What's the nastiest bug/reptile/mammal/creature you've ever found in your home?

I think the worst thing I've ever seen in my home was when I had an apartment in DC...every now & then we would find a roach the size of a matchbook crawling in the kitchen sink (I think it was coming from the drain). Then, when I was in college in Boston, I found a bat flying around my room. Scared the ever loving CRAP out of me. To this day I cannot be in the woods at night without thinking a bat is gonna swoop down and get caught in my hair. :p


p.s. - I'm sure the Australians have us Americans beat, cause they have some big assed bugs down under. :lol:

Just roaches... they are very prevalent in Florida. "Palmetto Bugs" are the WORST!!! Those suckers are HUUUUUUUUUUGE :eek: and fly sideways. GAHHH!! :yucky: Doesn't matter how clean you keep your house, they'll get in if they want to, especially if you have indoor plants. Also, they get bad in the winter-time. They don't like the cold, so in they come.

We had a lovely colony of carpenter ants (big huge suckers) attempt to move in during the hurricanes last year. :tsk:

OMG... I was looking on the net for a picture of a Palmetto Bug and came across this site "Whats that bug", they have a page dedicated to the Worst Bug Stories EVER. :barf: Check it out: http://whatsthatbug.com/worst.html :laugh: :scared:

Worst I ever get in my house is sugar ants. Seems the LOVE cat food! :lol:

A couple Jahovah Witness's tricked me into opening the door once

Cal! :lol:

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good one Cal :lol:

We had a couple of those ugly clear colored Scorpians running around our kitchen when I lived in Tx. and millipieds, too. gross.
There's no roaches, fleas or much of anything where I am now, except spiders get in sometimes.

ugh...what are those big fat brownish red millipedes called? Anyway, I found one of those crawling up the wall at our old house & was mortified :( It was as thick as my pinky finger :cry:

yeah, PG, I think that's what we had. I was little and had a sleep over, woke up in my sleeping bag with one crawling up my arm.

yeah, PG, I think that's what we had. I was little and had a sleep over, woke up in my sleeping bag with one crawling up my arm.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! :cry:

OMG! :eek: F that!

This thread give me the creeps! :lol:

I have to say, earwigs and spiders. Where i lived before, we had a huge tree out front. My bedroom was upstairs facing that tree. I would find huge black ants in my room all the time. In my bedside table drawer I kept some cough drops. . One night I opened it to get a cough drop and inside were a ton of huge black ants. I ended up smashing as many as I could and because it was late, I figured I would clean up the mess in the morning. When I awoke I open the to find all the dead ants gone! The other ants came back, while I was asleep, and carried off the dead. :eek:

The other day while dusting I found a spider. About as big as my thumb nail. Scared the piss out of me. I showed it who was boss! :p

Luckily I have not come across anything too creepy. :)

When we lived in Louisiana, my dog was outside going CRAZY, and we couldnt figure out why. So, I went out with my flashlight, and was looking behind the tool shed where he was barking at, and was SHOCKED to find an approximately 12 foot long snake of some kind. Scared the bejeezus out of me.

When I was 5 one of my brothers found a possum living in our basement. He had a bedroom down there and found it by opening a drawer and it was staring at him with those beaty eyes and hissing at him. That wasn't the worse part SHE had BABIES!!!!!!!!! My mom had a broken ankle and my Dad came back to stay while she healed. He went down to get rid of it and it chased him back up stairs!:laugh: He called the county health department. It took them 2 days to come out and disopse of the "family."

When I was 15 a building was being torn down next to my house that used to be a grocery store. It was a big eye sore and we were glad they were doing away with it but not the varmants that came from it! They were rats! We found out about the rats because of my cat! SHe only weighed 5 lbs herself! One she came up stairs from our basement and started meowing at us wanting us to follow her back down. That usually met that she she had killed a mouse. I walked back down with her while she is still meowing. I got to the bottom of the steps and turned the corner and looked down and saw not only one but TWO dead and large rats! I nearly pissed my pants!:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: Over the next several weeks she did this on a daily basis!

When I was 25 my ex-mother-in-law came to live with us.:dammit: I guess that is why she is my ex!

I had a bat pay a visit one night:vampire: Killed it with a badminton racket:frypan: Took it to work the next day and put it in a co-workers car:D :mwaha:

I think the pests Cal mentioned are amongst the worst :lol: But I'd have to say roaches back when I lived in the ghetto... mice were kinda annoying too scratching around in the ceilings :lol:

Now the only insects, pests or whatever in my house are spiders... but I haven't seen one actually in the house in at least a couple years... they hang out in the cellar and keep to themselves :lol::p

Aside from the usual bugs in the sumertime and the occasional mouse, I've never had to deal with any major animal intruders in my house. But there WAS a very interesting incident in Africa...

One morning I was going out to take a shower in the little bathhouse we had at the Center, and as I'm getting ready, I look down under the sink and see what looked like a fat snake. I look again and realize this "snake" had legs. There, under the sink was a chameleon. My first instinct was to chase it out of the bathhouse, but I got an idea. I picked the chameleon up and carried it around until I ran into the girl in the group who was terrified of lizards. I had a little fun teasing her with it, then let it go.:laugh:

I forgot to mention the animals my cats used to bring in. One night I was awaken by my cat pawing me in the face.I thought she wanted food. I got up and noticed some small square thing beside my pillow. I turn on the light and I realize that I am looking at a part of a bat..minus the wings and legs. Just a furry square. :lol:

I can't count how many times my cat brought in mice, chipmunks, moles, birds, rabbit and even a baby bunny which I saved. :) In fact, If it was still alive I saved the animal.

The best was when my mom and step dad were sitting outside one summer evening and the cat brought a snake to us. I never seen a grown man scream and run like my step dad did. :lol: I am not afraid of snakes at all, so I go and get it and show it to him. :devil:

HUGE flying roaches coming from outside at the house in Argentina. OMG!!! Those are HUGE!!!! I am talking about 3+ inch long roaches! :eek: :yucky: One time I was sitting at a table and one crawled up my leg. ACK! :uhoh:

No mice or roaches here, but I'll see little spiders every now and then. Little spiders don't bother me. Besides...my feline usually takes care of them anyway. :p

This really isn't so unusual, I know every now and then, someone has to be unlucky enough to have a bird join them in their humble abode, they get in through heating flus, open garages, etc. ANYWAY, the house I grew up in and lived in for 32 yrs of my life, had this happen a few times that I can remember. This if the FUNNY part. On one such occasion, my ex-husband and I were there when my parents were attempting to get a rather large, crow-looking bird out of the house. My mom had broom, my dad was going from curtain to curtain looking for the "SOB." All of a sudden the bird decided to take a little flight. It is important to tell you that my ex-husband is 6'1 and at the time weighed about 325 lbs. As the bird took flight, this TALL, PORTLEY, husband of mine started running for cover! :laugh: :rollin: My father, mother, and I began laughing so hard at this, the bird simply flew out the door on his own! After that, my husband swore that having a bird inside your home was a sign of death, and that in the near future, someone close to us would die. The creepiest thing about this incident is that he turned out to be correct!!! :yikes: Shortly after that, his grandmother passed away. She was old, and after many strokes, it was her time to pass on. :rose: Still, his belief in that superstition, and then his grandmother passing, made a very strange conincidence.


I also have a tale of a squirrel to tell. I used to lie in bed at night, and heae the chips of birds and the occasional squirrel in our attic. Then, a large time framed passed where the squirrel never departed. I could hear the little bastard above me, running the lengh of my house. Finally, when we knew he didn't care to take up a new residence, we called Animal Control to set a trap in the attic to catch the critter. Turns out, there was a whole family living up there. I can't tell you how many nights, when they were being active, that I feared one of them coming through the ceiling and landing on me as I tried to drift into a peaceful slumber. :6ohboy:

HUGE flying roaches coming from outside at the house in Argentina. OMG!!! Those are HUGE!!!! I am talking about 3+ inch long roaches! :eek: :yucky: One time I was sitting at a table and one crawled up my leg. ACK! :uhoh:

:lol: WHEW... I'm glad I'm not the only one! :lol: Just so yall know... my house is NOT full of roaches! :lol: Massey is a good friend of ours & visits on a very regular basis to keep my house pest-free! :thumb: :D

Oh and if anyone is interested in a boat-load of nasty ass peacocks, I have a TON in my neighborhood you can have. :yucky: There's at least 25 of them in my front yard right this minute. Talk about pests :irked: !!

:lol: WHEW... I'm glad I'm not the only one! :lol: Just so yall know... my house is NOT full of roaches! :lol: Massey is a good friend of ours & visits on a very regular basis to keep my house pest-free! :thumb: :D
Oh and if anyone is interested in a boat-load of nasty ass peacocks, I have a TON in my neighborhood you can have. :yucky: There's at least 25 of them in my front yard right this minute. Talk about pests :irked: !!
Send one my way!:lol: I've always wanted to try peafowl!:p

Back in Virginia, at the Environmental Health Command on Norfolk Naval Base, they have a 200 gallon aquarium filled with Madagascar hissing cockroaches. The things are HUGE, like 4 inches long, and make the most evil noise when you walk by them. I couldnt imagine them being in my house.

Could be worse though, I have friends who live in Alaska, and they have had KING CRABS on thier property. UGH! I dont know WHO would want a CRAB anywhere near thier house!

When I was 5 one of my brothers found a possum living in our basement. He had a bedroom down there and found it by opening a drawer and it was staring at him with those beaty eyes and hissing at him. That wasn't the worse part SHE had BABIES!!!!!!!!!

Oh man! I got a "possum" story for you. About a year ago when I was working the night shift downtown, one of our custodians came to me an said (In bad english....she was Oriental) "Big Rat In dumpster" I was thinking "Big rat?" So I told her to go back to work and I'll look into it...Turns out her "Big Rat" was a possum standing on the far end of the dumpster. I hadn't had many previous dealings with Possums so I did what came to mind first ..... Scare the crap out of the critter and maybe it will run away. So I grabbed a Broom handle and started pounding on the dumpster loud enough to be heard for at least a block. Possum just sat there looking at me with that "You big dummy" look on his face. This time it was WAR! I remembered something about possums....they HATE water! So I grabbed the water hose and sprayed it with water. Never thought possums could run that fast...never did see it again.

Aside from "playing possum", the only critters I had to deal with regularly were Black Widow Spiders, Scorpions, and Rattlesnakes.

I don't think we get cock roaches around here, but 3 years ago we had sort of earwhig infestation around here, had to set off a couple balms to kill them all.

I did have a bat at wrok a couple years ago

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