Murphys Law of bug keeping

[drcrossfire]

Let's all share our bug horror stories!!

So today one of my chameleons was diggins so I covered her cage with a "privacy blanket" and left her be. I came back to check on her... only to be confused by the mealworm crawling on the blanket--- and by "the"-- i mean... hundred or so

turns out the corner of the blanket dangled into my mealworm container... and they took that to mean "jailbreak"

sigh.

 

[Eltortu]

I drop my cricket container the day we were leaving for vacation. All one thounsand of them running and jumping all over my garage and my kids and I on a mad dash to catch them as my wife screamed in horror from outside. We caught most of them...

 

[ataraxia]

hahah, no blankets near the mealworm bin.

Me and the wife are driving to virginia. We decided to do a straight through drive no stopping at hotel. So it is approx 3-4 in the morning, not going to lie im half asleep at the wheel. All the sudden she scream on the top of her lungs. At this point my heart literally stops, i buonced my head head off the head liner, eyes are all over the road looking for whats is about to happen.....Not knowing what horror im about to get into i yell WTF???? In the middle of her yelling and screaming...ANTS! #$^%^#$%&#$&@$#T%! ants, thats right ants nearly made me piss myself..ANTS~!

LOL, i have all kinds of stories!

 

[pssh]

Fruit flies. I was half alseep one morning and didnt hit the cup on something to make them fall. The cup was in full boom and i had about 1000 flies all over me and the room in seconds.

I've also left an open cup of soldier grubs out too long and had giant flies all over.

 

[Reptar88]

Buying crickets from petco and never getting what I paid for and then have half of them die on the 7min drive home. I can't begin to tell you how many times I "spoke" with the manager. The best part was them trying to put the blame on me as if I can't care for a cricket but yet my cham and my chinchilla are just fine...pretty logical right?! Needless to say after them replacing many crickets and refunding my $ I still don't give them my business anymore.

 

[Calypso]

Nothing crazy yet, except a similar Petco story. The guy went to seal up the bag and breathed into to "air" it up. Do you think he realized he just filled the bag with CO2 instead of oxygen for them to breath?...

 

[Texas Ranger]

I opened my giant green banana colony at night ..... Big mistake lol. They dont do anything in the day time that's when I feed and water them . I got home late one night and forgot to feed early that day. I went to feed them opened the lid and BAM about a 100 adults flying and attacked my face with my flashlight head band . I smashed ever single one for pay back after hunting them down for 2 hours....

 

[camimom]

I opened my giant green banana colony at night ..... Big mistake lol. They dont do anything in the day time that's when I feed and water them . I got home late one night and forgot to feed early that day. I went to feed them opened the lid and BAM about a 100 adults flying and attacked my face with my flashlight head band . I smashed ever single one for pay back after hunting them down for 2 hours....

OMG> that is hilarious... seriously.

My bug horror story-

3000 crickets of various sizes got loose in my apt. i had them EVERYWHERE!

the ceiling, the shower, lamps, my bed, IN the fridge ( no idea how it got there).

and now, I made a new bin for mealworms, and well.. the mesh wasnt glued on all the way apparently..;.. so i find random mealies all over the place.. buried into my carpet.. they seem to love my sig others bathroom.

 

[absolutbill]

Yesterday I was going to feed Kimani some waxmoths, but about 4 escaped before I could grab them. They are currently flying around the house, undetected, and I'm going to play dumb if my husband ever finds them

 

[SSimsswiSS]

Mine would have to be, having a few (black crickets) break out of a thousand count box on way home. I receive and delivery 20 to 30 thousand crickets on a weekly basic. So I'm driving down the freeway and blam, I get attacked by a black cricket on the neck. It felt like getting shocked. This happen three times on the ride home that day. I had a coffee cup with lid, that I kept catching them one at a time, as they trying to snack on me.

 

[Swayne8998]

Oooh... plenty of these...

So it was the first week we had Yoshi. Still getting used to feeding. After taking an hour and a half to get some crickets in him, we decided to give him a few roaches. Well, the first one he caught... sorta. He got it on the wrong side and when it got to his mouth it crawled down his back and fell on the cage floor The next roach was a nymph. Well, good news is he got this one!... When he bit into it, cold roach blood squirted all over my face, and I stood still for probably 5 minutes with my eyes squinted shut. LOL, and currently I have tons of pinhead crickets that are getting out and I don't know why :/

 

[Trillian]

The 'Too Many' bug stories are much better than my 'Not Enough' bug story.

Started setting up a dubia colony about a month before my chameleon arrived, those things grow SO SLOWLY. I've now finished all the babies and we only have enormous adults left, who seem to be using very effective contraception.

Ordered a load of bugs from a couple of different suppliers:
The silkworms arrived and half were already mush, the rest have died off rapidly, and 2 weeks after they were delivered I have 3 sickly looking worms left from 50, none of them were fed off, just in case they were too ill.
The hornworms arrived already as big as my thumb, far too big to feed off, so they are in dirt in a box in the basement, and are happily sitting there and doing NOTHING AT ALL apart from waving their heads a bit when I open the box. Plus two escaped before their basement banishment and Hubbles found one on the placemats, hence their banishment.
Phoenix worms are waaaay too small for anyone to pay attention to.
Butterworms seem to creep them all out, so nobody will eat them, except my dragon, and he refuses to eat the pink ones.
My previous batch of silkworms all successfully cocooned, but hatched at different times so only once did I manage to get a pair, but the female died before the male let go, creepy beast.

Keeping track? I now have phoenix worms and butterworms left, and Ivy isn't interested in either. She loves crickets, but I really resent paying Petco prices and there are no other feeder stores nearby, and I've spent over $100 in feeders in the last month!!! The bloody shipping costs are a killer. Think she might be stuck with Petco bugs for a while.

 

[mclovin]

hahah, no blankets near the mealworm bin.

Me and the wife are driving to virginia. We decided to do a straight through drive no stopping at hotel. So it is approx 3-4 in the morning, not going to lie im half asleep at the wheel. All the sudden she scream on the top of her lungs. At this point my heart literally stops, i buonced my head head off the head liner, eyes are all over the road looking for whats is about to happen.....Not knowing what horror im about to get into i yell WTF???? In the middle of her yelling and screaming...ANTS! #$^%^#$%&#$&@$#T%! ants, thats right ants nearly made me piss myself..ANTS~!

LOL, i have all kinds of stories!

I literally laughed out loud at my desk reading this. Thanks because my Monday is dragging!

 

[creddjobs]

LOL Crazy stories guys!!! Hope I dont have any of these stories!!! Just had a few crickets get loose, other than that im lucky!

 

[hpc1979]

Buying my 1st case of 1000 crickets has been thus far, the scariest thing I've ever done in my life. I can imagine exactly whats going to happen when the day comes when 1000 freed crickets are running all over my house.

 

[lysinlight87]

There was an awful smell in my garden like sewage, & i just didn't know what it was. Then I found my cricket keeper, which had about 100 babies in it. Neelix wouldn't eat them anymore & for some reason, I though putting them in the garden would make them disappear. Well, after a month of heavy rain followed by 3 days of heat, I had ended up with cricket soup. It was truly the foulest clean-up job I've had to do & I'm having to put bleach down the drain to clear the smell! Urghhhhhhhh

 

[drcrossfire]

Accidently leaving the crate in the cricket bin up against the side... Aka cricket escape ladder

 

[ataraxia]

Another driving story,,
about 12 years ago i was out of state working and had acquired a few lizards. I was in a small town that had no stores to buy crickets. Tired of catching bugs, i drove nearly an hour to go buy some. On my way back i opened the bag up to let them have some air and put in between my legs so i wouldnt forget. Well im driving down the road and down my arm crawls a cricket. My immediate reaction is to cuss. So i cussed and proceeded to try and catch all these crickets... mind you on the interstate doing 75 or so. I got so into catching these crickets i ended into the center grass median area. Doing however fast i was going. i whipped it back onto the pavement. H O R R I B L E idea! My life literally flashed before my eyes as i drifted down the interstate literally. I was completely sideways not just one time but multiple times, tires were waling and the only words coming out my mouth were shit shit shit shit. Luckily no cars were around and how i didnt flip....Ill never know. i like to think at some point i could pro at drifting. Needless to say the lizards got fed and my adrenaline supply was empty.

 

[joemacchirella]

Another driving story,,
about 12 years ago i was out of state working and had acquired a few lizards. I was in a small town that had no stores to buy crickets. Tired of catching bugs, i drove nearly an hour to go buy some. On my way back i opened the bag up to let them have some air and put in between my legs so i wouldnt forget. Well im driving down the road and down my arm crawls a cricket. My immediate reaction is to cuss. So i cussed and proceeded to try and catch all these crickets... mind you on the interstate doing 75 or so. I got so into catching these crickets i ended into the center grass median area. Doing however fast i was going. i whipped it back onto the pavement. H O R R I B L E idea! My life literally flashed before my eyes as i drifted down the interstate literally. I was completely sideways not just one time but multiple times, tires were waling and the only words coming out my mouth were shit shit shit shit. Luckily no cars were around and how i didnt flip....Ill never know. i like to think at some point i could pro at drifting. Needless to say the lizards got fed and my adrenaline supply was empty.

hahah a pro at drifting thats funny stuff the only bug story i have is when i got 1000 crickets and was seperating them into their different bins some got out and for a week me and my brother were chasing loose crickets its funny he calls them the klandathu invaders like the bugs off of starship troopers lol

 

[drcrossfire]

Any new bug stories to share?