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[WordAssassin]

The saddest thing, though, is dreaming about having ants swarming all over you, only to find that when you wake up, they really are

Oh, Jesus. My first attept at moving out, I lived with a friend of mine downtown. It started raining about half a month in, and the house just got infested with ants. They were everywhere. I go into my room and turn on the light, the fuckers are ALL OVER THE FLOOR, ALL over the walls, OH MY GOD. It was HORRIBLE. I vaccumed up every last one that I could find, and pused my bed into the middle of the room. I moved out like three days later, but those three days, I did NOT sleep and whenever I did, I'd wake up feeling all tingly everywhere. UGH. UUUUUUGH.

 

[3phemeral]

Oh, Jesus. My first attept at moving out, I lived with a friend of mine downtown. It started raining about half a month in, and the house just got infested with ants. They were everywhere. I go into my room and turn on the light, the fuckers are ALL OVER THE FLOOR, ALL over the walls, OH MY GOD. It was HORRIBLE. I vaccumed up every last one that I could find, and pused my bed into the middle of the room. I moved out like three days later, but those three days, I did NOT sleep and whenever I did, I'd wake up feeling all tingly everywhere. UGH. UUUUUUGH.

Even if I vacuumed them up, I'd still have the compulsion to add something that would most definitely kill them, even in spite of all the dust that could clog their little spiracles.

 

[demi]

Edit: How big is that thing?

Not that big, really. I'd wager about... a pen cap in width?

 

[AniHawk]

I hate giant bugs. I was on another forum late at night when all of a sudden, this mosquito/daddy-long-legs hybrid flew right into the computer screen and started darting around. I pushed back from the desk so hard, I ended up a good 6 feet away.

I ended up luring it to another lightsource in the house, capturing it, and setting it outside though.

 

[speedpop]

You nancy's. All of you. :lol

 

[DarienA]

Heh, I saw that movie too, what was the name of it? I thought the cat was bad at first, but man that freaky little troll scared me

Shame on you.

BTW I did know it was the troll but IIRC that story is based on a old wives tale that cat's 'll kill you in your sleep or something, I'll have to see if I can dig up anything on that.

EDIT:

Here we go... results of googled cats suck breath

Crazy huh?

 

[MrPing1000]

ugh insects in ireland are pathetic in comparison to the crap u guys put up with. I laugh at your misfortune ha ha ha ha

 

[Ecrofirt]

ugh insects in ireland are pathetic in comparison to the crap u guys put up with. I laugh at your misfortune ha ha ha ha

But don't you guys have moles making homes in your brown paper bags over there?

 

[sasimirobot]

My freind and I were watching some DVDs at his house when I thought I saw something moving behind the TV. A few minutes later that thing just bolted out from behind a bookcase right at me!! I jumped and screemed like a little girl.

It crawled under the mat we were sitting on and took a severe beating from a pair of shoes. When we lifted the mat it was still alive! That fucker took like 5 minutes to kill.

A Thai freind of ours came over and confirmed that it was very poisonous and I was lucky it didnt bite me or I would have been sick.

Creepy bastards, centipedes...

 

[Crow]

If you live in Sydney

Where I live (Adelaide, Australia) we get many of these (huntsman spider) in our house all the time. Unlike the Sydney Funnel Web however, they are pretty tame, and wont bite unless you really provoke it. Many people (not I) have no problem cupping them in their hands and placing them outside.

 

[Manics]

I'm such a pansy, and now I feel pinches and tingling on my legs...

These words he speaks are true. We're all humanary stew, if we don't pledge allegiance to, the black widow!

 

[suaveric]

Thank god I live in Jersey.

Edit: How big is that thing?

Trust me, they have them in Jersey. They're pretty much everywhere in North America. The biggest one I've ever seen was an inch wide and maybe three inches long. The creepiest thing about them is their speed! They've very fast when they need to be. They usually stay out of site, but every once in a while one will get brave and just decide to crawl accross the ceiling on the room you're sitting in.

I call them Mr. Wiggles.

 

[UltraMarioMan]

 

[Particle Physicist]

My freind and I were watching some DVDs at his house when I thought I saw something moving behind the TV. A few minutes later that thing just bolted out from behind a bookcase right at me!! I jumped and screemed like a little girl.

It crawled under the mat we were sitting on and took a severe beating from a pair of shoes. When we lifted the mat it was still alive! That fucker took like 5 minutes to kill.

A Thai freind of ours came over and confirmed that it was very poisonous and I was lucky it didnt bite me or I would have been sick.

Creepy bastards, centipedes...

ugh.. thats the thing that was on my leg.. and it was about 6 inches long.

goddam.. im getting all itchy just thinking about it.

 

[123rl]

Fuck me! I'm so glad we don't get things like that!

I hate spiders but luckily Britain doesn't have any dangerous/poisonous spiders and even the biggest species is pretty small (body is about 1" wide and its legs are about 1-2" long). I hate spiders though so even that is enough to scare me

I once went to Jamaica on holiday and I'm sure that triggered my fear of spiders. The god-damn Crab Spider that hid in my shoe and climbed out as I went to put my shoes on...what a little twat!

That holiday was also the first time I saw a cockroach (a proper cockroach...it was about the size of my arm at the time :lol ). Cockroaches suck...I hate them

 

[WedgeX]

At least you don't have this fucker somewhere in your house.

http://www.sadgettingsadder.com/images/1.jpg

I fucking hate those things!

There used to be a ton of those in my house..we were killing them at least once a week.

But I guess we killed most of them, they haven't reared their ugly...legs...in quite a while.

 

[scissorfight]

God, I seem to have horrible luck with bugs/spiders. My old apartment was built in the 30's-40's, and it's dugeon-like basement was infested with these huge spiders (like 3"-4" across!). I finally saw one in my apt bathroom, and when I went to catch the creepy fucker, it bolted across the floor...God as my witness that thing was going 75mph. It ran into a hole in the wall under the elctric heater. I knew there was no way in hell I would go to sleep without killing it, so I sprayed some bleach shower cleaner in the hole and gave it a bit. The thing eventually crawled out ouf the bathroom into the hallway where I finally killed it. *shudder*

Those house centipedes are almost as bad though. My new house (in MI) has almost no bugs/spiders...but one day we see one of those things haulin' ass across the carpet. I measured it after I killed it...over 5" inches long. My wife is still freaked out.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

Sometimes I think fate or God or whatever is on my side...

I was spending the night at my friends house one time. This was shortly after twisted metal black came out, and we had been up all night playing it. I was tired way before him, so i started to doze off on the couch. He told me I could crash in his room that night, but out of sheer lazyness I declined, as I didn't want to get up and move. I have no idea where he ended up sleeping that night, but I get woken up in the morning when he comes into the common area(he didn't really have a living room...his house was weird), and tells me "DUDE! HOOOOOLY shit! There's a TON of fucking spiders behind my bed, and one of them is HUGE!"

He's not normally one to exagerate, but I wasn't quite prepared for what I saw next. I look behind his bed and don't seen much but shadows at first, but then he shines a light back there, and there was this ENORMOUS spider (probably about the size of my hand, maybe a little bigger) surrounded by about 20 or so smaller spiders. Not knowing what else to do, we make sure all the candles are out, and then empty an entire can of raid behind his bed. I'm pretty sure we got the things, but I remember thinking. "Holy shit...I almost slept in that bed last night".

No idea what kind of spiders they were, but it was definitely the largest spider i'd ever seen.

 

[Vlad]

What's really fun is these:

Those lovely Brood X cicadas that came out last year. They don't bite or anything, but they're rather large (for a bug), and they were all over the place.

 

[WordAssassin]

Even if I vacuumed them up, I'd still have the compulsion to add something that would most definitely kill them, even in spite of all the dust that could clog their little spiracles.

Oh yeah, oops. I sprayed all kins of shit around the bottom edges of the room. Windex, Raid, and some other spray that's specifically made for ants.

Now the worst things I deal with are these very, very odd orange bugs. They look like a cross between cockroaches and bees, and they're bright red-orange and fly. I've smashed up two of them in the last month. I wish I knew what the hell they were so I could know if they were dangerous or not. Fuckers.

And the occasional silverfish.

Only thing annoying about these bastards is they're uber flexible so they don't squish easily.

And every so often, an earwig! EEEEWWW!

There are certain bugs I embrace seeing, though. I love Junebugs, and there are these really awesome little, teeny brown beetles with super clingy feet that come around once every year.
Come to think of it, I'm pretty lax around any kind of beetle. I wouldn't mind having a Rhinocerous Beetle for a pet.

Or a cyuuuute little Scarab! (AKA, Dung Beetle)

Wheee!

 

[Ash Housewares]

I've never seen a centipede, the day I do is the day I buy a gun

and I live in Riverside, CA too where theres a shitload of bugs, and every person I know is an entomologist, but I stay the fuck away from anything with more than four legs, goddamn little bastards

you may remember me from such nature films as "Earwigs, Eww!"

 

[Evenball]

I live in the Pacific Northwest and I rarely get bugs other than spiders, even roaches are rare here. When they do come in, Im ready for them with my vacuum cleaner of doom!

Just the other day I had one of those teeny weeny jumping spiders.

 

[cvxfreak]

It's so funny. The other day I was about to brush my teeth. I keep my toothbrush in this little machine that cleans toothbrushes wih some kind of bright light, but today the machine door happened to be open. As usual, I put toothpaste on my toothbrush. I was about to put the thing in my mouth when I saw a fly on the brussels. I threw the toothbrush into the sink so fast and screamed. Yuck! =(

(I got a new toothbrush BTW).