Mayflies Invade Bridge in Central Illinois, End Of Days Imminent
Grab your can opener and head for the nearest bomb shelter. The mayflies have come for us, and as far as I’m concerned, they may as well be locusts.
Someone Is Staring at Zac Efron
In today’s Tweet Beat, Zac Efron is paranoid, Whitney Port would like to know more about your energy, and just about everyone is interacting with bugs.
Can't a Man and His Bedbugs Just Live in Peace?
Dogs claim to be “man’s best friend,” but tell that to James Behan, a New Yorker who’s seemingly so attached to his bedbugs that he refused the services of an exterminator and let the infestation in his apartment persist to the point that his landlord filed a lawsuit.
Tell Us About Your Worst Encounters with Insects
In today’s Pissing Contest, we’re talking about our worst encounters with bugs. (Thanks to reader Chad for the suggestion!) “But that’s a spider in the lede photo,” you’re probably saying. “Spiders aren’t insects!” CAN IT, you annoying nerd! We’re talking about horrifying experiences with creepy-crawlies and…
'A Half-Dozen Large Spiders': Extremely Grim Yelp Reviews of Exterminators
Welcome to Grim Yelp Reviews, a regular feature where we share people’s worst experiences at the worst places. This week: I feel itchy now and soon, so will you.
'Two Girls, One Bug' Could Be The Grossest Game Show Stunt Ever
If you’ve ever wondered how close we are to The Hunger Games, Battle Royale or The Running Man (Arnold’s best role), this video of two women furiously trying to blow a monster bug into each other’s mouths should reassure you that we are on the precipice of giving up both life and limb for the chance to be on TV. (Also…
Meet the Man Who Loves the Feel of Bugs on His Dick
As of now, we don't know very much about Christopher, one of the many guests who'll appear on the new Showtime series Sex with Sunny Megatron. Here's what we do know: He's a formicophile. That means he loves to have bugs crawl over him, slithering on and around his nipples and genitals.
Thousands of Wasps Found Living in Woman's Home
A UK woman's home was infested with thousands of wasps, unbeknownst to her.
Americans Still Think They're Too Goddamn Fancy To Eat Bugs
Out there in the world, people are still trying to make bug-eating happen. But, so far, Americans — a populace who greedily devour Doritos Locos Tacos and myriad other confectionery nightmares — are not having it.
Beetles Are Destroying a Memorial to One Of the Beatles
A tree planted in memory of the late George Harrison is being replanted because beetles are slowly destroying it.
Many Bug Sprays Are Just Unregulated, Ineffective Garbage
Hooray, you guys! It's outdoor sunshine BBQ lake lounging tiki torch season! But you know what that means: It's also gross bugs eating you alive and feasting on your blood and giving you disfiguring welts and deadly diseases season. Bogus.
Like Your Ex-BF, Plenty of Insects Are 'Accidentally' Having Gay Sex
Or, as many of us call it, sex. Hey, did you know that eighty-five percent of male insects engage in homosexual acts? About the same rate as my high school exes. Don't remind me. Ugh.
Here's a Video of a Mosquito's Mouth-Parts Probing Your Tender Flesh
If you've always wondered exactly what it looks like, inside of your flesh, when a mosquito sticks its stabby, contaminated tube-mouth in there and sucks your blood, YOU'RE WELCOME. Here's a video of it. Video of the mosquito probing around for a blood vessel (inside "a flap of mouse skin") is above, and video of the…
It's Time To Talk About Bug Infestations [TRIGGER WARNING]
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her.
What's That Smell? Oh, It's Just the Stink of Rotting Cicada Corpses.
If you're a resident of the American Southeast and have been noticing an unsettling and sinister smell in the out of doors lately, do not panic — it's merely the stink of millions of decaying cicada bodies, tiny corpses that mere days ago were full of vim and vigor.
You Eat Bugs Every Single Day So Quit Freaking Out About It
If you truly are what you eat, congratulations because you're now a bug! Even with pesticides and other poisons engineered for food, large traces of bug parts — like wings, thoraxes and heads — are getting into your food. In fact, it's likely that you eat up 1 and 2 pounds of bugs each year. At least that's the…
Feeling Left Out of the Disgusting Cicada Plague? Check Out Cicada Cam!
I live in the Pacific Northwest, which means that the most interesting bug-themed event of my lifetime was side-eyeing a silverfish in my laundry room last week (slimer needed to cut the attitude tho srsly). We don't have anything big or venomous or swarmy at all ever, which makes the east coast's 17-summer cicada…
How to Roll Out the Welcome Wagon for Your New Cicada Neighbors
As you probably know by now, the East Coast is on its way to being hit by a massive cicada invasion. They've already started crawling out out the earth in Staten Island and won't stop crawling out of the earth until the sky is darkened by billions (literally billions) of them. If you live in this part of the world,…
Tales from the Crypt of Bed Bugs You Probably Have in Your Mattress
Remember the horrible bed bug invasion that was going to plunge New York into the Age of the Insect, when all Gothamites would have to feed their mattresses to the insatiable Bed Bug Queen living in the subway tunnels? It was going to be terrible, and then, magically, bed bugs vanished from the news...until now.
‘Swarmageddon’ Terrifies People Who Hate Bugs, Obviously
People who fear bugs will be especially put upon during “Swarmageddon,” and you might never have figured this out if the cicada scribes at the Washington Post, a periodical chronicling the latest developments in entomology, hadn’t taken the time to explain that people who already hate bugs hate the idea of a lot of…
