Got a good scare from Melanolestes picipes, the Black Corsair.

Chako · **on:** June 18, 2016, 05:53:08 AM

I fell asleep on the couch watching TV. I woke up with the need to go visit the rest room. While using the washroom, I feel something crawl across my neck. I wiggle and shake as both my hands are currently preoccupied, and it stops. I continue to finish my business...and then I think...what was that sensation of something running across my neck? I turn my back to the washroom mirror and just almost below my line of sight, I see the biggest, blackest bug walking slowly on the back of my T shirt. I start to jig and jag animatedly in my frantic attempts to get the insect off of me. Eventually I got it to land on the floor. I spin around and see it running quite fast across the floor and under a small pile of towels. I run to get my fly swatter and started a successful seek and destroy mission. Once swatted, I noted it was a fairly big Assassin bug. I know these pack quite a wallop if they bite you...but after a short but intensive net search, I found out it was the Black Corsair. I was thinking the kissing bug...but it wasn't thankfully. What a freaking huge specimen. I must have carried it on me from the living room to the washroom. As I am typing this, my mind is now on overdrive, thinking I am crawling all over with bugs...go figure.

I can laugh about it now...but if someone had seen me dancing frantically to get this thing off of my back, they would have thought me quite strange.

Syncop8r · **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2016, 06:12:42 AM

Poncho65 · **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2016, 06:14:44 AM

I don't like creepy crawlers either and I am quite sure I would have done the same thing

It is odd that as big as humans are compared to bugs even harmless ones the mind sends us into panic mode

It is just a involuntary reaction I know but quite humorous if not happening to yourself

NKlamerus · **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2016, 06:24:45 AM

NO JOKE I just stepped into the bathroom to grab a q-tip, and the wind of my foot moved a leaf across the floor.

Just about needed to change my pants. Reading about bugs on you and seeing and hearing that leaf is too much

I did have a cockraoch crawl across my neck one night while camping. That was enough to decide to buy a cot.

moonweasel · **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2016, 10:33:28 AM

I would much rather a big set of six legs to crawl over me, than a big set of eight.

Outback in Idaho · **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2016, 10:43:06 AM

Poncho65 · **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2016, 02:28:03 PM

Run Dmac

I am right behind you

Syncop8r · **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2016, 12:53:19 AM

Quote from: Poncho65 on June 18, 2016, 02:28:03 PM

Run Dmac I am right behind you

Remember, you don't need to outrun it, as long as you can outrun Dmac...

Toolslinger · **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:11:02 AM

Gives me the creepy crawlies just reading that... *shudder*

ironraven · **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:37:13 AM

Xelkos, it's a cutie! Tarantulas are just a whoopsie at the teddy bear works.

Toolslinger · **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:57:17 AM

Quote from: ironraven on June 19, 2016, 01:37:13 AM

Xelkos, it's a cutie! Tarantulas are just a whoopsie at the teddy bear works.

SAK Guy · **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2016, 02:10:11 AM

Quote from: Syncop8r on June 19, 2016, 12:53:19 AM

Quote from: Poncho65 on June 18, 2016, 02:28:03 PM
Run Dmac I am right behind you

Remember, you don't need to outrun it, as long as you can outrun Dmac...

SAK Guy · **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2016, 02:38:06 AM

This little one was on the porch a week or so ago....

I fished a Wolf Spider big enough to eat the above out of the bathtub last night....let him go out side to keep the coyotes at bay.

Poncho65 · **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2016, 04:47:28 AM

Quote from: SAK Guy on June 19, 2016, 02:10:11 AM

Quote from: Syncop8r on June 19, 2016, 12:53:19 AM
Quote from: Poncho65 on June 18, 2016, 02:28:03 PM
Run Dmac I am right behind you

Remember, you don't need to outrun it, as long as you can outrun Dmac...

Owe and run I shall

Poncho65 · **Reply #14 on:** June 19, 2016, 04:49:58 AM

Owe and I don't run so "If you see me running you had better run too because something big or scary is chasing me

"

Outback in Idaho · **Reply #15 on:** June 19, 2016, 07:05:25 AM

Quote from: ironraven on June 19, 2016, 01:37:13 AM

Xelkos, it's a cutie! Tarantulas are just a whoopsie at the teddy bear works.

Not a fan of spiders. Was reading an article about that tarantula a few hours prior and this one is actually more friendly and not venomous to humans. It prefers insects, and Chako's neck.

Poncho65 · **Reply #16 on:** June 19, 2016, 07:10:10 AM

Quote from: Xelkos on June 19, 2016, 07:05:25 AM

Quote from: ironraven on June 19, 2016, 01:37:13 AM
Xelkos, it's a cutie! Tarantulas are just a whoopsie at the teddy bear works.

Not a fan of spiders. Was reading an article about that tarantula a few hours prior and this one is actually more friendly and not venomous to humans. It prefers insects, and Chako's neck.

Glad I am not Chako

Although

if I was I would have an awesome collections of MTs

That might be worth the spider thing

Chako · **Reply #17 on:** June 19, 2016, 12:08:12 PM

Might need them to defend against Black Corsairs and other wiggly jiggly bits!

Steinar · **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2016, 03:02:02 PM

I never kill spiders in the house. Either I leave them be, or I carry them outside. It's easy maintaining the superstition that killing spiders is bad luck, when you live in a place with no dangerous species.

As for the story starting this thread, it's incredible how efficient insects are at removing human dignity.