Murphys Law of bug keeping

[blackhawk]

Not a bug story but a feeder story... raised snakes years ago and found a buyer a few hours away near my parents house. Decided to deliver rather than ship an order of pythons so I could spend the weekend with my parents. Thinking they would have to eat, dad took it upon himself to go to a pet store and buy some mice before I got there. As he's driving home with the box of hoppers, he felt something crawl up his leg - the dozen mice he bought had chewed through the box and were all over the car. He was so freaked out. That was 20 years ago and he still talks about it like it was yesterday.

 

[laurie]

Mine is just a bug story. I have asthma and hate carpet. When we bought this house I wanted all the carpet taken out and wood floors put in. One crew came in a took out the carpet. Next day the other crew arrived to put wood floors into 7 rooms on the main floor. They were all 6 in the living room deciding what order to do the rooms and who was starting where. Suddenly 2 adult men start screaming, I ran in to see who got hurt and how bad. There was an adult dubia walking across the floor. I walked over, picked it up, scolded the roach like it was a pet, look up and said I would put Claude away. Every one of those guys must have told half the population about the huge bugs I keep for pets. If my husband ever knew that was a dubia and not a cricket, like I always say, I would be to dead to talk about it now.

 

[Randi]

Mine are not as horrific as some, but scary enough for me!

I had an order of 1000 pinheads escape in my house... that was a fiasco! Then, my husband found an adult dubia in our bed at 2am. Despite this, he has allowed me to keep dubias and get another chameleon!

 

[patrickfraser]

I had a batch of Blue Bottle Fly spikes tip over on the carpet and didn't notice it. When I finally saw it was too late. I collected all I could, but a lot of them burrowed into the carpet. I didn't really know how many got away until they hatched. OMG! It was A LOT of flies. They were impossible to catch, but they ARE attracted to light. So all the lights went off in the room (the door was closed of course) and I turned on the lights in the cham cages with the doors open and a lot of them flew in. A lot of them were outside too, but they just needed to be herded towards the door and they flew in. The chams had an all you can eat buffet that night.

 

[bartholomew101]

I had just paid for 100 crickets really getting about 250-300 (my friend didn't want to count out 100 crickets) and i get home and place them in my cricket container. about an hour or so later my sister and her friends came to see little Bart. my sister walks in and smacks the cricket container onto the floor. Instead of helping collect them; one girl screamed and ran, one got the vacuum and my sister got Kitchen raid and before i could stop her she sprayed them with a nice thick coat of spray.. killing them ALL. i vacuumed up over 213 crickets ( that is when i quit counting) and I managed to keep around 40 right before the raid came out.