked pretty horrified because the waitress came over immediately. We showed the bug to her and she let out a little scream. I informed her we wouldn’t be finishing our meal. I still shudder thinking about that big black beetle being so close to my face. ugggh…
Lady Old Soul says
OMG….I think I just fainted a little bit….*shudders!!!*
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Danielle W says
We bought our house 10 years ago, Had the place painted inside and pest control come two weeks before we moved in. Night one sitting on the back porch I got attacked hubby was pulling Roaches about three inches big out of my hair and clothes. We turned the light on the back porch and the wall was covered in these huge roaches. I called exterminator they said no its not possible that they had to be coming from somewhere else since they were dead the next moring all over the back porch. Night two Hubby and I armed ourselves with flashlights went out to the back porch and there they were. I was now mad and gonna get to the bottom of this we started searching they were on the rock fence went to the side yard they were on the ground, shined the light on the nieghbors wall we only like six feet apart and slowly shined our flash lights going up and up till we watched them pouring out of the next door nieghbors Attic vent. I was grossed out. Next day went to nieghbors with my exterminators buisness card handed it to them and told them. I got a buy one get one free for my nieghbor and that all they had to do was call and it would be free. Trying to play it off as a free thing to not offend my neighbors, took six months of battleing and finally them evil little things were gone for good.
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Kathy Worrell says
I was a very overprotective mother. If my precious 14 month old Elizabeth got dirty I would freak out unless I could immediately clean her up. One day I was particularly busy with house work. My little Liz was sitting by my sliding glass door and playing very quietly. As I was washing dishes I glanced over at her and saw her chewing. Since I knew I hadnt given her anything to chew on I rushed over to check it out. I dug HALF of a Roly-Poly out of her mouth. I freaked and in tears made an emergency call to her doctor. What he told me was “awww, it wont hurt her. Its just a little bug”. Well let me tell you, the exterminator couldnt get to my house too quickly! Elizabeth is grown now with 2 kids of her own. I made her promise not to feed them bugs,
Jeannine m says
I had lived in South Carolina for awhile where they have huge cockroaches. Our apartment didn’t seem to have a problem with them as it was sprayed once in awhile and we hadn’t really seen any.
One night as I was sould alsleep I woke up to something landing on my face. I swated it off, turn over and went back to sleep. A few mins later i felt something else land on my face. This time I decided to get up to see what is what, As I turned on the light and looked at the celing I could see at least 15 mins cockroaches climb up there. As I watched one fell down onto the bed where i had been sleeping. I grabbed a blanket , throw it over my head and ran out the door screaming. My roomate checked to see what was wrong. He went into my room to get rid of them. When he came out he told me it was a good thing I didn’t look on the bed becuase there were a bunch crawling all over it.
Karina says
When I was 7 I had a tiny room in our unfinished basement and one morning I was wakened by my mother hitting me in the face with a book. I was confused and hurt, as she had never done anything like that to me before, and asked why she would do such a thing and all she offered was, “It’s time to get ready for school.” I went several years thinking she had had a mental-moment with that “wake up” she gave me and finally when I was about 18 I mentioned it to her. “Oh that,” she said nonchalantly, “I didnt’ want to tell you that I was hitting a huge cockroach that had just climbed out of your mouth.” Aaaaaahhh! Even though it happened years earlier I had to go wash my mouth out with Listerine and brush my teeth!
Eve says
This is really not my story, it’s my sister’s and being we both hate bugs I can relate. She went to Puerto Rico on vacation (we were to meet her 1 week later in San Juan but she wanted to go to some Island which I don’t recall if it was Culebra Island or something else). So our cousin from P.R. meets her and they stay at this island with no lights or modern amenities. She is packed with her bug spray (because we were raised in NYC and bugs are not our thing) now she says the entire room was covered in bugs, all shapes and sizes, colors and who knows what else. My then nephew was about 7 years old and my sister said she kept using her ‘OFF’ spray and stayed up all night watching over her son. Our cousin and her 2 daughters(of course born/raised in P.R.) went to sleep without a care in the world but my city sister was up and spraying until the sun came out. Talk about forget about my refund check, they left the next day, packed their stuff and never returned to that desolate bug-riddled island. Glad I didn’t fall for it and met her there. Hello, the island was named “Culebra Island”…culebra means snake, like yeah I’ll pass on that one!
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rachel says
My twin sister and I were given a puppy for our 6th birthday. Imagine our parents’ horror to discover a few weeks later that the puppy had fleas. Not wanting to expose their little girls, my parents took Kristy (the puppy) to the vet for treatment. Then we set out an off-brand bug bomb for fleas in the house and went to my mom’s sister’s house for a week.
When we got back, I was the first one to enter the house. I remember saying, “Boy, it sure is webby in here,” before I looked down. There were literally THOUSANDS of fleas all over my legs. There were so many fleas throughout the rest of the house that every surface looked black. I was immediately yanked back out of the house. My mom and sister wiped the fleas off my legs while my dad made sure the door was closed securely.
It took a while, but we finally managed to get rid of the fleas. To this day, I continue to hate fleas with a passion that burns deep within my soul….
Charity S says
Just a few months ago I was trying to cut branches that were interfering with the path my horses have to walk to get to their feeding place. It’s important to keep it clear, as it borders a downhill slope that they could fall down if they lost their footing. While cutting one of the last areas, I was all of a sudden attacked by a swarm of mad hornets! It seems I literally stepped in a hornets nest! To make matters worse, I was wearing my torn pants. They were stinging me all over my arms, going for my face, on my legs and they even managed to get inside my pants! I suffered many, many stings all over, and yes, several stings in the most private of private parts!! They swelled into huge red welts and became very itchy! To top it off, I still had to go back and finish pruning!!
Therese says
My mom is deathly afraid of bugs. She was away on a business trip and discovered a spider in her room. She went to find a co worker of hers to kill it for her. She brought him back to her room and told him to kill it. The only problem was he was blind. So she proceeded to help him kill the bug by lifting his leg up for him and stomping on the bug. It worked! For Christmas that year my aunt gave her a mannequin leg inside a shoe and that was her “BUG STOMPER”
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April says
Well, I’ve got tons of stories but one that immediately comes to mind…
My friend and I, when we were in high school, were latchkey kids so we would end up at my house usually to hang out for a while after school. My house backed up to a wooded area so there were bugs and spiders aplenty. However, on this occasion, after spending time together, she went to leave by the front door (which we had come in by an hour earlier) and ran into a spider web across the posts on the porch. She immediately freaked out, ran screaming into the front yard and ripped off her shirt – jumping up and down and waving her arms she begged me to make sure she was spider free. I did so but the whole time I was laughing hysterically. She finally, after being declared spider free, put her shirt back on and went home. After that she always swept the porch posts with a stick before walking through.
MelissaO says
I lived in Cancun for a few years, and because of its being on the Caribbean, there were tons of roaches. Big ones. Ones that flew. I kinda got used to them and it didn’t even gross me out to spray them, kill them, and scoop them up. But once when we were on the couch watching TV, one flew right down my tank top, Again, I don’t get creeped out easily, but this was too much for me. Flew off the couch and started jumping around while my then-boyfriend, now-husband just laughed at me.
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Jenn E says
I’ve got a few of them for sure!
The funniest was one day I came downstairs and my cat Frank was batting at something in the corner. Then he backed away and started meowing fearfully. I looked in the corner and there was a tiny little potato bug all balled up.
Holly C. says
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Holly C. says
my creepy story is my husband and I were in Mexico a few years ago and he had an itch in his back, asked me to scratch it, well when I found the site it looked like a scab of some sort. I took my nails and picked out what looked like thin strip on something, then it moved in my palm. It turned out to be a BOT FLY lava, that had burrowed in his skin from a mosquito. It was using his body as a host, it was a magot using his body to hatch to a bot fly, yuk!!
Jean says
My mother-in-law was afraid of spiders. One day, while she was visiting us, I found a huge spider in the bathroom and killed it. My toddler daughter, witnessing the spider killing, promptly went to her Grandma and announced, “Grandma–there’s a big spider and it was -crawling on your stuff in the bathroom!” My mother-in-law turned white and requested to use the other bathroom for the rest of her stay.
Kathleen Lundgren says
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught that look on my 15 month old’s face. That sideways grind-mash jaw sliding. With drool. I’d seen it before: rug lint, food scraps from under the table, dirt, grass, whatever. Quick finger sweep. It was a big fat ear wig. No RAID for this story. But plenty of creep-out. She’s 30 now, but I still remember.
Jenae says
When I was 18, I got a new job…at a bug show. The show consisted of walking around letting people look at giant millipedes, giving “fun” facts about our tarantula, and the grand finale of the show was having a lucky audience member come up and EAT a bug.
One day, we had no takers. So my boss, called for the resident bug eater to come out and show everyone that eating a bug was nutritious and fun! Guess who the “resident bug eater” was? ME! I had the “privilege” of crunching down on a cricket, while remembering to smile AND chew with my mouth open so the huge crowd could hear the loud cruch.
Christine says
As a Homecare Physical Therapist, you expect the unexpected, when you first walk into a home. You learn to ignore things, like the smell of cat urine on carpet, cluttered messes, and tiny homes. But, sometimes there are problems going on, in a home, that you cannot ignore. I was out to a home, for a first visit, to see a child. A very extended family, along with many dogs, a few iguanas and several cats also lived in this cramped home. Unfortunately, they had to share their space with the what could probably have been the worlds worst cockroach infestation. As I was working with this child, and older sibling, kept saying to her mom “MOM, LOOK there’s another one!” Pointing to one of about a million cockroaches that made up the floor/counter covering in the home. You couldn’t step anywhere, without the skittering of hundreds of these bugs around your feet. Her mother, told her to hush, as if I couldn’t see the millions of cockroaches underfoot, above foot and just everywhere the eye can see. I wouldn’t sit down on the floor, on the furniture. I just squatted on the floor for my entire 45 minute visit. When I left, and before I reached my car, I prayed that none of those bugs left with me, and none did. But, after I was out of sight of that home, I jumped out of my car, and peeled off my shoes, and checked myself out for any more bugs. I had the fortunate opportunity to return weekly for six months, and nothing changed, the cockroaches continued to be the primary inhabitants, allowing the humans and their pets to cohabitate with them. I still shiver to this day thinking about the house made up of cockroaches, and have never been in a situation like that since.
Cathy McCaughan says
My bug story is here: http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/2008/09/10/arachnolectus/
Janet Giesbrecht says
Apparently when i was a kid,i used to EAT crickets. Thnking the lord i DO NOT remember this. I am completely disgusted. And i also used to pull off grasshoppers legs,and laugh when they couldn’t jump. I’m mean i know ,lol.
Lisa Smith says
I am literally phobic of spiders. One morning I walked through a spider web going to my car. I always get the heebie jeebies after that happens anyhow. You feel the web tickling you for a bit and it freaks you out for a while. I shook it off and start driving. Feeling the sensation of a web on my face, I look up into the rear view mirror and there is was a huge spider on my cheek~ i totally pulled over to the side of the road got out of my car screaming, flapping my arms, jumping up and down…..totally grossed me out and looked like a fool to boot~!!
Elizabeth says
When I was 16, I spent a long weekend in Eagle, WI, with my friend and her grandmother, at her grandmother’s cabin. My friend was completely freaked out at the thought of baiting her fish hooks with live minnows. No problem, I did all of the baiting. She returned the favor, the next morning, when I couldn’t find my glasses, but was still able to see something moving in my bag of clothing. I called, loudly, for my friend to come and see what it was. Oh yeah, it was a wolf spider. They are the Wisconsin equivalent of the trantula!!! My friend used a running shoe to beat it to death. It did not die quickly, either. It kept bouncing off of the floor, every time she hit it. I had the “heebie geebies” for the rest of the weekend…
Robin Hillyer Miles says
After college, two roommates and I shared a townhouse on Grove Street, near the Ashley River and The Citadel in Charleston, SC.
One hot, sultry, summer night I woke up to a tickling on (not in) my throat. I swiped at my neck and dozed back off. Minutes later the sweep of little feet on my neck woke me up fully. With one hand reaching for the bedside lamp, I grabbed at the bug with the other and threw it with all my might across the room. The small light from the lamp didn’t shine into all the dark corners so I hopped out of the bed . When I reached for the wall switch I felt something in my hand and, after putting on my glasses, I peered at the object in the palm of my hand. One leg. One rather large appendage of the Palmetto bug variety. I searched the room for the culprit but never found him. From that night on I slept with the sheets pulled up under my chin.
A week later I came home from work and heard one of my roommates beating on the walls of her room. She looked hilarious. She’d been in the middle of changing from her work clothing to lounging outfit and wore only a slip with a high-heeled shoe held high in one hand as she stood on her bed chasing a Palmetto bug across the wall.
“Whatcha doing?” I leaned against the doorframe.
“Trying to kill this darn bug. You wouldn’t think he’d be so quick since he’s missing a leg.”
At that I lurched for her other shoe and joined her on the bed to help her kill the stinker.
Revenge at last. Yes, it was sweet.
Please note Palmetto bugs are HUGE water bugs that prefer the indoors, just like you and me, if it is hot, rainy or nasty weather outside. Just stomp on them … also note that some can FLY.
Aisling says
When I was about 15, several of us were spending the night at a girlfriend’s house. Her mom had just gotten new dining room furniture and was really proud of the bargain she’d gotten. Someone went into the kitchen about 3 a.m. for a glass of water, turned on a light, and the dining room looked like your Hawaiian hotel with baby cockroaches scurrying everywhere. We spent some time screaming and carrying on, but eventually went back to sleep. Her mom got rid of the furniture the next day, but we didn’t have another pajama party there for a long time. And I still hate cockroaches!
kate Watkinson says
My bug story is not actually about me, but my childhood friend. She emigrated from Russia at about 12 years old, and we bonded right away. She was home alone, and phoned me in a panic, crying about poisonous bugs all over the apartment. She had locked herself in the bathroom and was calling our house for help. When we asked more questions, it turned out the poison bugs were ladybugs. She had assumed they were poison because she’d never seen a bug that brightly colored. A lot of brightly colored creatures and fungi are the poisonous ones, so she assumed the same rule applied.
Melissa says
Every late summer/early fall in Indiana we have a ladybug/beetle invasion of sorts. At this time it doesn’t matter how clean or fancy your house is, they get in EVERYONE’S homes. They are in the windows, on the curtains, hanging out in the light fixtures, EVERYWHERE. Of course, where there are bugs there are going to be little bug corpses that constantly have to be swept up. One day, while cleaning the house, my almost two year old son decided to “help” me. He proceeded to pick up one of the beetle corpses off of the floor and EAT it!! It happened so fast that before I could even react I heard the crunch of the bug between his teeth. He looked at me and said “Ewwww” and spit out the remains, then turned around and picked up another one and ate it as well! I don’t know if he thought that the next one would taste better or what? And maybe it did, because he swallowed that one! It was horrible! I thought I would die, and the worst part was, from that point on, he would eat them anytime he saw them! I guess this was just a momentary phase he was going through, because now he is a happy, healthy four year old that DOES NOT eat bugs anymore, I am quite happy to report.
Kay S. says
My husband was out of town on a business trip. Our daughter, then 10 years old, slept with me while he was gone. One night, about 2:30 a.m. I heard this very faint whisper saying “Mom”, “Mom”! I instantly woke up and my daughter whispered again in a very soft voice “What is that noise?” I listened and very soon I heard a scratching sound that sounded like it was right by our window which was right next to our bed. My heart almost stopped and neither one of us would move. Very soon the noise was there again. I knew it was a definite “something for real sound” but didn’t know what it was or what to do since the sound was so close by. After listening to the scratching sound for several minutes I finally remembered recently cleaning with our dust buster. It was plugged in near our bed. I then got up and bent over and listened near it and sure enough the scratching soon started once again! I had vacuumed up a hard back bug and that was the scratching sound! We still laugh about that but at the time we were absolutely terrified! To prevent that from happening again I try to always clean by vacuum after each use!!
Snookie Quinn says
I don’t do bugs. There, i said it. I have been deathly afraid of spiders and other creepy crawlies since I was a little girl. I don’t know what instilled this fear but it is fully ingrained.
Back in ’75 I was a private in the US Army. During my basic training in South Carolina during July and August,,,major SPIDER MONTHS,,,, I had to go on bivouac,,,,or camping for you non-military types. We were allowed to go to a small Post Exchange….think 7-11,,,,before our 3 days, in the woods. Most of my fellow Army campers were buying packs of Kool-aid, sodas, People magazines, potatoe chips, crackers and list goes on and on. I was the only one in my aisle. I stood before the bounty I was after reading about square foot coverage, I was standing in the RAID aisle! Potato chips be damned! I bought 7 cans of RAID because that’s all I had money for.
So we get out to the bivouac area and we have to start putting up our canvas sided homes,,, read that as tents,,,that we’ll live in for the next three days, two nights. My partner, Kathy, who had the other half of our pup tent started to spread out the “floor” of our tent. I quickly stopped her and explained that I would spray RAID first. She quickly agreed that was a good idea. Once the floor was laid I sprayed it liberally with RAID too. Next came the pup tent sides, again sprayed when the last stake was in the ground. One can down. We then each took a can and THOROUGHLY sprayed a ten foot perimeter around our tent. We layed out our sleeping bags and….you guessed it, sprayed them, inside and out. We wouldn’t be sleeping in them for hours yet so they would have time to air out. Murmurs were running through the bivouac area, “why didn’t “I” think to get RAID” “why did “I” spend money on chips, I never gave a thought to bugs!” As you can imagine everyone wanted to “borrow” one of my cans of RAID. Uh-uh, no way, no how, not in this lifetime! It was time for us to turn in and Kathy and I covered that same ten foot perimeter with another can of bug killer. Since we had a male drill sgt, he couldn’t stay in the field with us but happened to walk through the tent area before taking his leave. I heard my name bellowed…..Private R _ _ _ _ _! I ran front and center wondering what I had done because his tone didn’t give off good vibes.. He got face to face with me and asked rather loudly, “What is that smell I smell?” I replied proudly, “Drill SGT, you smell RAID!” Yes, proudly, being the good soldier I thought I showed a good thought process and took action to correct a problem. He stepped even closer and yelled, “Private R _ _ _ _ _ who gave you permission to defoliate my forest?” Uh-oh, I’m in trouble. I didn’t know what to say so I just stood there. One step closer and we are nose to nose. “Private R _ _ _ _ _, WHY did you try to defoliate my forest?” Thoughts of court martial were going through my mind or even worse a dishonarble discharge! I was aware of all the others in my squad standing still and just watching. I was so scared, I had never had anyone in my life stand nose to nose with me and scream at me as only a drill Sgt can do. I could feel my bottom lip start to quiver and I blinked rapidly to hold back the tears. He screamed it again,,,,,”:WHY????” In a voice barely above a whisper I replied, “Because I don’t do bugs Drill SGT.” He took a step back, stared at me, and busted out laughing! One step closer and in a voice low enough that just I could hear he said, “Good thinking Private, I don’t do bugs either and I’m glad I’m going home” Throughout the next two nights we heard screams of “Somethings crawling on me!” Other squad members had to deal with chigger bites, mosqitoe bites, and small spider bites and let’s face it, they didn’t get a good night’s sleep. Kathy and I, we smiled and turned over in our bug free tent and went to sleep.
Giant Sis says
My bug story happened at work. I was in my coworker’s office discussing a project, when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Well, I looked around and all I saw was her candy-filled bowl and some folders. We kept talking – until I KNOW I saw something move again. This time, I saw what it was – a giant roach IN her open-lid candy dish (that we all grab candy from at will). This roach was crawling all over the candies in the bowl, unable to escape the slippery coating of the small candies! EW! We both started shrieking until one of the male coworkers came to see what the fuss was. When we showed him the roach practically swimming in the candies, our fearless coworker did the unthinkable – he REACHED INTO THE BOWL and GRABBED the roach WITH HIS BARE HAND! Then, he carried it outside and set it free. That candy dish was promptly trashed, and that night, I went out and bought my friend a candy dish WITH A LID to avoid this ever happening again!
Brittney says
I was pregnant and my husband worked a good 1.5-2hrs away from home. Usually he got home around 8 at night, and sometimes later. I was going to walk upstairs to put away some laundry and there was the biggest, blackest spider I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I ran back down stairs and grabbed a can of bug spray and literally used the entire can on him… and he didn’t die. I didn’t know what to do. I was too terrified to get close enough to squish him… he could run up my leg and all… so what did i do? I grabbed a tubberware bowl and threw it on top of him.. and then stacked 2 heavy books on top of that.. he wasn’t escaping. When my husband came home he got rid of the horrible spider for me… laughing all the way.
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My husband and son went on a scouting overnight at a nearby zoo. They visited the nocturnal section with lots of creepy crawlies. A few days later, my husband and I were on a date and as we were sitting at a drive-in restaurant eating ice cream in our van, I felt something on my foot. It was a HUGE brown cockroach. I nearly fainted as I quickly jumped out of the van. My husband said it must have come from the exhibit at the zoo because there were giant cockroaches there. It must have hitched a ride in their backpacks or sleeping bags. We never did find it again which made being in the van a little creepy.
ferriz says
Some ladies see a mouse and jump on the table and scream like little girls. im that way with roaches. seriously, i would have run from that hotel room to canada. forget water, i would be running so fast it wouldnt be an issue. your story made me cry on the inside. o.O
For me my issue is things with wings. When i was about 7 i was riding my bike and got attacked by a june bug. I didnt know they were harmless and blind. i fell off my bike and ran, with it chasing me. i screamed bloody murder and got lectured by my friend’s dad. Now I assume anything that flies is trying to kill me and i run, fast and in the other direction.
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Lisa says
This actually just happened to me last week. I was reorganizing my garage at 10 pm with my cousin Ricky. We were constantly bothered by June bugs..I don’t know if that’s what they are really called, as my husband who is from England insist that they are called dune bugs, but whatever…Those little buggers scare the living crap out of me. Those suckers land and then fly and make this God awful noise when they get close to your ears, plus I just know one is going to land in my hair and live in it forever. Well, I saw one on the ground and I was going to kill that dang thing, if it killed me. I am also disalbed and use a scooter for mobility. This bug looked all still like, so I turned my scooter on high and made a bee line and charged for that SOB. Well, that SOB had the nerve to start flying right when I got one inch from it, and I started screaming and switched controls on my scooter and I went flying all the way backwards out of my garage and almost flipping out of my scooter. My husband laughed his butt off. But I hate those things. They crunch when you step on them..yuck yuck yuck.
Tracy says
My great grandmother taught me that there is beauty everywhere in Nature, even in the bug world. She had the most amazing green thumb, she’d always attract butterflies, and through her I had developed quite a fascination with them. Even when she taught me that they started off as caterpillers which creeped me out at first, it was an amazing lesson about transformation. Not only do I still love butterflies, but they have always been a symbol of change, transformation and guidance in our family, and years later, the subject of my blog! 🙂
JuliaA. says
I’ve never really had a bug phobia until I met my husbad. While we were dating we spent many weekends in the woods before hunting season came in looking for tell tale signs of bucks. One day we happened upon a huge open field, and thinking nothing of it, started to walk through it. He was behind me, and all of a sudden I felt things hitting my back and flying past me out of the corner of my eye. To my horror there were grasshoppers hopping/flying everywhere. All the while, he is laughing and throwing them at me while I’m screaming, and running for my life.
Fast forward 8 years and my daughter and I are driving down to my moms house on a beautiful day. We had the windows down and all of a sudden and HUGE MONSTER grasshopper flew into my window and landed on my shoulder. How I managed to pull over and not crash is a mystery. I made my daugher get out of the car and remove it from my shoulder. Yes, I made her do it, and I’m not ashamed. Thankfully she is not scared of bugs, nor did I scar her for life when that incident happened!
Laura Crowe says
When my daughter was 19 months old my father was her babysitter. She was in her playpen in the living room. My dad was out front of my tiny appartment but had the door open so he could hear her, we didn’t have a screen door so he was letting in all the flies. He heard her yelling and and came in to check on her. She pointed at a fly on the ceiling that she was talking to and my dad whacked it with a newspaper. My daughter freaked out got very upset and was crying because pop pop killed her friend. A week later I came home to find my dad chasing and sucking up flies with the vacuum cleaner hose. He explained that he was trying to get rid of the flies in the house without upsetting her again. She was giggling at him cause he looked like he was dancing trying to chase them with the hose. I was no more good.
joni says
While in Punta Canta I was in a tourest shop and I picked a picture off the wall to purchase it. A big hairy tarantula spider ran down my arm. I screamed so loud and dropped the picture that everyone in the store came running. Well the clerk assured me that this was the good type of tarantula and not a bad one. When I went to pick the picture up off the floor there was a 6 inch beetle of some kind on my foot. I handed the clerk money and ran out of that store.
Jenner says
Don’t run with your mouth open. I was once stung on my tongue by a bee!
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Pamela says
Just as it started getting warmer outside this year we had lied down in bed, lights out, almost asleep when my husband felt something crawling on him so he jumped up to turn on the light. It was freaky, I can never rest when I think there is a bug in the room, so we tore the room apart looking for it. Finally we found the lil pest and it was a tiny little dust spider. LOL
**Nicole** says
When I went to Bible Camp they had these huge black pine beetles. They were harmless but pretty creepy looking, even if you’re not easily grossed out by bugs. One flew over and landed in my hair, instead of trying to help me out all the girls in my cabin screamed and screamed and jumped up and down, I was left flinging my head around trying to figure out how to pull it out of my hair without actually touching it–Bleck!!!!
Jennifer Magreevy says
I have so many bug/insect/creepy crawly stories its hard to pick just one!! My most recent memorable one was a year and a half ago. I had just moved into a newly built home while my husband was deployed in Iraq. After finally getting my toddler to sleep, I went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the cat batting at something. It was a 3 inch scorpion!! I didn’t even know scorpions were in the area, let alone ambling around my bathroom!! I, of course, got about two inches away from it so I could study it…and it didn’t even seem to mind. It slowly made its way around the entire bathroom. I really didn’t know what to do, so I pulled all the cotton balls out of a glass container and slammed the container over the scorpion to keep it in one spot. Then I frantically called a friend to ask her what to do. She laughed hysterically, told me to grab a shoe, and smash it. Ummm, no thanks.
I can’t even handle crushing a pill bug, and listening to its shell crack…you want me to crush a scorpion with a freaking exoskeleton??? NOOOOOO. Yuck. I can just imagine the goo I’d have to clean up. I decide a better option would be to get the bug spray, lift the glass container just a smidgeon and suffocate the bastard.
See the above paragraph with the word “exoskeleton”?? Should have clued me in that bug spray doesn’t work. Dammit. (my friend is still on the phone, giggling uncontrollably at my antics.) So I decide to take a look at the sucker, and move the container to see him move. I move it back and forth, faster and faster, forcing the thing to start speeding up his crawling. I notice now his tail, which had been rather lax and calm, is alert and straight up. I nonchalantly wonder why this may be, and my rather amused friend has to say, “uh, dumbass, its because you’re pissing it off!” Oh.
Needless to say, after “playing” with a scorpion for the better part of 30 minutes, I finally work up the courage to put on one of my husband’s military work boots and smash the thing. I then take the boot, carcass still attached, directly out to the trash and frantically thrash the boot against the trash can to remove the carcass. I’m proud of myself for conquering the scorpion by myself, and also calmly grabbing my camera to snap a few photos for posterity. 🙂
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Ravzie says
Your cockroach story made me think of what it’s like back home in Florida. We have “palmetto bugs” – giant flying roaches. Very icky!
Years ago, one got in my friend’s house. He thought it would be really funny to set it on fire with his Bic lighter. It crawled away very quickly, as you might expect. It went right under the closet door. My doofus friend didn’t think much of it until the whole closet was on fire!!!
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Deanna says
Every day before I step into the shower I survey the bathtub for creepy crawlers. On this particular day I did not see any so I stepped inside and proceeded to take my shower. I turned around to get the shampoo and when I turned back around there was a big cockroach at my feet! I tried to wash my unwanted guest down the drain, but there was not enough water coming down. I ended up having to use my toe to get the cockroach to go down the drain. I immediately closed the drain and did not open it until I was safely out!
Mary Tamaki says
I was just married and we were very excited to be living in a great condo style apartment (or at least we thought it was at the time) We both were working long hours and my husband was also traveling. Being busy young people we ate out a lot but during one of his trips I decided to make supper for myself.
Upon opening a food cupboard to my utter horror there, in all their glory, were cockroaches crawling all over our food and not only in our cupboards but also in the stove display! How they got in there I will never know or care to know. Calling my parents crying hysterically and screaming that I could never live in a place like this I promptly moved back home!
All the condo units had been infested with cockroaches and had to be fumigated. When the lease expired we moved out immediately or if I recall, even beforehand!
Betsy says
A couple of years ago, we had a bit of a ladybug infestation in our living room window. There were hundreds of them crawling all over the window and the sill. One night, my husband and I were laying in bed, ready to fall asleep. He has sleep apnea and uses a mask at night. So, he puts his mask on, and starts to fall asleep. Then he takes it off and says he can smell the ladybugs. I tell him I can’t smell anything. He puts the mask back on, and it ramps up a little more, and he falls closer to sleep. Again, he takes it off and says, “Ugh, I can’t get that smell out of my head.” I tell him, ‘put your mask back on and take some deep breaths, once you fall asleep, it won’t bother you.’ So, he puts the mask on and falls asleep. About 3 minutes later, he starts choking and gagging and ripping at the mask like a crazed man. Apparently, many of those ladybugs had gotten into the mask, and as he did “deep breathing” to relax, he sucked them right up into his nose and mouth!!! I think he vomited ten times before he got over it. His horrible fear of bugs at night comes from earlier in our marriage, when I would sneak our infant daughter’s Gloworm into bed with us, wait until he fell asleep, and then say his name in a really startled tone. Just as he opened his eyes in panic, I would squeeze its belly and light it up, lol. He would yell like a little girl and jump out of bed so fast. I got him every time! 🙂
helen Watkinson says
I used to work as a psychiatric nurse with the mentally ill who weren’t getting the services they needed. I met a man who was living in a condemned building, and found him another place to live. He was very timid and reluctant to move so I gave him my word I would make sure every one of his many books would be carefully packed and put in the same order in the bookshelves in his new apartment. That was before bedbugs were a common problem, but I got a crash course. Turns out the place was infested, and I had given my word. Hot water kills bed bugs, but you can’t wash a book, steam a book or even bake a book. The only choice was to freeze them. For a month I went to the house every day after work, put on coveralls, put books in bags, went to my car, took off the coveralls, rebagged the books, took them home and froze them for 3 days before I finally could deliver them a bit at a time to the fellows apartment. A month of lengthy showers, laundry and imagining things crawling on my skin. Bedbugs instill terror in my heart to this day.
Joy Finley says
I am not a huge fan of bugs. I mean who really enjoys the thought of some creepy crawly creature crawling up their body. Never mind the possibility that it might bite you and inject some poisonous venom, causing a painful slow death. My biggest fear of bugs comes from the ones that might catch you unaware, while your asleep at night. When I was pregnant with my first child we went to visit my mother and father-in-law. My mother-in-law loved to hang the laundry out on the clothes line. Living in the south we have a lot of nice days for drying clothes, plus it is a lot cheaper than having to dry them in the dryer. One night I woke up because something kept tickling my forehead. I woke up rubbing at my head and came quickly awake when I realized there was actually something crawling on my head. I jumped up out of the bed dragging the covers with me and switching the lights on. There where I had been minutes before was a huge black spider and at the foot of the bed was a beetle of some sort. They had come in with the laundry getting folded up with the warm sweet smelling sheets. I had always wondered why my dear husband always pulled the covers all the way back when getting into the bed. Especially when we traveled. Years of hitch-hiking bugs had made him a weary bed fellow. My poor mother-in-law felt so bad that she no longer dried her linens on the clothesline and I now also check under the covers before getting into bed. The old saying “don’t let the bedbugs bite!” now had a totally new meaning.
mrsshukra says
I went on vacation and out of the office for 3 weeks a couple of years ago. I left my Brita water pitcher on my desk and on my first day back at work, I automatically filled up pitcher with water and was drinking from that pitcher all morning. It was a busy morning and I had a lot to catch up on but I finally had a quiet moment and happened to look at my see thru pitcher and noticed that the water was green. I quickly checked it out and… here comes the gross part: there was a floating dead cockroach inside the pitcher!!!! It had drowned and some its parts had disintegrated in the water! I couldn’t believe how clueless I was but the folks at work and I had a good laugh about the whole thing. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” And I’m still alive and well!
Leslie D. says
One of the worst things in the world to taste in your mouth is a fly…I unfortunately have had the pleasure.:) Yummy! Thank you!
Michelle Anderson says
We’ve been in our house for 8 years. We get small spiders and centipedes. They completely ook me out, my husband has to get them. One day, he wasn’t home and there was a centipede crawling on the floor. Thinking I was brave, I covered it with a cup, so it wouldn’t get away and hubby could get it when he got home. By the time he got home from work a few hours later, and lifted the cup… it was dead! I still won’t get the things. One time, not too long ago, I had my 6 year-old son shake shoes out off the back porch because I thought a centipede fell into one…
Jimmy says
Once, a wasp somehow made its way into the basement laundry room. It was in the window trying to get out. I saw it out of the corner of my eye and immediately panicked. I dropped what I was doing and ran from the room. I closed the door and waited for someone else to deal with it.
Carla says
When I was a kid, my younger brother smuggled a worm into our house. It was going to be his beloved pet. He even named his pet worm Joey. My parents have never been ones to notice much, so getting away with having a pet worm was easy street. Three days into having this worm live in our house (and I’m not so sure that it was still alive at this point), Joey was in the hallway doing his normal wormy routine (nothing) when my Mother decided that she needed to use the restroom. She was moving at warp speed down our hallway and was headed straight for Joey. Before we had a chance to say anything, she stepped on Joey and continued to carry him down the hallway never noticing the poor little worm attached to her heel. What makes this stick out in my mind so much is that right as my Mother stepped on Joey, my little brother said, “Well, there goes the worm.”
jackie says
Once when I was about 4, I noticed a bumblebee in the screen of the door. I knew I shouldn’t touch it with my hands because it would sting. Somehow that made me decide to headbut it. It died but my head got stung.
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Dana says
I remember when I was in my early twenties. I had rented a studio apartment and was finally resting on my sofa watching a little tv. All of a sudden this huge shadow of a roach appears on the wall behind the tv. I screamed so loud..the neighbors came running over. It ended up being a tiny Palmetto bug. I was very embarassed but at least the neighbors got a good laugh.
Jeanne says
Posted the giveaway on my blog. http://middleoftheroadlesstraveled.blogspot.com/2011/04/want-to-win-500-tell-us-your-creepy-or.html
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Jeanne Medina says
My husband and I were remodeling a house, and I had this hammer in my hand. I went to move the plastic tarp, because it was catching on the ladder I was trying to move, and I saw a two inch red scorpion.
Now, I’m normally a soft spoken southern girl, but when I saw that thing, I screamed at the top of my lungs repeatedly, while pounding that sucker with my hammer.
That seemed to take a long time, but when it was all said and done, there was nothing but bug juice, and my husband had a really odd look on his face. He didn’t say anything. He was waiting for me to put the hammer down, before he said a word, or came any closer!
Emiliy Marino says
When I was 4, I was fascinated with bugs. Let me rephrase. I was fascinated with *LADY*bugs. The other creepy crawlies I could not care for and for the most part they scared me out of my wits. But not ladybugs. I thought they were magical and beautiful and every time I found one, I’d grab it between my hands and run in the house to introduce my new friend to my mom.
One day, I decided to share my love of ladybugs with Pogo, my father’s beloved dog that was around many years before my brother or I made an appearance in this world. Pogo was quite interested in my ladybug friend, and showed his affection by sniffing my bug right up his nose.
The next day, Pogo died.
For 14 years, I believed I killed Pogo with a lady bug. It wasn’t until Christmas my first year at college that I discovered Pogo’s true cause of death. I don’t remember how the conversation started, but we were all apologizing for things we did as a kid, and I apologized to my parents for killing Pogo with a ladybug. My father laughed and informed me Pogo had cancer and they put him down.
Even though the lady bugs have been cleared, I am still afraid of them to this day. I feel like they’re unlucky. Even if they aren’t responsible for killing my dog.
Karen Bell says
When I was in college the apartment above mine had a pipe break. Since it was college, the upstairs neighbors were drunk and slept through it. I was gone for the night so the water ran full speed for at least 8 hours. They had to spray anti mold stuff on the floors and walls and let it dry before anything could be replaced. I went to sleep one night before it was dry and woke up feeling something ticklish on my face. I woke up and brushed it away. As soon as I moved hundreds of centipedes went running in every direction. Luckily very few of them were actually on me but they ended up in my laundry and other belongings. I still have a huge fear of centipedes. The worst thing is they have a life span of 5-7 years so they always haunt me even if I see them outside.
Carla says
I was sitting on the ground doing yardwork-weeding-and something was biting me. I literally had ants in my pants!
Nikki says
When I was pregnant with my daughter I had went outside to check the mail, as I was standing on the porch step, looking down the hill debating if I really wanted to walk down it then back up it, a LIZARD ran across my bare foot. I was about 8.5 months pregnant, and screamed, I’m sure the neighbors thought I was in labor.
AB Smith says
one time I saw a big spider on my porch so i trapped it under a Frisbee – I then pounded on the frisbee with my hand to kill the spider. Much to my surprise HUNDREDS of baby spiders came running out from under the frisbee ,…talk about nightmare inducing situation,…..
Sarah Z. says
While sleeping one year at summer camp, I kept waking up to swat a bug away from my ear. After swatting several times and still hearing the bug buzzing, I woke up. After I was able to orient myself, I realized that the bug was not flying around my ear, but IN MY EAR!!! After waking up several other girls, they told me to go get my mom (who was a camp leader). My mom, being the wise and wonderful woman she is, got contact solution and poured it in my ear. Then she held my ear shut while I could hear the bug making awful sounds as it was drowned. Awesome, huh?
Aisha says
I remember when me and my siblings were still kids and we were playing inside our house chasing each other. Then we saw a cockroach flying and it landed on my sister’s back. She screamed and was chasing us begging us to help her get the cockroach off her back. We were all scared so we ran away from her until she finally was able to get the roach off her back. We laughed so hard after.
Keenly Kristin says
I hate — HATE — bugs. And, I have this intense aversion to killing them by stepping/stomping/jumping on them…there’s something about the feel of a bug getting squished under the sole of my shoe that just makes me gag, not to mention the sound it makes. So…imagine my horrific reaction to finding cricket(s) in my home. Not in the basement or on the porch…no, IN my home, like the living room. But, I digress.
When it’s cricket season, my eyes are constantly scanning the room when I’m in it, because (of course) I have “camel crickets” (I’m not making this up)…these HUGE, spider like looking crickets, with these huge, arched legs that jump like a few feet at a time and (this is the best part) MAKE NO NOISE. So, you don’t even know they’re there, until you see them. Glorious! But, anywho…I was sitting on the couch and felt something on my foot (I was wearing socks…if I had been barefoot, I probably would have had a heart attack) and looked down to see one of these monstrous beasts ON my foot. Well, needless to say, I practically dislocated something flinging my leg in the air, knocking this predator of my foot and halfway across the room.
At this point, I am FREAKING out, in panic mode, trying to figure out how to contain this sucker and kill it while leaving the room to get a weapon of some sort. I ran to the kitchen, grabbed a broom and came back in, scanning the carpet for the cricket. I spotted him and swung this broom over my head with the kind of force Babe Ruth slugged home runs and brought it down upon the cricket. I must have misjudged the distance, because this monster then hopped through the bristles, landing a few feet away. I wouldn’t make that mistake again!
Gauging this a life or death swing, I again brought down the broom with so much energy, the broom broke in half. I didn’t stick around to see if the cricket survived, because I was pretty sure he did. I high-tailed it to my bedroom — on the second floor, shut the door, and stayed in my bed the rest of the night. When my husband got home the next morning (he was working night shift), I heard him when he discovered the broom pieces, “Uh oh…Cricket Patrol…” Yeah, I don’t handle bug confrontations well.
rajee says
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Dawn says
One summer while I was sweeping the kitchen floor, I noticed the dirt moving. I swept it back into place and it still moved. There was no wind in my home at the time; upon closer inspection it wasn’t dirt at all, but ants!
Thankfully I was wearing shoes and squished the buggers flat, continuing with my sweeping.
Shawnte Potter says
I love this contest!
My 250lb husband that can bench press 445lbs, not to brag:) is terrified of bugs. Especially spiders. This year for some reason while visiting the local mall toy store I payed a dollar for a big fake spider that jumped when you squeezed a little bladder attached to it. For April fools day I put the spider in my husbands workout shorts. I waited so eagerly for my husband to scream like a little girl when he found a big hairy spider in his shorts but he didn’t put them on right away when he got home from work that day. That night at bedtime, I made sure it was still where I put it and I got into bed and pretended to read. To my udder delight he picked up his shorts and the spider promptly fell to the floor making my husband look and screech at the top of his lungs. Hubby then grasped his chest trying to catch his breath while I was trying my best not to wet the bed from laughing so hard. That night after a few choice words he made me swear not to bring the spider out EVER again. Of course I couldn’t let the best dollar I ever spent go to waste so I hid it in my dresser. I love to scare him and once in awhile he gets me back. Here is a blog entry from a few years ago when my oldest was born. Enjoy 🙂
http://mamatayandcolt.blogspot.com/2008/06/killer-bugs.html
rajee says
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ashley wood says
We lived in our first apt w/ our 3 yr old son & newborn daughter…one nite I was up late w/ the baby feeding her sitting on my bed & turned on the light & OMG!! My pat had been over run by water bugs or texas tree roaches which ever they were called! They were crawling up the side of the bassinet, my bed pole, it was AWEFUL!!! I called them in the middle of the nite & made them come exterminate. It was def grounds for an emergency!!!!
rajee says
http://twitter.com/momsfocus/status/64387537489240064
rajee says
Eww, it is funny to see people killing bugs. I show giant bug to my husband. He took my slipper that I used to wore around the house to kill it. I said hey why use my sandal to kill it and how can I wear it after seeing the dead bug’s blood. He simply nodded. I said Oh no, you should n’t do it again. There are many other things to kiil. You can ask me what other things I have, I said to my husband. Oh my God, why he don’t care what I talk to him. I think it is my turn to kill the bugs with tools like hammer
XmasDolly says
I personally hate, loathe and despise any kind of b-u-g-s! Plus I’m allergic to small insect bites. The only funny story I can remember is one time I was in the kitchen, and I didn’t know it right away and this spider came down from the light and decided to land up practically on my nose, and I looked at the bugger cross-eyed and screamed as loud as I could, and I thought I’d have a heart attack, but I think I gave the bug one instead because I found it on the floor afterwards. YUK!
Anna Marie says
I one time pulled a spider out from under the couch with my toes – when I realized what it was I beat it to pieces with a rolled up magazine.
kathy says
I am sitting here squirming now, because I am certain that there are bugs all over me. I used to feel down the sheets even around the edge of the mattress to check for bugs and snakes every night until I left for college. I have so many stories, but here is a short one that is kind of funny.
I was visiting my cousin in Florida. She lived on a cul-de-sac, and we were out watching the kids on the grass in the middle of it. All of a sudden I felt the itch of something crawling up my leg. I immediately grabbed at it, but I was wearing jeans. I felt it in there, but there was nothing I could do, so I took off running for the house, trying to trap the bug away from my skin.
When everyone asked me where I was going, all I could do was scream, “I have to take off my pants!” It was that moment that I looked up and realized that I had run up the driveway of the neighbors’ house, by mistake, and there they were on the front porch looking at me. I was mortified but I didn’t stop to explain. I finally made it to my cousin’s house and dislodged the bug, long dead by that point.
Mona Hernandez says
When I was a young girl, my sisters and I all had really long hair. My Mom used to pull our “pony-tails” so tight, we looked Chinese! Anyway, I digress…once in a while she would wrap those pony-tails into a cute little bun…okay so back in the 60’s it WAS cute! One day as we were enjoying the beautiful spring weather, I saw something fly into my sisters “bun”…I screamed at her that there was a bug in her bun! She thought I was joking…me? joke? HA! So she continued playing when suddenly she said she heard a buzzing sound. She kept turning around to see where it was coming from when she suddenly realized it was coming from her BUN! It was a huge black bumble bee! And it kept trying to burrow itself deeper and deeper into her bun…I honestly think that he thought it was a hive!!! We swatted for almost 15 minutes until it finally flew out…by then, her bun was all disheveled and she looked a mess! To this day (we are now 57 and 59) she has a fear of bees…AND buns!!!! OH how I love my sister!!!
Monique U. says
I have 2 stories that really come to mind… I am truly, deathly afraid of spiders! Everyone that knows me knows this. Well, when I was a little girl, we had the wired electric fence to hold our horses in, one part of the fence only had the top wire, no bottom wire. I was in the field looking for flowers and trying to pick some for my mom, I saw the TINIEST of spiders, I freaked out soo badly, I ran so fast, and just kept looking back making sure the tiny spider (in my mind it was huge!) didnt jump and try to follow me (oh, did I mention that I think EVERY spider in the world jumps! haha) so in all of this running away from the spider, I ran into the wired ELECTRIC fence, and it caught me by my neck! As it caught me by my neck, I got THROWN to the ground and landed on my back with a huge red mark on my neck! So I got shocked, and thrown to the ground all because of a tiny spider that had no intentions at all of hurting me.
My other story… I was in the Navy, and I was getting off of work one afternoon in the beginning of the “spider season”. I was leaving base, and before I got out of the base, I saw a spider on my door of my car, I was freaking out soo bad! Then it JUMPED… (yes, this one JUMPED) on my LEG!! HAHA, and this point I was beyond freaked, and was worried it was going to jump somewhere where I didnt see it.. I had my daughter in the backseat, and didnt want to get into an accident worried about the stupid spider. So as soon as I left base, I pulled over (yes right at the exit of the base!!) in front of everyone(I didnt care, I had a spider on me!!) I got out of the car, and JUMPED around looking like a little kid freaking out. I was jumping around and waving my arms and stomping my feet, brushing every body part off making sure I didnt see that spider again! haha it was so embarassing, but I didnt noticed until after that everyone was staring at me! Everytime I go into my car, I always check for spiders. If I see a spider in my car, believe me I wont go ANYWHERE until someone has checked and rechecked my car! 🙂
Wendy T says
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Courtney says
oh my goodnesssss! I remember this like it was yesterday.. When I was in my teens I used to sleep over my aunts house to help babysit my cousin. One morning I got ready to take a shower, took of my glasses, and hopped in the show. I have long hair so sometimes I know hair is in the drain, just pick it up and toss. Well, when I picked it up it was moving!!!!!! I screamed, woke up the baby, broke the curtains, and managed to fall face first on the floor, just missed the toilet! My aunt came in laughing at first, then saw the HUGE spider and joined me in screaming! Lets just say I always use tissues to pick up hair now.. yikes!
Wendy T says
Three years ago, I was in the Idaho desert. I actually went for two trips a month apart.
*It’s a long story as to the why and the how I wound up living there for a few days each time.
The first time it was creepy enough because I was sleeping in a tent. But I figured I had the tent to kind of-sort of protect me. But the second time? Nothing. I had to sleep in my sleeping bag right on the desert floor with no semblance of protection. There was nothing that protected me. It was just me in a sleeping bag in the middle of the desert.
I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was in my sleeping bag looking up at the desert sky which was lit up with a million and fifty stars and a full moon. It was so beautiful. My thoughts were not so beautiful, though. I laid there wondering what poisonous bug would come and bite me, leave his venom behind and travel off into the moonlit night while I laid there gasping for air. Seriously.
I was petrified but I had to make a very conscious decision. I decided whatever was going to happen was going to happen. I could not control that. I could only make it worse by not sleeping at all and then still wind up bit or not….it was beyond my control.
So I said a very earnest prayer that night and had to force myself into slumber. Needless to say it all turned out okay. Not only were there no bugs that came to visit, there were no rattlesnakes that visited me either. And since my son had actually had to behead a rattler earlier in the trip, that was also a very real concern.
Thanks for letting me relive the beauty of that trip (because that aside, it was beautiful).
Evelyn Salem says
Ok I just got my 1st house. So I’m washing clothes in my basement. I go down the stairs to put the clothes in the washer while holding the basket of clothes I step on something crunchy! I put the basket down and pick up my foot to see what it was. IT WAS THE BIGGEST BUG WITH WHAT SEEMED LIKE A THOUSAND LEGS!!! RED AND LONG WITH SOME TYPE OF SHELL! (at least 3 inches long) I know its some type of big centipede (more like the grub from the Lion King) I freaked out then it started crawling away between some boxes. I get out the bug spray to kill it and then it crawled up my leg into MY PANTS!!! I FREAKED!!! I was screaming so loud! I started running all around the basement trying to get it out my pants! nothing worked so I took off my pants and ran up stairs!! just then my husband came home from work rushed through the door from my screams and saw my with my pants off! he thought something else was going on! after I told him about it he went to the basement and killed my enemy! Hes my hero! now every time I go to my basement I look before steeping and then run back up the stairs. here is a link to what it looked like. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.inriodulce.com/images/centipede.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.inriodulce.com/links/badbugs.html&usg=__12Y8C422tW2cNVvstqCfZ9yJGwg=&h=432&w=576&sz=65&hl=en&start=60&zoom=1&tbnid=82IeGF2W7O1dAM:&tbnh=153&tbnw=204&ei=Mz28TfzvE4XUgQetttnDBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcentipede%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1026%26bih%3D658%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch0%2C2700&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=141&vpy=231&dur=3040&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=157&ty=121&page=6&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:60&biw=1026&bih=658
Lesley says
Oh boy, I have many funny bug stories. My most recent was when my children saw not one, but three spiders in the basement. They call me downstairs to “get them”, which is pointless since spiders FREAK me out! Since my husband was at work, I made the quick decision to get one of our 3 cats to try to get them. The cat just ignored the spiders. So, i call to the dog, who I expected would do nothing, but to my surprise she killed (and ate…ick!) all 3 spiders! The kids were thrilled, as was I since I didn’t have to touch the creepy crawleys, but now they call the dog “Sophie the spider eater”.
Tracy S says
Was directed here by Dawn Meehan’s site “Because I Said So”, but have bookmarked this site to visit regularly!
My bug story:
Before kids, I was a grade school teacher in an old building where wasps made their nests in the floors or walls or somewhere. They came out every spring. I HATE stinging insects. At the time I was 26 and had never been stung. I feared I’d get stung, have an allergic reaction and die in front of 20 Nine year olds and they’d be scarred for life!! To add to the fear, I had a student that was so allergic that the file said, “call 911 if B. is stung.” GREAT, that just added to the anxiety.
So, one day I see a wasp struggling around the room (they were slow and acted slightly inebriated when they first crawled out of their hiding place). I told B. to run into the hallway while I stalked and killed the wasp. I cornered it and hit it repeatedly with the fly swatter. Finally one boy said, “Um, Mrs. S. I think the wasp is dead” in this deadpan voice. LOL I’m 38 and still haven’t been stung, so I still have the fear.
brenda says
my bug story just happened a week ago…. i’m an avid gardener so i was outside one morning working out in the yard. i’ve been having problems with moles lately (big time pests!) and well when i was out back in my vegetable garden the mole was digging close to my house. as i walked back to the patio to get more garden soil a million termites that were disturbed by the digging mole RUSHED out of the ground and swarmed everywhere! i was running like a lunatic to the waterhose trying to douse myself in water lmaoooo i had to run through the side gate and go in the front door, then come back out the backdoor with…you guessed…raid flying insect spray and i sprayed and sprayed and sprayed lol used an entire can in 15 minutes.
Jen says
This happened very recently. My friend and I just moved into a new house (fairly old, but in good condition) which has a full, half-finished basement. A full, half-finished basement that is a perfectly good hiding place for bugs.
After my friend saw what she thought was a bug amongst her scrapbooking supplies, we decided we definitely had to clean the basement. Armed with brooms (for the poking of piles of things where bugs could be hiding or the flipping over of box tops where bugs could be lurking) and a big can of Raid, we started to clean the basement, one terrifying area at a time. We vetted various boxes, blankets, and pillows, and threw them either onto the couch or onto the bar. We threw things in the garbage, our hearts pounding all the while. We still hadn’t found the bug.
Finally, we got to the weird rugs over the rug, which the previous tenants had put down. Unfortunately, during the moving-in process, they’d become bunched up and made plenty of little areas for bugs to hide. I started pulling on one of the rugs.
That’s when it happened.
A giant bug attacked! It leapt out at me, possibly landed on me, and scurried towards the coffee table, where it stayed out of sight. My friend and I were both screaming, I was on the staircase, and she was on the opposite end of the basement, the bug in between us. I begged her to get the Raid, but she rightly pointed out that the bug was between her and the Raid.
It was up to me to save the day.
I grabbed the Raid, breathing rapidly, and sprayed under the table. The worst happened: the evil bug ran up the couch and disappeared under the pile of laptops, pillows, and blankets. I continued to spray Raid, not caring how smelly everything would be afterwards. Thankfully, the bug reappeared, crawled down the couch, where I sprayed it with Raid until it turned white. It moved a few more times. I continued to Raid it, just in case. Finally, it breathed its final breath…or whatever evil centipedes do.
Of course, then we had to clean it up. I figured that since I slew the beast, my friend had to dispose of it. That’s when we discovered centipede legs move even after they’ve been sprayed with Raid and the rest of the centipede has died.
Diane H says
http://twitter.com/#!/DiDoodlings/status/64346520522199041 My tweet
Diane H says
Here is a link to my RAID story
http://didoodlings.com/its-a-what/
Rochelle says
I was running after dark one night in early spring. I was running down a stretch of road that had a lot of trees next to the sidewalk. All of a sudden, I felt a SPIDER IN MY MOUTH! My guess is that it had been dangling from the tree right where I was running. So gross.
Sara B says
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Sara B says
My bug story is creepy. I was a jr in high school and found a spider egg nest in my bed. Imagine my horror at seeing lots of baby spiders all over my bed. My best guess is that it fell from the ceiling and landed on my bed. The eggs had hatched and there were spiders every where. Needless to say I was freaked out and did not sleep in my bed for a week. And I replaced the sheets and blanket. I hate spiders!
Mary says
On my second day of work at my new job last year, I was shelving some books in the dark, creepy basement. I was also feeling kind of ill, like I was about to hurl, but I’d had to come into work anyway in order to keep my job. Needless to say, I wasn’t in a good mood and I was hoping that the day would be quiet and uneventful. All of a sudden, I saw a GIGANTIC centipede – 2 inches long with thousands of legs that were all moving at the speed of light…right towards me.
Now, here’s the worst part. Because I work in a library, I wasn’t allowed to shriek and run away. Insects are considered an active threat to the books, and protocol demanded that I kill the bug, then pick it up and show it to my supervisor (does anyone else find that weird? Yeah, me too). I gingerly stepped on it and it made a squishy noise (EWWW) but it just wouldn’t die. It wriggled around, half flattened and icky with many of it’s legs writhing. I nearly puked. When it was finally over, I picked it up, then put it on a piece of paper to show my boss, who told me to take it to the operations manager.
By then, I had realized the potential humorous possibilities of the situation. I put the enormous bug on the keyboard of the manager’s desk with a note that said “Happy Monday!”, then snuck around the corner to hide. When the manager came in, I heard him say “What the @##@$?!??!” and he started cursing loudly. I gained quite a reputation that day.
Amazingly, I still have that job!
Jaimie K says
I blogged:
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Jaimie K says
I tweeted the giveaway here:
http://twitter.com/#!/wyomingmom/status/64322931693592576
Jaimie K says
I have 4 little girls and one of them is pretty terrified of bugs. She’s 3 (we’ll call her H). My oldest (E), who is 4, really wanted her turn on the bike her sister was riding. E kept pestering H to get off the bike, but it wasn’t working. Suddenly I see H jump off the bike so fast and start a terrified cry. Aparently E had told her there was a spider by the bike so she could get on it! Holy cow, is she old enough for that sort of thing already?? Her manipulation definitely worked, but not with Mom around. Good try, E.
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I FB about this give away
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kelly maltbia says
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kelly maltbia says
I’m ashamed to share this one, but none the less my husband did laugh when I told him about it.
I had to help set up at our local community center for my sons Cub Scout banquet. I watch my neighbors 2 kids and took them with me and my youngest son. We get to the community center and set up and stay fairly busy. My neighbors daughter tells me she needs to go potty. She is 5. So, I lead the way to the bathroom. Mind you we are the only ones in the building and it is at night. I have to find all the lights just to get to the bathroom. We get in there she uses it and we step to the sinks to wash our hands. I walk over to get us some paper towels. I dry my hands and she says, “Ms Kelly look at that bug.” I look over and there on the side of the row of sinks is the biggest cockroach I have seen in a long time. I scream and go running for the door unaware in my mind set that I have just stranded her. I say, “come on just run.” She shakes her head. I panic because I do not want to go back towards that bug. I start jumping while I try to figure out how to get her to my side of the bathroom with out returning to hers. I tell her again, “Run really fast it won’t get you.” She starts to run and then stops. I again say, “OK this time run really fast. You can do it. I promise it won’t get you.” Mean while the nasty roach is still crawling around the side of the sink. “On the count of 3, ready…” Finally she makes a made dash for me and I am so thankful that I did not have to return to retrieve her. To this day I chuckle thinking about this story and then I feel guilty and then I chuckle. I to this day have never told her mom, my neighbor and friend. 😀
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Kristin says
My FB is private, naturally, but I tried to make the link public…it’s https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=518050224
Sammo says
One night, my husband (aka The Man) and I were lying in bed, when we heard a high pitched weird noise. I knew it had to be something horrible. Normal things *do not* make noises like that. For the record, The Man thought it was our computer. Why? I don’t know. Our computer didn’t make noises like that.
After a few minutes of convincing him, The Man turned on the lights, only to see some sort of freakish mutant bug perched on the door trim. SEE?!
I ran past him, out of the room, leaving my glasses behind. The creepy invader flew into our bathroom. Then I had no chance of seeing, since my glasses were IN the bathroom. I was all Velma, Scooby Doo style. The Man was clearly on deck here.
He didn’t want to get the bug. I yelled at him. “You’re in the bloody (I always feel British slang makes things fancy) military! You’re trained for this!” Granted, they don’t really train to capture hideous nightmare bugs, but I was legally blind and a girl. Plus? I have a bug phobia. I’ve literally almost capsized boats trying to avoid bees.
After fashioning a trap out of a tupperware case and lid, The Man went in to do battle with the monster. He emerged, with the awful thing buzzing and screeching. It was, allegedly, a katydid. Or, as I prefer, an alien scout, checking on the poor Earthlings before the invasion.
The Man opened our back door and walked out on the deck, preparing to flip the Katydid into the night. I told him not to flip it. I told him to set the tupperware down and it could climb out if he left the lid ajar. Did he listen? No. He flipped it. Did I mention he was wearing boxers? This is relevant, trust me.
So, the terrifying death-bug didn’t just rejoice at freedom and fly off into the night sky. No, it zipped around and flew up The Man’s boxer shorts. The Man danced around, squealing, alternately smacking at his own crotch. I, being a loving wife, slammed the door shut. He yelled for me to open it.
“Not while that thing is in your pants!” I yelled back, cackling madly at the double entendre AND the dancing/smacking husband.
Finally, to everyone’s relief, the horror show of an insect flew back OUT of his boxers, and once I was sure he was REALLY gone, I opened the door.
The Man wasn’t very happy. It’s still my favorite bug story, oddly enough.
Kristin says
I’ve got two fabulous stories, no wait, three. Hmm…..I shall go with the first one but the word “bug” is loosely used…usually “bug” is synonymous with spiders and spiders of any size count, right? Okay, so my parents had a white poodle. I think it’s fairly common knowledge that small white dogs aren’t usually the brightest and Cricket was not bright. Just a tail-wagging dog happy that you bestowed attention on her. So my stepmom was working at home and the computer table was in their bedroom. She was plodding away and she heard one of the dogs enter the room. She glanced down to see a tarantula atop Cricket’s head and the dog was just smiling at her and tail a-waggin. She screams and jumps up, promptly freaking the dumb dog out, who ran under their bed. And promptly came back out with no tarantula. She slams the door shut and watches the crack under the door until my dad gets home. He searches their room, turns the bed upside down, moves dressers and no tarantula. I’m pretty sure he thought she was exaggerating and that it was really a minor fiddleback or something. No giant spider to be found anywhere. SO THEY WENT ON WITH THEIR LIVES in the house. THEY SLEPT IN THEIR ROOM. Which, I’m sorry, I’d have moved out without any of my things, because hello? So about 4 days later, my parents are in the kitchen and my stepbro glances down the hall and nonchalantly says “wow, that’s a big spider coming out of your room.” And there it was…just waltzing out of their BEDROOM WHERE THEY HAD SLEPT FOR THE PAST 4 DAYS, as if it was done with vacation. My dad slammed a mixing bowl over it and put a few books on top. And called someone to come get it. Ugh, gah, I have to go get my shoes now.
Timbo says
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Timbo says
Heh heh, the worst time was when my gal and I took off to visit San Diego for a short little vacation and we had made sure to dot all our I’s and cross all our T’s, and basically make sure everything was in order before we left. Unbeknownst to us, we had, um.. forgotten one or two things. When we got back, we walked in the door, turned on the living room lights; no problem. We went to go put our stuff away and she went to wash her face and use the restroom. She turned on the light in there, and there were about 20 cockroaches piled up on a spilled soda bottle that we had forgotten had been left in there. Needless to say, it was an interesting night of extermination and decontamination 😉
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Lisa V. says
Here is my bug story:
http://4vks.blogspot.com/2010/02/yesterday-i-had-message-on-answering.html
Janet brown says
Here is my bug story….
I moved to nc from co two years ago. For those of you that have been to the south you know bugs thrive down here. Well, my husband was away at a military school so I had to close on our house and move us in by myself. My first day at the house, with no furniture or anything I may add – just me and my son, I started seeing the awful dreaded cockroaches. I started killing them and told myself that I would call the bug people the next day. Well, I went into the bathroom and that’s when o saw it. This crazy looking, long legged bug. I didn’t know what it was but I told myself I could do it, kill it I mean. I moved towards it with shoe in hand and that’s when it jumped towards me. I screamed and ran. I immediately called the bug people and explained in a crazy person tone that I needed them now bc of this crazy bug. They finally understood the emergency and came over after I told them I would pay extra. Lol. The name of the bug is a camel cricket to anyone that wants to look it up.
Melissa Chase says
here is my bug story that I now think is funny…. I was driving down the road with my two kids in the backseat and as I turned to go down the road from a red light…a spider came down on his web from nowhere and landed on my NOSE!!!! Now since you dont know me I am completely terrified of spiders! I decided to hit the spider off of my face and as I did I must have pulled the steering wheel because I than promptly hit a fence and did 5,000 dollars worth of damage to my car but of course the kids and I were fine! I now check around the car for spiders before I get in and that was over a year ago!!! LOL I also will never live this one down. At every family gathering it is …..remember the time Melissa hit the fence because of a spider?? UGH!!! 🙂
teechbiz says
I keep getting error messages when I submit this so I’m trying again
Here is the link to my bug story
http://newdaynewpage.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-raid-put-halt-to-ant-parade-at-my.html
catherine copeland says
Here is the link to my bug story
http://newdaynewpage.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-raid-put-halt-to-ant-parade-at-my.html
cathy says
My bug story is a Christmas bug story. We have always lived in apartments and never had a real tree. One year we decided to get a real tree. Oh it was wonderful, the smell of pine, it was so christmasy. The one morning I noticed all these little flies, teeny little flies EVERYWHERE. All over the walls and windows. After freaking out and enlisting hubby’s help we killed them all. Until we went to take the tree down and all of a sudden we had thousands of them again!! Apparently they were hibernating in the tree, as it warmed up the first load came out and when we took it down the rest of them came flying out it it like some crazy bug horror movie. We had to wash the walls and windows because although blood is is red and christmasy, smears of dead bug blood on my walls did not add to the decor. Needless to say we stick with artificial trees since!
sasha says
This past summer while driving my daughter to a Doctors appointments she starts hysterically panicking in the back seat. I finally turned around when she unbuckeled her seat belt and reached for the door while in motion. “what are you doing” I yelled at her “there’s a huge spider and it’s crawling on me she was crying. I pulled over the car and we got out to investigate sure enough there was a HUUUUGGGEEEE SPIDER but it was still in her hair which insued her running away. Finally after catchignher and killing it she still refused to get in the car she had to ride in the front seat to that appointment and home. Nice right lol…sasha
Loi says
It was the spring of 1990 and I have been having labor pains for about 4 hours. I decided to shower and then wake my husband and told him he needed to get ready it was the time we had waited for. I went downstairs with my bag and decided to tidy up the house while waiting. I flipped the light in the kitchen and low and behold a stinky cockroach went under my fridge. Well no mother is going to leave a house with a two year old with a cockroach. ( I knew there were several but until I would see them, they could stay) This was no ordinary roach, we were living in Hawaii out by the sugar cane fields. These roaches averaged 4 inches in length. Try as I might the roach was just out of my roach was just out of my reach, belly and all. There was only one solution, move that fridge. And so I did, it was on, it was me or the roach and frankly at 9 months, I knew I had him on size. I moved the fridge some, he went deeper., I moved it out and here he came, I missed. He went for cover one last time so I moved the fridge back and he had no where to go, he was mine. I was the queen of killing fast roaches. My husband came down just as I was moving the fridge in place and he asked what in the world I thought I was doing moving the fridge, after I explained the story, he rolled his eyes and said to remind him the next time we got in a fight to surrender, there was no way to win when I was determined.
Steve W. says
One day at work I was walking down the hall towards my office and a female co-worker was in front of me. She saw a big cockroach on the floor coming towards her. She turned around and just about climbed over me to get away from it.
Sarah S says
I was living in Japan, and my husband was out to sea. It was the middle of the night, and I couldn’t sleep, so I was cleaning my house. I walked into the living room and on my wall was the biggest centipede I had ever seen (Okay, I had never seen a one before), it was at least 8 inches long. I started screaming and freaking out, so I called my Dad back in the states to ask what to do. He tells me just to smoosh it with a paper towel. NO WAY am I going to get anywhere near that bug. So finally he tells me I can vacuum it up. Great plan, I have a brand new vacuum with a long hose attachment. He gets sucked up like a charm. But then I realize I have a giant centipede living in my brand new vacuum. So I ride the elevator down (I must have been quite a site in my cleaning clothes in the middle of the night holding a vacuum canister as far away from myself as I can). I go out into the courtyard and open the lid to release him and I shake it out, but he isn’t in there. I’m looking around for him, maybe he jumped out when I took the lid off. Finally I find him, he is on the lid I’m holding, nearly touching my hand. I scream a blood curdling scream, throw the canister as far as I can and run back up to my apartment. Later the next day I went down and had to find my vacuum parts, but luckily there was no sign of the giant gross bug. To this day I still shudder when I think of that centipede.
Doris C says
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Doris C says
When I was about 14 we went camping to British Columbia and after days of travelling on a forestry road we stopped at a campsite and of course they just had outhouses, we had arrived at around 10pm so my Mom, sister and I went together to the out house with a flashligh and next to it was a young guy camping all by himself so I was kind of watching him and my Mom said shine the flashlight in here and as Iooked up I seen a spider that looked like a black widow and was about the same size and because of the light he started moving down at first my Mom thought I was joking but when she looked up and seen it she ran out of the outhouse with her pants down right where the young guy was camping!! He caught it and gave it to the ranger who confirmed that’s what it was!! He said someone probably dumped it there. No more outhouses for us and we made my Dad move at 2am he was not happy!
Michelle says
Bugs are From the Devil!
My Story: http://blossomingathome.blogspot.com/p/things-remembered.html
Tricia says
Last summer I jumped in the car to drive down to the corner to get a couple of Slurpee’s for the kids. I barely got to the corner when I swear I felt something on my head. I brushed my head and the feeling went a way when I leaned to the side and grabbed my purse and sat back there was the biggest ugliest spider coming down right in front of my face. Almost landed on my nose!!!
I swatted it and it landed on the steering wheel and tried to run around it… Mind you I’m driving the car. I slammed on the breaks and it flew to the window. I grabbed the closest thing I could find…. my Money and I slammed it against the windshield. Now I got spider guts all over my $. I went inside and put it on the counter and mentioned the story briefly to the man behind the counter as he laughed while I told it. He picked up the money and pretended to lick it. Yes you can say it…. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Thankfully he took my money and I bought slurpee’s but I didn’t drive home until I inspected the car.
Does anyone know if raid has anything for spiders in a car??!! we get them a lot here.
Erin M. says
On the happy family vacation we took annually to the Californian Sequoias : Our tradition before we leave is to always visit the creek to collect rocks and objects to remember the trip!
I was only 4 years old excited to find a good rock. So I happily dunk my hand into one of the creek’s deep puddles grasping onto a handful of “rocks”. A scream soon followed because not only had I disturbed a giant black creature’s dwellings but it looks as if all his bug-friends & family ended up in my grasped hand!! It quickly became apparent that the twigs, floating black things in the puddles were bugs and spiders all around me. I cried and cried as I realized nature is a horrible place.
renee says
I remember being at my sister’s house many years ago and getting several years taken off of my life thanks to a frightening creepy creature. My family and I were watching television when one of us spotted a nasty looking spider near the front door. My brother-in-law, who is always up for a quick game of stomp and drag in the presence of an arachnid, grabs his sandal and closes in on his unsuspecting (or so he thinks) prey. He says to my sister and me, “Come look at this thing! I’ve never seen a spider this big!”, and for some reason, in a moment of insanity, we actually get up to go look at the spider. I know it sounds crazy, but this is true: that spider jumps straight up in the air from the floor like it is trying to attack! My sister and I scream and scare my young niece half to death as we leap onto the couch and cower. The spider is jumping toward my brother-in-law, who has dropped his sandal and is trying to bat the spider out of the air with a hat. The spider continues to leap, my sister and I continue to scream. Finally my brother-in-law traps the creature under the hat, and with eyes as big as saucers, he dispatches the attack spider. This happened over ten years ago, and we still shudder when we talk about that strange, hopping spider from hell that even scared my brother-in-law, a military veteran who saw war time!
Noreen says
I was about 10 years old and I remembering being in my Grandpartents driveway. We were getting ready to go home after a visit. It always took forever to actually leave because my Grandmother and my mom always had to get one more thing, or say one more thing and them someone had to go to the bathroom and so on. I was sitting in our big read truck and I decided I wanted some gum. I grabbed a stick of gum without looking at it (it was Juicy Fruit), took off the wrapper and popped it in my mouth. I took the first chew and it was bitter and my tongue started to feeling like it was on fire. I yelled and as I opened my mouth my sister screamed that my mouth was full of ants. I freaked out and tried spitting them out as they bit my tongue. Of course all of the grownups came running outside. My Grandma and mother started laughing once they figured out I was fine. To this day I can still taste those ants and I check my food all the timw to make sure I don’t eat any bugs.
Laura Lee says
I tweeted
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Laura Lee says
One time I sittin outside mind my own business when I see a big spider drop by my head. I start screamin and jumpin up. I think I’ve gotten away from it when My sister yells its on you. At that point I was ready to rip my own boddy parts off to get that thing off me. I’m running and screaming like a crazy lady trying to get that thing off me. I watch very carfully now when sitting outside.
mia says
I tweeted my story…took 3 tweets!
http://twitter.com/#!/charliesmom2006/status/64199358136074240
http://twitter.com/#!/charliesmom2006/status/64199485974257664
http://twitter.com/#!/charliesmom2006/status/64199542932897792
Ginny Williams says
http://www.facebook.com/login/setashome.php?ref=home#!/williams.gk posted on Facebook about it
Mia says
posted on facebook
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Mia says
My mom FINALLY worked up the courage to kill a Daddy long legs spider. Well, daddy was a mommy cuz when she hit it with her shoe, hundreds of lil babies went running out all over. SMy mom lost it! I had to run, get the bug spray and kill them all while she breathe into a brown paper bag.
Sara says
Okay, so years ago when my ex and I were still together we lived in a really crappy part of town in the cheapest rental we could find, in SOUTH FLORIDA. So, as you can imagine, all sorts of bugs were continually breeding and waltzing in and out of our apartment. We had a horrible problem in particular with roaches…. One night, my ex is in the recliner and I am sitting across from him watching TV in the dark after the kids were asleep. I see a roach on his shoulder.
“Honey!” I say “theres a freaking roach on your shoulder!”
He freaks and reaches for it and IT RUNS INTO HIS EAR! My ex was in a complete panic! he could hear it scritching and feel it wiggling but we couldn’t get it out. My ex bangs his head, shakes it, gets in the shower to fill his ear with water and try to flush it out. Then he tries a q-tip but tha only pushes the thing against his eardrum and causes intense pain. So my e is standing there with a COCKROACH in his ear canal, smushed up against his ear drum wiggling its antennae and legs trying to get out. My ex says lets try to smoke him out. So, I sit there, blowing cigarette smoke into his ear which actually DID kill the roach …. we had to go to the ER to get the roach out… turns out, it was stuck in a hunk of ear wax in his ear.
Ginny Williams says
reading all the stories has caused a bad case of the creepy crawlies. ewwwww
okay I actually have two stories that have forever traumatized me from EVER liking bugs or spiders.
My first one: We were living in Tennessee when I was about 7, we were in a single wide trailer in a wooded area. The family was sitting around watching a program on tv and my sister got up to go down the hall to the bathroom. She had just started down the hall when she comes running back in a panic. Once dad calmed her down a little, we were able to get out of her that there was a HUGE spider with 20 legs crawling up the wall. Me being the big sister told her I would go get it out of the house ( I was not scared of spiders then). so I head down the hall and see where this HUGE spider with what looked like 20 legs were crawling up the wall. I swear, it was the size of my fist. It was going very slowly up the wall. I swear it turned and looked at me. I backed up and screamed. I went back to the living room told them it was as big as my hand and it had hair all over it, my mom let out a big sigh and said “now girls, its just a spider, we’ve seen them before” I kid you not, she saw this spider and yelled for my dad. I think my dad was even worried by now that this might be something else he needed to worry about. He headed down the hall with a mason jar, and I remember crying that he needed to stay with me, that the spider might eat him.
I heard him say “holy crap, what the hell is that?” my little sister is hysterical and saying that she is moving away from here. My dad goes outside to the shed and walks back in with spider killer spray, He must have sprayed half the can on this thing. it would hit the ground and start back up the wall. after 4 attempts, dad goes back to the mason jar and manages to scope it into the jar and takes it outside. I followed to make sure this thing didnt eat him I’m sure, or maybe it was morbid curiosity. He dumps it out of the jar and picks up a rock that he needs two hands to pick up. He drops it on this spider. the rock started to move. This thing would not die. My dad finally put it back in the mason jar and took it down to the river and let it float away on a stick .
we have NO idea what kind of spider it was, it was big, it was hairy, and it was a determined bugger that it was NOT going to die. I think of that thing everytime I see a spider. I dont do well with them, I will let anyone else get spiders out of my house.
My second experience was oddly enough, in Tennessee as well. I was older,about 11 now. As a family, we go camping every year, sometimes frequently. We went to one of our favorite places in Tennessee. My sisters and I were sleeping in the tent outside of our camper (just like we always did). My sister woke up crying, and I asked her what was wrong. she told me something bit her. I grabbed the flashlight to see what it could be. I freaked out on her when crawling all over her pillow were TICKS, thousands of them. she pointed to my pillow and I could see the same thing. By now, my parents were awake, they could hear us squealing. as they were unzipping the tent to see what was wrong, I noticed a ticklet underneath my waist long hair. My mom was the first to see that my neck line was crawling in ticks. I was yanked out of the tent, as were my sisters. The three of us were soaked down by a hose at 11pm to try to get these ticks off of us. were were then taken into the small camper and physically checked for additional ticks that may have burrowed into the skin. I was the only one with ticks that had taken hold. we packed up that night (threw out the tent and bedding inside) and went home, there was not going to be any sleeping outside for years. I WILL NOT sleep on the ground since that night. I have to be up on a cot at the very least. I was never so glad to move from that state to a climate that doesnt have ticks
Allison says
MIne is short and sweet..err…no thats not it..short and creepy. For me at age 5, I was afraid of crickets. I would panic and go hide in my parents bed. One night I heard a cricket. It sounded close but I couldnt tell where it was coming from. I started to get up to look for it and found it sitting on my pillow UNDER MY HEAD!!! IT CRAWLED IN BED WITH ME! I made my dad chase it around for like 30 minutes in the middle of the night. I was terrified!
Joele says
Since we have nothing but desert behind our house I have so many bug horror stories. The freaks of nature I have seen would probably knock your socks off. This one I blogged about was one of my most unnerving stories since I HATE spiders!!
http://azbuckos.blogspot.com/2010/09/holy-huge-spider-batman.html
Larry H. says
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Larry H. says
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Larry H. says
We were camping October 1st-3rd 2010 in Bowling Green KY. The last day of camp we began taking the tent apart and our son River who had just turned 5 years-old said “Look Mommy, I see an ant!” We knew it might not be an ant because River had gotten into the habit of calling every insect he saw an ant. However, we didn’t expect it to be the biggest freakin’ SPIDER that I have ever seen outside of a zoo or pet store tarantula.
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I snapped a photo of it (above) and then tried to throw a quarter down to take a picture showing size comparison. The spider was bigger than the quarter, but got scared and ran under the ground tarp to our tent before I could get a another snapshot.
We never found that spider, but I was looking really hard while putting our tent away. My wife is scared to death of spiders, so I’m glad we found it on the last day. I doubt she would have slept in the tent if she knew a creepy eight-legged were-wolf spider was lurking beneath.
Jacob says
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Jacob says
My wife is madly afraid of crickets. I’m not sure why but they terrify her. She starts screaming and running and I usually have to catch it. She seems to be afraid they will hurt her somehow and she is even protective of our boy from these killer crickets.
Well, one day when our boy was 1 I heard a scream from the other room and my wife was in there paralyzed with fear because there was a cricket between her and out boy and she did not know what to do. She called me in because this dangerous cricket was viciously keeping her from her boy and I think she was afraid it might turn on him as well. So I walked in a picked up the cricket and cupped it in my hand and reminded her that crickets can’t hurt you and she just responded what if it did something to our boy.
At this point we heard a crunching noise and looked. I guess a second cricket was in the room and tried to “go after” our boy who quickly ate the cricket. I turned to my wife and said “I think he’ll be fine.”
Mommy Boots says
I Tweeted!
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Mommy Boots says
I think the funniest and creepiest thing that’s happened to me in regards to bugs is pretty much just living where I live. I will never forget the first time that I saw a camel cricket after moving to Tennessee. I come from Chicago where they don’t exist, and if you’ve ever seen one you know they look like monsters. They look so much like monsters, I dubbed them “Monster Crickets” until I learned their true name. They’re ugly, they jump like crazy and they terrify me!!!
Tiffany Wilson says
The most entertaining stories of my life always start with me trying to do the right thing. I was volunteering at the Georgia Special Olympics Summer Horse Trials. In that environment, we are no strangers to bugs. On the second evening, after all the stalls were cleaned and all the horses fed, I got into my car and was waiting for our team coach. She was standing with my passenger door open (so the interior light was on) giving directions to the rest of our volunteers. As she’s doing this a GIANT locust flew into the car!
I was kind of frantically looking around for it, but I’m a VERY calm person so I’m not saying anything. As she puts one foot in the car I say, “Wait! There’s a big-*$$ locus in the car!” She proceeds to get in and close the door, then looks at me and says, “What?” Incredulous, I reply, “There’s a BIG-*$$ LOCUST IN THE CAR!!!” (Imagine a shrill screeching). She responds, “Really? Where?” and at that EXACT moment it lands on her thigh. Not skipping a beat I say, “There.”
Next thing I know, the passenger door of my car is violently thrown open, my friend is literally sliding, in slow motion, head first out of the car, screaming, “OH HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLL NO!!!”
By now I’m laughing so hard I can’t see the locust any more for the tears streaming down my face. And, as retribution for my gaiety, the instant her butt contacts the ground, the locust leaps onto my lap. So, I squeal and throw myself to the ground through the driver’s side door.
After recovering from our hysterical laughter, convinced that the locust is now safely dispactched from the car, we climb in and head on our way. We hit the interstate and, “Bzzzzz!’ right over our heads! A few seconds later, “Bzzzzz!” in the other direction! The stupid locust is STILL in the car! So I’m driving and rolling the windows down, screaming at my friend to “shush it out! shush it out!”
We finally make it to the hotel parking lot, thankfully only one exit down, and the thing has the audacity to sit right in passenger side window frame looking at us! My friend grabs her clipboard and prepares to flick it out of the window. Just as she makes her move… the stupid thing leaps to the back seat!
We safely escaped the car, that night, but I swear that locust lived the rest of his days in there and his carcass is probably still somewhere in that car! Well, I was never satisfied with the vehicle after that so I got a new one the past Christmas. It was the only way to escape the trauma!
Mike says
I used to live in Northern Queensland where a lot of sugarcane is grown. Along with the cane come cane beetles that feed off the cane. They are HUGE. They fly. They stink. When one flies into you, it is like getting hit with a rock. At least, I think it was cane beetles, you can’t see them at night.
In order to control the beetles, cane toads were introduced to Australia to eat the beetles. Like most invasive species, the cane toad has no natural predators in Australia. Moreover, it releases a venom when it is attack that kills just about everything that tries to eat the toad…
Although I love N. Queensland, there is no shortage of bugs…
Betty says
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Betty says
I blogged about my daughter killing a tiny spider on her nursery school teacher’s clothes. It happened in England you see, and killing that spider was dooming the teacher to bad luck. When you live in another country, you just can’t prepare yourself for all the cultural differences you run into.
http://www.5minutesformom.com/37393/raid-bug-story/
Betty says
http://bettycd-windsofchange.blogspot.com/2011/04/when-in-england-do-not-kill-teachers.html
sorry – this is my blog link which should of been pasted in above comment
Eileen says
I was always the Tom Boy….the 4th of 4 girls in a family of 9 kids. My brothers seasoned me well. I could slay an animal while hunting, catch tadpoles in the creek, lose my footing in a pasture full of (well, you know) and even “feed” the spiders that inhabited every corner of the grain room by tossing flies into their “nets”. I could mostly handle all the work and dirt every little prank and dastardly deed my brothers could dish out on the farm. Except one. We lived in an old farmhouse where the wind squealed through the crevices of the old windows, and so too, BEES. Honeybees set up residence in the walls and hornet and wasp nests clung from under the soffits. One day my brother (#4 I lovingly call him) came into the bedroom as my sister and I snoozed on a summer morning. He didn’t appreciate the fact that he was up at the crack of dawn to feed out the calves and help milk . I remember him telling (not ASKING) us to get up and cook some breakfast. I rolled over and replied something I am sure I heard on Happy Days (a show most of you wont remember because it was a zillion years ago). He went to the window and grabbed a lazy hornet and flung it at me. (now this is a guy that is deathly allergic to bees but he was THAT mad at me). The “dead” hornet stung me on the chin and promptly landed in my PJ top. I jumped out of bed and peeled off my top and screamed out to the bathroom. My dad came running up the stairs, as parents of 9 kids who hear screaming like that usually have broken something or need stitches. He was so mad at ME for giving him the fright of his life but DID ground my brother. Ever since then I am TERRIFIED of bees and unfortunately have passed this fear onto my kids. You can bet our windows are tight in our house and I keep bee killer lined up on our garage shelf, in our back porch for the “bee season”.
(And just so you know, “#4” never EVER was mean to me again and grew up to be the most loving father to his 3 kids).
Suzanne K says
My daughter was about 4 and already not liking spiders. One night, she screamed from the living room about a big spider on the floor. I was doing something and figured it wasn’t such a truly big spider so I told her to get up on the couch and that I’d be there in a minute. When I went it, I realized that she wasn’t kidding! It was huge… a large tarantula was crawling across our living room floor! Poor kid! No wonder she was screaming. I gently ushered it out onto the patio and then went in to calm my daughter and apologize!
DEBIJOT says
My daughter was almost nine months pregnant when this bug story occurred. She and her husband were sitting on the couch at her mother-in-laws house. The in-laws and her husband’s grandfather were also in the room. It was in the evening, the lights were low and they were watching a movie. Now the house is lovely, but very isolated in the woods. Creepy crawlies have been known to sneak in. As they were watching the movie, my daughter felt something creep across her shoulder. She stood up and screamed “Spider, Spider – very loud and long. The grandfather stood up and screamed, “?&^% She is in labor!” (This is a grandfather who never cusses.) Her husband starting laughing and told everyone it was his fault, as he had just put his arm across the back of the couch and graced her shoulder. (She did go into labor the next day, still not sure if the previous evening attributed to this or not.)
Christina says
I’ve been bug-phobic all my life. Scared to death of them. I went to a 4-H summer camp once and they had to call my mom to come get me by the third day because I was sick from no sleep at night – those cabins had spiders in all corners and I couldn’t sleep knowing they were in the room with me!
But now that I’m a mom, I can’t show my fear as much. I don’t want my girls to see how scared I am. So most of the time I bravely kill any bug that gets into our home while my girls cower behind me.
Once my older daughter saw a smallish, fat spider near our front door. Crying, she begged me to get rid of it. I put on my brave face, grabbing a shoe and remarking, “Oh, it’s just a little spider. Nothing to get so upset over!”
But apparently that spider was about to be a mommy spider, because when I hit it with a shoe, hundreds of teeny-tiny spiders poured out of it and scattered in every direction. At that point I screamed and jumped back, horrified at having my single enemy transform into hundreds of feared bugs. My daughter then screamed even louder from my reaction. I didn’t know what to do at that point – keep hitting them with a shoe or leave them for a moment to find bug spray?
I frantically swung the shoe at as many as I could as I still screamed, my fear kicking in a fight-or-flight battle response that momentarily squashed my squeamishness as I squashed the baby spiders. There’s no way I got them all, and I spent the next week hunting baby spiders in every dark corner of my house.
I can laugh at it now, but seeing that spider erupt into a wave of little spiders felt like something out of a horror movie!
Shannon Henrici says
I posted your contest on facebook! What a great contest! I had fun writing my story.
Shannon Henrici says
I wrote a post about the contest on our mommyhood – http://www.ourmommyhood.com/2011/04/29/want-towin-a-chance-at-500-tell-your-favorite-bug-story/
Camel Crickets – my nemesis….. What is a Camel Cricket? Read my post find out!!!!
Shannon Henrici says
I have tweeted your contest out on my personal twitter @slhenrici
beth says
when i lived overseas a decade ago, my roommate and i used to go into the kitchen late at night. we would keep it dark until we were armed with the bug spray and paper towels…then switch on the lights and watch the cockroaches scurry as we blasted them. the spray saved us that awful crunching sound that occured when we had to smash them. i am so thankful to live in a cockroach-free home now!
Judy says
Until I was 13, we lived in my grandpa’s basement. It was an old house and I can only imagine the ways cockroaches found their way inside. I still hate the crunch they make when you step on them and the guts oozing everywhere! My family was on a budget and as a result, for years my parents slept with their mattress and box spring on the floor.
One night, shortly after my dad had had surgery on his knee, mom was asleep in bed when suddenly she felt something crawl into her ear…all she could think about was the Star Trek episode where aliens crawl into crew member’s ears and eat their brains or something nasty like that. She ran out to the living room where dad was sleeping because of his knee and handed him a pair of tweezers screaming that he get it out. Having just had surgery, Dad was very drugged and incoherent and to this day wonders what mom was thinking handing him tweezers to use in her ear, in his condition. He got as much of the COCKROACH as he could out and Mom spent ages in the shower.
I think it’s safe to say she slept on the other couch for several days after this incident.
Monique Luetkemeyer says
I worked in a psychiatric hospital in Seattle back in 2002. We were having a lot of problems with spiders and mice so the company called an exterminator. As I clocked in to my shift I saw a crew of men descending from a ladder completing the task. Later that night as my shift progressed I heard a screech com from the area of the front desk. I unlocked my unit door and poked my head out. The secretary was on her desk telling someone she “had to go” on the phone, and the charge nurse was stomping furiously. A large spider had fallen from the vent above the secretaries desk onto her head as she was taking a phone call. Laughing it off I thought nothing else of it until the patients started complaining of spiders coming from the vents too. It was like a full on scene from that bad 1990’s movie Arachnophobia. The staff and all the patients spent a good half hour killing spiders as they crawled from various vents. Thinking the trauma was finally over I lined up my unit of adolescent patients to take them to the cafeteria for dinner. While in line I heard screeches and screams coming from the girls. When I asked what was wrong they said there was a huge spider on the ceiling in the cafeteria. Thinking they were being a bit overly dramatic as teenagers can be I made a sarcastic comment, “It can’t be that bad,” as I turned the corner to see what all the fuss was about. Now let me just say that I do not, as a general rule, curse or use foul language but the sheer size of the spider that greeted me shocked me into letting some unsavory language escape. It was, quite literally, the biggest spider I have ever seen. That includes tarantula in the desert, those big orb weavers in zoo’s etc. It was larger than the old fashioned sprinklers which hung from the ceiling. It was about twice the size of my hand, including fingers. When a male staff member knocked it to the ground to kill it you heard it HEARD IT land and click on the linoleum trying to run away! The exterminators said it had been eating rats in the facility. RATS!!!!!! *shiver*.
one cluttered brain says
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=179934802056137&id=186892961026 i shared it on my FB fan page as well…
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one cluttered brain says
http://twitter.com/#!/Clutteredbrain/status/64044303332286464
Tweet tweet! I tweeted it as well….
one cluttered brain says
here’s my blog post telling y’all my BUG story….http://oneclutteredbrain.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-bug-story-and-my-lifesigh.html
Pick me pleasE?
Dorothy Priess says
At about 5:45 am, the sun was just coming in the horizon.
I am heading out to my husbands Ranchero (car/pickup thing) to drive to work.
I open the car door. I noticed a can of soda pop sitting in the cup holder with a small foot holding onto the can opening with a small thin whitish tail hanging out of the opening also. My first thought was to wake my husband and have him handle it, but it was really early so I figured I could handle it myself. Being the smart person I am, if I were to pick the soda pop can up and throw it in the trash can that was about 50 feet, I could be on my way. Needless to say when I picked the can up and started toward the trash can, (only took about 2 steps) I screamed and threw the can away from me as the mouse ran up my bare forearm. Not sure who was more scared the mouse or me. I had screamed loud enough that I woke my husband anyway, all he did was laugh after I retold him the story. We still haven’t figured out how the mouse was able to get into the truck, but realized that if it can fit into a soda pop can opening it probably can get into anything.
I wasn’t too freaked out to go to work, but had to wash my hands and arms a few times.
I sure wish they had a can of Raid that would repel mice.
Janice says
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww how terrifying!!!
Ashley says
My worst experience was the night I found a big black spider in my bathtime right before I was going to sleep. I had a panic attach over it and ended up shutting the door and putting something under the door and I went to bed. It was gone in the morning, thankfully!
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Mychal B. says
I also tweeted about the giveaway at http://www.twitter.com/bouncermb
Mychal B. says
I blogged about my bug story…A wedding, a gown, a bug!
http://mylifeinmommyland.com/?p=549
Deborah says
My post is from a while back on my blog, but the horror of the day lives on in my nightmares!
Friday Morning Bug Horror
Amanda Rosenfried says
http://rosenfried.blogspot.com/2011/04/bugs-creepy-crawling-bugs-yuck.html
I blogged about my experience. It’s sure to give you the “Creeps”
Thanks for bringing back this memory!
Alli says
When I was 36 weeks pregnant with my first child, my husband had to take a weekend trip away. So my mom came down to help me with things and keep over very pregnant me.
While we were bringing in her luggage, I told her she had to come in the second back gate, because the first back gate had a visitor I didn’t want disturbed- a rather large spider.
It was about as big as my fist and had decided to make it’s home on the gate latch! There was no way I was going to make it move, for fear I would be bitten (I had no idea if it would bite me).
My mom insisted a MAN come over and deal with it, so my BFF’s husband (also a cop) was dispatched to my house where he was armed with some spray and something to smash it with. Ick!
Kristen says
I shared the giveaway on my FB page
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Kristen says
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/aeris321/status/64012616057626624
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Kristen says
This honestly is my FIRST memory. I was about 4-5 years old and my family lived in Texas. Well, i went to my friend’s house to play. Her house had an enclosed, screen porch. Me and my friend were in that porch playing, when she had to go in the house for something. So i continued to play, by myself. Then all of a sudden, this HUGE scorpion came out of nowhere and started crawling toward me! I swear, it was stalking me. I was too little to reach the door to get into the house, so i started screaming my head off until her dad came out and swept it away with a broom. Like i said, this is my first memory, and i know i’ll NEVER forget it!
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Janice says
BRUTAL! — reasons why I am glad I don’t live in Texas. 😉
pamela black says
OMG! just thinking about bugs and critters makes me crinch! ehhhekkkurhhhh!!!
last year we had an ant infestation our entire home was being invaded by these lil guys and some were not so little! we bought all kinds of sprays to get rid of them, thank godness there were gone, then over easter guess what. our little friends came back to vist. i was cleaning up after easter that monday morning and i picked up one of the kids basket and to my horror ( gag) millions of these ants were crawling all over the basket,the candy, my kitchen table, the carpet…….. (gag) ewe!!! so i got the vaccum cleaning connected the attachement hose and suck’em all up with great joy, lol! bye-bye lil’ ants!!! i hope to never see them again! well at least outdoors is ok. 😉 lol!!
Michelle T says
My 3 year old daughter is deathly afraid of bugs. She shrieks at the tiniest of them.
A couple of weeks ago I meet her in the stairwell and the look of pure fear is welling up in her eyes. I can’t understand her words as she’s sobbing, but I understood her to say “A man is downstairs”.
It’s 8 pm and the thought of an intruder now has my heart thumping uncontrollably. I was literally shaking as I push her behind me and make my way to peek around the corner.
She then begins shrieking, “It’s there! On your shoe! There! Momma it’s on your shoe!”
I remember exhaling when I realized what she had originally meant…
“An ant is downstairs”.
shelly says
I had a recent icky bug story. I was sitting on the couch holding my baby and felt something crawling up my leg. When I looked down, I saw that it was a little black spider with a little bit of red on its back. I am deathly afraid of spiders so I jumped up (ever so gracefully) and tried to kick it off my leg while still holding the baby. It fell onto the top of my foot. I had to wobble over to the sink and kicked my foot over the sink, and then turned on the water and the garbage disposal. That is one itsy bitsy spider I don’t think will come back up the water spout!
Ashley S. says
My daughter and I called my husband into the bathroom to rescue us from a thousand legger. He can in all tough and macho as we watched him go in for the kill. All of the sudden the thing ran up his pants and he screamed like a girl! SOOOO FUNNY!!!
Heather M. says
This past Fall my family and I discovered the horrendous “house centipede” had invaded our home. I was working from home one day and saw this absolutely disgusting-looking three-inch long thing with about a million legs RACING across our living room floor towards me. I was so freaked out, I jumped up and ran out of the room and called my husband to ask him what to do. Of course he told me to kill it, but by the time I got back in the room I didn’t see it, so I did my work from the kitchen for the rest of the day. My husband found it when he got home and killed it, then teased me mercilessly for the next few days, until he found one on the ceiling above our bed one night. I’ve since learned that they’re actually beneficial, as they kill other small insects that may be in the house. They look hideous though and still freak me out when I see them.
Kathleen says
I had just moved into a new apartment about 2 years ago. Apparently I had dropped a few crumbs of food on the floor and didn’t notice. I looked into my kitchen one afternoon and thought “What’s that black thing on my cabinets and floor?” Um yeah, it was a few thousand black ants. Took forever to spray and get them cleaned up. Still freaks me out to this day. YUCK!
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Misty Willis says
WOW!!!! I would be freaked out!!!!!!! Your story brings back memories of my childhood. I have always been terrified of bugs. NOT thinking they would bite me or anything…but that they are SERIOUSLY gross, and I did not want them ANYWHERE near me. I would dodge bugs if I saw them in my path as I walked to my bus stop…and I would get up and walk away from a picnic table if one landed near me. I never really “FREAKED” per say…unless one landed ON ME…then I flipped out. It was rare, though, that an actual bug landed on me, so my freak outs were kept to a minimum, Until my big brother did what big brothers do best. He FOUND my weakness and used it against me. He would catch bugs to freak me out with…showing them to me and occasionally tossing them in my general direction…Laughing hysterically as I freaked out, jumped and ran. Well, the day came that I was to be married. My Big Brother, rather than giving us a wedding present, he gave my husband a little tid bit of embarrasing information about my bug weakness. It was about a year before my husband used the information…but he did, oh YES he did!
We were painting our newly purchased home, and I was up on a 6 foot ladder. ALL THE WAY across the room was a large “wood roach” crawling on the wall. I was ok as long as it did not come near me. My hubby tried teasing me, but I maintained a level head and ignored him. UNTIL…he caught that roach and threw it on me!!!! He THREW it in my HAIR!!! OMG!!! I fell off the ladder barely landing on my feet and ran screaming bloody murder from our front door. He was laughing hysterically and I was horrified! I can onky imagine what my neighbors were thinking seeing me run from my front door screaming like a banche, hands both wildly rubbing my head, hair flying everywhere, trying to make sure that bug was GONE. Yes, I am still married to him 17 years later, but I will NEVER EVER forget that moment, when my husband became just like my big brother, if only for a moment. No WONDER those two are such good friends!!!!!
PsychMamma says
What a fun giveaway! And what a lot of……creepy stories! LOL! I blogged about my bug experience a while back, so here’s a link:
http://psychmamma.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/to-the-giant-spider-dwelling-in-my-closet/
Thanks for the chance to enter!
Ernie says
When I was a teenager visiting relatives in Paraguay, I went for a moped ride with my cousin. I was excited to be in a foreign land experiencing so many new things — especially the thrill of driving a moped without a license since it was not required there. I turned around to smile at my cousin who was riding a moped behind me. As I turned around I saw a tarantula on the moped fender crawling towards me.
I panicked and started swerving back and forth as I drove — frantically trying to shake the tarantula off the moped. But to no avail. The big, hairy tarantula continued crawling towards me and was about to climb up onto my seat. I was so scared that I didn’t even think to stop the moped. I was actually speeding up — maybe thinking that I could outrun the tarantula?!?! Common sense was left behind in the dust.
My cousin drove after me on his moped as I swerved all over the road. He commented “Crazy Canadian” as he chuckled and kicked the tarantula off my moped. The tarantula hit the tire and shot off into the air as we continued riding on.
From that point on I closely inspected every moped before I rode it and also began checking my bed before getting in it and shaking my clothes before putting them on. I did not want to come that close to nature again.
Nicole B says
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Nicole B says
oops this tweet in comment #382 didn’t use the hashtag so I deleted it and retweeted with the hashtag and commented in #383 with the correct tweet link.
Nicole B says
My creepy bug story makes me get itchy all over just thinking about it! My husband and I had two Husky dogs that loved to go make friends at the local dog park. We went every day and let them run and play with the other dogs until one day, they brought home some extra “friends” in their fur…FLEAS! Unfortunately, we did not realize there was a flea problem until these little critters had completely invaded our home. They were everywhere – hopping on our skin, furniture, carpets. I’m talking total flea infestation. My husband, young son, and I were miserable and literally covered in itchy, bright red flea bites from head to toe. The dogs were scratching constantly, too.
We had no idea what to do – who would have thought that humans would get a flea problem? Not us! In a state of frenzy, I went to the store and found the aisle of Raid products. I cried tears of joy when I saw the Raid Flea Killer Plus Fogger – and immediately bought several to take home to get rid of our bazillion fleas. We followed the simple directions and set the fogger to do its job and kill all the fleas and their hatchlings.
Miracle of miracles, the Raid worked, and our flea infestation drama was over once and for all.
I will never, ever forget how terrible and itchy those flea bites were for all of us. And I will always be grateful that Raid produces an effective solution for flea infestations – it truly saved our family from real-life nightmare! Thank you, Raid!
janna says
When my hubby and I started dating, we were sitting outside talking in the summer. I noticed he was looking at my shoulder while I was talking and I looked down to see a HUGE beetle crawing out of my shirt. I started doign the panic dance and ran in the house striping down to nothing as I went! I was so scared and he thought it was HILAROUS. He had seen the bug go in my shirt but didn’t want to tell me because he knew I was scared of bugs.
Jaimie says
Once we were on a camping trip with about 25 high school students. I HATE bees, and am deathly afraid of them. Because there was a hive somewhere near our site, I spent the entire trip hiding in my tent – especially during mealtimes when they would come out after smelling our food. On my last night there (I had to leave early to come home), I took a bite of my salad, and felt the most horrible sting on my tongue. I spit out my salad, and a bee flew out of my mouth. My mouth and tongue were in so much pain, my eyes welled up with tears. A nurse was with us and said that there was no stinger in my tongue (thankfully), and gave me a popsicle to suck on. That did absolutely nothing. I drove home by myself that night with a migraine that lasted the entire night and whole next day. This experience did NOT help me get over my phobia of bees! I only wish I had RAID with me on that trip or that might have never happened at all!
Tina M says
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Tina M says
When I was young, I was sleeping over at a friends house. His mom was a bit of a hoarder. In the morning I went to the kitchen to make myself a bowl of cereal. When I poured the box of cereal 2 big ole cockroaches poured out! I lost my appetite instantly !!
Kimberly says
If you are looking for FUNNY stories I won’t tell you about the Brown Recluse Spider that bit my mom and eventually killed her (the toxins from it’s bit destroyed her organs… long story).
Funny story? Humm… is there anything funny about bugs? Ewww… they are creepy crawlies and they give me the heebie jeebies just thinking about them.
I have a few interesting stories. Like the time my cousin and I stepped on a hornets nest (that was NOT funny either), or the time we found a zillion ants in the closet in our rental home in Florida (and in our suitcases too!). Or worst yet the weird creepy crawly bug that ran across my bed right now.
A GROSS story would be the time I ate a mouthful of ants!!!
When I was a teen and living home with my parents I got a bad case of late night munchies. I rummaged around the kitchen in the dark so as not to wake anyone up, looking for something to eat. I found a package of cookies in the bottom cabinet. I opened it up (it was very dark) and grabbed a cookie and put it in my mouth. As I chewed it my mouth kept getting a horrible stinging feeling, like I was being stung a million times. I quickly spit the cookie out in the sink and turned on the light. What I found was BEYOND gross. Ants had some how made their way inside the package of cookies and were on the cookie I put in my mouth. What I was feeling was the ants BITING the inside of my mouth.
Ewww! Ewww! Ewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!
I also ate corn on the cob once and bit into a worm. I didn’t realize it at the time, not until I found the OTHER HALF of the worm still inside the cob.
Are you ready to throw up yet? I sure am!!!!!!!! 😉
Bacallsmom says
The weirdest bug experience I ever had was when a cockroach ate my printer. My printer at work stopped working one day, and when I opened it up, there was a big roach inside. He apparently electrocuted himself chewing on the printer wiring. I work in a old (they like to call it historic) building in the deep south and unfortunately, we have a lot of bugs to contend with. I learned an expensive lesson out of this–I now spray my office with insecticide every week.
Heidi Gail says
My first apartment was cockroach infested. They were so brave that they didn’t scatter when the lights came on. When I showered, they would fall off the walls into the slow draining water in the tub. If that wasn’t gross enough, at night they would fall off the ceiling onto the bed that I was in. It was a horrible experience.
Kyl Neusch says
waiting in line for a boat, when some cockroach type bugs start to swarm all the people in line. Bad day.
Heather S says
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Charity L. says
When was a child, around 6 years old, I was staying with my grandmother in florida Florida is known for the palmetto bugs, or really big flying cockroaches. I had seen them once or twice when I had gotten up in the middle of the night and turned on the lights to the bathroom and I was scared of them because they wouldn’t run, they would fly toward you. That isn’t where my fear of them comes from though. I’m terrified of them because morning I woke up and when I went to stretch my arm, I opened up my palm and there was a dead, squished palmetto bug in my hand! Apparently it had crawled under my pillow that night and in my hand and I reacted in my sleep by crushing it to death. I was so freaked out all I could do was scream and cry. I never sleep with my hand under the pillow anymore and I can’t stand the sight of those flying roaches!
Heather S says
We moved from Florida to Georgia and we moved into a house with a big yard. The house was older but it looked ok. We unpacked and went to bed. I got up in the middle of the night as it was super hot and I was going to take a shower. I turned on the light and thought I saw something moving but wasn’t sure. I reached into the shower to turn on the water and saw the roaches well to be clear I saw the roach fly across the shower as it was on the shower head and when the water came out it shot it across to the wall. They were all scurrying to get out of the water and I was back peddling as fast as I could. Then I saw there were some in the sink and in the drawers. I was so completely disgusted. I turned off the shower and ran out of the bathroom. That house was a constant bug problem no matter how much we bombed it and sprayed. I hated being there and was scared to go to the bathroom at night for fear of another encounter. They say when you see a roach there are probably hundreds of others nearby…I believe them.
gretchen from lifenut says
My favorite bug story involves our son, Joel. When he was in kindergarten, Joel developed a sudden fear of spiders. At night, he’d ask me to search his bedding for hiding spiders. I was to look on the walls and floors surrounding his bed as well. I rarely saw any spiders.
When I did see a spider, it was usually tiny and non-threatening looking. They were clearly scared and would scurry away. Joel would almost hyperventilate with worry about these tiny spiders.
Finally, I said, “Joel, a teeny spider won’t hurt you. They are too small to bite a big person.”
He replied, “I’m not scared of spiders biting me when I sleep. I’m scared they’ll poop on me.”
I never thought about spider poop until that moment. Thanks, Joel. Now every time I see a spider in our home, I have to wonder…
Brenda Rupp says
I met my sister in Osan, Korea, because I was non=military we stayed in a hotel off base. I was in my room getting ready for bed and this bug that looked like some kind of a roach was at least 1 1/2 inches long went crawling up the wall. I tried to get it with a shoe and it ran so fast I got creeeped out and ran out of the room to my sisters and beat on the door and asked her husband Fred could come out because there was a bug big enough to ride in my room. He did finally get it but I fell asleep sitting up in the middle of my bed!
Barbara Fox says
A few years ago we lived in a house out in the country with a cement front porch. The porch had a large crack in it. We were swinging in the swing on the porch when we saw a tick walking across the cement. Didn’t think too much about it. Then we saw one crawling up the side of the house. Kind of strange. Then we started looking around….there were HUNDREDS of ticks coming out of the crack in the porch! It was so horrible that I am shuddering as I am typing. Somehow my husband managed to use hairspray and a lighter and burn them all. EWWWWWWW!!!! I hope I never see that sight again!
linda lansford says
Years ago we bought a home that had been sitting for a while, I saw a few bugs so I called an exterminator. After a treatment thousands of bugs started climbing out of hidding places, Still gives me the creeps.
Kristen M. says
I’m not usually grossed out by bugs but when my daughter was one we rented a house that was infested with cockroaches (had we known, we wouldn’t have signed the rental agreement). Our neighbor sprayed the area every couple weeks however the cockroaches multiplied too quickly to get rid of them. During the day they would disappear but at night they covered the floors, particularly in the kitchen. It was so disgusting when I’d need to get up in the middle of the night to tend to my daughter. I learned quickly to have shoes nearby – and to check them before putting them on!
jennifer b says
My creepy story is I was sitting here on the computer when a spider came down from the ceiling and landed in my eyelashes. I thought i was going to die for real
Idaho Jill says
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Idaho Jill says
My daughter LOVES to smash ants that make their way inside the house. She makes me smash the spiders though, and in turn, I call my husband if it’s a big spider! She also likes to play with worms…which I guess aren’t bugs, but it does show that she is a tomboy! We definitely have lots of spiders and ants around our house, though – we just kinda have to put up with them…I have to buy ant traps every year. oh, and mosquitos LOVE me. Seriously, no matter what I do, I always get bit. One time last summer, I got 12 (yes, 12!) and my husband got zero! I have learned that toothpaste and tape work well 🙂
Emmy T says
Nothing has happened to me, I just find them and put them outside, but my husband had a really gross experience. When he was 7, he woke up because his ear was hurting. Yup, his mom looked inside and found a big bug! She had to pull it out with tweezers. Gross!
Jeanette Jackson says
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Qadoshyah says
Just tweeted the giveaway! http://twitter.com/TeresitagirlOK
Naomi says
When I was 15, my stepfather was transferred to Texas. I’d grown up in Hawaii and was used to the cockroaches you described but was totally alarmed to discover that in Texas, they can fly. Also, in the summertime, there are plague-worthy swarms of crickets EVERYWHERE. Chirping and buzzing and ricocheting off of everything, including horrified teenagers. When I moved to Washington State in my 20s, I was pleased to discover there were significantly fewer creepy crawlies around. You could always tell which of my friends were Texas expats because they kept all of their food in the fridge, whether or not it needed to be kept cold…
Janice says
I know – I am always SO grateful to live up here in the NWest with little bug infestations!
Jeanette Jackson says
Do spiders respond to CPR? Well, maybe. I was getting out of the bathtub and had pulled the plug to let the water out. I pulled down the towel from the bathtub curtain rod and as I did a spider fell off the towel and into the water. Without thinking I reached over and scooped the spider out and drained the water through my fingers. It was curled up in my palm and I just blew on it a couple of times then put it down on a small stool. After waiting about 5 seconds it uncurled its legs and walked away. Even stranger still is that I am an aracniphobe.
Qadoshyah says
I’ve never liked bugs, but my distaste for them wasn’t as bad until I moved from the dry deserts of California to the moist environment of Oklahoma. I’ve seen some of the largest, nastiest bugs ever out here.
One night was rather humorous. It was late, everyone in the house was asleep. I came downstairs, already barefoot & in my pajamas, to use the bathroom. As I was washing my hands, behind me I heard a “thud.” Knowing no one else was up, I wondered what it could be. When I turned around, I saw a massive hairy spider sitting on the ground. It had to be at least 2″ long (with it’s legs). I still have no idea where it fell from to make such a loud “thud.” I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a large jar. I put it over the spider, but then had to figure out how to get the spider IN the jar. After trying to get a paper under it, somehow the spider managed to sneak out of the jar. Several of the spider’s legs got cut off somehow (from squeezing out of the jar? I don’t know!). So, here was this spider crawling around with a huge body and just a couple legs. Talk about creepy. I eventually managed to get it picked up and flushed down the toilet. But, in the meantime as I was trying to catch it again, several other smaller spiders were crawling out from under the sink. I was seriously grossed out. After smashing them, I turned the light off and ran upstairs. It was rather hilarious to try to explain to my sister (who was laying in bed listening to me gross out at the spiders) what was going on. LOL. So, there is one “creepy story” :).
Sarah Hirsch says
I once opened the dishwasher to find it crawling with ants. It was the worst thing I had ever seen. I sprayed the whole thing with ant spray, and though I ran the dishwasher empty a few times, I worried for months about using our dishes, thinking we’d be poisoned by ingesting some of the ant spray. It was horrible.
Judy S says
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Judy S says
Unfortunately I grew up in a home that had all kinds of little critters, so now I am deathly afraid of them! If I see anything moving or crawling I instantly cringe! I would be so happy to win this so that maybe I can rid my fears of bugs!! 🙂
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crystle tellerday says
we were camping and i had a open can of soda on the table went to take a sip there was a yellow jacket wasp in my can and it stung me and my lip was swollen for over 2 hours
Bonny says
One night we came home from a party and the whole kitchen was full of ants. I thought “Oh My God” where did they all come from? They came from under the molding in front of the kitchen. I just started stomping my feet, trying to kill all those ants and I sprayed Raid. Then got the vacuum out and then mopped. That was gross.
Elaine Kontra says
I have several I could use for this, as I too have a major fear of spiders and have my fair share of run-ins with them, but I chose one involving my daughter. My daughter was a little over a year old and had been walking for a few months so she was regularly on the go. While my house was baby proofed, apparently it was not cricket proofed. My daughter had been walking around making noise like always, then it got real quiet so I thought I better go see what she was doing. I found her at the end of the hallway sitting down turned towards the wall real quiet. I went up to see what she was doing and she turned away from me. I had to peek over her to see that she had a cricket in a death pinch between her fingers. I’m not really scared of crickets but it was really gross seeing it between her two fingers being squeezed so hard it looked like it was gonna pop. I managed to get it away and then I had to be real careful about teaching her what bugs are ok, because black widows and scorpions are common where I live. She is 10 now and still obsessed with bugs, but thankfully not spiders.
Jennifer says
While my husband was in graduate school we lived in a very old house up on the hill just down from the campus observatory. He worked up at the observatory most nights and he was working on this particular night. I was sitting in my chair watching TV, unaware that I had been invaded! I saw my cat acting strangely. He had his nose on the ground and he was walking around slowly not raising his head. I got up to investigate only to find that he was pinning down a HUGE spider. Think tarantula size spider. I quickly put an empty box open side down over it and put something heavy on the box. I don’t know why, maybe I though it was super-spider or something and could lift the box up. Anyway, I left the house and walked up to get my husband to help me remove said spider form my house. I got up to the observatory and asked nicely for my DH to accompany me back to the house to help. He rolled his eyes at me but came along. I moved the box and my DH jumped about 5 feet. It was quite funny. The spider jumped several feet into the air and started to climb the walls. We eventually caught the spider in the box and my DH threw the box outside and shut the door fast.
Patrice says
My bug story happened very recently. I was watching tv and holding a big bowl of popcorn. I suddenly felt something crawling on my leg . I looked down and thought it was a roach. I jumped up so quickly in a panic that all of the popcorn in the bowl went flying. It was everywhere. It looked like an explosion had occurred in a popcorn factory. I looked down at my leg again and this time got a good look at the bug. It turns out that it wasn’t a roach, but was a stink bug. By now it had crawled onto my sock. I ran to the door, grabbing a magazine on the way. Once I got outside on the porch, I used the magazine to knock the stink bug off of my foot. Then I went back inside to clean up all that popcorn.
Annie says
Oh. I was about 8 I think. It was time for bed, I was in my Pj’s and needed to run down stairs for something. I’ve no idea what. Anyway I hit the second step at the top and saw a little rock. I don’t know what I thought I would do with it, but I reached down and picked it up. It moved. I screamed. I am not and was not a screamer. I threw the bug (just a harmless waterbug). My parents came running. I told them what happened. My dad laughed. I wouldn’t go down the stairs. They made me. I still don’t like things that move unexpectedly.
Stephanie Baker says
I absolutely hate spiders and I think it all started when I was 9 or 10. I was visiting my cousins at their house and we were running around playing outside. It was warm out and we went inside to get a drink of water. I filled my glass up and took a big drink of the refreshing cold water. Then as I was drinking, I looked down into my cup and I saw it…a big yucky daddy long leg spider!! So began my love-hate relationship with spiders…they love to find me and I still hate them LOL To this day I still look into my cups before I drink out of them.
Melissa Brotherton says
Not sure why the link is so long…but here’s my Tweet of the giveaway. 🙂
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Mary Beth Elderton says
I tweeted:
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Melissa Brotherton says
Here’s my Facebook status update about the giveaway…
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Mary Beth Elderton says
Very early one morning, while the kids, teenagers at the time, were still sleeping, I decided to take the opportunity for a long shower. I whipped back the shower curtain and found a huge, black, shiny spider!
Huge!
Black!
Shiny! (No really, like plastic, only it moved)
I screamed like a slasher victim in a movie!
One of the boys bolted out of bed and ran in. I could barely stammer out the word “spider.” He grabbed something and smashed the spider. My hero!
Then I noticed my savior’s weapon against the monster—
A VHS copy of “The Silence of the Lambs”
Melissa Brotherton says
As a child, my sister was terrified of all things creepy and crawly. If there was a slug on the ground she would stand paralyzed, unwilling to step over it because it might jump on her. One morning my mom was thwarted in her attempts to give my sister a shower by the audacity of a daddy longlegs taking up residence in our shower. My sister, looking like a daddy longlegs herself, braced against my mom’s attempt to shove her through the bathroom door by planting each hand and foot on the frame of the bathroom door. Later that year, we realized my sister’s fear of bugs was gone when she started eating ants; well, until one bit her tongue. Haha!
Crystal F says
I have so many that it’s hard to choose. I will go with some that happened last week. I’m in line at school picking up my girls. They get in the car and get buckled and then start screaming their heads off. There was a bee in the car. There was nothing I could do at the time because the line was moving. My girls are screaming and climbing over the seats, everone is looking at us like we are crazy. It was not fun. Then, two days later I’m in the line picking up my girls and the whole thing starts over. It’s a spider this time instead of a bee. I know everyone else in the line had to get a good laugh while I was having a small heart attack. You wouldn’t believe how loud these girls can scream.
Kayte CookWatts says
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Kayte CookWatts says
I have a few stories- but I’ll go with the funniest.When I was about 12, we moved to a big house in Oregon and we were really excited. It was the first time ever we had our own rooms and a “kids bathroom.” Early in the morning, I got up to use the bathroom and started freaking out, screaming and slapping at myself. My dad rushes in, thinking I was being attacked. “There’s bugs- bugs everywhere!” I panted. My dad looked at me, perplexed. He didn’t see anything. “What do they look like?” “I don’t know, little,black-they are bugs!” My dad looked again, saw nothing and went back to bed. I went out to watch cartoons, thinking maybe I had imagined the whole thing. Twenty minutes later, I started yelling again, basically replaying the earlier incident with my dad, but this time he looked like he was doubting my sanity a little. “I’m telling you, there are bugs all over this house- and they BITE.” My dad went back to the bedroom and I could hear them laughing together nervously.
Well, 24 hours later, my parents finally stopped teasing me and believed me. Turns out the house was invested with fleas- and I wasn’t crazy.
Erin Walsh says
I was at work one weekend, and I get a telephone call from my then six year old son. It seems that he and his dad, were outside and had somehow managed to irritate a swarm of bees. Being really smart, Alex didn’t even wait for his dad to tell him to run, he took off inside, grabbing the phone and closing himself in the bathroom, before proceeding to call me at work and calmly explain that his dad was outside with the dogs, fighting with bees and that he was all alone in the bathroom. And then looking out the window and describing what was going on.
Luckily I worked closed to home, at a vets office and managed to rush home in about five minutes. By that time Alex’s dad and the dogs were also in the house, so we just decided to take the dogs back up to work to have them looked over for bee stings. They had never been stung before and we didn’t know if they might have a severe reaction. As it turned out, the dogs never even got stung, and neither did Alex, just his poor dad. The vet actually ended up doing temporary first aid on his wounds.
MageeMommy says
My icky bug story is from childhood. My sisters and I were all in elementary school at the time so that means we were 12 years and younger. I was the last to reach the table for breakfast and my mom was still cooking away. So when my sisters hadn’t finished their cereal I thought nothing of it and half-asleep poured myself a bowl. As I munched on the first couple bits I realized it didn’t taste quite right and my sisters were holding back their giggles. Then I looked into my bowl and saw that it was covered in weevels and flipped out. Then my mom flipped out and they were in trouble. UGH! Not too tasty of a breakfast.
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cathy miller / rewcath says
Usually everyone loves lady bugs and think they are cute. Not me, when my husband and I bought our first house it was way out in the woods, when the weather started to get warm a few lady bugs started to land on our sliding glass door to our deck – the mob of lady bugs grew and grew until in about a week the sliding glass door looked as it it was a curtain of lady bugs. Since then I have never been fond of lady bugs.
Jeannette says
My creepy bug story happened when I was about 8 years old. I woke up one morning and went downstairs to breakfast. Half way through my pancakes I realized I’d left my beloved stuffed dog upstairs. He needed breakfast too so I bounded back upstairs to grab him. As soon as I opened my bedroom door I screamed! My room was swarming with wasps! My dad had to come up, close himself in my room, and vacuum them all up. It turns out they had burrowed through the side of the house, nested in our attic, and burrowed through my roof. Had I woken up 10 minutes later they would have been swarming all over me! It was not a fun morning to say the least.
Kristen says
My fiance and I just moved into our apartment a few months ago. Well, we have a 9 month old baby girl. We never really noticed any bugs inside our place, but we always noticed them outside… and in our daughters diaper! I didn’t think anything about it, just maybe she was playing with them (which was gross first of all) so I was cleaning CONSTANTLY! Well… long story short, there were no bugs in my house because my child was EATING them! As soon as I seen her eating one, I freaked and went straight to the ER, because I was not about to let her get sick by eating anything! Well she was fine, nothing poisonous or anything that could severly hurt her. Thank goodness! From here on out, I still clean constantly and she will NOT eat bugs anymore, I think she KNEW I was very scared!
Kristen says
Let me remind you… she ate a JUNEBUG and was choking on it when I freaked out and went to the ER. Sorry I didn’t put that in the story!
James Nickerson says
Mine bug story is when I was driving through Kentucky and ran into a locus swarm!
Meagan Paullin says
My favorite bug story happened when I was a little girl. We had a wasp nest inside of an old hollow tree in the yard, and my dad is very allergice to stings. So we needed to get rid of it.
I also had a dad who was a bit crazy 🙂 His solution was to light fire works, and set them off up into the inside of the tree! Wow, right? That brought down a lot, but not enough. We then set a fire in the hollow at the bottom, and let the smoke go up into the tree to reach the wasps. That brought down more!
We kept going, with crazier and crazier ideas, all night. By morning we had gotten rid of all of the wasps, and pretty much destroyed the old tree in the process. But I was SO proud of my dad for being so “smart” and fixing the problem.
Deci says
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Deci says
I was camping on the beach in San Felipe, Mexico. There was a full moon. I woke during the night, looked up and right on the tent above my face was a huge tarantula silhouetted in the moonlight. Yes, it was inside! I scrambled out in a hurry and took a moonlight beach walk until dawn.
Deborah Rosen says
Tweet: https://twitter.com/#!/AsTheNight/status/63656345500524544.
Nadine L says
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Nadine L says
I never minded Spiders, didn’t love them, but didn’t scream when I saw one. In act I would often scoop them up and move them outside when I found one in my house. Until one day, I saw this huge Spider in my tub as I was about to get in for a shower,. So I went to get something big enough to scoop her up and take her outside as usual. I forget what I got, but I went in and carefully trued to scoop her up, when I touched her, nine million (well maybe not that many) teeny-tiny baby spiders scattered everywhere, I mean my whole bathroom was covered. I had no idea that baby Spiders attached to their Mom’s legs. I screeched bloody murder and since then Spiders totally freak me out.
Deborah Rosen says
When I was 14, I had serious spine surgery and it was a couple of months before I would be able to get in and out of bed without help. I also had to wear a corset if I wasn’t lying down, which I did a lot the first few weeks after I got home.
Well, one morning I woke up and thought I was having some kind of flashback to the heavy drugs I had been on in the hospital, because all around me on the bed were crawling things. Nothing was on me, in fact nothing was within one inch of me, but the rest of the bed was covered, and so was the wall behind my bed.
Terrified, I didn’t care what might happen, I jumped up on the bed and literally jumped over the bugs to land on the floor and run, screaming, out of my room. My poor mother almost had a fit, I scared her so, and she, too, thought it was a hallucination, but it wasn’t.
It was termites, swarming. Ugh, it creeps me out to tell the story.
aimymichelle says
this one time i had woken up to go to the bathroom. and i looked up and there was a huge spider on my wall. i screamed but i had to pee real bad. so i made someone go get it. but my dad put it in a jar and then it was put in the pantry so everytime i looked at it i screamed. and i did the icky bug dance. it was so terrifying.
Josie says
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Josie says
The creepiest bug thing that happend to me was last year in Mexico. I was lying on a chair at the pool and my daughter screamed at me. I don’t even know what kind of bug it was but it was on my cheek. It was disgusting. I couldn’t feel it, thank goodness but I was completely creeped out the rest of our vacation. I couldn’t close my eyes anymore!
Steph says
Tweeted
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Helen Stockwell says
I was staying over at my parents place for the weekend and discovered they were having a Ladybug war in their house… they were crawling and flying everywhere. We worked all day to get rid of them and thought we had accomplished our goal… woke up the next morning and I had ladybugs all over my bed and in my hair… it made me jump out of bed and scream! It was the one time I was seriously considering shaving my head.
Steph says
Bug stories. Hmmm. Ok. I was camping once and a wolf spider planted itself on the see thru mesh part of the tent and would not leave. The body was roughly the size of a softball and it was aggresive. Horrifying. The last time I went camping! At home we have a tent worm invasion every 5 or so years which can freak people who arent used to it out. They literally cover everything. Spraying them works best outside. My kids are pretty freaked out by bugs in the house so I am not looking forward to this summers invasion.
Dakotapam says
Last Memorial Day we went on our annual hike. We forgot to use bug spray. I dutifully checked my husband and the children for ticks before returning to the house. I forgot to check the dog. That night we had no fewer than 20 ticks crawling in our bed (our dog USED to sleep with us). Worst night of sleep ever!
Michelle says
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Michelle says
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I’m not sure what is with the long url?
Michelle says
Sorry, I forgot to add the hashtag, just retweeted http://twitter.com/?status=Want%20to%20Win%20%24500%3F%20Tell%20Us%20YOUR%20Creepy%20or%20Funny%20Bug%20Story%E2%80%A6%20%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F3kd8k9y#!/FlyingGiggles/status/63648343443783682
Michelle says
Just last week, as I was heading out the back bathroom door to our backyard, I spotted a huge spider near the ceiling. I took off my shoe to smash it, but noticed just how big and ferocious looking it was. As I was about to smash it, I let out a weird, “uuugh” sound, kind of like I was trying to go to the bathroom, but much louder and intense. I was really freaked out. Well, I got the spider and walked outside where my neighbor was watering at his by his fence. He looked at me very odd. I told him I was trying to kill a spider, he thought I was trying to go to the bathroom! I’m still not sure if he believes me, but thankfully I got to that spider before it got to my daughters!
Kiet says
Bee Attacks in the House!
I opened the door last week to air the house. As I opened it, I felt a blanket of pellets hitting the door then gush into the house. It turns out there was a bee hive on the ledge of the roof. It was quite terrifying made worst with screams of my kids and the drama afterward. We were scared to leave our house; not to mention how costly it was to take care of it.
Lynda E. says
Unfortunately we live in a state that has been invaded by the dreaded stink bug. At the end of September when it was starting to cool off my husband discovered that they had congregated in our son’s room, which gets the most sun, to hibernate. Seriously, there were hundreds of them on the backs of pictures, up in the blinds, under the stereo, everywhere. You’re not supposed to vacuum them because the smell is nauseating, but there wasn’t anything we could do. I called my son to take his study group to Panera after school for dinner while we worked on it. I was carting everything out of the room, opening windows, hooking up fans and lighting every scented candle I could find, while poor hubby donned a surgical mask and had at them with the vacuum. It took us three days to restore order – it was totally like something out of a horror movie! If you haven’t experienced stink bugs, thank your lucky stars! They have no predators and there’s no spray that works on them.
KietAZ says
I have many creepy bugs stories. Let me start with this one where I’ve the scare to prove it. We were on vacation in Malaysia, I was only 6. We were at an outing in the evening and the only light were from candle and fire torches. I was reaching for my rubber band to tie my house and I picked up what I thought was a broken inelastic rubber band when I grabbed a centipede instead! I was stretching it thinking I can fix it by tying a knot on it! It wasn’t until I saw all the legs against the candle light and the scratchy tickling feel to my fingers did I realize it was a centipede I was holding. I believe I lost my voice for screaming so loudly afterward…
Lindsay says
This is short, but there was one time where I was sleeping with my mouth open (apparently) and a fly flew in my mouth. I was dreaming and must have dreamed I had something good in my mouth because I began to chew. It took me a minute, but I woke up and realized it wasn’t delicious, but a FLY!! Lots of rinsing, flossing, dry-heaving later, I got it out.
So sick!
Abby says
Facebooked it: http://www.facebook.com/#!/abbylbarnhart/posts/206714306027421
Abby says
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/dearabbyleigh/status/63628446449930240
Abby says
Here’s my story:
O Da Bees: http://dearabbyleigh.com/2011/04/28/o-da-bees/
Beth says
Here is the link to my post about your neat-o/creepy contest! Thanks!
http://wiccanmakesometoo.blogspot.com/2011/04/trying-to-win-more-house-makeover-s.html
Rebecca Braswell says
Two summers ago, my best friend got married. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding in June. Everything went beautifully until the preacher said,”You may now kiss the bride”. At that moment the bride let out a loud panik sounding shrill and danced a small jig. The groom looked shocked. I looked at the bride and there crawling up her gorgeous white gown was a quarter sized bug! We all laughed until our bellies hurt. Good thing she is a good sport.
nikki hatfield wilson says
I am not really scared of anything except BIG East Texas woodroaches/waterbugs. We lived in a house surrounded by pine trees and these bugs liked to hang out under the bark. When it rained we would occassionally find them in the garage and Lord forbid you leave a window open after the rain. The moved rather slow, but could fly. They could not fly far by any means, but just knowing they could jump at you was enough for me. They crunched really loud if you dared to get close enough to smash one. Bleh! I was so paraniod that when it would rain, I would spray Raid around my windows and around my bed just in case one attempted to crawl into bed with me. For the most part, it was rare to find them inside, but I for one was not taking any chances. When I was in my early 20’s I worked for the Sheriff’s Dept Downtown and my co-workers were aware of my waterbug fear as we would often get them in the basment of the building. I made it a point to scan the room when I came in each morning so that I would not get any surprises. I had a co-worker who found a dead waterbug, fully intact, and went through the trouble of wiring a paperclip through its body and setting it up inside my desk drawer. He rigged this in such a way that as I opened my drawer this thing jumped out at me. Needless to say, I freaked, screamed and jumped around dancing much to the delight of all the male officers. I even drew the attention of other officers and and staff from different floors. It must have been quite a sight because I never lived it down. I can assure you that from that point forward, I stood far away and opened my desk drawers using a yard stick. I always kept a can of bug spray too.
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Victoria Lester says
My daughter & I were sitting on a couch in our Living Room area and one day out of no where a HUGE creepy spider was sitting in between us on the back of our couch. I jumped up so quick & started screaming. My daughter also jumped up and we were in disbelief on how big this spider was. It seemed to be running inside the couch. I didn’t know what to do, because I didn’t want that thing loose in our house and wanted it dead! My daughter was about 8 years old and she doesn’t like spiders either. This spider was the Biggest and fastest I’d ever seen and I had to move the couch pillow so I could find the creeper. It reappeared running back to the top. I think my daughter swatted it with something and killed it. I was amazed that she took the initive (poor little thing) to do that. It died. YES!!! We never sat on the couch again because of the incident. We always referred to that couch as the SPIDER couch afterwards. EWWWWH!
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Sheri Carpenter says
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I tweeted 🙂 http://twitter.com/abitnerdy/status/63618182870597632
Owen's Mom says
Ugh… I never feared bugs till I lived in Japan…
I taught English for 3 years in a small coastal town in Southern Japan. I remember hearing about pest prevention during our initial orientation, but didn’t think much of it. I had never had a problem with bugs.
During my first week, I came home and collapsed on the bed. The time change, the humidity, I was spent. Then I saw a giant cockroach on the ceiling directly over my bed. Now, cockroaches in tropical climates get VERY big. It was dark and I thought about how disease infested they are. I ran and grabbed a bottle that had a pic of a cockroach on it (at the time I couldn’t read it). I stood on top of my bed and sprayed the roach. BIG MISTAKE!! If you spray it straight on it will fly right at you! It landed on my head and I lost it! I was screaming, running, shaking. I woke up half the apartment complex and had several neighbors trying to bang down my door. I finally got it off me and saw it scurry across my entryway and into a shoe. I threw the shoe out my front window and had to explain to my new neighbors that the blood-curling screams were due to a common bug. I couldn’t sleep all night!
I ended up not sleeping well for weeks, bleaching all surfaces I could find, bug bombing and throwing away the roach hide-out shoes. I am now terrified of cockroaches!!
abitnerdy says
There’s a corner in the kitchen (by the microwave) where this huge cockroach likes to hide. We’ve tried several times to catch the culprit but it has always flown right by as.
One day we saw the creepy cockroach shoot in that corner and we concocted a plan. One person we lift the microwave and shoo it, one person will stand by the exit on the right blocking its path and one will hide on the left (the direction it always crawls to) with a house slipper and exterminate! That’s right… we all in position, yelled SPARTAAA!! and within 5 seconds we did the deed.
X( Cockroach: 0 Abitnerdy: 1 tee-hee-hee
abitnerdy says
Oh no, I’m so sorry I think I typed my e-mail wrong in this comment 🙁 its abitnerdygirl at gmail dot com so so SO sorry. :/
Sheri Carpenter says
Ok first I have to say that I am the biggest bug chicken that ever lived. I hate them all, they make me cringe and scream lol.
My story is from about 5 years ago when we first moved into the house we live in now. The house had been empty for quite some time and though we did some work on it before we moved it we had to move in before the work was finished. We didn’t have a shower in the bathroom when we first moved here but since this house was built for the old Dupont workers like 100 years ago lol there was a shower in the basement that worked. So this is where I had to take a shower the first night we were here. I gather all my supplies and towels and head to the basement and right when I went to set my soap and things up on the shelf there were these OMG creepy looking things all over up there. I didn’t know what they were I just know one jumped at me and I dropped all my stuff right where I stood and ran for the upstairs. I fell up the stairs I running so fast and screaming the whole way. Of course this freaked my husband and kids out lol.
So I send hubby down there and he comes back and says “oh they are just cave crickets” I am like WHAT ? WTH is a cave cricket lol. apparently they take over basements of vacant houses ahaha. So needless to say I really needed a shower, I mean we had been moving all day long. So I make him go down there with the trusty can of raid and spray the crap out of that shelp and all around the shower and then I made him stand down there with me holding a flash light in one hand and the can of raid in the other ready to fire at the next creepy crawly I saw while I was taking a shower. I think that was the fastest I have ever taken a shower in my whole life.
To this day he still tells everyone about this and of course they all get a good laugh on me LOL
Bree Anderson says
OH MY GOD your story is right out of a Stephen King short flick! YUCK.
The story that jumped into my mind pales….We had just moved to Charleston South Carolina. I was about the same age, 9 or so. I was showering (yes this is a shower scene) and from the corner of my eye (as suds rested on my head) I see a dark items. Hmmmp, there is nothing dark in my tub when I got in?? I reluctantly opened my eyes, SCREAMED like a crazy women, jumped out of the bath tub, grabbed the first towel I could fine (which for some reason was a hand towel…not sure where that bath towel ended up) and ran into the living room and jumped on the ottoman! My mom and younger siblings stared at me…I said there is a BUG in that bathroom (the size of my foot!). They tiptoed in and looked down and wtih a cup scooped up the biggest Palmetto BUG you ever saw and put it into the drain. Palmetto bugs not only can fly but you can dress them up they are so freakin’ big. We had moved from Idaho, land of no bugs….to the land of bugs that can give me a ride to school. Needless to say our bug ‘man’ said we put it right back into our water system and I showered on my tippy toes, eyes open and in my mom’s shower because the drain seemed ‘tighter’….I can’t stand them, those little non-harmful but incredibly ugly bugs.
Sharon Harmon says
It was during a family picnic and we were eating picnic fare and drinking juice. Well, out of the blue, my husband hollers, “Beetlejuice!” (a movie) and sure enough, there was a beetle in my juice! lol! 😉
danielle donohue says
When we first moved into our home, (which had been foreclosed), we had a super nasty cockroach problem!!!! I was pregnant at the time, and thought I was going to die every time I saw one of those nasty creatures. They would come out at night..as soon as we turned the light on in the kitchen, we would see them crawling back into the dishwasher….ewww…I get chills just thinking about it. It was so disgusting!
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Blossom says
I am terrified of all bugs, other than spiders or ants. My husband and I moved into our first apartment some years ago, only to find the place infested with roaches (we did not see any before we moved in). I went to the bathroom one morning, felt something on my foot, and saw a roach on my foot. I nearly had a heart attack! The management company exterminated the apartment, which didn’t help, but luckily some boric acid did, or we would have moved out. Thank God I’ve never had to experience that again!
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amanda hellen says
While watching my mother do laundry down in our basement, I decided to show her some of the dance moves I had learned at dance class that week. I spun around on the ball of my foot, while wearing socks, and realized I had twirled on a slug!!! I started crying and had my mother peel off my sock, slug guts all over the bottom of it…. so gross!!
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andrea says
Ok this was just gross… When we were building our front deck to our house, we had to remove some of our siding to place the ledger board on the house.. Anyways under the siding there must have been thousands of bugs.. I think they were lady bugs.. all dead.. it was disgusting..
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Karen says
My husband is terrified of ticks and as a teenager he called his Mom home from work, telling her employer it was an emergency and all that happened was that he had found a tic on their kitchen floor. His Mom was so freaked out, only to find her teenage son was afraid of a tic crawling on their floor. Mom flushed the tic and all was well. We all still laugh about his emergency call about a little, teeny, tiny tic!
Tracy P says
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ntiveheart aka jayedee says
I am absolutely terrified of cockroaches…around here they call them palmetto bugs. They’re big and creepy and smart. If you dare to spray them, they always fly right at you…it’s as if they know they’re dying, but they’re going to take you with them! anyway, years ago, we lived in a tiny little town, you know the kind, EVERYONE knows everyone else’s business *eye roll*
One Wednesday evening, I was coming in from a midweek church service and went to the door leading in from our carport (which was surrounded by bushes that were crawling with palmetto bugs) My husband heard me approach and turned on the porch light. As I came up to the door, one of those dadgum roaches flew right at me and landed on my leg….well, I had stockings on and they have this horrible sticky things on their legs, I let out a blood curdling scream and tried to brush the thing off….it was stuck tight to my stockings…..so I yelled louder, doing some kind of insane dance around the carport which eventually led to me pulling my dress up to my waist and shucking out of those hose! (it was the only way to get that thing off of me!) you know where this is going, don’t you? After I caught my breath, I looked up only to see several neighbors outside watching the entire debacle and laughing! i’ve never been so humiliated! picture it, pregnant girl, naked to the waist, screaming her head off over a cockroach. NOT a pretty sight….funny maybe, pretty? not!
Thank goodness….we moved shorty after that
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Tracy P says
In college I lived in a one room apartment with my then boyfriend. While he was sleeping in bed and I was watching TV on the couch a bee flew in the window and landed on his nose. Trying not to wake him up or get him stung I tiptoed over. When the bee landed on a window next to the bed I tried to hit it with a book. The bee still alive fell into the bed and the glass in the window broke. He flew out of bed when the bee stung him on the butt. He was mad at me for awhile over that one!
Jendi says
An interesting time for this contest – right now. This very minute I have a huge, ugly spider trapped under a bowl with a can on top to hold the bowl down. The kids found it first and wouldn’t walk through the hall – that’s how big and ugly it is. Then the dog chased it out in the open and I slammed the bowl down on top of it. Question is – what do I do with it now???
Janice says
I would kill it as fast as I can!
Elle says
A couple of summers ago we had a huge bee problem. They were everywhere. We got them in the house and they were always buzzing around us outside. The kids were totally freaked out. One night we decided to eat out on the pool deck. We brought all the food out and the kids and as soon as we sat down about 100 bees flew at us from under the deck. They covered the food and buzzed all around us. The kids were screaming and took off running back for the house. We just left the food for the bees and ran into the house ourselves. Hoping this year isn’t so full of bees! LOL!
Lim says
I was cleaning out the garage and I got to the wall where an air mattress was lying in an messy pile. As it had a huge tear in it I decided to toss it. I started to pick it up when it erupted with huge black ants. I almost tripped over the mower getting out. After a few minutes I calmed down and decided that it still had to go so I grabbed the big tongs from the grill and slid back into the garage. I cleared a nice big path to the overhead door and went after the mattress. The tear was the easiest thing to grab, but when I pulled the tear opened up, revealing a nest, hive, whatever you call it. It took me about 7 tries to get it all the way out, but I finally did it. When the man of the house got home I had him toss it in the back of his truck. I took a loooooong shower, but I could feel them on me all night.
New To Mom says
I blogged about mine:
http://newtomom.com/my-most-traumatic-bug-story/
Barbara says
Well last year as I was weeding my garden, I was pulling weeds in the cukes, a snake ran over my hand, I quickly jumped up and ran to get my hoe, I come back and it was still there so like any good Southern gal would do, I cut his head off with the hoe.
Later that day when my husband came in I told him about the intrusive snake in my garden, he went out to see, and lo and behold it was not a little garden snake as I thought, but a pygmy rattle snake, EEK… I tread light now when in my garden, and do not take any thing for granted, I have killed several since then, but Georgia brown snakes, not rattlers.
Hope you enjoyed my little tale of the snake in the cuke patch. ♥
Denise B. says
Not really a story, but I think it’s creepy how preying mantis’ fly at you like attacking.
Trisha Novotny says
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Trisha Novotny says
My HORRIBLE and FREAKY encounter with BEES or as I call it a Shot Gone Bad moment
http://247moms.blogspot.com/2009/08/shot-gone-bad.html
Janice says
oh my word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was SO horrifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trisha Novotny says
Janice BTW that was up in Bellingham on our way into Canada…..my kids still talk about it
marina says
Cockroaches definitely creep me out thanks to a “close” encounter I had when I was about 11 years old. It was summer and I was resting as I was recovering from a bad cold. The congestion had blocked my nasal passages completely so I had no other go but sleep with my mouth open. Half way through my siesta I felt something crawling up my ear, thinking it was part of my dream I just brushed away the feeling. The “ticklish” feeling moved from my ear,to my cheek and then started to feel too real for comfort. I felt something crawl to the sides of my mouth and quickly swished that area several times. Imagine the shock and horror when I saw a juicy brown cockroach scurrying away in fear. Ugh…..needless to say I screamed murder and since then I get shivers down my spine when I see a cockroach anywhere in close range….Yuk…imagine that icky creepy crawler could’ve been in my mouth….UGH!!!
snarky says
Here’s my story (not sure if it published)
Lil Ms Snarky vs Rick Moranis
Ok, so – I get home from work and notice my shower curtain is ajar – which is unusual.
“Perhaps someone is in there,” I think and shove the entire curtain back, Clue-style (like when Miss Scarlet takes on the Ballroom drapery).
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But the GIANT CARPENTER ANT from Honey I Shrunk the Kids!
I’ve always had a slight problem at my condo with ants getting into my shower, so I strategically placed duct tape in those “entrances” to solve the problem. This dude? Plowed his way right in. I even felt a bit bad. He was so large that I almost felt ghetto for not rolling out a red carpet for him to make his shower entrance.
So, now I have to kill the GIANT ant with the pinchers. How do I proceed? Call dad!
I get Dad on the phone who finds this whole thing comical. “Knit him a saddle and ride him to work tomorrow,” he suggests. Not funny. I need to KILL this thing.
“Just think of it as killing a large pony.” STILL not funny, Dad.
He assures me that if I make a big enough wad of TP, I can snatch & squeeze the ant before he unleashes his pinchers on me. Nope. Not happening. It’s too big to even CONSIDER touching. Smacking it with a shampoo bottle seems like my only defense. So I ready, aim and FIRE the Garnier Fructis bottle at it and the ant falls into a mug full of water and my shed hair.
OK. I can just pick up the mug & dump it in the toilet. Pick up. Dump. Flush. Simple right? WRONG!
Does anyone remember my “little problem”? Yes – I have a fuzz phobia. Any free-floating fuzz frightens me. This includes my OWN shed free-falling hair.
So, now I’m REALLY panicking. As I dump the mug into the toilet, a woven hair ladder keeps the ant & the mug connected. My only hope, since Obi-Wan is not around, is to (gulp) actually touch my own soapy matted hairball. Eww!
Making whimpering sounds, I quickly try to unhook the hair ladder from the mug before Mr. Ant can climb his pinchered way up to my delicate hands!
After 3 tries, I FINALLY free the hair from the mug & flush the ant down 3 times, just to be sure he’s absolutely NOT going to be climbing up my toilet like an alligator.
I called my bro to relay the harrowing story only to hear him say, “What if the rest of the ant tribe comes looking for him?” Not. Cool.
End of storytime with The Snarkster.
snarky says
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Michele Puccini says
My creepy bug story just happened yesterday….My husband forgot to close the sugar shaker completely after making his cup of coffee. So, after I got up and got the kids out the door, I was ready for my morning cup of coffee. As I went to put sugar into my cup, a HUGE, and I mean, HUGE, spider comes out of the sugar shaker! So, here I am, screaming and sugar flying in the air all over my kitchen…..Now, I have ants even though I cleaned up all the sugar…lol
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Judy Bradley says
When I was in high school we lived in a house on three acres, lots of trees, plants, etc, but also lots of bugs, spiders especially. One night when I went to bed, I put my hand under my pillow & scrunched it up as usual, I heard kind of a crunching noise but I had a feather pillow and they are kinda crunchy sometimes, so I didn’t think much of it. The next morning when I lifted my pillow to make my bed (some teens do that!) there were the remains of a huge, hairy, black spider!! I was totally grossed out! I still get shivers thinking of that thing under my pillow – in my bed – and my HAND scrunching it up!! Yuck! Great, now I have the shivers to start my day! LOL
sandy says
Well, we were at a famous hotel, and were carrying our bags in the room, turned on the lights and heard little clicks. Went to check out bathroom, check bedding- first in the bathroom saw the creatures run into the drain of the tub- ewww gross then went to pull back bed and there were a ton of cockroaches…I immediately grabbed the bags and walked down and checked out- they said oh let us give you another room…they gave me crud about creditting back my card…I told them I had pictures and would be contacting the health dept as well as the companys hq. I was so grossed out I checked out and we drove 6 more hours until we got to our destination without stopping at a hotel. Yes I did contact the hq of the hotel, they did not seem to care and local health dept said they would forward to proper people…never heard I am sorry and had to fight the credit card bill- cc company gave it back but hotel pissed and moaned. I was told that is why hotels have lights on the rooms they are using- do not know if thats true but got me real cautious of hotels/motels…and this was a highly advertised one.
Christina says
Jumping Centipedes!
I was in the basement looking through some boxes of old books and deciding which ones I wanted to keep. I didn’t hear anything but felt this odd presence, and before I knew it, a centipede had JUMPED from a desktop right onto my opened book (which I attempted to close on it, but that didn’t work, as it jumped away again!). I was shocked and it was the largest centipede I’d ever seen (larger than my hand!) Later, when I could bear to do so, I did some research on the internet and there indeed is a breed of centipedes that can jump, so watch out, Ladies!
Jenn says
My Dad married my step-mom when I was 8 years old. He and I lived in an old house in the country in Texas – home of huge cockroaches. My Dad regularly bombed the house because it was infested with the things – we lived in it rent-free for a year in exchange for cleaning the place up and making it inhabitable again after about 5 years of being vacant. After they were married Mom protested the monthly bombing until she opened the cabinet above the stove and had a dozen cockroaches fall into the pans on the stove ruining our dinner!
My worst bug experience was when I was stung by a bee a few years ago and developed the same reaction you get from a brown recluse spider bite – it was awful and my leg swelled up to twice it’s regular size. The doctor recommended that I avoid bee stings in the future… well obviously, huh? 🙂
Alison says
When I was in my teens, I had very long hair. We were on a camping trip and I saw/heard a big beetle flying pretty close to my head. I thought I moved far enough out of it’s way. About 15 – 20 minutes later, I gathered my hair off my neck only to find out that big beetle was stuck in my hair! I screamed and ran in circles until someone got it out for me!
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Jeff says
I remember taking my dog outside to relieve herself . While doing her thing, her paws were covered in fire ants. She had decided to stop and start her thing right near a fire ant mount. I had to pick her up to safety and rub her paws to get the fire ants off.
Georgia says
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Jennifer Marie says
Ewwww just thinking about this creeps me out!! About a year ago it was warm outside and we had the windows/doors open for a family get together we had. Evidentally a small little fly decided she wanted to join our party. A few days after our party my husband was cleaning out the cat littler and he said he found maggots in the cat littler! Not only was it there, but it was also in our diaper pail where our sons’ used dirty diapers were! I felt so incredibly dirty and embarrased! We cleaned everything very well, kept the trash and diapers outside and that problem resolved very quickly. I hope that NEVER happens again!
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carma says
My bug story has to do with dead bugs: Years ago I was on a natural eating kick. I purchased some Amaranth cereal at a health food store. I was midway through eating my bow of cereal when I looked at the box and realized intertwined with the cereal was spider webs and larvae 🙁 Never been able to eat that kind of cereal ever again!
Georgia says
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Georgia says
Well, I know this was not as funny to my daughter as it was to me. In fact she ended up crying really bad over it but it happened so fast and how it happened had me laughing. My daughter and I were driving down a fairly busy road and all of a sudden, she went in to a full panic and couldn’t talk. I was driving and turned to see what was upsetting her and right there was a tiny spider crawling down the window as a tiny little spider. Because she was so scared, I reached over her and tried to squish the spider but it fell down the side of the seat. My daugher, in a full blown panic, went flynin backwards in to the back seat. It all happened so fast that I just burst out laughing and when I turned to look at her, she was crying. She was so scared on that little spider, I think it took her a week to get back in to my car. I never seen anyone move that fast in a moving car. Poor girl, I felt bad she was so scared but the whole thing was really funny too.
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stacey dempsey says
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stacey dempsey says
i was backpacking around mexico when i was in my early twenties, and had stopped in a local cafe to have some lunch. It was a very small town and i dont think many travelers ever went there.As i was waiting for my food and soda i saw a cockroach on the ground and had raised my foot to step on it when the man who owned(or worked) in the cafe yelled NO! I could not make out all he was saying but with my limited spanish i made out that it was a “pet” and it was unlucky to hurt them LOL I guess you just never know in a different country how they will view things soo different than us. I dont know what would have happened had i squashed it, luckily i didnt have to find out
KLM39 says
Once when I was driving my car I felt something weird on my ankle, then my calf, all the way up my leg, like a tickle sensation. I was trying to remain focused on the road and just reached down to scratch. I glanced down quickly and almost ran off the road. There was a HUGE brown SPIDER crawling up my leg and was already on my stomach before I saw it!! I screamed so loud and hit the brakes, all the while wiggling and swiping at my stomach. I had to pull over I was so freaked out and I got out of my car and jumped around until I got the creepy all out of my system, LOL. I never found the spider but I’m sure he must have bailed as soon as I opened my door.
T. Lawson says
I spent a week at a friends house at the shore. I slept on the sofa. One day after I got up, I was putting my blankets away and notice a huge water bug in between the blanket and sheet. ICK. I had a hard time sleeping the next few nights.
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Gabriele Wood says
Well I got fooled by a spider a few years ago and you’ll understand why I am saying “fooled” after reading my story . I was laying on my living room floor on a mattress covered with a blanket watching TV and spotted something black in the corner of my eye but didn’t pay close attention , I was so into the movie on TV. A few minutes later I looked over for other reasons and that black spot was half way up my blanket, I froze up realizing its a spider. I couldn’t move for about 5 min ( lol ) and the I got brave. I moved my hands and threw the blanket up a bit hoping it would run or at least fall of my blanket or something, it did NOT. Instead this BIG spider ( so I thought ) transformed itself into a TINY spider right in front of my eyes. It was no big spider, it was a tiny spider with a zillion tiny babys on her back and they ran across my blanket in all directions, it totally freaked me out ( lol ) that mad em jump right up and run into the kitchen to get my RAID spray (yes I used Raid) and because I was so fast I managed to get about half of them, no clue where the rest went !!! I have never ever seen this many spiders in my life and we still talk about my funny story today, my kids laugh every time. I can laugh about it now but when it happened , not so much! So I got fooled by a tiny spider carrying her zillion babys making herself look BIG, ha ha I am such a fool lol.
Tiffany says
(In honor of my own mother) My mother has this strange habit of opening up all of her sandwiches because she thinks something weird might be in them. We’ve gotten used to it but we all think it’s a little strange. On this particular day, we were eating a local “greasy spoon” known for having AMAZING burgers. Well, she’d gone through her usual burger inspection ritual and we’d enjoyed a wonderful, and calorie-filled, lunch. After slurping down the last of her Diet Coke, she decided to chew on the ice- you know, the good, crunchy, crushed kind. Well, she opened up the lid and there laid the biggest, green dragonfly-looking creature I ever saw. It nearly spanned the diameter of the cup. I bursted out laughing; she nearly lost her lunch and now, we have to endure TWO strange habits because she is compelled to inspect her sandwiches AND her drinks!
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Cynthia C says
When my son was just learning to talk my husband brought live lobsters back from a trip to New England. When he pulled one of the wiggly creatures out of the box, my son excitedly cried, “OOH, BUG!” So, I guess we had bug dinner that night.
Pauline Milner says
I happen to have a creepy bug story that ‘creeps’ me out to this day.
I was 15 years old and left alone for the first time for the weekend when my parents and brother went to the cottage.
Ever since I can remember, I have had an inherent fear of anything that did not walk on two legs.
In our house, the freezer was in the basement. The basement was not finished, it was just a concrete floor and walls.
Mum had left me some of her incredible homemade spaghetti sauce in the freezer downstairs. The freezer was also where the waffles were, my favourite breakfast.
They left around 4PM on Friday and by 6PM, I had a craving for spaghetti.
I turned the light on and headed down the stairs. I stopped cold in my tracks when I saw a humungous bug of some sort right on the mat at the bottom of the stairs. I could not tell if it was a spider or some other terrifying creature, but I did not stick around to find out.
The sight of that huge bug made me literally shake. I sat at the kitchen table not sure what to do. I did not want to call anyone to come and dipose of the horrid creature, hence they would have a very funny story to tell about me for life.
By 8PM, I had finally worked up the courage to do battle.
I suppose I could have just forgone the spaghetti and waffles, there was other food in the house, of course, but I was not letting a bug stand between me and my stomach.
I took an encyclopedia from the shelf (the biggest, heaviest book in the house), put on a pair of rubber boots and gloves and started down the stairs. The damn thing was still sitting there on the mat. I dropped that book as hard as I could right onto the bug. I think it was just a huge spider, but I did not take long to look as I knew my courage would be short lived.
Now able to get to the freezer, I was able to eat, but I had to wait a bit for my stomach to settle.
I left that book there until my parents came home. My Mum and Dad were sympathetic with me, thank goodness. Dad disposed of the remains and, thankfully, neither of them ever told my brother.
To this day, I still shiver when I think about it. Silly, huh? Well, it did not feel silly at the time, but as I get older, I can laugh about it. But only a little.
Thanks for the giveaway. ~Pauline
jjenkins1090 says
Bugs are CREEPY and I got to say Stink bugs are my least FAV at the monent…they started once we shut the house up for winter! And they appear out of nowhere, while I’m sitting a the computer they fly into my hair;eating dinner land on my pasta…Uuuuuug. and they collect in the light fixtures.I dislike them immensely.And the worst part is there’s NO defence against the Creepies.
Melanie B says
Oh gosh…this may not qualify because it isn’t a bug but, it needs to be told! ha ha. I lived out in the country for awhile and I got ready for bed, and had just turned the light off and crawled into bed when I felt something moving that was small and furry in the bed. I knew it wasn’t my cat, so I flew out of bed and flipped the light on. A mouse was waiting for me in the bed….AHHHHH. I squealed and got my cat to get it out of my room. So digusting.
simone says
When I was at Girl Scout Camp (e.g. worst experience ever) back in the long long ago when I was young, I woke up in the middle of the night to a pulsating mass of daddy long legs dangling from the ceiling above my head. That would have been bad enough, but then the mass reached its peak and the whole mess of them fell on me. Trauma galore. I can hold them now, but worst experience ever.
Jennifer Short says
One time we had a wasp infestation in our house in the early 1990s when I was a teenager. They were in the walls, and the theory was the bee bomb would send them OUTside, but they prefered the comfort of our living room. We killed 52 in one evening. Well, as the swarming of the bees inside our house was DYING down, I was on the phone having a chatty conversation with my best friend. My mother picked up the phone and announced, “Jennifer, there’s a bee in here.” My first thought was “Only one? You should be thankful.” I told her to kill it, and I heard the sound of the Raid being sprayed by coughing. She said she had the can pointed in the wrong direction and sprayed herself.
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Jessie C. says
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Jessie C. says
DDs have a thing for spiders, they don’t afraid of them but enjoy chasing them around the house. There was this time DD2 chased one out of the house and said goodbye and asked that spider to come back tomorrow.
Soha Molina says
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Soha Molina says
My grandmother’s house had big flying roaches. One morning I woke up and put on my shirt that had been at the foot of my bed all night. I walked into the kitchen and saw everyone was just staring at me. There was a huge cockroach crawling on my shoulder towards my neck. I screamed and repeatedly asked someone to kick it off. My brother brushed it off my shoulder. I still shudder to think of it.
Wendy Nalder says
I live in Montana and the spiders here are HUGE (well maybe I’m exaggerating, just a little). One night we were all hanging out in the heated garage and relaxing from the day. There was this daddy long leg spider that wanted to join in on the fun……but I dont remember inviting him!! The first person he climbed on was our friend, he didn’t mind spiders, so he gently brushed him off and went on with his night. The second person was my husband. (5’11” big guy) He felt something on his leg!! yells: “AHH, spider”…(jumps and kicks leg, karate style!) Spider was gone, but where? We went on with our night. Then, the spider was back, and this time was not playing around anymore………He picked the biggest guy in the bunch (6’2” Construction Guy). He crawled up his pants, onto his bright yellow “safety” sweatshirt, and crawled around. I looked over at him, and couldn’t even say it, I saw it, but couldn’t get the words out….it was just some funny noises. I squealed as the spider got closer up his arm and was going for the neck………..ahhh!…….the guy looked down, locked eyes with the spider, and then it happened! He began jumping around, flinging his arms and legs in all directions, spinning and screamed like a little girl….oh ah oh ah…..spider landed on the ground and large man stopped screaming just in time to squish the spider. We now call him “Spider Man”. Funny Stories aside, I hate creepy crawly flying bugs with a passion. They ruin my summer. Please help bring back my summer love, and pick me for your prize for Bug Spray….I promise that each and every drop will be used to saturate my house, garage and surrounding. Thanks!
tennille says
I had a boy from church over to watch a movie and noticed a cricket in the living room but decided to let it be. Half way through the movie my leg was a little itchy so I scratched it a few items. Then I felt a pinch-the cricket had climbed up the inside of my jeans leg and was now biting me. I started screaming a tearing my pants of and I scared that poor boy so bad he never asked to do anything with me again. As a side note I also had a cricket climb into bed with hubby and I and bite my bum! They are the only bug that can incite fear in me.
nickie says
I had a traning at my first job (science musuem) to present a rose trantuala (not really a bug, but creepy crawly just the same) I took him out like the trainer did, the trantuala must have been annoyed by the constant holding that it started spinning a web in my hand, so I freaked and dropped him, luckly the trainer caught him (there very fragile because of there exoskeleton). I got back on the horse next training and it was much better, but that first time was..interesting to say the least lol
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Stephanie V. says
My last time camping awoke to what felt like thousands of “tickles” crawling over my face. Tried to ignore it but finally turned on the lantern and OMG – massive ingestation of bugs crawling over all three of us! To this day no idea what they were but we left the tent and slept in the car until the morning and drove home as fast as we could. Haven’t camped since.
Ami Jordan says
Once when camping out in our backyard I sat down in the tent and felt something poke into my rear end. Needless to say I had sat on a yellowjacket. The only time I have been stung by a yellowjacket and it was my own fault for sitting on him 🙂
Tonya says
(thanks to MomSpark.net for telling us about this contest)
First a little sidenote: I usually try not to kill things HONESTLY…. but spiders… well they have to go, I am such an arachnophobe)
OH yeah…. this is definitely up my alley… Scary/Creepy bug stories… I actually have two that I tell often about spiders!
The first one is about a huge spider that wasn’t as huge as I first thought. My youngest dd and I were sitting watching tv in the dark one night. She was probably about 4 at the time and I was trying to get her to sleep. The TV got bright right as a huge spider creeped across our floor…
I proceeded to stand up in the chair we were rocking in and gasped…. turned the light on and I swear the spider grew…
The only thing I had beside me was a bottle of rubbing alcohol…. so I poured the entire thing on this spider….. good thing I did because as I did about a bazillion baby spiders started crawling off her back…. she had “grown” as the light was turned on… the babies had changed position to make her look bigger as a protective mechanism (I’ve researched this).
After the rubbing alcohol started slowing them down then came the swatter…. all 999 bazillion spiders were dead.
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The second one involves the Wolf Spider (same type in picture on MomSpark.net)
My daughters were going out onto the back deck one day and screeched as they opened the door.
On the outside of the main door between it and the screen a Mommy wolf spider had made her egg sack overnight.
This spider was the size of a saucer…. she had to go…
Had ran out of my Raid…. so next thing I thought was HAIRSPRAY AND LIGHTER… Yep… I made a fire thrower… she and the egg sack got sprayed really deep with hairspray first…. got the fire extinguisher (just in case) then I proceeded to light the hairspray ( I don’t recommend anyone try this at home!) She lit like a torch as did the egg sack.
My girls were screeching the entire time!
Tonya says
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hippie4ever says
We would go camping as children in the woods of Pennsylvania, one night after an extremely hard rainfall we stepped out of the camper into the screened in awning to find the floor undulating with daddy long legs. I have no idea how they all got in but I guess they saw a large umbrella and wished to use it 🙂
nan says
i had just met my now husbands grandpa for the first time and he lived in beautiful California with a peach tree in his yard. Which he was very proud of…Well he picked me and special peach and it was deliscious however when i looked down it was also completely full of ants!!! Have no idea how they were IN the peach but they were and i had no idea what to do cause i didn’t want to offend him, but didn’t want to eat ants…boyfriend to the rescue
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Tracy C. says
Was once eating a salad from a popular pizza chain, when I found a dead bug in it. At least it was a cute ladybug, instead of something creepy.
Christy says
A group of us in college decided to go camping by a lake one summer weekend. We had to row out to this little island where one of our friends already had some tents set up. It was dark by the time we got there. We climbed out of the boats and checked out our tents for the night . We lit up the insides of the tents with our flashlights. To our horror, there will little black spiders everywhere and I mean everywhere in that tent. On the walls, hanging from the ceiling, and crawling on the ground. We sensible girls refused to sleep there that night so we found a new campsite where there were no spiders. To this day, I get creeped out thinking about the spiders hanging in that tent.
Amber says
I shared on Facebook, my FB name is Amanda Moore:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=119974728082696&id=804795642
Amber says
I tweeted, I’m @AmberGoo: http://twitter.com/#!/AmberGoo/status/63406829849415681
Amber says
My creepy bug story is when once there was a huge spider in my dorm room and I was desperately trying to find somebody to kill it for me but to no avail. Finally, when it crawled under my favorite poster, I smashed a book against it, killing it….but now there are spider guts all over the underside of the post. I haven’t looked under yet because I know it’s sure to be disgusting, but it’s been weeks. I think I’ll just leave that poster on the wall when I move out!
Elaine Okupski says
I just shared the link on Facebook
Karil Whetstone says
My Bug Disaster , I lived in a duplex one day went to work when I came home I was horrified when I opened my door my apartment walls were covered with cockroaches, I opened my fridge and their was roaches were inside I felt like I was at a horror picture show not in my home, two days prior my landlord evicted the other tenant next door, come to find out she was hoarding cats and her apartment was infested with cockroaches and bombed her apartment with raid when he did they all came running into mine, I moved out that night, scarriest thing i’ve ever experienced in my lifetime.
Kelly Ruiz says
I tweeted. http://twitter.com/#!/manelook/status/63397165409632257
@manelook
ana gomes says
My dad god bless his soul was always stealing my mom’s hairspray so he could use it. One of us teenagers left a brand new can of raid foam in the bathroom. Before mom got home from work ,my dad runs upstairs to use her hairspray. He was in a rush so he took the raid and sprayed all over his hair. Mom gets home,he comes walking down the stairs all kool and stuff thinking he used her hair spray and she wouldnt know. he had this white afro! omg the laugher was too much. we finally had to tell him before he walked out the door.
manelook says
I was moving my family into a new home in the country. My husband had been deployed to Saudi the previous day and therefore got to avoid the joys of moving. After all my recruited help had left for the day and my sons were in the back yard playing I relaxed on the front porch with a nice glass of iced tea. I could tell I was going to enjoy the country living. I could hear the horses neighing in the corral and my life simply couldn’t be much better. Well, except for the fact that my husband was not there to enjoy it with me.
The sublime, blissful life ended there. I saw something scurry across the driveway toward the garage. I turned to see what it was as I thought it was surely a mouse that had been frightened during the commotion of moving our belongings in. I mentally added mouse traps to my shopping list.
What I saw was immensely more frightening than a mouse. I tossed my iced tea over the railing and ran and put the plastic drinking glass on top of the most gruesome, hideous, gigantic, eight-legged creature I had ever seen.
Once I had my regained my composure (and made sure the monstrous spider didn’t run away with the glass) I hustled to the kitchen and threw the phone book on the counter. I quickly flipped to the “exterminator” section of the yellow pages and started dialing. One by one – exterminator by exterminator – I was told that it simply wasn’t an emergency and they didn’t work on Saturdays. I finally talked to one exterminator who tried to talk me down from my hysteria.
He asked me what the spider looked like and I described what could only be envisioned in science fiction movies. We finally told me what I had was a “cat” spider and that they were “good” spiders. I informed him that there was no such thing as a “good” spider and I wanted it, and any family it may have had gone. He said it was called a “cat” spider because of the two points on its rear end. I didn’t look close enough to verify that fact and plus I was sure it was aptly named that not because of the points; but because it was as big as a cat.
I reluctantly hung up the phone and returned to the front porch to ensure the monster was still safely enclosed in the walls of the glass. I sat there wondering what to do as the dragon slayer was not going to arrive and save me from this deadly creature.
Suddenly, help arrived. It wasn’t the dragon slayer, but instead the realtor who had sold me my house. I frantically told him the story (from the steps of course; I wasn’t going down there by the monster) and he promptly lifted the glass and with one quick move he stomped the eight-legged creature into oblivion. He tried to return my glass back to me and of course I refused to take it. After all, that “thing” had been in there. My savior left and quickly came back with a can of bug spray and went through every nook and cranny in the house and barn so he could banish any remaining monsters.
Needless to say, I bought several cans of the monster repellent and kept a can within quick reach at all times. My house eventually returned to the sanctuary it was meant to be.
blessedta says
A spider in the office
Elaine Okupski says
I was doing laundry one day and noticed a dead yellowjacket in the laundry sink. I scooped it out and tossed it into the garbage can. When I went down to do more laundry, there was a yellowjacket floating in the water again… so I scooped it out and tossed it into the garbage can. It wasn’t until the third time I went down to the laundry room and found a yellowjacket floating in the sink that I realized that we didn’t have an infestation of yellowjackets… we just had one that kept reviving once I got it out of the water and tossed it into the garbage can!
Pat says
Okay, so I’m different, but when I find a bug in my house I capture it in a special glass and release it to the outdoors.
Kathy Scott says
I was putting on my pants when I felt a sting on my belly. I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. I went on to work and about an hour later I went to the bathroom. There was a spot the size of a baseball. I was taken to the hospital and they figured out that I was also allergic. It was not a pretty few days.
Sara says
Oh I HAD to share just ONE more…one night when my hubby and I were first married, we were laying in bed just falling asleep…we lived in the middle of nowhere (still do but not in the same place) and weren’t used to company coming by esp at almost 11 pm. All of sudden a light shone through our window, looked kinda like a flashlight shining in the window…my husband and I just froze there in bed, not even daring to move!! Finally it seemed to kind of go away and he got the nerve to turn on the light…imagine our surprise when we saw a large firefly sitting on the outside of our bedroom window!!! And my did we breathe a sigh of relief!! 😉
melissa says
http://twitter.com/#!/MelissaRin/status/63385750854565888
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melissa n says
My creapy bug story is when one time we went to see my dad. We had driven 5 hours and we went straight through. I was starving when we got there, so we decided to stop and get something to eat. We went to a fast food burger place thats name starts with a H. so we order our food and go and sit down to eat and i am starving. right after we start to eat i start to notice that there are all kind of those small flying cocoroaches flying around the restaurant. Well of course that was it for me. I now live in the town that this happened in and i have not ever went back to that place and that was 6 years ago.
Sara says
Oh my!! That is crazy!! I HATE HATE HATE bugs and always have tons of stories of them…I remember one time when my sis and I were in college we were in a park and found a whole TON of tiny almost microscopic bugs ON US…I think they were some sort of ticks because when we took showers to take them off of us, we literally had to SCRAPE them off!! DISGUSTING!!!
Charity S says
I tweeted the giveaway.
http://twitter.com/#!/ccboobooy/status/63365978356056064
Charity S says
I have a very creepy bug story. I had a nasty bug crawl in my ear as a child. I fell asleep on the floor at my nana’s house and a bug crawled in my ear. I couldn’t believe that something was actually moving around in my ear. It was nasty, creepy, and just very annoying to go through that. However, my nana used a homemade remedy to rid me of my ear bug. I still can’t figure out why it crawled in my ear.
Eryn says
I try to act all cool around bugs. I don’t want my kids to inherit any bug-phobias from me, but sometimes being the “cool mom” that taught her kids to respect bugs does NOT pay off.
One such time was when the kids found a praying mantis egg sac on a piece of wood that the neighbor was going to burn. I carefully lifted the egg sac off of the wood, but little did I know, my daughter took the egg sac in the car.
Let’s talk about how in the spring, the inside of your car is like a green house, warm & cozy, while outside, it is still very cold & everything is asleep. Let’s talk about how that might prompt some SEVERAL HUNDREDS of praying mantis babies to wake up & hatch. We’re 10 minutes into our 30 minute drive to town & my tiny daughter, says “Mama there are bugs all over my bear…..Mama there are bugs all over my pants….Mama….there are bugs all over little brother….”
At this point, I’m frantically trying to find a place to pull over on the highway, to rescue my children from heaven knows what sort of bug plague in the back seat.
HUNDREDS of praying mantis babies are covering my 4 year old daughter & 6 month old son, happily cooing in his car seat. They each look like a tiny, perfectly porportionate adult praying mantis. I tell my daughter what they are & she starts yelling “DON’T SQUISH THEM, MAMA! SAVE THEM! SAVE THEM!”
So there I am, side of the road, “gently” scooping up hundreds & hundreds of the little buggers.
And when my daughter isn’t looking, I’m doing the bug dance on the side of a busy highway, hundreds of people driving by. You know the dance, the one where you feel something crawling on every bit of you? lol I’m sure I was quite the sight.
Angela A says
I’ve tweeted! @leCreoleMoon http://twitter.com/#!/leCreoleMoon/status/63362858339155968
Angela A says
I remember when I was about 12 yrs. old and was spending the night with my best friend’s house. While I was preparing to go to sleep, and my bff was already asleep, a roach proceeded to creep up on a nearby wall. Somehow in my bff’s sleep she grabbed the roach and threw it so hard that it splattered against the wall. She continued to sleep all through this. It was as if she does this all the time in her sleep.
I knew she was asleep, b/c she would have NEVER grab or come near a bug while being awake. I laughed so hard. The next morning I told her about what she did in her sleep and couldn’t recall, I guess she was “sleep walking/trance.” I never forgotten how she threw that roach so hard that it smashed. LMAO
Shilo Beedy says
My cat knocked over my sad looking plant again and dirt went everywhere. I vacuumed up the mess with my little hand held and emptied it out into the trash. I looked down and seen a big spider and started to panic. I quickly vacuumed up the spider and went to the back door to let it go. The spider was fine climbing around the rocks outside which was fine with me. As long as spider stay a safe distance away from me I’m happy, but if one lands on me I scream and jump around.
Small Footprints says
My hubby and I were on a romantic camping weekend in The Keys. Our tent was set up near the ocean where we could hear the waves and see the sunset. Perfect!! Our tent has mosquito netting allowing us to leave the flap open and take advantage of the breeze (it was the middle of summer and hot). We crawled into our cozy little nest and settled in for the night. Since it was so warm, we didn’t sleep with blankets … we just laid on top of the sleeping bags and went to sleep. Well, about an hour later, we woke up to something biting us … seriously biting us. Our mosquito netting worked well for mosquitoes but didn’t prevent “noseeums” from flying in. Those little devils played havoc on us. It got so bad that, at around 3:00 am, we quickly tossed the sleeping bags and tent into the car and headed home. Ahh … nothing ruins romance like bugs!
Kristal says
Raised in the Caribbean, our home was under a mango tree and throughout the homes there were ventilation blocks which are essentially holes in the wall to circulate air. My grandmother had a live and let live policy with regards to spiders.Me? not so much but my pact with these spiders was: If found in my room, I will not be sleeping until it is killed. One morning in a rush i grabbed my towel and rushed in the showerstall. Hung the towel on the shower door, stripped and proceeded to bathe. Suddenly i saw movement and with 20/400+ vision I knew it had to be big for me to see it. There on the door latch next to my towel was the biggest, spider I have seen with a white eggsac. Yes it was that huge that I saw it without my glasses. Commence the screams of bloody murder. Suffice to say I remained naked in the bathroom until my dad climbed over the wall and rescued me.
Here is a pic of my captor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_huntsman_spider
Denise S says
I grew up in the mountains and could sleep on the deck in summer. I was in my sleeping bag with the top pulled over my head. I heard a loud and strange tap tapping sound. I slowly pushed up the top of the bag to see an enormous beetle marching up the bag and had just reached the edge and was about to fall onto my face. I screamed and threw the top of the bag back so the thing went flying off me and I never slept on the deck at night again.
Mami2jcn says
tweet-http://twitter.com/mami2jcn/status/63345944078450689
Mami2jcn says
This creeps me out just thinking about it. The last time I visited my mother’s home country of Colombia, my cousin presented me with a box of chocolates as a gift. I opened the box to find what looked like chocolate-covered raisins, and I’m not fond of raisins so I thanked him politely and closed the box. He kept urging me to try one, and I kept telling him no. My mother eventually tried one, even though she’s not into chocolate, and then my cousin burst out laughing. He told us they were chocolate covered roaches, an actual delicacy sold in another region of Colombia. I’m really glad I didn’t try them!
Adrienne Gordon says
I have a continuing story, everytime my daughter sees a spider she screams.It has gotten to the point where she will let out the most blood-curdling scream from another room and if we have company they will freak out as my husband and I just sit there and say, “Spider.”
Jen says
My husband has never let me live down this story. He now claims I have super pregnancy ears! When I was pregnant with my first son, I woke up one night in the middle of the night and shook him awake because I had “heard something.” He thought I was crazy and tried to ignore me. I insisted that I had heard a noise and even specified that I was sure there was a roach in the trash can in our bedroom. He laughed at me and told me to go back to sleep. Once again I insisted that I was sure there was a roach in our trash can. I had heard paper rustle, and paper doesn’t rustle in the middle of the night by itself! He grumpily got out of bed, just to prove me wrong, took the garbage can to another room, turned the light on, and sure enough there was a roach and a small piece of paper in the trash can. He kindly killed it for me, admitted I was right and went back to bed. Now 8 years later he still doesn’t understand how I could have known that there was a roach in our garbage can and says that pregnancy does weird things to me, like give me super hearing pregnancy ears!
Janice Whitaker says
My friend and I were talking to boys on the phone late one night. We were 13 so we were not supposed to be doing this..lol Had the telephone cord stretched to the back deck. I hear this sound. Its pretty loud. All of a sudden this BUG clamps down onmy leg. It was huge. I was screaming. My dad runs out and bust us for talking on the phone..lol I really think it was half bat!!
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addrienne mertens says
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addrienne mertens says
didnt happen to me but i was affected by it non the less:
My daughter is horribly afraid of Stink bugs.(they do nothing but bounce off the walls, buzz and smell funny) One night after she went to bed all was quiet, a stink bug decided to change positions, even in the dark..she woke up screaming, i mean loud! woke up the baby and everyone in the house. the windows were open so of course it echoed out into the night. the neighbors were outside banging on the door wondering what was goin on. over a bug! we found the culprit and quickly got rid of it. geez what a night! she still freaks out when she sees or hears them. but doesnt scream that loud..hehe, ugh
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Jonathan says
For the last 4 months when we lived in this apartment we had a roach problem, we were clean people so I would have to say they came from our neighbors down stairs. They were basically in the kitchen and had to be hundreds of them so for those months we basically had to eat out since we couldn’t cook in our kitchen (yes that’s how bad it was). But the last 2 months we were there they started migrating to our couch and a couple of times one would crawl on me while I was in bed asleep for the night and that was gross. Everytime we would be home we couldn’t help to feel like something was crawling on us even though nothing was really actually crawling on us. Just knowing that we knew there were all those roaches in the kitchen that’s how it would make us feel. We actually would leave the kithcen light on all the time since they refuse to come out when the lights are on but they still would. When we finally moved out we had to throw away all our appliances because most of the roaches lived inside of them: deep fryer, microwave, toaster oven, coffee maker it was disgusting and toxic.
Margaret Smith says
I tweeted:
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Margaret Smith says
I really have a strong dislike and fear of bugs. I had found a good sized spider in our family room and called my brave teen son to remove the creepy bug from our house. He grabbed it with a paper towel and went to toss it out our backdoor. I had followed him out, and kidding around, my son tossed the paper towel (now empty, though I didn’t know it) towards me. I jumped back, and fell down the steps, hurting my knee in the process and needed surgery. Needless to say, my son at the time didn’t think it was funny, but now we all laugh at how creeped out I get.
Runninglovingliving says
I absolutely hate spiders they are my biggest fear. I was cleaning my bedroom one day and while dusting the TV I started to see these itty bitty baby spiders, 1 then 2 then 20. Now I am not afraid of spiders the size of a speck of dust but there were litterally hundreds of baby spiders coming out of my TV which was just horrible but I also knew the nest with the mother spider must be somewhere near possibly in my TV. My husband came home in the middle of my freak out and I made him take the TV outside (32-in not flat screen, this was before flat screens). When we got it outside we turned it over and on the bottom of my TV was a nest with the mother spider needless to say that TV stayed outside.
Patricia says
We had just moved to Georgia and were settling in when I went to get a cup out of a cabinet and this huge bug was in there! I screamed and later learned they were palmetto bugs. Ugh! I never!! Raid to the rescue!!
sarah says
I was visiting my favorite cousin in Florida. While take a shower I noticed this HUGE bug about a foot from my head. I nearly killed myself trying to get a towel around me and get out of there. I swear the thing chased after me and ran across my luggage. I realize I’m bigger than the stupid thing but there is something quite terrifying about bugs in the shower!
Thomas S. says
When my mom & I moved to Houston we stayed in our cousins home. Our cousin was remodeling his home and I stayed in the far back bedroom. I awoke to find several large roaches crawling throughout the room and had two on top of the comforter. This was the first time I had ever seen a roach which made for an interesting introduction.
Rebecca D says
I have many bug stories, but my most recent encounter involved spiders. About a month ago, I was dreaming I was being attacked by spiders. When I woke up, I noticed I had two spider bites on my arm. ICK! There must have been one in my bed. I was totally creeped out.
Marilyn Wons says
A cricket was behind my bed making a very loud noise. It was unbearable trying to sleep. Something came over me, I jumped out of bed and moved my king size bed with a headboard and got the cricket. After deposing of the cricket, I returned to the bedroom and could not even budge the bed. There was no way I could move it back to it original position. I must have used every force inside of me when I moved that bed!
Sabreena Morgan says
tweet!
http://twitter.com/#!/BreenaElizabeth/status/63316899127230465
Stephanie Phelps says
I shared on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/my4boysand1/posts/167360746653587
Casey wiegand says
Enjoy!!
http://chrisdwiegand.blogspot.com/2011/03/aiden-hyphantria-cunea-love.html
(posted on my husbands blog) 🙂
My blog : http://www.thewiegands.blogspot.com
Sabreena Morgan says
Posted it to Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/Theboysmama/posts/116145021801931
Stephanie Phelps says
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/my4boysand1/status/63315332550500353
Chelsey says
I posted on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=128346100574031&id=186065098078174
Sabreena Morgan says
Here is my Entry….Creepy Spider!!!
http://jakenmattsmom.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-creepy-interesting-bug-story.html
Stephanie Phelps says
My funny story is about my Dad and my chihuahua.(Brandi is her name) I had taken Brandi out to potty and when she came back in she ran to my Dad who was laid back in his recliner relaxing and she jumped up in his lap and did her normal all over shake. Well when she did she shook a tick that she had picked up in the yard right off on to my Dad’s nose. He went completely nuts shouting,screaming and waling around like a mad man when his recliner completely fell over backwards with him in it. Needless to say she was no longer allowed to jump in his lap anymore without an inspection first. Although I laughed at him as hard as I did I would have flipped out as well.
Kathy Luman says
tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/kathyluman/status/63314582449561600
Chelsey says
I tweeted http://twitter.com/SowDandelions/status/63314458671452162
kathyluman says
My worst bug story happened when I was aroun 8-9 months pregnant. We had a snow storm so I went to my moms to wait for my husband to pick me up. I fell asleep and this bug ( the one that you put on its back and it flips over, had a hard body) got deep into my ear. I remember screaming and banging my head on the wall trying to get it to come out. It was horrible. I could hear it crawling magnifies 100’s of times. That was the worst sound I ever heard. I was terrified. I finally got it out after banging my head in the wall. We tried tweasers and couldn’t get it. I never want to experience that again.
Chelsey says
I posted about the giveaway on my blog: http://sowingdandelionseeds.blogspot.com/2011/04/blissful-encounters-with-watermelon.html
Chelsey says
I posted my bug story “Blissful Encounters with a Watermelon Beetle” at my blog http://sowingdandelionseeds.blogspot.com/2011/04/blissful-encounters-with-watermelon.html Thanks for the giveaway!
McKim says
It was after midnight and I was still fixing food for my daughter’s graduation party the next day. I was making baked beans in a big electric roaster and had dumped two BIG cans of pork and beans in the roaster. I turned around to get more ingredients out the frig and cupboard and just as I was about to add them here is a big old bug crawling across the beans. Yuck! I had to dump them out, head to the store which thankfully is open 24 hours, and start all over again!
gingela5 says
One lovely, summer evening my husband and I were enjoying a night at home. I had gone out in the backyard to let the dogs in and just went along with my business. Now I should say here that my husband hates bugs of any kind. Hates. Them. I had gone to shoo a bug out of our house and as I’m shooing this bug out, my husband stands up, screams, “BUG!” and shoves me out the door. As I’m standing on our front porch wondering what just happened I looked around to find this bug. My husband peeked out the front door and said, “You have a junebug on your butt.” And lo and behold there was a junebug, clinging for its life, attached to the rear of my sweatpants. Unlike my husband, I don’t mind most bugs, so I swept it off and went on with the night. Between junebugs, cicadas, spiders, flies, and worms we’ve had bugs from all walks of life in our household. Uninvited of course.
Sarah says
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/yes_teacher/status/63311622814437376
Sarah says
I was thirteen years old, and it was just mom and I in the house. My dad, my little sister, and my little brother were out on some errand. My mom was cleaning the living room, and no doubt I was shut inside my room writing in my diary about some boy.
Then I heard my mom scream.
When I ran downstairs to see what was the matter, my mom was pointing at a large and disgusting looking spider that was hanging out on top of our piano. Being the calm, cool, collected women that we are, we totally panicked and got our next door neighbor to come over.
He was a gruff old man, but he wasn’t afraid of spiders.
He cautiously and slowly approached the piano, then GRABBED the spider and picked it up. With his bare hands! There may have been some screaming on our part.
He went outside with it, but came back a few minutes later totally perplexed. He showed us the spider’s underbelly. It said “Made in China”.
I wonder if my brother knew how much havoc his fake toy spider had wreaked when he carelessly left it on the piano?
Jackie Staples says
I can laugh about it now…but I was terrified then http://monkey-mayhem.net/2011/04/bug-story.html
Yvonne Joy says
shared on facebook .. http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=120158271396647&id=100001837831846
Yvonne Joy says
tweeted…http://twitter.com/#!/yvonneneil/status/63306822009888769
Yvonne Joy says
My sister’s house had a very bad roach problem. I made some hot chocolate with marshmallows and rested on the table…I was talking with my sister and drinking. I tasted something weird in my mouth ..and spat it out…it was a teenager cockroach that crawled into my hot chocolate…eeewwww..thank goodness i realized..
Heather says
I have many bug stories anywhere from being bit on a lower extremity by a hornet yes it was swollen and owie for a week but thats not the worst. We moved into a house on a desert hillside. After unpacking I had our house sprayed inside and outside by a professional company. Well aprox 1 week after they sprayed our house I was looking for the Remote grabbed inside the cushions of the couch and felt something bit it wasn’t a stinging feeling but a holy ouch swear word swear word type bite. As I brought my hand out I seen a little red spider bite. Within an hour my hand was swollen and the skin was turning black Rushed to the ER they put me on Antibiotics said I had been bitten by a Brown Recluse spider. Not once but twice on the hand. Luckily the Antibiotics kicked in but the skin did die and turn black about the size of a 50 cent piece. I am grateful to have my hand but haven’t dared spray again I think I pissed the spiders off. I do use raid for our huge ant infestation and spray them on spiders that I see but will never spray the outside and inside of my house again.
MichelleS says
Blog entry: http://marineandhistwoladies.weebly.com/1/post/2011/04/5minutesformomcom-raidbugstory-giveaway.html
MichelleS says
Posted on FB http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=218589571500585&id=88400315
Jennifer P says
We have been having spiders in my house lately. A couple of weeks ago, my middle daughter came flying up the stairs saying that my oldest daughter needed me. I asked her what was wrong & she just said I needed to get downstairs. I though she was really hurt because she has been accident prone lately. So I ran downstairs to find my oldest daughter standing on a chair & my youngest son standing on the couch. A spider was hiding in some clothes. It was HUGE!!! YUCK!! It started to crawl away so I trapped it under a bucket. I called my husband on his cell & luckily he was on his way home & he took care of it.
MichelleS says
Shared on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/llehciMMichell/status/63290044420591617
MichelleS says
I used to be a live-in nanny for a couple with three children, and I would *dread* the coming of Spring (I slept in their basement). What caused me to dread Spring in their basement? Centipedes. It wasn’t like they could fumigate with little children in the house and me living in their basement. It would always be interesting to be sitting in their basement on my downtime and watch a centipede scurry across their floor at random. It freaked me out! Not only that, I would go to bed worrying that I would wake up with centipedes crawling over my body *shudder*.
Jenny Lloyd says
facebook post
http://www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=119942591419476&id=568785085
Lindsay Dianne says
http://twitter.com/#!/LindsayDianne/status/63286456625537024
Lindsay Dianne says
http://www.facebook.com/UrbanMomtographer/posts/207991819222350
Julie M says
http://www.facebook.com/#!/jamnsfld76/posts/146072258795416
shared on fb
Lindsay Dianne says
I was lost in thought, minding my own business, tidying the kitchen after dinner. My daughter was happily playing with her ponies at the kitchen table. Things were nice. And quiet. Almost too good to be true.
That was when I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. Just inches from my face, a spider dangled from his web on our track lighting.
Everyone always told me, when I was growing up and exhibiting obvious signs of major spider fear, that spiders are more scared of you than you are of them.
This old line is sure hard for a person to believe when a spider lowers itself down like that out of nowhere. I mean, they have a number of eyes. Am I supposed to believe that he was fearful of me? That he didn’t see me?
Perhaps he was trying to make peace with me. To show me, spiders need love too…
Either way… His little stunt found him a one way ticket to a kleenex-induced spidey heaven in my garbage can.
Julie M says
This just happened last night. *shivers* I was lying in bed watching a little TV before falling asleep when I start seeing a rather large bug flying around the TV (which is right by the bedroom door). So I go to the bathroom and turn on the light hoping that will attract the bug into the bathroom so I can escape down the hall for a weapon (aka fly swatter). No such luck the bug would fly around for a minute and then disappear. I am mildly panicked at this point but trying not to scream or squeal because my 3 girls are asleep across the hall. So finally I get up the courage to make a break for the door and go get the fly swatter. At this point I am seriously considering abandoning my room and sleeping on the couch but I know all that will do is give me a back ache and delay the inevitable. I know I MUST rid my room of this bug (I am still unsure what it is at this time but assume it is an early june bug). So I listen in the hall and I don’t hear anything so I quickly head back to bed and cover up so the bug can’t get me. Still nothing, so I put the swatter in bed next to me and try to relax. Then it was back. I hear it buzz around the ceiling fan a time or 2 and then it stops. I keep watching for it all around the ceiling and next thing I know, it is crawling around my bed by my feet. I smacked 3 times w/ the fly swatter to make sure I got it and then carefully lifted it to the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet. I am a single mom who is terrified of bugs. ESPECIALLY June bugs. I hate this time of year.
Tina says
Posted on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/TheMadHatterMom/posts/104494512971070
Beckie says
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Turn-for-the-Nurse/155508261173164
I shared on FB!
Jenny Lloyd says
tweet
http://twitter.com/#!/jlloyd9105/status/63282743567593472
Jenny Lloyd says
I have always had a great fear of creepy crawly creatures – bugs and spiders, this fear caused me to have dreams (nightmares) where I wake up and find my floor covered with bugs and spiders. The summer before my senior year of high school I was chosen to go on a missions trip with my church youth group to Aruba to host a Vacation Bible School. I felt honored and was excited about going. We went through a couple of months preparing for our trip that included several meetings with a missionary who use to live in Aruba. In one meeting we were told to pack lots of bug spray and a bug net for sleeping because bugs and spiders are very common in houses and building in Aruba. We would be staying in the church building where there would be no air conditioning and windows are left open all the time and we would be sleeping on mats on the floor. I almost backed out after this meeting. Fast forward to our time in Aruba, all the girls slept upstairs in a loft area of the church building, we all sprayed the floors, walls, ourselves, etc. every night before going to bed and we carried our bug spray EVERYWHERE, even to the bathroom. My first and thankfully only major encounter with a creepy crawly thing was while I was in the shower. I freaked! I was enjoying my shower time (there were 20 people sharing 2 showers) and noticed that there was a HUGE spider right by the water faucet. My shower ended very quickly, I got out without turning the water off, dressed and ran screaming out of the bathroom. Several of our “manly” boys said they would go in and turn the water off and they chickened out once they saw the spider. Our group leader and former resident of Aruba was the only one brave enough to turn the water off. We were all very hesitant to shower the rest of the trip.
Beckie G. says
http://www.turnforthenurse.com/2011/04/trauma-may-pay-off.html Blogged about it 🙂
Beckie G. says
http://twitter.com/#!/turnforthenurse/status/63279935254573057 Tweeted!
Jen L. says
I tweeted! @jennelsonlane
Denise Neil says
Please delete my previous tweet..I didn’t include the #raidbugstory here is the new tweet http://twitter.com/#!/carnivalfanatic/status/63279611819212800
Tina says
Tweeted!
http://twitter.com/#!/madhattermom/status/63279359896731648
Beckie G. says
My story is a little bit PG or PG-13 but it was horrifying haha http://www.turnforthenurse.com/2011/04/tale-of-cblocking-cockroach.html
Denise Neil says
I shared on facebook http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=151218608277181&id=550766780
Jen L. says
Ooh! I blogged about my creepiest bug story a couple of years ago! There’s a picture of the GROSSEST spider I’ve ever seen. Here is the link:
http://marcusandjenlane.blogspot.com/2008/09/just-call-me-little-miss-muffett.html
Denise Neil says
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/carnivalfanatic/status/63278565273255937
Tina says
This was a perfect spring time post! 🙂
Here is my Creepy Bug Story
http://www.madhattermom.com/2011/04/my-creepy-bug-story/
Denise Neil says
When I was 12yrs old i visited my father in Jamaica WI. We visited my aunt who gave me a jar of tamarind balls which is one of my favorite treats. It is the tamarind from the tree mixed with sugar…yummy!!.. It was night and my father stopped to visit his friend and I waited in the car. I was so anxious that I ate a few while waiting. It was crunchy but I thought it was due to the brown sugar. The next morning I again opened the jar to enjoy some more and to my DISGUST it was filled with LIVE weevils aggressively enjoying my tamarind balls…..I was so grossed out because I obviously ate the crunchy weevils the night before…..I have NEVER eaten tamarind balls in the dark/night again…
Jamie says
My 2 year old son knows that I am scared of bugs so he always teases me and tells me he sees a bug or a spider and when I go try to find it there is nothing there. Well one day he told me there was a bug and I didn’t see anything, he was laying on the floor on his belly and laughing hysterically so I grabbed the video camera. All of a sudden he stops laughing and slowly puts his finger on the floor (or I thought he was putting it on the floor, he was actually touching a bug!) and a bug started jumping around!! I screamed and he started laughing and it’s all caught on tape! *lol* I can’t believe he touched a bug…still gives me the chills! haha
Susan Platana says
like you on fb!
Christine Jensen says
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/stickyprints/status/63263875952418816
Christine Jensen says
I shared on facebook
Christine Jensen says
I don’t have a super crazy story, but out here by the Great Salt Lake we get lots of gnats (they look like a smaller mosquito) that make their appearance in the Early Spring. The fly in swarms and seem to be everywhere for a month or so. As a runner, I usually run in the evenings and the gnats seem to like early evening like I do. It is inevitable that I will run through many of these swarms of gnats as I make my way along the trail. I can’t tell you how many bugs I have eaten while on a run, but I am sure the number is staggering. It is tempting to run with one of those medical masks 😉
dawn says
shared on FB 🙂
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=690083006
dawn says
One morning in Cali. i was walking down the stairs in an apt we lived in. When i was rounding the last step, something caught my eye. I looked over and next to the front door was this huge, about the size of my open palm, SPIDER!! I calmly called for hubby, who came around the couch and he noticed it also… We didn’t have shoes nearby, and didn’t want it to escape.. Hubby quickly went to the kitchen and grabbed two cans of bug spray..
hahahaa we were each armed with a can and at the count of “3” blasted away at the spider..
We could not believe how long it took for it to die.. We had a huge pool of spray next to the front door..
HappyMomC says
tweet includes #RaidBugStory
http://twitter.com/#!/HappyMomC/status/63255476174979072
HappyMomC says
shared on FB
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000810228011#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=157704114293206&id=100000810228011
HappyMomC says
tweet
http://twitter.com/#!/HappyMomC/status/63254303015583744
HappyMomC says
Please delete this it didn’t have the #RaidBugStory
HappyMomC says
On one crisp summer afternoon, I was reading a book and there was a slight breeze from the window across. All of a sudden, a bee came in and I saw it and from then my eyes were glued to its movement. I was waiting to see if it would go out the same way it came in. I came towards me and I ducked. I could see no sign of it and was happy to continue reading but then saw that it was on my book and before I could move – it stung me straight on my nose Ouch!
I hate bees 🙁
Daisy Marsh says
Yesterday morning, I walked into my 4 year old daughter’s room to get her up. Her light was on and she was sound asleep, which I found strange. I walked around her bed to pick out her clothes and saw this giant spider! I’m not afraid of spiders, so I knelt down to kill it with a towel. The spider jumped and crawled over my hand. I could feel where it was all day. I finally was able to get it and kill it, and then I took a picture: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=104028006352536&set=a.104391296316207.14095.100002360114891&type=1&theater
When my daughter woke up, I asked her why her her light was on. She said she turned it on the middle of the night because there was a big giant bug and I had asked her to stay in her room all night. I didn’t show her the picture of the actual giant bug that was in her room!
I then posted the picture on FB and Cafemom and proceeded to freak out every one of my friends. 🙂
Tonya K says
When I was younger my mom and I went on a vacation to the Kentucky mountains to visit some family. Well we stayed at this motel that was already not our favorite because it had the outside doors. We are always afraid that somebody could just break in. Now our fear is ants! The reason is that we both had a drink the night before and we left the can sitting open overnight. Apparently ants came in and wanted to get some sugary beverage. In the morning we both took a sip of our drinks only to drink ants. Yes ant bites in our mouths…can you imagine?!?! It was absolutely awful! I am horrified thinking about it now.
MyBitsandBleeps says
I tweeted:
https://twitter.com/MyBitsandBleeps/status/63229744707141632
@MyBitsandBleeps
MyBitsandBleeps says
On a long ago vacation to Brazil, we drove for 14hrs to get to the beach! You can imagine how tired I was after such a long drive. When we opened our rented beach house, it seemed pretty big and beautiful until we turned on the lights!!! You’re thinking right now that I’m about to say that there were millions of cockroaches scurrying across the floor, right? OH NO!! It’s much worse. I saw 2inch long cockroaches FLY across the room. YES, you read correctly, FLY. OMG, you have no idea how loud I screamed and ran out the door!! Needless to say, I slept in the car that night.
The next day, people explained that the beach house has to be hosed down (it’s all made of cement), and that there wouldn’t be any more cockroach issues. True enough, however, there were millions of mosquitos! That night, I went to sleep in the beach house…as I lay in bed (side table lamp on), I finished reading and placed my book on the side table…I lay back in bed and happened to look straight over me at the ceiling …. um … that’s when I noticed a medium sized lizard directly above my face!! Yup, they were right, no more cockroach issues.
Janice says
OH MY WORD! That is why I don’t go on exotic vacations! Too terrified of the bugs!!!
Alyssa of A Motherhood Blog says
Funny I have a bug story entitled “Infestation” http://www.amotherhoodexperience.com/2010/06/infestation.html?m=1 I seriously needed raid!
🙂
mandy says
I was pregnant with my first child while we were remodeling our home. We had closed off a few rooms and crammed furniture into our bedroom. The desk with computer was right beside my side of the bed. As I went to bed, I saw a huge wolf spider crawling on the keyboard….inches from my pillow. I screamed…of course….and my husband came running….thinking my water must have broken!!!! He saw the spider, grabbed a shoe and smushed it. As he did, baby spiders went EVERYWHERE!!!!! All over the floor, bed and desk! Moma spider was expecting too! Needless to say, I slept in a different room that night…and still get the “spider shivers” everytime I think of it!!!!!
Vilmarys says
I have always hated bugs. Last year I was carpooling with my mom to work. It was my week to drive which was always fine with me. We were on our way back home from work when I entered the on ramp for the highway. All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I see a huge white spider crawl from under the space on the roof of the car. I immediately swerved almost crashing into a car as I was merging. Screaming and panicking and leaning to the side, my mom yelled to pull over. I was afraid to do anything that would involve the spider swaying anymore to my side. It started to crawl to my mother and she began flipping out. I finally pulled over and as we are rummaging for something to kill this horrifying bug without taking our eyes off it, it slipped right into the space in the roof of the car. It was like it knew we were going to kill it. We couldn’t get to it and I began to hit the roof with my hand to get it to come out again where my mom can kill it. There was no way any part of me or my clothing was coming near that thing. I wanted to cry because we couldn’t kill it and I didn’t want it to come out again. I began begging my mother to drive. She started laughing at me and when she saw that I was serious she agreed. Well don’t you know that when she started to drive that little bugger came out again only it didn’t come out on her side. She started crawling out on my side. I was screaming for my mom to pull over and she refused just laughing because it wouldn’t go to her side. It disappeared and when I didn’t see it after 15 minutes I began to relax a little however, I never took my eyes off the roof. When we got to my mother’s house, I ran out of the car and brought everything I could hold just in case the spider decided to come out again. I ran to the house begging my father to come out and kill the spider. Needless to say, he never found it. After awhile, I decided to go home so I put my daughter in her car seat and kept my eyes on the roof of the car the entire time. As I drove home I realized that the spider must have come out before. A day or two before this incident my poor daughter kept looking at the roof of the car on one of our rides and kept screaming and pointing. I had no idea what she was seeing. Well now I know. Thank goodness I never saw the spider after that. I’m afraid my little phobia rubbed off on my daughter.
Jen H says
My sister and I are deathly scared of spiders and will evacuate our houses for hours with just the sight of one of creep little guys. One year while at a flea market I found a spider catcher. Which was a long plastic tube with a bunch of bristles (like on a hair brush) and attached to the other end was a trigger, when you pulled the trigger the bristles would squeeze together, catching the little guy. Not thinking about how you would get rid of them once you caught it, I gave my sister her new spider catcher. My only thought was keeping my sister safe from the eight legged beasts that terrorize us. Later that week my brother in law came home from work noticing the spider catcher lying out in the middle of the front lawn. When he asked my sister what happened, she went on to explain that she got the spider in the catcher and didn’t know what to do, she was running through the house, trying to flush it down the toilet, but it wouldn’t come out of the bristles, she put it in the garbage, then realizing it was still in the house, she got the catcher back out of the garbage, went to the front door and threw it across the lawn. Then she locked the door (you know just in case it decided to visit again). Needless to say we no longer use the spider catcher and we stick to evacuation, bug spray, or using the can of bug spray as a weapon and throwing it at them.
Pam R says
A few years ago, I was living and working in Singapore. Being a Canadian, I was used to the smallish bugs we tend to grow in the cold and although not a huge fan, I am generally able to cope with them when outdoors. I have to admit though that before moving to Asia, I had never been unlucky enough to meet a cockroach and I had NO idea they could fly! In Singapore, however, I saw more cockroaches than I ever cared to, especially when I swear they were the size of Canadian mice (maybe not quite, but they certainly seemed that way to my squeamishness). I could share quite a few stories of jumping from couch to couch with a friend to avoid the cockroach jumping around her apartment, or of jumping out of my seat on the bus when a cockroach ended up on my leg, or quickly jumping back into a taxi much to the amazement of the driver when I noticed a cockroach on the ground next to the door. The story I’d like to share, however, is one my friend and I still laugh about nearly 10 years later…
My friend, Tanya, and I had gone out for drinks one evening. Now, she’s originally from South Africa and is certainly not freaked out by a bug like her Canadian friend. Before heading home, we decided to visit the cafe across the street for a late night snack (or “supper” as the Singaporeans liked to call it). While sitting enjoying the conversation at a table on the patio next to a culvert, I noticed a cockroach on the other side of the culvert. Trying to be rational, I had myself convinced that it was a good 3 feet away from me and couldn’t harm me as I was certainly a lot bigger than it was. That worked really well for a few minutes and then it decided to fly towards our side of the culvert. I freaked out, jumping out of my seat, knocking my table, and screaming. In doing so, I managed to not only attract a tonne of attention from the other patrons of the cafe, but I also managed to knock the glass ketchup bottle off the table, smashing it and sending ketchup everywhere. To strangers passing by, it must have looked like this crazy white woman lost her marbles and killed someone; my shocking display certainly frightened our poor waiter. It was a rather embarrassing scene for a bug that was all too frequent a sight in Singapore…..
Marci says
If you have roaches in Ohio, it is usually because your house is dirty. In Florida, they are inevitable. We moved to Florida and my Sister-in-law who lived there told me about palmetto bugs. HUGE roaches at least 1.5″ long. She told me I would step on them at night when I got up to go the bathroom. We had a water bed that was on a double high pedestal. I would have to sort of roll out of the bed and put my foot on the ground and push myself off the bed. Each night I would look down at my wood floor before putting my foot on the ground. I did occasionally see a palmetto bug in the daytime and I would quickly dispatch it. I looked at night because there was NO WAY I wanted to step on one with a bare foot. I did this for over a year and was actually beginning to think I would stop being so paranoid. One night just before I put my foot down I saw a dark spot. My first thought was… “I don’t remember a knot hole (wooden floor) there.” I turned on the light and there right where my foot would have come down was a HUGE palmetto bug. I killed it and decided that checking before you step down was a good thing. 🙂
Debbie C says
I once had a job where I had to visit people’s homes and take lengthy reports on appliancesthat took quite awhile to complete. I would keep a cold bottle of soft drink in my bag that I took in with me. One day, I had an assignment at a house in a kind of shabby area, not dangerous, just shabby. I was about halfway through the questions when the homeowner went into another room.
Good time to get my soda out, I thought and I did. I opened it and took a drink, then the homeowner called out to ask if I would go into the utility room and look at the appliance. She said it was just beyond the kitchen, go ahead. I went to the kitchen, flipped the light switch and started to walk in, then froze in absolute horror and disgust. In the middle of the kitchen was an open can of cat food. When I turned on the light, hundreds, and I am not kidding, HUNDREDS of roaches started running away from the can.
I couldn’t make myself walk in there. I went back to the sofa and sat down… AFTER I looked for roaches on it. I reached my soda, meaning to take a drink and calm myself a little. As I got it about halfway to my face, I saw a pair of twitching antenna. A roach crouched on the lip of the soda can, ugh, I could have swallowed it had I drank. It took all the control in me to just set the can down, call out to the homeowner that I had all the info I needed and SCRAM out of there.
When I got home, I actually undressed in the garage, put my clothes in a trash bag and threw them away, went inside and straight to the shower. Horrible, horrible, disgusting.
Hillary--Mrs. Einstein says
When I was younger, I used to attend a horse camp close to where I now live. One summer, I had left my wet bathing suit out for a day without hanging it up to dry. When I went to put it on again, and had it only up to my knees, earwigs started crawling up my legs. Gross! Gross! Gross! I got them off of me (somehow) and put on my spare suit (thank God my mom made me pack it!). Gross! Now I’ve got the heebie-jeebies again! Gross!
CanCan says
My tweet http://twitter.com/#!/MomMostTraveled/status/63099175562248192
Amy Dunham says
Okay — creepy bug story… I am not sure I will be able to sleep tonight after writing this… but here goes. My first serious boyfriend had an odd scar on his back. I would see it when we went swimming or if he was mowing the lawn… and I always wanted to ask. I thought… oh, he’ll tell me someday. Finally, I couldn’t stand it anymore. Here’s what happened… he was visiting a friend for a week’s vacation… sleeping on a couch in the three-seasons room. On about the third day, he started getting an itch on his back. Then it turned into a large pimple, almost blister-like. Another day, it was growing bigger and more painful… until it opened up and a bunch of baby spiders came out. A female spider had found an existing blemish and planted her egg sac in his back. The couch was not used a lot (obviously). He went immediately to the ER and they clean the wound and stitched him up (yep, stitches). They weren’t giant wolf spiders or anything – but this is just gross enough to make a gal scream. I still look for spiders when I lay on furniture that I do not know is clean and bug-free… or sit outside in a lawn chair… and so on and so on. I think a good dose of Raid in that three-seasons room would have created a wonderful barrier to block any crazy female spiders from taking up residence in the aforementioned couch. Holy Toledo!! I have the heebie jeebies now!
Erin Oberfeld says
When I was younger, my family moved to a ranch. We were raised for the first 9 years of my childhood in the “Big City”, so moving up to a ranch in the middle of nowhere was quite the adjustment. In the summer, we would have to get the horses in the barn to groom them. We would have to pick off all of the woodticks, which was fine, except when woodticks are stuck on a horse for a couple of days, they get really huge. They look kind of like rotten grapes actually…but here’s the kicker…when we would pull the big ones off, we would take large rocks and drop them on the fat woodticks to watch them explode. Now that I’m an adult and think back to how nasty that was, and that I actually could touch something that gross, it kind of makes me want to puke. I guess us city kids adjusted well to the country lifestyle and found our own entertainment in the middle of nowhere…
robin says
Tweeted! @birdie00000
robin says
Once in junior high, there was a HUGE water beetle in the hallway of our school. My history teacher stepped on it to kill it, and the innards went squirting across the hallway and hit the wall. Bleahhhh. I also remember my sister’s prom – there were June bugs all over our concrete steps outside the house, and as she went up the stairs, several latched onto her gown and began crawling up the inside of her gown.
Melissa S says
I woke up in the morning and felt a little tickle on my leg. At first I thought it was nothing but I kept feeling it. I pulled back the covers to find a huge black spider crawling up my leg! The thing that grossed me out the most is I probably had that spider in my bed all night!
Debbie says
IT WOULDN’T LET ME IN THE HOUSE!
No, Seriously, I came home one afternoon. Approached the door with key in hand to unlock it and go in. To my shock sitting right there on the door knob, right over where I would put the key was a huge spider. This thing was as large as the door knob. I jumped, tried to find anything to get that thing to move. Now I am so afraid of spiders I can’t even stand to kill them. What to do? I sat in the car for nearly 15 minutes hyperventilating before returning to see if that creepy thing had moved. No, it was still there, hadn’t moved a bit. I finally jumped back in my car, drove to the store bought a can of bug spray…probably raid, don’t remember just bought something to kill that spider, it was too hot to stay outside forever. Returned back home, the stupid spider was still there in the same spot, of course I had hoped it would be gone. I used the entire can of bug spray and still had to find a stick to knock that ugly thing off the door knob so I could unlock the door and go in. The funniest part was I was staying at my brother’s house, I never did tell him what happened because I knew I would never hear the end of it. YUK!!
Amy says
When I was a teenager we moved to a new home in a new town. It was a brand new home with absolutely no sign of any creepy crawlies. One summer night we had a thunderstorm. I was sleeping in my room when I heard a commotion in the hallway. I really didn’t want to go investigate but someone burst into my room and dragged me out. The hallway was filled with swarms of flying insects and my family was frantically trying to swat them with fly swatters. The problem was that when swatted the bugs’ wings fell off and they continued scurrying around on the walls and floor. In the bedlam one of the still-winged things flew into my ear! It was horrible, it was buzzing and flapping around in there and I started majorly freaking out. I can’t even describe how awful it was. It seemed like it was in there forever and I couldn’t get it out. I started to think I’d never get it out and I’d completely lose my mind. Finally someone thought to hold a light near my head and it flew out. To this day any time a bug flies near my ear I freak out like a crazy person.
genny says
Here’s my pest story… It still gives me the willies! 🙂 I blogged about it a while ago:
But somehow our kids came home from grandma and grandpa’s house with frogs.
It’s my fault, actually.
I said they could.
However, I distinctly remember saying they could bring two.
They brought six.
I could’ve intervened, I know. But when I saw how tiny the frogs were, I figured, two or six–what’s the difference? They’re actually pretty cute.
Besides, it’s not the frogs that are the problem.
It’s the crickets.
A couple of days ago, my husband woke me up with a gentle shake and a…
“Gen, I’m so sorry, I have a meeting that I can’t be late for and I just noticed there are crickets all over the house.”
Crickets?
Not exactly the sweet cup of coffee he brings upstairs most mornings. It took me a second to understand what he was saying.
See, we’d bought this thing for the frogs called the Bug Box.
It’s a whole little cricket ecosystem, all in one box. Tasty, plump morsels that stay fresh, too. And when it’s time to feed the frogs, you just open the little trap door on the side of the box, shake a cricket out, then close the door. Or at least that’s what I did.
I even taped over it for good measure.
Apparently, crickets eat tape.
And after they escaped through the hole, they proceeded to gallivant around our kitchen. And our living room. And our dining room.
The picture doesn’t do the scene justice. This just happens to be the only cricket that would stop hopping long enough for me to get a shot.
I don’t know how many crickets come inside those Bug Boxes, but let me just say there was a great turnout at the cricket party at our house that morning.
The nice, little 6 a.m. cricket party.
There I was, on my hands and knees (without coffee, I might add), chasing crickets around with a paper towel and tossing them into the frog cage. Except for the crickets that were a little too fast or a little too big.
Those I might’ve pinched a little too hard.
At least the frogs were happy, though.
Even if I wasn’t.
Until I had my coffee.
Then I felt better.
Mostly. Because, still, all that day and the next, we found crickets around the house. Running along the baseboards, lurking in the corners, hopping across the carpet.
And, call me weird, but that gave me the willies more than finding my daughter’s mouse in the laundry basket.
Way more.
Alison V. says
When I was 16, I went to school for a few weeks in Australia and stayed with my uncle’s parents in Sydney. One night while sleeping I woke up to a tickle behind my ear, and it was enough for me to get up and turn the light on. I looked on and around the bed and just as I decided it must have been in my dream, a 3 inch or so long cockroach crawled out from under my pillow. I asked my causin to help take care of it. He knocked it to the carpet and put a glass over the top of it and went back to bed. It was quite the night. I couldn’t sleep very well knowing what was crawling around a couple feet away and thinking about how had been crawling on me..
Nadi says
I tweeted:
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Nadi says
I grew up on an island in the South Pacific where like many tropical islands, bugs were king. We constantly had a multitude of different insects as unwanted pets, but for me none were as disgusting and terrifying as cockroaches. They were ugly, carried diseases, emitted a foul odor, and worst of all, could crawl at amazing speed and had the ability to FLY! I remember when I was 10, when one such nasty creepy-crawly infiltrated the sanctuary of our home and, when sensing that its presence had been detected and that my Dad was reaching for a rolled up newspaper, it started flying all around the house like a crazy deflated balloon. And I could have sworn that beast was aiming for our heads! After about 5 minutes (but it seemed like an eternity)the bug was dead, but not without its share of victims. I had stubbed my big toe while trying to escape the flying monster, my Mom’s crystal vase was in pieces and my Dad had to clean up squished cockroach guts from the wall. I am SO very glad I don’t have to deal with those anymore!
CanCan says
I have so many, but my most traumatic was when I was in Belize on a Mayan Indian Reservation. I was eating dinner outside by lantern and talking with 4 friends. There was no electricity or running water in this village. Suddenly something flew in front of the lantern and caused the area to get dark. We all looked and I saw what I thought was a bat. But one of the friends said “WHOA! Its a HUGE….” and before he finished the sentence, the largest roach that has ever existed on earth LANDED ON MY BACK. I knew it was on me and every one jumped up from the table. I was afraid to scream, what if it ran into my mouth?!?! One of the friends started hitting at it with a broom. Yeah hitting my back with a broom. Well this was making the roach run all over my body, I was about to die! Finally it got knocked to the ground and some brave soul stepped on the head. I took a picture of it next to a $5 bill for scale. Because it was the same length as the $5 bill. I didn’t want to finish my taco pie.
Amy Farrell says
Funny that this giveaway should pop up today of all days… i had quite the interesting morning here at the house as we are getting some renovations done and things are all out of place. I was busily feeding my two-year-old twins while scurrying around the kitchen taking things off the counters to prepare for the work crew. I took down the cereal box as usual and doled out some “O’s” to each girls without a thought. A minute later I heard a lot of slamming and kicking and “mommy? mommy! my cereal is moving!!!’ i ran to their chairs to see that i had had just dumped about 15-20 black ants *each* onto their highchair trays…. GROSS (gives me the creepy crawlies just typing it) I am *not* a bug killer by any means, but they were everywhere. I put on my shoes and was stomping and screaming around the kitchen in my husband’s shoes and my pajamas when the work crew arrived. How gross *and* embarrassing!
Nikki H. says
One night, my 5 year old daughter (at the time), was laying on my lap. I was rubbing her hair as this was her nightly ritual to get to sleep. I rubbed her beautiful little curls back and looked down at her. Inside her ear, tucked firmly right in the opening was a water bug. I wanted to scream, but instead, I slowly took my gigantic fingers and pulled out what looked to be the Guinness Book of World Records largest water bug to ever live. Luckily, she never knew about it, because I had already gotten her to sleep.
Janelle says
tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/iambrimful/status/63079153238417408
Jen Brockman says
Well, my worst bug experience was one day when I was about 6 months pregnant with my son. I had horrible “morning” sickness that, unfortunately lasted all day. My husband and I had decided that it was just too hot out to cook, so we went to a local restaurant for dinner. Dinner went well, up until it was time for dessert. I had ordered a big bowl of ice cream – Choc Chip Cookie Dough – and made it about half-way through the bowl before I got a giant “crunch” in my mouth. I had a frozen bug of some sort in the middle of my bowl of ice cream. I spit the thing out into my napkin – and honestly, I’m not sure how I kept the rest of my dinner down. We had to prove to the restaurant staff that it was even in the ice cream before they believed it as well. (I can still taste that awful flavor in my back teeth when I eat cookie dough ice cream!)
I know that’s not necessarily a creepy, crawly bug story, but that’s my worst one. Now…if you’d have asked about rodents, that’s a whole ‘nother ballpark! 🙂
Ashley S. says
Tweeted about it! http://twitter.com/smash906/status/63078680674574336
Amie Gibson says
My husband works at a prison and sometimes I pick him up. Well I was sitting in the parking lot with the window down because it was kinda humid. All of a sudden I hear this sound that sounds like the rustling of papers so I look down and there is a HUGE junebug in the floor boars so I freak out and get out of the car amd scoop it out. I was good until I heard it AGAIN! I look diwn amd somehow that stupid bug got BACK in even though my window was the only one down and I NEVER saw it fly tjrought. SUPER creeped out my husband was walking out and I made him get it this time. Well we drove home with no problems but when we get home there is a junebug on my door mat. NEVER have I seen a junebug around my house and really just one??? Creepiest experience ever and since I can’t stand junebugs. Ugh lol
ANN C says
I WAS ABOUT 8, AND I WAS REALLY SICK. WHILE ON THE TOILET, THERE CRAWLED A GRASSHOPPER TOWARDS ME. I LITERALLY TRIED TO FLUSH MYSELF DOWNT HE TOILET. IT WASN’T FUNNY THEN, BUT IT IS NOW!
Ashley S. says
On Easter, we were all over my moms for dinner. My 3 year old nephew went into the bathroom and locked the door and minutes later, we heard screaming and crying. We had to break into the bathroom to see what was wrong and were all worried that he was seriously hurt by the way he was freaking out. Nope. There was a spider in the bathroom with him.
tammy says
seems no matter where I’ve lived, summer brings on the creepy crawlies! When I was young we lived in a mobile home park right across from the pool, being the brave (a bit stupid maybe) souls we were we’d open our front door and run barefoot across the scalding hot pavement and jump into the pool before our feet burned which they did EVERY time. well one summer we had an infestation of green stink beetles, discovered the first time by stepping outside for our mad dash to the pool, and feeling the squishing between our toes, hearing the crunching and smelling the most awful smell ever! They were EVERYWHERE, you could even hear them crunching under your tires while in the car, they’d fall out of trees onto you, fly at you, and you could go nowhere to escape the smell, and they even invaded the POOL!!!
Now I’m grown, living in a different part of Utah, and still almost every summer we are invaded with creepy crawlies of a different kind! GIANT MORMON CRICKETS as big around as an adult thumb, 2 or more inches long, and they are everywhere! YOu can hear them crunch under your tires, they cover the sides of houses, fall out of trees, cover picnic areas and totally give me the heebee jeebees!!!!
Thanks to our very wet spring, we won’t have as many of them this summer!!!! Thanks heavens!
Janelle says
Grasshoppers and I don’t mix. Really, we don’t. One summer before I was married, that particular insect family decided to make their move. I’m positive it was a group effort. Twice, yes twice that summer, I ended up with a grasshopper up my skirt. Let’s just say I don’t appreciate their teasing, frisky ways. Of course, both times I screamed, jumped around like my skirt was on fire and looked like a crazed lunatic. Thankfully, only my family was around to watch the show…and my future husband. He commemorated the summer of the grasshoppers by giving me a grasshopper pin as a present. Funny, since that time I haven’t had any grasshoppers bothering me. Maybe they got the message that I was already taken!
Jennifer Taylor says
My story happened just last week. I had gone down into the basement to put a load of clothes in the washer. In my path was a camel cricket (I despise these creatures). I stomped my foot at it (hoping to make it jump away), threw a section of a plastic train track at it; it wouldn’t budge. Thinking that maybe it’s dead, I used something to push the train track aside along with the cricket (it still did not move). I relaxed and continued toward the washer. When I was about 2 feet away from it, it jumped at me and then began jumped on and around my shoe. I was screaming and jumping hysterically. My sons then came to see what was wrong and killed it for me. When I was calm enough to tell them what happened, my 5 year old started singing, “a camel cricket jumped on Mom” and then proceeded to laugh at me.
Tara L says
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with those big flying cockroaches my entire life. I remember when I was 8 hearing my best friend yell and take off running, and then running and yelling, chasing behind her–not knowing WHY I’m running–until she finally yells and points at the roach sitting on the arm of my coat (you know, the one on my ARM!). Or the time I thought it was hilarious that my sister had to rake up the magnolia leaves (which they happened to love to lay and nest under) until my Dad made me bag them (sans gloves). Or how about the time this young, single mother went to a male friend’s house, leaving the window cracked because of the “stinky” diaper in the grocery bag on the floor, only to come bak 15 minutes later to an infestation of roaches! I hated when these things happened, but loved the laughs later. However, hands down the funniest time was when I accidently “threw” one on my 5 yr old son. My husband was at work and we had one in our house. I was trying to get it towards the cat so maybe it would go after it for me. I picked up a pillow, looking for it, and it flew/i threw it right at my 5 yr old (completely unintentional). It flew right by his head and he screamed, took off running, and was completely traumatized for a few hours! LOL
Katrina Sanchez says
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Katrina Sanchez says
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Nancy Nelson says
I was a young married, living in a small (10 unit) apartment complex. We had a tiny patch of grass in the middle of the complex, right outside our front door, that had been really neglected. I started watering and trimming the grass & was really enjoying the patch of green. I even had a little ‘volunteer’ tree sprout up! It had been a cool winter, and I was really enjoying the spring and the return of flip flop weather. One afternoon, I was out watering my little lawn–really soaking it good–and noticed a good-sized palmetto bug. (You can call them what you like, but they’re all roaches to me! ) I tried drowning it, but that didn’t work, so I squished it. Then I noticed another. It was quickly dispatched. All the while, the ground is getting more and more wet. I noticed a small opening in the ground & stuck the end of the hose in it. All of a sudden, the little hole in the ground opened up and an absolute volcano of cockroaches erupted onto my little square of grass! They took off in every direction (some opted to crawl over my feet–a decision that quickly ended their lives) and I was out in the middle of the courtyard with my hose in one hand, spraying everything in sight, and doing a crazy Kill the Cockroaches/Get Them Off Me dance. By the time I calmed down enough to run inside to get some bug spray & return to the scene, they had scampered off. I was uneasy about walking on my lawn for quite a while.
Katrina Sanchez says
Well, when I was 21 I lived in my first apartment. We had a pest control people come quartely year round so I never really had a problem with bugs. One day me and my friend were sitting on the couch and I noticed something slowly moving out of the corner of my eye. I looked down and all I could really see was a dustball commin out from under my couch. So I thought it was the wind cause the door was open. A little while later I was walkin into the kitchen and noticed the dustball in the middle of the floor so I leaned over and was gona pick it up and realized it was a tiny lizard covered in a dustball from under the couch. I still don’t know how that thing got in my apartment but me and my friend screamed bloody murder and jumped up on the couch. We yelled at these two little boys who were about 8 to come get it and they came in and thought it was awesome and took it home for a pet! lol I know it wasnt a bug but those are kinda insecty right?
Karen M says
One weekend in high school I was sleeping over at my best friend’s house. She had a room in a finished attic. There was carpeting and paneling, so it looked and felt like a regular room. Being in the attic, though, there were often spiders about. She kept a spray can of RAID in her room. We were doing our teenager thing, listeing to music too loud, dancing, etc. Suddenly I started screaming and doing the icky-bug dance, grabbed the can of RAID, and aimed at the targeted spider. It was a big black one. After dousing the subject until it was inevitably dead, my friend walked over to the creature, bent down, and to my surprise picked it up! Then she said “Good job. You killed my plastic spider.” After looking a bit closer I saw it was a fake Halloween decoration spider. Being silly teens, we had a good silly laugh for an hour or so. Good times.
Lori Pike says
Ok well my bug story happened about six years ago when we moved into our house. We moved in when it was cold outside so we were all settled by the time the warm weather got here..Well it was the first real warm day out side I was so excited about doing some spring cleaning in my new house and I had the windows open to let the fresh air in, our house is 100 years old needless to say the windows and screens have alot of cracks. So all day I kept thinking about the bugs outside and about how I hoped they werent all coming in…So night time comes and me and my son are laying in bed just about to drift off when all the sudden we heard something (his room is attached to mine), it sounded like something flying around I thought oh it must just be a big bug I will get up and kill it then go back to bed. So I get up and I see a moth well no big deal right, well right as I am getting ready to kill a bat flies by me, oh my god I thought I was gonna have a heart attack. It gets the bug but now there is a bat in my room. So i jump back in bed yelling the whole time for my husband who of course is in the barn. I am yelling telling my son to cover his head. Then I decide ok we have to get out of here, I put the blanket on top of my head get my son out of his bed crawl down the stairs, the whole time yelling thinking my husband might hear us..He didnt. We had to run out the front door and around in back in our pj’s and under a blanket cause I am so scared. We finally get to the barn and my husband pulls the blanket off us and the bug is in my hair. You know the one I thought the bat ate. So I slept on the couch for the first few years I lived here cause I was so scared. And I have never opened another window in fear another bug will get in or even worse a bat. And everytime I hear a bug at night I say just cover your head and maybe it will go away! I also freak out everytime something touched my head now, cause I think it is a bug….I am scared for life!
Brandy Fitzloff says
Several years ago I had my house sprayed for spiders and the “bug man” must have left one of those glue boards behind my desk without me knowing. The day I noticed it I reached down to check it for spiders and when I went to grab it IT MOVED!!! I’m not a jumpy kind of person but I was a little freaked out so I grabbed it by the middle and took a look. WELL a mouse had crawled through and got STUCK. I felt so bad for the little guy that I made my husband take a scraper and scrape him off to set him free – OUTSIDE. I will never forget that glue board moving!
LinZ says
One day I was cleaning up the yard with my cousin. A fairly large weird bug landed on my leg. It was unlike any bug I had ever seen before and it seemed to be staring right at me. I was so freaked out that all i could do was let out howls as I made parking attendantesque hand motions at the bug until my cousin came and flicked it off. I was mortified and my cousin was left with yet another embarrassing tale to entertain at family events!!!
Chelle says
tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/hanwayink/status/63068062345203712
Cathy Smith says
When I was 13, my room was in the basement- because I mistakenly believed that the risk of spiders was less horrific than having to share a room with my sister. My room was a mess, pretty much all the time. One night, I was sitting in my room and I heard paper rustling. The paper I heard rustling was the paper that was overflowing from my little trash can, and was now on the floor. Then I *saw* something… I thought it was a giant spider, so I screamed. Loud. And I didn’t stop. My dad ran downstairs to see what was wrong, and I told him my tale of horror. He immediately told me my imagination had gotten the better of me, that no spider could make paper rustle, but that he would inspect the corner of my room for any spiders that may or may not have been there. He found nothing. I KNEW what I saw, but if it was gone then what could I do? I’ll tell you what I could do-and did do- I slept on the couch that evening.
Two days later, my mom finally forced me to clean up my pigsty. The spider incident had faded (though only somewhat) enough that I could go into my room without sitting in a ball on the middle of my bed and staring obsessively at that corner. I picked up the trash. I picked up my clothes. I picked up a stuffed animal on my floor… And I screamed louder than I’d ever screamed before. There, nestled under my stuffed bear, was a GIANT insect. It was not a spider. No, this was far more vile and nightmare-inducing than a spider. My dad tells me it was a wind scorpion. I just call it the species that forever solidified my intense fear of insects.
Chelle says
blogged! http://infertility-blows.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-funny-bugish-story.html
Bobbi Jean says
Not sure if this is exactly a ‘funny story’, but here goes! Every fall, we are invaded by asian beetles. Once farmland is harvested, they come at you from everywhere! Tried every green option available and nothing, they still get in. By the millions, I swear. Forgot one fall to remove the A/C from the window. Went to bed and our ceiling was CRAWLING with the little buggers. Not kidding…wasn’t an inch without 10 bugs. THAT was enough. Went to the store, bought raid max and sprayed windows, foundation, doorframes, etc. Next morning was a morgue of dead beetles surrounding our house. Inches thick. ICK!
Stephanie P says
The Great Millipede Invasion!!!!
Yucky, Creepy, Crawly, Gross, Icky, Shiver, and Shake are only a few descriptions of the thoughts my family and I have had over the last 3 falls as the millipedes come creeping and searching for a new home!
They do not arrive 1 by 1 or even 2 by 2…their thousand of little legs bring them in droves of 1000’s onto our porch and up our siding!
I have always had a disgust for snakes and worms…so this is the most unnerving problem. My sidewalk and porch look like a war zone come fall…squishing them leaves a yellow stain …and when you are squishing hundreds…it is rather nasty! So I try to sweep them up…yes esp at night…standing on the front porch in my pjs’s with the shot vac and bug spray. The gardening store experts say…they cause no harm. But when they are invading in the thousands and getting INTO your home…I have no other choice.
The creepiest part is that these little pests show up without warning on my kitchen counter, in the sink, sudden appear in the middle of our living room! They are fast and seem to know no limits!
I dread the fall day when one of my daughters will announce with a yell… “Mom the worms are BACK!”
Kathryn Ramsey says
One morning I was still half alseep when I walked into the kitchen and poured me a cup of coffee. I opened the cabinet door to get a bowl out for cereal and a huge black spider fell out of the cabinet right into my cup of coffee. I woke up very quickly and screamed!!
Heather says
My bug story goes back about 20 years. When I was a little girl, I saw a spider on my front porch. As a typical young girl, I thought spiders were icky, so when I saw one on my front porch, I stomped on it. It was black and had a really round plump body. After stepping on the creepy critter, I noticed what looked to be hundreds of tiny baby spiders scattering in every direction. I was mortified, and from that day on, I never stomped on another spider, but they still really creep me out!
Tammi says
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Morgan says
My creepiest bug story?! One morning I (sleepily) got up from bed, went to the bathroom and went to wash my hands. I felt something on my chin so I just kinda grabbed it–and ended up throwing it down into the sink where I saw it was a HUGE wolf spider!!! Totally grossed me out!!!
destiny says
About 10 years ago we moved into a new construction development my 6 year old was terrified of spiders. It was right around Halloween when we moved in so there were lots of decorations going up. One night the doorbell rang and there was a friendly neighborhood game going on where someone leaves you treats and a note on your door and you have to reciprocate to others in a way to have fun and get to know each other. My son got so excited and bent down to pick up the treat and a HUGE spider with a hard shell and cricket like jumping legs ( can you say crossbreed?) jumped on his arm when he picked up the treat. He screamed and screamed and I told him it was fake I automatically assumed that it was a joke spider because of it’s half dollar diameter and odd qualities. It started crawling up his arm and I realized it was real and I FREAKED out too. I knocked it off and stepped on in with my shoe. OMG I have never felt a crunch like that from a bug let alone a spider. I can still hear the sound lol… Now that my son is older he says he wishes he could have kept that spider because he probably would have been credited with discovering a new species.
The Lazy Mom says
I grew up in East Texas. AKA: Where cockroaches abound. One day a cute little spunky girl (that’d be me) put her shoes on in her closet to head outside to play. But on this fateful day there was a little something funny feeling in one of her shoes. Something MOVING. Something SQUIRMING!! She pulled the shoe off and out fell a cockroach!!! AHHHHHHHHH!
The end.
Mindie Hilton says
I have actually two creepy bug stories, but this one is I think by far the most bizarre. Once when I was a little girl, I woke up in the middle of the night when I felt something flapping around in my ear. Panicked, I ran to my mom and dads’ room. I was screaming, and since I sleep walk, my parents thought I was dreaming. I finally convinced my mom that I was awake. I told her there was a bug in my ear, I just knew it. I think she was still very skeptical, but calmed me by putting rubbing alcohol in my ear. When she did, I could slowly feel the bug stop flapping it’s wings and eventually die. My mom still could not see anything in my ear, so she sent me back to bed. The next morning at the breakfast table, while I was eating I noticed my mom leaning in with a look of astonishment. There was some sort of winged ant that was dead, wet, and hanging partially out of my ear canal. At least she knew I wasn’t crazy. I was relieved, I thought I would eventually die, with an old dead bug in my ear. It took me about 6 months before I could sleep with out cotton balls in my ears, for fear of more bug attacks. To this day, if a bug gets near my ears, I panic just a bit. It would be nice to know that this horrible experience won me $500, at least some good could come out of it.
Kimberly says
Wow! Bug stories…I have so many…
I have always hated bugs.
I remember when I was about 10, and my sister and I were with the folks visiting some friends. We thought it was amusing that their property had fuzzy brown caterpillars all over. I mean SERIOUSLY all over. I settled down with my book, and a while later, my DARLING, sweet, lovely baby sister (2 years my junior)…showed me what she had been entertaining herself with for the last hour or so…by dumping a mason jar of cute, fuzzy, brown caterpillars over my head! I had them down my shirt…EEEIIISH!!!! I am not so fond of fuzzy brown caterpillars now…
Then there was the time when I was a newlywed, and we were camping with the in laws (whom I love dearly). I had just showered, and washed my hair, and was hanging out on the porch of the cabin, when I was suddenly besieged with daddy long leggers. Every time I flung one off…another appeared. This went on for quite a while, me freaking out…finding another on my shoulder, in my hair, on my leg…then I turned, and found my Father in law, carefully scooping them up as I flung them off… and of course, sending them back my way! Ick!!!
I now live in an area known for an invasion of the Chinese stinkbug. They are EVERYWHERE. Nothing anyone can do. They get in the house any way they can in the fall. One busy weekend, we had been doing a fall cleaning. Closets, basement…the entire family was totally beat by the end of the day. Everyone went to bed…and around midnight, I finally headed into the shower. Just me, and the quiet house…steam…bubbles…and a nice, fresh fluffy towel. Right out of the linen closet. Another to wrap my mid back length hair…wait a minute! I hear buzzing! Yes, you guessed it sports fans…cue Mom’s hysterical screaming because, there was a stink bug nestled in my big fluffy towel! Pause for a moment because I can’t figure out where it went… then the screams intensify, because, it is now IN MY HAIR!!!!!!!! Now the entire household is up, including my bewildered husband, who keeps saying…”It’s just a BUG!!!”
I. DON’T. DO. BUGS.
Kate says
In 2008 our family of 10 went on a long camping trip through the southwest. When we returned we had, what we thought might be lice. These bugs didn’t act like lice, didn’t look like lice and were quite large!
We went through all the lice treatments for the heads, did all bedding every day, put away all stuffed toys, etc. In fact, we did this 4 times that summer! Finally we took one of the bugs to the health department and they confirmed they were NOT lice, but they were unknown.
Every January and August for 2 years our “mutant bugs” would return and we’d go through 3 treatments for the whole family. We even sent them to the Entomology Department of the University of Iowa and THEY had no idea what they were!
We eventually stopped seeing them but we have no idea what our mutant bugs actually were!
Krista says
I spent a semester in Costa Rica and I have multiple bug stories I could tell from that time, but I think the worst was this…
We spent a weekend at a camp up in the mountains. Playing outside in the gorgeous tropical highlands. I left my Bible and notebook on the picnic table when we went in for dinner. It gets dark early there.
When I needed it after dinner I went to go grab it and walked outside into a literal cloud of flying beetles. Beetles that are about 3/4 of an inch long and very fat. So fat that they fly slowly and never in a straight line.
They had all congregated near the porch because there was a window above the door and they were attracted to the light.
I screamed, grabbed my stuff off the picnic table (while brushing 3 or 4 off that were crawling on top) and ran back inside, swatting at the ones that were flying directly at my face.
There my friends had to pick the beetles out of my waist length hair and throw them back outside.
Ew Ew Ew!
Amy Brewer says
When I was 17 and living at home with my mom I was in the rest room. I saw this huge spider and jumped up top the toilet seat and screamed. My brother (who is only 9 at that time) ran in and said what is the matter. I told him there was a huge rainbow spider and he looked down. That spider was literally right in the middle of the floor blocking my way out of the bathroom. He said it wasn’t rainbow colored and I told him that it could be any color he wanted it to be but he had to kill it first!! Every time I thought I could possibly get down that spider would start crawling toward me and I would scream again. My brother woudln’t kill it (just to punish me) and my mom is terrified of them also, so I had to wait for my dad to get home from the store. I was trapped on the toilet for over 2 hours. That spider really wanted to scare me cause the only time it moved was to inch it’s way closer to me as I would try to get off the toilet. When dad finally come home he just laughed at how long i was up there but I really didn’t find it all that funny. Dad said,” I’ll be your hero and rescue you AGAIN”..lol…what would I do without my daddy?? I know, still be on the toilet!!
Jenny says
I lived in an apartment that was spider infested. Big ol’ garden spider infested. I get the eebie jeebies just thinking about it. Good thing I was dating my now hubby because he did most of the killing. One time, as I sat on my bed, his eyes got big and he ran out of the room (He learned not to say the word “spider” in front of me. I turned around to see a giant spider crawling up from behind my head. I screamed, of course, and yelled at him to hurry. He killed it and I made him check behind my bed, where he found another one. I promptly dissolved into tears and he held me. In my head I was probably thinking, “Marry Me, so I can move out!” Well, now we are married, so I never have to kill a bug on my own.
Marilyn says
I was visiting my sister and her roommate and there was a bug crawling on the ceiling in the corner of the room. My sister’s roommate decided to be big and brave and so she needed to stand on the back of an easy chair in order to reach the bug. My sister sat on the chair to hold it down so her roommate wouldn’t topple the chair when she climbed on the back. The roommate swatted at the bug sending it down from the ceiling and onto my sister. My sister jumped up screaming and her roommate fell into the wall along with the chair – the chair left a hole in the drywall. I was observing this whole thing and just started laughing because they were so freaked out by a little bug!
June says
Back in the summer of 2008 my son and I got to see a huge Bee that is called I believe a Sacatta Killer Bee. This thing was huge too, like 3 to 4 inches tall. It flew up on a sacatta bug which they are huge also and just grabbed it up and flew away with it. We found out that my neighbor across the street had these huge Bee’s nesting under ground in his front yard. Needless to say he had to get an extermenater out to his house, because he has small children running around. I still get the willy’s thinking about that huge Bee to this day. Scary for sure.
Lisa Newton says
The bug story the comes to mind is our rollie-pollie (pill bugs) story when our daughter, Alexandra, was about 5 years old. One evening my husband and I went out to dinner and a shy,12 year old neighbor babysat for us. They spent the evening riding around in the golf cart and exploring and looking for creatures. When we returned home Alexandra was already in bed and the sitter said they had lots of fun but made no mention of any bugs.
The next morning, I woke up, made a cup of coffee and moved to our living room to bask in the quietness and enjoy my favorite part of the day before everyone started stirring. As I entered the room, I was immediately upset because it looked like Alexandra might have taken a black permanent marker and drawn a line on the carpet all the way across the room — only as I got closer the line was moving. I noticed a shoebox in the corner with a piece of cellophane on top and out of it came at least 200 rollie-pollies marching across the living room floor single file. I gasped, choked on the coffee and then quickly ran to my daughter’s bedroom and woke her up to come and capture these creatures and get them outside. She was upset that her pets had gotten out of the box and deeply concerned for their welfare as they had by then scattered all over the floor. I thought vacuuming them would be the perfect solution but no, “that would be murder” according to Alexandra — so she picked them up one by one. It was a long day.
There are many other instances when creatures found their way in to our home with a frog in the silverware drawer because he was afraid of the lightening, butterflies fluttering around the den and she use to love to put a lizard on each earlobe and wear them as earrings and come inside with a big toothless grin until I noticed there were live creatures hanging from her ears. She loved to hear me scream and watch me run.
This is just one of many stories that happened over the years and as much as I hate bugs, I would not trade one of the episodes. My daughter is now 20 years old and studying Wildlife at a major university and will soon be leaving to study in New Zealand. Muuuaaah to my sweet girl who has always followed her heart.
Lachelle B says
I remember being about 10 years old and laying in the grass in my yard with my friends and watching the clouds go by. All of a sudden I had a huge fat spider land on my face! I screamed bloody murder and even though I hated spiders, I picked up that spider and flung it across the yard. I was shaking and crying and traumatized and had a hard time laying down on the grass ever again!
Amy says
My <1 year old daughter was in her little walker in the kitchen with my husband and me. I opened up a cabinet and found an ENORMOUS spider. I jumped backward *over my baby* and ran, shrieking, into the next room.
My husband still teases me for "sacrificing" our baby to the spider to save myself.
Seriously, it was the size of a silver dollar. I'd do it again.
Michelle says
Click here to read about my flying ant extravaganza!! 😉
http://www.hopeworks.ca/Hopeworks/Read_Mish/Entries/2011/3/13_Truly_NASTY!!.html
Deb says
I was around age nine when I begged my dad to take me along when he went to pick up my mom’s Mother’s Day gift. As he started the car, I noticed a bug on the windshield. Believing that it was outside, I reached my finger up to touch the spot . . . only to have the bug fly directly into my ear.
The bug wasn’t any happier to be inside my ear than I was to have it there. Every few seconds it would try to fly out, and the flapping wings sounded like helicopter propellers. I was hysterical! Unable to flush it out with water, my dad took me to the ER.
To hear my dad tell the story, he was traumatized by embarrassment as he was certain the entire hospital could hear my screams. To this day I believe they were warranted, I did after- all have a bug flapping around in my head!
Rachel says
Here’s my creepy bug story – it makes me shiver just to type the word “roach”!!
http://www.graspingforobjectivity.com/2008/09/rave-hairspray-does-not-roach-kill.html
Lisa says
When I was about 14 years old, we were seated around the table eating family dinner. I’d spent the day at the barn, riding my horse. I was just stabbing into a green bean when movement caught the corner of my eye. There was something creepy, something crawly, ON MY LEG. I screamed. I screamed so loud, so long, that my dad (who is a large man at 6’3) flipped his chair over backwards and lay sprawled on the floor. Meanwhile, I was up and batting at my leg. Turns out it was a centipede. We still laugh about it today – the night dad flipped his chair.
Jana says
Tweeted it: http://twitter.com/#!/sidetrackd/status/62949689275858944
Jana says
Here’s a link to the story about my close encounter of the roach kind: http://sidetrackd.com/2008/09/17/close-encounters/
Had a couple of other options I considered (one involving worms, another moths), but this one is pretty funny.
Janelle says
When I was seven years old, my dad worked for an Entomology department of a university. One day, he took myself and my little sister to see some “new” bugs that had arrived for a study one of the graduate student’s was going to be doing. They were very large hissing cockroaches. To my 7 year old eyes you could have put a saddle on any one of them and ridden it around the room.
During the visit to the lab to see the wall of bugs (cages), my dad was paged and needed to step out of the room to take a phone call. After he left, my sister and I began to get nervous and the roaches began to get louder. We turned to leave the room, only to discover that Fingers, (the pet turantula of one of the professors) was standing in the doorway having escaped from his glass cage. Being only seven and four, we did what any little girls would do. We screamed at the top of our lungs and within seconds there were a dozen grown men wearing white lab coats standing in the doorway trying to coax the big, furry spider into a glass as we huddled together in the center of the room.
Angelia says
At the time, my son was about one and a half years old, and my daughter was not quite crawling. They were playing on the floor beside my chair as I worked at the table on some small project. As I worked, I heard my son, whose vocabulary was still somewhat limited, say, “Bug!”
I had never heard him say this particular word before, so, smiling at his new accomplishment, I turned to look at him. He was, however, peering into his tiny sister’s mouth. Instantly, I grabbed the baby and dug around in her mouth with my finger to find a rather large, ugly, black beetle, thankfully still all in one piece!
Kelli says
So funny. I actually posted my most hilarious/horrifying bug story a few months ago so I’m going to link to it here. A short synopsis: It involves a cricket up my pants, Barnes and Noble and my future husband. You may now laugh at my expense… 🙂
http://minivansarehot.com/2010/05/girl-and-boy-and-a-cricket-makes-three/
Heather Belden says
About Two Years ago I was standing in my bathroom getting dressed I looked in the mirror( I have a Mole on the left hand side of my chest).I spotted a bigger black dot on the right hand side and thought to myself (without even looking to left ) “I thought my mole was on the left” after the thought had crossed my mind it started moving I quickly pulled it off it was a tick!!It was Horrifying not even knowing how long it had been there.
Michelle Munn says
I for a few short months lived in a duplex from Hell. I swear there were more bugs on the inside than out! I was a young single mom couldn’t afford much rent but I can’t believe I ever allowed myself or my son to stay in this roach/spider/sweet ant hotel. I remember putting sweet and treatment by my bathtub of all places. I took my baby to a sitter when I picked him up the girl told me the box of crackers I sent she opened up and roaches started crawling out! So I went back to store to get bugger bombs and the landlord was there I told him I was trying to eliminate the bugs and sat the bombs on the counter and he didn’t even offer to pay for them! If this isn’t creepy enough, I invited over my now husband to hang out with me. I don’t know why I thought that was a good idea when he kept pointing out these massive coch roaches running across the attractive panneled walls. Needless to say we had enough. I was so grossed out when he decided to leave I left too. I couldn’t sleep. I went to my sisters’ apt. and my baby and I took up residency from there.
Amanda Armstrong says
TWICE in one year this happened to me!
A large hairy spider ran away from me inside the car. Not only could I not kill it – I couldn’t find it. To make matters worse – my 1 YO son was in the car seat, vulnerable and defenseless.
The first incident ended after a 2 hour drive in the mountains. At the gas stop, I found the huge sucker and somehow swished it out of the back seat onto the ground. I had to enlist the help of a total stranger to actually stomp on it and make sure it wouldn’t get back in the car.
Incident #2 was last week. Loading groceries in the back, I noticed another large hairy spider. He ran and hid right by my son’s car seat. I couldn’t find him until our next stop. He was taking refuge under my son’s leg IN THE CAR SEAT! Screamed again… swished him out… and this time I took him out!
Somehow my son was never bitten – God Bless!
Jessica Lynette says
In November of 2010 I was in Nigeria, West Africa with my two boys visiting my grandparents, who are missionaries there and live out in the middle of no-where.
I was sharing a bedroom with my boys, ages 2 and 3. In the middle of the night I got up to take the older one to the bathroom. When I opened the bedroom door right in front of it was something curled up – very snake-like-looking.
Not wanting to frighten my son, and yet terrified that it was a poisonous snake waiting to bite us, I quickly shut the door, told him he had to hold his pee {not an easy feat at that age!} and went to the bedroom window and, as quietly as I could so as not to distress the boys, I started to try to wake my mother {who was also visiting, and in the room right next to mine.}
I kept calling out “MOOOOOM! There is a SNAKE outside my bedroom door!” It took a good 5 minutes, but I finally awoke her – and both my grandparents.
My grandpa and mom got up at the same time and I could hear their cautious conversation with each other about what to do if it was a poisonous snake and then — laughter. They both started laughing so hard I opened my bedroom door and there, in my grandfathers hand, was a centipede. A harmless, innocent, relatively small centipede.
They have not let me forget it 🙂
Jessica Lynette says
I wanted to add that;
1) My grandpa was 87, so I felt *dreadful* that I had disturbed his sleep over a centipede!
2) In daylight and/or an awareness of centipedes they *do not* resemble snakes at all. But in the middle of the night and totally unexpected it isn’t totally insane that I mistook it 😉
Emily E. says
When I was about 12, my bed was under a window that must have had a small hole in it. One morning I woke up with hundreds of ants marching across the bed and all over me! It was awful.
Or, story 2, when I was 3, we got a dog from the shelter. A wonderful dog that looked just like Sandy from the movie Annie, i.e., lots of shaggy hair and plenty of places for fleas to hide. Quickly our house was overrun with fleas. And quickly we learned that fleas loooooove me. My mom counted 103 flea bites on my calves. Just my calves. And I was 3 so those are some pretty small calves. 103. ….
Liz says
We had the horrible smell of rotting food that we couldn’t find the source. When we found the rotting potatoes, they were covered (and I mean covered) in maggots. Just thinking about it makes me ill now.
Sara says
When I was a young girl, probably around 12, my family and I were spending the summer in New Hampshire at my grandparents second home. It was a lazy afternoon and I fell asleep on the couch. You can always guarantee you will see plenty of daddy long-leg spiders but what I wasn’t prepared for was waking up to an itchy feeling on my chin. I swatted and a daddy long-legs spider fell onto the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was crawling into my mouth!!!!!!!!!!! While I was sleeping!! I freaked out and have never been the same. Still tell the story almost 15 years later. Horrid!!!!!
Christine says
Oh my goodness…I just had to comment. I would have stood outside…lol!
Tarasview says
I tweeted too http://twitter.com/#!/tarasview/status/62930586054045698
Tarasview says
I shared on facebook 🙂 http://www.facebook.com/tarasview/posts/142225165850171
Tarasview says
oh mercy! Your story gave me the chills. EWWWWWW!!!
Ok- you know I grew up practically next door to you so you know those horrible big scary hairy wolf spiders? I. AM. TERRIFIED. of those things. Actually I am terrified of all bugs but those particular spiders practically make my heart stop.
SO one night when I was about 17 or 18 I was home with my mom and we were watching TV. For some reason I was looking around and saw a huge furry thing under the TV stand… it was an enormous wolf spider. I panicked. My mom panicked. Seriously- she was shaking and standing on top of a chair in the dining room and I was screaming and crying hiding in the hallway.
My mom is a single parent. I am an only child. There were no other people around to deal with it.
My mom refused to move and told me it was my job now since she had spent my whole child hood killing spiders for me. We argued at great length about this.
So after no less than an hour of tears and panic I put on the thickest jeans I had, 2 pairs of socks, cowboy boots, a sweater and a winter coat, a hat, mittens (it was July), and wrapped my self in a sheet. Then I got the longest tongs we had and a plastic bowl. I crept closer to the hideous beast of a spider (I was certain it would jump out at me and land on my not nearly well protected enough face). I got close enough (shaking and screaming and sobbing the whole way) to the stupid beast to drop the bowl over top of it.
Then I ran and hid in my room.
But then there was more screaming when we realized the BOWL WAS MOVING!!
The spider was actually pushing the bowl along our floor.
I practically wet myself.
My mom crawled up on top of the kitchen table.
I grabbed books and dropped them onto the bowl and then ran away again.
My mom and I avoided the living room for days and finally made a friend of hers come over and remove the trapped beast from our home.
We hid in our rooms while he did the deed.
He laughed the entire time.
We did not laugh.
The whole time that stupid hairy beast was in our living room I couldn’t sleep… and I still panic at the thought of that thing. And you know what? Even after 4 days of being trapped under a plastic bowl that stupid spider was still alive and my mom’s friend LET HIM GO!! I wanted him to run the thing over. He laughed at us again.
I hate spiders so very much.
(oh… and incidentally I had a cockroach story too- I was 15 and on a teen missions trip to Nepal and we had a layover in Pakistan and our hotel room was completely infested with them. My roommate and I sat huddled on the middle of the bed with the lights blaring and in full terror all night long… it was truly horrifying.)
Michelle says
When I was young I went to my grandmother’s house a lot. One summer day I running around in the house and my grandmother was talking about bees. I was talking (bragging) about how I had never been stung or bit by anything and at that exact moment a bee flew up my dress and stung my knee. Everyone felt bad for me but we all got a good laugh out of it later.
Kaye Swain - SandwichINK for grandparents & caregi says
Oh my gracious! You poor thing! My senior parents used to live in Hawaii so we’ve visited there often. The most we saw was one gecko on a wall one time.
My story is much less dramatic but did have me hopping! I was walking my young children out the door in my blue jeans that were the popular “baggy leg” type that was so popular at the time (the FIRST time they were popular – over 25 years ago).
I stepped outside on the front porch. A second later I felt something BIG “hop” up my pant leg – which in turn caused me to start screeching quite loudly as I then HOPPED all over the house. After a couple of minutes, I managed to get my jeans off where I discovered a BIG GINORMOUS HUGE (well – at least 2 inches long) grasshopper had jumped up my pants leg. He looked as startled as me for a second – then promptly hopped towards the door and out to freedom. It’s been over 25 years and I STILL remember that moment. And now, my grandkids enjoy laughing with me whenever I’ve told them that story!
Jan says
West Texas is where I still call home, although I moved 10 years ago. Out there the bugs are different. They’re viscous! I was about 14 years old and as usual in a hurry. I needed to tinkle and ran into the nearest bathroom in our home. When I stood up to flush, there was a scorpion crawling up from beneath the seat. I squealed like the little girl I was and vowed never to sit on a toilet seat again without first checking it!
Erica Mueller says
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Erica Mueller says
I’ve never been afraid of bugs, but finding them in the wrong place at the wrong time can get to anyone! I think part of my tolerance is due to my mom allowing those big wold spiders to actually live IN the house when I was a kid. She swore nothing worked as well to control all the other bugs as these things would, and seeing as how they were as big as the palm of an adult’s hand, you could easily see them coming… we never had other types of bugs in the house, and the wolf spiders (only 1 or 2 were allowed to stay) lived happily in the bathroom.
Now for the creepy, after I was married and moved away from said spider protectors…
I think the worst was waking up to one of those HUGE waterbug roaches crawling on me. I flailed in the dark, and finally launched him what I guessed to be half-way across the room, and probably dead. I was wrong. He woke me two more times that night. In the morning I found him dead, behind the bed, where I’d finally managed to fling him.
Tarasview says
oh Erica- I am beyond terrified of Wolf Spiders! It my mom had let one live in our house I would have had to move out!! lol
Paige says
My husband and I rented a cabin in the Porcupine Mountains on the UP in MIchigan. When we came into the cabin, he asked me to open the windows but to check for holes in the screens just in case. UP in Michigan is home to the largest, most angry mosquitos in the world. I opened the window on my side and told him that the screen looked good. So, we go to bed that night and my husband who can be in a group of folks and take all the mosquito bites starts slapping himself cause he was getting bit. He is laying on his bunk on the other side of the room thinking that has to be the last one and then, gets bit again. I am under my window and not getting bit at all. After the tenth bite, he jumps up and grabs the flashlight. He starts looking around the cabin, wakes me up, when to his dismay he discovers that the window above my head has no screen. The bugs were flying right over my head, across the room, and getting him. He wakes me up and says “screen’s good huh”. I looked up and I swear I saw a screen when I opened it. We shut the window but to this day I have never heard the end of it. Funny enough the screen was outside the cabin in the morning by the front door. We have no idea how it got there….but my husband still thinks I did it on purpose.
Ariel Henry says
Tweeted- http://twitter.com/#!/ArielHenry/status/62920028810518528
Christieo says
LOL! This topic is funny! Not entering, just commenting, I could only read the key words of the story cause i’m eating lunch (LMAO!) but my story is pretty gross, sorry! I have a serious spider phobia. When I moved into our house, we had fruit trees and what comes with fruit trees? SPIDERS! We had HUGE ONES! They were the kind that were HEAVY! As in, it had weight when you carried them to the trash. I wanted to move. We got an exterminator and pulled out the trees and they were gone pretty quickly, but that was TORTURE!!! It felt like spider karma!! LOL The more I wished them away, the more they would appear!
Ariel Henry says
This happened in the summer of 2001. Me, my parents, and my brother had went on vacation in Florida to go to Disney World. One morning we decided to eat some cinnamon rolls that we had brought with us on the flight. Mind you it was some brand name of food that was all packaged up. After my dad and brother had ate theirs, I took a piece out to eat…. and noticed something odd….. THERE WERE TINY BLACK ANTS CRAWLING ALL OVER IT! I have no idea how they got there…. I showed everyone, and me and my mom kept laughing at my dad and brother for eating it. My mother even said we should cut it open to see if they were on the inside, but my dad and brother protested. Thankfully I don’t shovel my food in like *some* people. I always look at it to make sure it’s fine to eat.
Kris Fisher says
Here goes…When I was in High School my Mom developed a dagerous blood infection and had to be hospitalized for a week. That weekend I was visiting some friends in the city so my Mom asked if I could stay the week. It was dead summer and hotter than Hades. Summer in the city meant everyone was outside trying to cool off and enjoy the warm weather. So my friend and I are sleeping & BOOM! We both woke up with a shot and went to look out of the window. Seems down the block there was a fire in an abandoned building and the firetruck fell over into the building causing the loud BOOM we heard. So Im not home, scared and now wide awake…naturally I have to use the bathroom. So I creep down the hall & flick on the light…GASP roaches, big ones were everywhere. The bathroom moved. I don’t even remember turning the light off or running back to my friends room. All I remember was her saying “oh just brush them off and use the toilet”. Uh huh…not going to happen. I held it all night and well into daylight. Because between the chaos going on outside and bug infestation I did not know was going on in my friends house, there was no way I was getting any sleep. I did not eat anyting from their house and went home the next day. Empty house or no…I was was going home!
Melissa Sankey says
Here is my bug story… http://mommymmsankey.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-kill-spider.html
Michelle W says
14 years ago, when my husband and I moved out to Washington state with our three cats, we discovered there were really big spiders here. I mean enormous.
Our cat, Elwood, had a chirp he would do when he had something really good to show us. One night we were lying in bed and heard the chirp. You never saw to people jump up so fast from bed when he jumped on and plopped down his prize.
It was a Hobo spider. If you haven’t seen one, they are HUGE.
Elwood looked up at us (I swear he was smiling) and proceeded to eat the live monstrous spider in front of us. I think it may have bitten him on the way down because he lost his voice for a few years after that. He would just open his mouth and nothing would come out!
Needless to say, I think he learned the lesson of don’t eat creepy spiders.
TisforTonya says
Remember, you asked for it… so don’t go blaming me when you can’t get in the shower for the next week… and no hate mail from husbands who have to smell you after that many unshowered days either!!!
http://moreinfothanyouwanted.blogspot.com/2010/05/fyi-it-is-impossible-to-be-brave-and.html
and… yeah, for those that don’t click the link, you’re missing out on knowing just why it’s impossible to be brave and naked simultaneously – and on the tried and true spider killer that is probably in your bathroom right now.
Jacqueline Mukweto says
following you on twitter I retweeted the giveaway @mukweto
Jacqueline Mukweto says
One morning My 2.5 year son woke up before me and was standing over me, One hand in Diaper one hand tapping me.
He said, Mommy I have a Caterpillar in my diaper!
I hate Bugs but I had to be brave the husband was gone… So I said, OOOO (calm but freaking out) Let mommy see…he peels open one side of his diaper and pulls it down , My one eye shut tight the other slightly open,
only to see…well…his “member”…
I said, Eli that’s not a caterpillar that’s you…It is where your pee comes out …He smiled and I smiled No REAL bugs thank GOD!
A lesson in Anatomy before 8a.!
He later told his dad. “Daddy, I know my Body!!”
Kelly Ann T. says
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/cstironkat/status/62911408358166529
Kelly Ann T. says
I shared on FB (Kelly Ann T) http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=149709838428908&id=100001330165053
heather rainey says
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=100002104767052
i shared on facebook
Kelly Ann T. says
My dog caught a huge locust in her mouth and brought it into the house, the thing was making so much noise. Then she dropped it, it flew up into the atrium where it continued to drive me and the dogs nuts with all the noise it was making.
Cat Davis says
Tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/3KidsandUs/status/62910624434356224
HEATHER RAINEY says
http://twitter.com/?status=Want%20to%20Win%20%24500%3F%20Tell%20Us%20YOUR%20Creepy%20or%20Funny%20Bug%20Story%E2%80%A6%20%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F3kd8k9y#!/MRSHRAINEY/status/62910180362428416
I TWEETED
Cat Davis says
In June of 2008 my family and I decided it would be fun to spend a week camping … real camping .. tent on the ground, no running water, fire pit for cooking, the real deal.
I had been camping MANY times before as a kid but this was the first time for my husband and two children. I made it very, very clear … NEVER, EVER, EVER leave the tent unzipped. So what happens .. my son decides to go in the tent while we’re all sitting around the fire and comes back. What he didn’t do was zip the tent door.
When we all crawled into to go to bed the tent was swarming with flying bugs. After about 5 minutes inside the tent I couldn’t take it anymore, bugs were getting in my hair, landing on my face, had me creeped out so bad I ran for the car. We ended up going to a hotel for the night. Unprepared for the “comforting” I’d need after that experience I ended up coming home pregnant. 😉 Our little camping baby is now 2.
Tarasview says
hahahaha that is an awesome story 🙂 We have a camping baby too lol!
HEATHER RAINEY says
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL MY BROTHER USED TO GO TO THE FRONT YARD AND DIG UP THE BIG BLACK BEETLES WITH PINCHERS THAT FLY AND HE WOULD BRING THEM IN THE HOUSE AND THROW THEM IN MY ROOM OR CHASE ME AROUND THE HOUSE WITH THEM! FUNNY NOW THAT I LOOK BACK ON IT BUT NOT FUNNY BACK THEN!LOL…. WHEN MY BROTHER GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL HE WENT TO THE ARMY! HE WAS IN THE ARMY FOR 9 YEARS AND DID 2 TOURS! HE THEN GOT HONORABLE DISCHARGE AND WENT HOME. HE DIED 2 YEARS LATER IN A MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT! HE LIVED IN NEW YORK I LIVE IN ARIZONA!
YOU WANTED TO HEAR MY CREEPY STORY WELL HERE IT IS, WHEN I CAME HOME FROM NEW YORK AFTER WE LAYED HIM TO REST, I FOUND BEETLES EVERY WHERE IN MY HOUSE FOR A WHOLE MONTH AND EVEN AT MY JOB, BIG ONES, LITTLE ONES, DEAD ONES CREEPY CRAWLY NASTY BEETLES! THANKS FOR THAT BRO, I ALWAYS KNEW HE WOULD GET ME ONE LAST TIME!
Lindsey Renuard says
Here is a link to my bug story http://www.dishwaterdreams.com/2010/06/i-survived-arkansas/