Very much bugged.

[jbuggy86]

So for a while now I've been babysitting my nephew and cleaning house for my folks the pay isn't great but the hours work with my college schedule. Plus the food is much better and safer than what's at my house (this not my choice).
Well anyway last night I was invited to stay and watch tv, plus have dinner. Well that went by food was good and really health considering it was made by my sister the potato and gravy queen. The thing that caused me to get on tonight happened when my sister's fiance was gonna take me home. We were getting into the car and he ran back into the house to drop something off. Well while I wait a giant moth with the wing span of about 7" tried to fly in the car. That I was okay with. Bugs usually don't bother me. In fact I'm the one the girls in my family call to remove bugs. But when my sister's fiance got back in the car sitting on his shoulder was a 2"-2 1/2" long stag beetle, just sitting there staring at me opening and closing it's pinchers.
So me being nice I say hey you got a big bug on your shoulder. And he flicks it off his shoulder on to me. And this is were my prissy girly moment enters. I jump out of the car and trying to whack off the huge @&& bettle. Which as it turns out it landed in the seat next to me. So he flicked out the bug, drove me home, and now I'm having the sensations of things crawling on me. Here's a link to the creature that was flicked on me. stag beetle

Now tell me doesn't that make your skin crawl. Or at least feel a little bit bugged about my future brother in-laws manners.

[lordlundar]

Not gonna click on the link thank you. I have seen one and that's all I want to see.

Yes, I have a case of entophobia, and I have no problems admitting it or accepting it.

[Primer]

Early this past spring, we had an invasion of those things. I was ok with them until.....one night I was sitting outside reading a book and smoking a cigarette, and one landed in my lap! Living out in the middle of nowhere, we tend not to wear much. Yeah, I screamed like a little girl! LOL!

[AnaKhouri]

My husband has kept stag beetles as pets in the past, so I am OK with them. They are actually quite cool, but I can understand how startling it would be to have one suddenly appear on your shirt.

[jbuggy86]

Bugs here

Well the bugs around here where I live are usually small. Moths and praying manti are the only bugs I've seen in large scale. And I've had both as pets. But the stag beetle was sitting on my brother in-law to be's shirt like a little parrot. That I was okay with. Even with it being the first time seeing one I would've okay with it. It was the fact it was flicked in my direction in a car with very poor lighting that freaked me out. You know the whole not knowing where it landed thing.

[powerboy]

Here's a link to the creature that was flicked on me. stag beetle

Now tell me doesn't that make your skin crawl. Or at least feel a little bit bugged about my future brother in-laws manners.

I curse you for that. Now I feel like they are crawling all over me

[Geek King]

Stag beetles aren't bad, but they do look scary. They also have constitutions like a Dwarf fighter. I've seen one survive 24-hours in formaldehyde, then crawl off the specimen-board with a pin through it (I was for a science project). The moth sounds like a Luna Moth. A lot of those are actually very pretty to look at once they land.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Bring a snake over next time. He wants to play that way, bring it to him.

I was kidding around with my neighbors once and one of them threatened to flick a cockroach at me. I happened to have a snake in a basket (it's a long story) at the time. I reached into the basket and said "Bring it, sucker. Mine's bigger."

Most people run screaming from a snake (which was why I had the snake in the first place, I was removing it from another neighbor's yard. I'm the neighborhood crazy snake lady.). To his credit, my neighbor didn't run screaming, but he didn't flick the roach at me, either. I would not have commanded that much respect if I'd pulled out a gun.

I do think stag beetles can pinch. They won't really hurt you beyond a pinch, they don't have venom or anything.

Funny how things coincide, I had a rhinocerous beetle of some sort in my laundry room last night. Along with a smaller beetle I suspect was a female. I moved them to a grassy spot so I woudn't accidently step on them.

[JustADude]

Funny how things coincide, I had a rhinocerous beetle of some sort in my laundry room last night. Along with a smaller beetle I suspect was a female. I moved them to a grassy spot so I woudn't accidently step on them.

Depending on what type of Rhino beetle it was, and how much you weigh, it might have even been able to take it! Those things are scary-strong for their size.