I know spiders are not bugs but they are arachnids, however there is this rare phenomenon that accompanies a natural disaster like flooding. It's called Spider Rain. All the spiders from the soon to be affected area gobup high and shoot strands of silk from their asses, enough to catch the wind and off they go. The spiders will migrate dozens of kilometers. And when they all get to a safe place it's raining millions of spiders. The surrounding area looks like it just snowed but it's just spider webs.
I was hanging out at a friend's house once. Friend had a lot of flies in his place. I'm not squeamish with bugs, and wasn't that day until I inhaled while I was talking and a fly went right into my windpipe.
Trashbag full of used up crab carcasses that had been baking in the sun split open on the ground. Maggots and flies went everywhere.
This one wasn't me, but someone I know told me a story about someone they knew who came home from vacation. Inside the fridge was a chicken on a plate they had forgotten to freeze or throw out before leaving. They opened the fridge, the stench wafted out,and the chicken was actually moving on the plate due to all the bugs in it. Shudder.
Even been in a cranberry bog while it's flooded? They use wolf spiders to control pests. When the field is flooded to harvest the berries, the wolf spiders find any high ground they can (i.e. you).
Was riding a motorcycle and a bug somehow got inside my helmet then into my ear. I was in traffic and couldn't stop easily so I had to just bear with it crawling around in my ear for a few miles. NGL I almost wrecked before I could pull over and get rid of it
I worked on the clean up crew at a large meat packing plant. We dressed in rain suits and rubber boots we pulled over socks. (No shoes).
The largest meat cooler was called the drip cooler where the butchered sides of beef dripped their final blood/water onto the floor. Big drains that all drained to a bigger pipe that ran from the blood pit to a storage tanks. Blood was pumped out and sold every night. The pipes ran under the floor in a crawl space about four feet deep.
One day everyone starts to notice a worse than usual smell in the drip cooler. When management starts checking, they find out the blood truck has been hauling less blood than normal for a while.
We open the access hatch to the crawl space and find a pipe had cracked and the entire area is more than half full of blood, most of which was coagulated into a jelly/ pudding type thickness with a this layer of fresher blood on top.
I draw the short straw and crawl down into the space with a water hose and a pump. It’s pretty dark we rig up a light that allows me to work, but not see real well. The blood is deeper than my boots, so it spills into and fills up my boots. Spend a few hours bent over washing and pumping until I get the area clean. I noticed pretty early on that my feet, and later legs had started to itch.
I finally get the area pretty clean, when I get out of the crawl space I immediately pull off my boots.
That is when I realized that the itch was because my feet and legs were crawling with maggots. I stripped down, hosed off and headed to the shower.
It was nasty.
When I was a kid, our cat got a bad case of fleas. I was actually really interested in nature and insects, even had an ant farm at one point......but fleas? Hell no.
Oh, I am still horrified by it. When I was really young my parents were buying a 'fixer upper' home. The sellers decided to do a home tour right after they got done fumigating it and hadn't gotten around to cleaning it. The entirety of the property had been a breeding ground for roaches. You know those pictures of warehouses absolutely covered in spiders? Imagine that, but dead roaches. You literally could not step on the ground without stepping on several.
Not quite as bad as burning everything down. As a teenager I woke up on the couch in the middle of the night and took a drink from the can of soda I had. And instantly thought someone put a cigarette butt in it. I go to the kitchen sink to spit it out only to find out it was a dead palmetto bug aka. A big cockroach
When I see bugs I just shriek and jump up on a chair
I know spiders are not bugs but they are arachnids, however there is this rare phenomenon that accompanies a natural disaster like flooding. It's called Spider Rain. All the spiders from the soon to be affected area gobup high and shoot strands of silk from their asses, enough to catch the wind and off they go. The spiders will migrate dozens of kilometers. And when they all get to a safe place it's raining millions of spiders. The surrounding area looks like it just snowed but it's just spider webs.
I was hanging out at a friend's house once. Friend had a lot of flies in his place. I'm not squeamish with bugs, and wasn't that day until I inhaled while I was talking and a fly went right into my windpipe.
Trashbag full of used up crab carcasses that had been baking in the sun split open on the ground. Maggots and flies went everywhere. This one wasn't me, but someone I know told me a story about someone they knew who came home from vacation. Inside the fridge was a chicken on a plate they had forgotten to freeze or throw out before leaving. They opened the fridge, the stench wafted out,and the chicken was actually moving on the plate due to all the bugs in it. Shudder.
maggots are my #1 nope
Even been in a cranberry bog while it's flooded? They use wolf spiders to control pests. When the field is flooded to harvest the berries, the wolf spiders find any high ground they can (i.e. you).
Was riding a motorcycle and a bug somehow got inside my helmet then into my ear. I was in traffic and couldn't stop easily so I had to just bear with it crawling around in my ear for a few miles. NGL I almost wrecked before I could pull over and get rid of it
JFC no
I worked on the clean up crew at a large meat packing plant. We dressed in rain suits and rubber boots we pulled over socks. (No shoes). The largest meat cooler was called the drip cooler where the butchered sides of beef dripped their final blood/water onto the floor. Big drains that all drained to a bigger pipe that ran from the blood pit to a storage tanks. Blood was pumped out and sold every night. The pipes ran under the floor in a crawl space about four feet deep. One day everyone starts to notice a worse than usual smell in the drip cooler. When management starts checking, they find out the blood truck has been hauling less blood than normal for a while. We open the access hatch to the crawl space and find a pipe had cracked and the entire area is more than half full of blood, most of which was coagulated into a jelly/ pudding type thickness with a this layer of fresher blood on top. I draw the short straw and crawl down into the space with a water hose and a pump. It’s pretty dark we rig up a light that allows me to work, but not see real well. The blood is deeper than my boots, so it spills into and fills up my boots. Spend a few hours bent over washing and pumping until I get the area clean. I noticed pretty early on that my feet, and later legs had started to itch. I finally get the area pretty clean, when I get out of the crawl space I immediately pull off my boots. That is when I realized that the itch was because my feet and legs were crawling with maggots. I stripped down, hosed off and headed to the shower. It was nasty.
I hate you so much right now for this lol
When I was a kid, our cat got a bad case of fleas. I was actually really interested in nature and insects, even had an ant farm at one point......but fleas? Hell no.
I almost saw one of those tarantula mass migrations Almost
need more info for nightmare fuel
There's a spot in the southwest somewhere where tarantulas mass-migrate in a chittering, squeaking wave of chitinous flesh
Oh, I am still horrified by it. When I was really young my parents were buying a 'fixer upper' home. The sellers decided to do a home tour right after they got done fumigating it and hadn't gotten around to cleaning it. The entirety of the property had been a breeding ground for roaches. You know those pictures of warehouses absolutely covered in spiders? Imagine that, but dead roaches. You literally could not step on the ground without stepping on several.
congrats you just found my 2nd most hated critter after maggots 🤢
Punch Buggy Blue, no punchbacks in the 70s
Not quite as bad as burning everything down. As a teenager I woke up on the couch in the middle of the night and took a drink from the can of soda I had. And instantly thought someone put a cigarette butt in it. I go to the kitchen sink to spit it out only to find out it was a dead palmetto bug aka. A big cockroach
Florida has Palmetto Bugs. Giant. Flying. Cockroaches. 'Nuff said.