Holy Smurfing Bugs!

[Freya]

So I was working outside with my mom today and the scariest thing happened!

I had curled and hairsprayed my hair because my mother had told me we were going to go to another town and go to the mall and such. Then she decided that we weren't and that we needed to work outside.

So we had hooked a metal shed to her truck to move it because, well it's a metal shed and how else do you move it? I was standing on the back of the truck to make sure the chain didn't come un-hooked.

Then my mom runs over and ant pile! Flying ants come swarming me cause of the hairspray in my hair! I'm run and jump in the truck and roll the windows up as quick as I could. I was smacking every ant in the truck. It was so freaking scary!

What scary bug encounters have you had?

[Yar]

Kaycee said use a spoiler tag. :(

[SomethingBig]

How did you survive a hoard of hungry ants?!

One of my earliest memories was when I was 2 and I was merrily playing outside, minding my own business, when I looked down on my arm and there was a HUGE FURRY CATERPILLAR JUST FRIGGIN' INVADING MY PERSONAL SPACE.

Another time was when I was with a bunch of friends at the pool. For whatever reason, we were talking about horse flies. I guess that's what a bunch of 10 year olds talk about while at the pool. We were all talking about how we heard how horse flies will leave holes the size of Jupiter on your body, if they bite you. As luck would have it, while I was waiting my turn to jump off the high dive, a huge white fly landed on my leg. My friends yelled, "THAT'S A HORSE FLY!" I started to kick and flail my leg, but the stupid thing just wouldn't come off! I ran to the pool and jumped in to save my life from that awful fly! And then I got in trouble for running.

[G13]

^ Hahahaha! That's awesome!

I think that every bug encounter is awful. I hate the little bastards. There was this spider outside my garage that was literally the size of my hand (with its legs spread out of course). He was pretty fun to watch, making his web. He added on to it just last week. I suspect the add on was for an inweb pool but I'll never know now. He passed away a few days ago... from natural causes.

[rubah]

Yardie, I know just what you mean. I had... an encounter... like that in the dorm bathroom one night last year.

A month or so ago, I heard a weird noise coming from the kitchen, but no one was in there to make a noise...

I wrote it off to some weird coincidence and went about my business. The next day, I was crushing up cans to put in recycling AND OMG THERE WAS THIS TERRIFYING BUG IN ONE OF THEM.

[krissy]

as i was reading this thread a mosquito the size of the top of my thumb landed on the screen

lek i think whatever you got, it's spreading

[G13]

Oh man, I didn't even see Yar's picture. I'd seriously myself if I saw that thing. I don't care how far away it was, I'd run away screaming.

[Bunny]

When I was a child, I would catch scorpions, centipedes and millipedes and put them in a glass jar to fight each other.

There was also a time when I played pickup football games in a large field between a friend and my houses. One time, I caught the ball and immediately fell into a bush covered with giant spiders. It was scary.

Oh, and there was a time when I lifted up a board and my hand was less than an inch away from a scorpion.

Fun times in the desert.

[Madame Adequate]

A few weeks ago a centipede randomly crawled over my desk and in among my papers.

I freaked the smurf out.

I never thought they would bother me but seeing this thing move turned me into a quivering wreck. I spent 40 minutes pulling everything off my desk looking for it. I was wearing gloves and perched on my chair because it might have been on the floor.

Eventually, Murphy started going nuts in the corner of the other room, and I discovered that the bug had traversed some distance away from me. I caught it and dumped it in the garden. Rarely have I felt so strong a compulsion to run away screaming.

Yar's pic has made me paranoid

[Yar]

You guys might be grossed out by my picture, but you have no idea how fast those things move.

[G13]

Annnnd here come the nightmares. Thanks Yar.

Edit: @ Milf
I did the same thing when I saw a spider in my room the other day. Wicked fast bastard got away from me though. I gloved up and cleaned my room thouroughly, moving everything around in search of him and any friends he may have invited.

[PeTeRL90]

Let's see... not too long ago there was a pretty big spider with orange stripes and spots on it so naturally I assumed it was poisonous. I was taking my dog out to use the bathroom so I had to pull her away so she didn't eat it and stepped on it. Made a nice mess on my shoes.

Then there was an even bigger black spider was really fast and again, it was on the porch when I was taking my dog to use the bathroom (sensing a theme here?) and as soon I realized how fast it ran, it scared the hell out of me and I pushed my dog inside after she finished doing her business.

Then there was this time I woke up with a cockroach crawling around on my bed and near my face. Nearly crapped myself.

[Ouch!]

Conoco, the company my old man used to work for, owns a cabin out in Punchak (an area outside of Jakarta, Indonesia with rice fields and such). One weekend, when we were staying in the company cabin with another family, we saw that a giant spider had spun a giant web outside of one of the windows. Now, when I say giant spider, I mean that the thing's body alone was a good four to five inches in diameter. Counting the legs, the thing must have been the size of a damned dinner plate.

Scared the living bajesus out of me the first time I saw it.

[Jiro]

Playing football on the school oval in year...4? The ball rolled down the little embankment next to the tennis courts. I ran over to grab it and ran into a spider web. "No harm done," I thought, "I run into spider webs all the time."

So I pick up the ball and throw it up to my friend. I then proceeded to remove the spider web, starting first with my hair. I suddenly felt itchy, and turned to look at my back. On it was a spider about the size of my 9 year old hand. It was staring right at me with it's many beady eyes, and I freaked the smurf out and swatted it off.

After that, I ran towards the safety of the buildings, flailing my arms like a mad-man, trying to get the spider webs and any other spiders off me. I felt itchy all over, but the bunch of people I kept asking "LOOK AT ME ARE THERE ANY SPIDERS ON ME GET THEM OFF" said there was nothing, and no bite mark.

I was later told that it was a Golden Orb spider and supposedly highly poisonous, but after google image searching I realise that it isn't the same type. Still, that was probably the scariest moment in my life.

[blackmage_nuke]

Once I felt like the Label on the back on my shirt scratching on my back so i tried to adjust it but it kept itching and they I opened it up abit and BUZZ! some weird green beattle thing zoomed out and flew off. Startled me to death.

And there was this one time I saw a moth the size of my hand. I am not exagerating, and it wasnt when I was young and had a small hand either. I didnt even know how it could stay airborne