A Great and Melodramatic Conflict.

[imbecamiel]

I almost got driven from my room by a moth last night. I don't mean in the "Ew, there's an insect in my general vicinity! *shrieks and flees*" sense. Nope, I'm not one to freak out over bugs. I find them fascinating, often pretty, I've had pet crickets, pet snakes-who-eat-crickets (erm... not at the same time), and I'm pretty much the go-to person

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[cairistiona7]

*tries to be sympathetic and there-there*
*totally fails*

LOL!!! I'm sorry... but having been there, done that (including the whole "aasdfhdjslkafhdajskKill-It-With-Fire"... I swear, getting work up in the night by any creature, be it insect or animal, will turn even the most fanatic PETA member into a murderous avenger), I have to giggle pretty insanely at this.

But know that under the giggles and snorts, there *is* genuine sympathy. :)

[imbecamiel]

Hehe... In retrospect, it can be absolutely hilarious. At the time? Definitely surreal, and all kinds of Do Not Want. XD Incidents that're barely a blip if they happen during the day are quite different at night.

[tj_teejay]

Wow. I am in awe for you being so rationally calm about a ginormous moth fluttering around in your room. I would have thrown a adfakdsldkdfalj-Kill-It-With-A-Giant-Blowtorch-IMMEDIATELY fit and hunted it down before I'd even have entertained the notion of going to sleep. And I'd have been seriously grossed out and intimidated by the thing, but, well, when you live on your own and you have a problem like this, short of waking up some neighbor you don't even know all that well, it's just you and the giant insect-until death do us part. Please don't ask me to tell you the story of the spider from hell in my apartment.

So, yeah, flying insects or big ones that crawl fast and I aren't friends. At all. Yes, I studied biology at uni for six years, but zoology was always my least favorite topic. I decided to go into plant molecular biology for a reason. The worst you do there is scrunch up shock-frozen plant leaves in a mortar...

And I hope you catch the culprit or manage to get it out of your room another way. Crossing my fingers.

[imbecamiel]

Heh heh, I really just can't afford to get too freaked out about creepy crawlies, honestly. My mom's terrified of them, Nef's got quite the arachnophobia (which translates to a lesser degree to most other bugs), and of course my dad's away at work all day... My brother's not bothered by such things, but well. He has a much stronger tendency to point and laugh when they're freaking out than I do. XD

But yeah. Even though I can deal with it all rationally enough during the day... it's a bit harder when the thing winds up crawling in bed with me. Now that just hits all kinds of Do Not Want buttons. But, well, again: oldest sister. Couldn't very well abandon her to the thing. *g*

Fortunately - or unfortunately - the Horrific Moth of Terror has yet to make another appearance. So I can't confirm death... but I have hopes that it managed to bash what little brains it had on a nice, hard surface. All the same, I've been checking my bed carefully each night before I go to sleep. :P

[sholio]

*giggles helplessly* I know EXACTLY what you mean about perfectly innocuous insects turning into KILLER DEATH MACHINES when the lights go out. I am pretty much okay with insects, and I generally try to catch spiders and bees and such to release them alive outside, but I have had a couple unpleasant instances of spiders tap-dancing on my nose in the middle of the night, resulting in much flailing and shrieks of "Get it off!"

[imbecamiel]

LOL, it is funny, isn't it? A situation that can be dealt with perfectly rationally during the day... at night, turns into a horrifying, surreal experience. Overall, I don't have a problem with creepy crawlies, find them quite fascinating even. But when they wind up crawling in bed with me? Ooooh, that crosses a line, there. XD

[scarvenartist]

Seriously, Ro, where ARE you when you're really needed? ^^

Yeah, generally I find moths pretty cool, but one large enough to make thumpy noises, which then lands in the bed...um, no. NO.

Also, not being able to find it later. *shudder* Let us hope that it beat its brains to mush against all the random hard surfaces it was throwing itself against, and then crawled off somewhere to die slowly....

[imbecamiel]

This time? He was staring at some kind of little gnat, mostly. I think he figured the Monster Assassin was a little out of his league - at least as long as it was determined to stay veeeery high up. XD

Heheh, yeeeah. Moths? Awesome. Horrifying mutant wannabe attack-moths? Not so much. I'm very much hoping that it did somehow manage to brain damage itself too badly to go on. Not having found it yet... does not make me particularly happy. I'm still a bit twitchy whenever I hear unaccounted-for rustling noises in our room. If it makes another appearance, I will be very tempted to just start swinging with one of our swords, never mind the damage to the ceiling and furniture.

[kriadydragon]

I think that could be Syfy's next monster flick - Moths, the bane of people trying to sleep everywhere ;)

Bugs get so incredibly obnoxious where lights - or lack of them - are concerned. I've been through the exact same thing you have only with stupid flies who seem enamored with my face when I'm trying to sleep. Sometimes I manage to get the little creeps if I'm able to team up with one of the cats, otherwise I have to turn on the hall light in the hopes idiot bug will leave my room. They never do :P

[imbecamiel]

LOL. Wasn't there some old science-fiction/horror-ish movie about a gigantic moth? Mothra, or something, I think. I haven't seen it, but remember hearing about it... now I'm thinking I probably shouldn't watch it. *g*

Aside from the knee-jerk "aaugh, get OFF me!" reaction when something actually gets into my bed... yeah, the thing that really tends to get to me about bugs is now annoyingly stupid they are in their persistence. Flies that aren't even the biting kind, yet for no apparent reason insist on landing on your face... Or, sometimes worse, that ONE mosquito, whining around the room when you're trying to sleep. With them, it sometimes gets to the point where I'm just begging them to settle down and bite me already, just to get it over with. XD