This video reminded me of my most disturbing insect encounter:


http://www.yikers.com/video_crazy_alien ... kyard.html


I was walking down the street here in Saint John one summer evening 6 or 7 years ago, and I just happened to look down and see this huge, ugly roach / beetle thing on the sidewalk. It was the size of a cassette tape. Someone had obviously stepped on it, as it was struggling in a pile of it's own goo.

I kind of looked down, saw it, looked straight ahead, and kept on walking... told myself not to look back.

I learned later from this ancient exterminator dude that it was likely an asian beetle of some kind. He says he's seen them come off of ships in the port here.

the pregnant spider I smashed while on mushrooms that time.

My college roommate's pet scorpion.

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here is a video of a giant centipede eating a mouse.
http://disloyal.org/?show=664

There was an "incident" one time during an bender I was on with my buddy Ian. We had been boozing all weekend, sitting in the backyard enjoying the sun when the biggest and most aggressive beetle-ish bug we'd both ever seen came right at us. It kept flying around us, dive bombing us. Naturally we screamed "GAHHH WHAT THE FUCK!!!" but the bastard landed on Ian and came into the house. I knocked it off of him and it ended up on the screen by the door, and was extremely pissed, bashing itself against the screen, over and over. Before the adrenaline rush was over I went over to try to disable it, but only made it angrier. Finally got the door open and it flew out.

True story. Naturally nobody believed a couple of slurring lushes, jabbering about demon bugs. My wife thought we were having the DTs. She may have been right, I've never been able to identify the species. Probably for the best.

i just caught a baby praying mantis in a jar

it's not as weird as the black grasshopper/cricket with the one inch stinger antennae that had another one in its cocoon.

that was really crazy shit, but it ran away.

np: asobi seksu - goodbye

There was a pretty crazy, massive black cockroach on the floor of the recordstore I used to work in. The other clerk freaked out so it was up to me to 'take care' of it. I ended up spraying the thing with corosive cleaning products I found in the bathroom. Ew.

But nothing could ever really compare to the "mealey moth" infestation we had at my family's home. The larvae-wormy-babies showed up in our cereal--after we had taken a spoonful---and even once in a square of baker's chocolate I was eating. I brushed my teeth about 5 times after that.

Nought wrong with cockroaches!

Robotboy that video was sick!

there was a dead bug in my garage for an entire summer. I mean, I am sure there was more than one dead bug, but this one was special. It was the size of a credit card but shaped like an egg, it was a maroon/brown color, had gigantic wings, large claw/clamp looking object for a mouth, weird wobbly looking legs, and the best part was the pair of antlers on the top of its head. I called it the moose bug.
One day I went out into the garage and he was gone. My parents decided to clean the place up, and my fascinating bug was gone.

I haven't seen one since.

Totally dude, totally.

(I love that smiley.)

Seriously, what the hell was that thing?!

I had plenty of experiences like this while living in new orleans. The roaches there are huge and they hate you and want to eat your children. I spent a good part of my time in new orleans hiding under the covers so they wouldn't fly at my head as they're so fond of doing.