Terrifying, gross or just creepy Infestations

[Johanthemonster666]

We've all experienced some instance where we shared our living space with some unexpected, sometimes scary guests. Some of us have even had our homes invaded and overrun with some disgusting or nasty swarm of insects, spiders, rodents, parasites, and other pests that refuse to go away.

For me I've grown up with almost every house being infested with German Cockroaches, the worst kind of insect you could ever get in your house in my opinion. There are just thousands of them in under a couple months, they get into everything (especially books, cardboard boxes, corners, furniture, food, microwave, oven and their dead bodies, legs, and feces are all over the place (causes lung problems in young children and the elderly). Not to mention they carry a few diseases XP (I'm still dealing with them).

So tell me Escapist, has your home ever been overrun by creepy crawlies?

 

[Omikron009]

The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the title of this thread was the argument I've been having with myself for a long time:

Which is worse? A Tyranid or Zerg infestation.

I've come to the conclusion that Tyranids are more terrifying because of their brutality and efficiency, but Zerg are more disgusting, mainly due to the whole creep thing.

Wow, that was totally unrelated. I apologize.

 

[Bailoroc]

Dear heavens yes. I had some bedbugs in my apartment and I had to buy about $100 dollars worth of bed protection, spend almost the same amount washing all my sheets and clothes in hot water, and had to cover all my food and re-wash my dishes after the four-hour apartment fumgating. If you know anything about bedbugs, you'll know that they're usually superbugs that are resistent to many poisons and are tough to kill. By some miracle they've all died but I could have been in the long haul if I wasn't lucky.

 

[Irridium]

Just fruit flies.
Thousands of fucking fruit flies.

I actually broke my flyswatter after using it so damn much.

Even at -10 degrees one or two still somehow find a way into the house.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

On a semi-humorous note, the only other infestation I can think of would be the anime otaku one in the small café' area on my college campus. Their "tribe" were sent away from the local Books.a.Million for soliciting and blocking customer traffic to the sci-fi-manga books area, so they (all 50+ of them) seized the café' and have dominated the place from morning until closing since then.

 

[Reaper195]

Once went into my bathroom and found it swarmed with ants. They invaded my house, so I put a shit-load of bait traps down. Genocided (Yep, I said it) them all.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

Dear heavens yes. I had some bedbugs in my apartment and I had to buy about $100 dollars worth of bed protection, spend almost the same amount washing all my sheets and clothes in hot water, and had to cover all my food and re-wash my dishes after the four-hour apartment fumgating. If you know anything about bedbugs, you'll know that they're usually superbugs that are resistent to many poisons and are tough to kill. By some miracle they've all died but I could have been in the long haul if I wasn't lucky.

Oh yes, the worst kind of parasite you can get in your house.
They simply do not die unless a professional comes in to freeze or burn them (with steam) out of every surface or crevice in your home.


I heard one family spent thousands of dollars (it sent them into bankrupsy) to have their house cleared of bedbugs by having a heating company put large air vents/tubes into their house and blast 380+ degree heat into the house for a couple hours until the entire house was like a giant oven and baked all the little bastards.