# Bugs. In my office and up my nose. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975 "2006-07-18T04:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/1 "2006-07-18T04:56:03Z")
My office is full of bugs and they are crawling on me, and up my nose ☹ I opted to work tonight instead of during the day because my office (house) is just too dreadfully hot during the day. So I take my cold shower, flip on the whole-house fan and sit down to work. Earlier today I’d decided to experiment with air flow some more and open the left-hand side of the window instead of the right side which has been open all season. I sit beneath the left-hand side so this makes some sense to me. Slowly, little bugs of all shapes and colors start buzzing past my computer screen. And on my wall. On my shoulder. Up my nose!!! What the fuck?! I think maybe the whole house fan is pulling the little things through the screen so I inspect the screen. Nope, the mesh is way too small for bugs. Besides, wouldn’t it have been sucking the bugs through all season in all the rest of the house? Upon further inspection i see a hole at the very bottom that looks like it’s been made with a pencil tip. Quite the obscure hole for bugs to come through, but I go to get some duct tape to patch it up. When I press the duct tape on the hole, I notice…a six-inch slit across the bottom of the screen!! So I was sitting here for an hour sucking gnats into my window. Now they’re all trapped in here with me. So much for a nice peaceful night of work ☹ I swear, this house was previously owned by a family of baboons. I keep finding little weird shit wrong with it that I haven’t noticed in the past 10 months, and neither did the realtor or the home inspector ☹ That’s all. I just needed to tell someone about the bugs up my nose. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/2 "2006-07-18T05:18:35Z")
Once a year, for the last couple years, for one night only, I’ve had a leafhopper invasion in my bedroom. This sounds extremely weird but is true. You know, [these](http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dleafhopper%26sm%3DYahoo%2521%2BSearch%26fr%3DFP-tab-img-t%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3D%26ei%3DUTF-8&w=432&h=327&imgurl=www.insectsofalberta.com%2Fimages%2F2004-07-15%2520050_leafhopper.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insectsofalberta.com%2Fleafhopper.htm&size=30.7kB&name=2004-07-15+050_leafhopper.jpg&p=leafhopper&type=jpeg&no=6&tt=3,350&ei=UTF-8) little guys. Sometimes they’re green. Last year I got the greenies, this year it was the brown. Anyway, one night last year I was about to get into bed when I noticed little green flecks on the bedspread. A lot of them. I went to brush them away, and pop! pop! They started hopping around. Leafhoppers. Everywhere! I couldn’t catch or shoo them away. For some reason they really, really liked the bedspread. I don’t even know how they got in. I have a window air conditioner, but any cracks around it are sealed well, and no other bugs got in. I ended up having to just go to sleep, while the hoppers came and sat on me. At least they’re harmless. The next morning, they were all gone. It was so weird. The same thing happened last week, except there were less this time. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/3 "2006-07-18T05:29:03Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] I ended up having to just go to sleep, while the hoppers came and sat on me. At least they’re harmless. The next morning, they were all gone. It was so weird. The same thing happened last week, except there were less this time. [/QUOTE] You _think_ they’re harmless. But they didn’t just _disappear into thin air_ you know. Of course, they won’t show up again until the eggs hatch… **AND THE WHOLE COLONY CRAWLS OUT OF YOUR EARS.** ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/4 "2006-07-18T12:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] You _think_ they’re harmless. But they didn’t just _disappear into thin air_ you know. Of course, they won’t show up again until the eggs hatch… **AND THE WHOLE COLONY CRAWLS OUT OF YOUR EARS.** [/QUOTE] Does this belong in the earwig thread? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/5 "2006-07-18T12:33:34Z")
Yesterday (7/17/06), I was sitting at work, in front of the computer, when I felt something _crawling across my face!_ :eek: :eek: Something large!!! :eek: :eek: GREAT BIG #$%^ **CENTIPEDE**! _HAIRY_ CENTIPEDE!!! Crawled across my _lips_! 24 hours later, I’m imagining bugs crawling on my skin! Every time the hair on my head rubs against my neck…EEEEWWWW! NASTY! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/6 "2006-07-18T12:37:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Yesterday (7/17/06), I was sitting at work, in front of the computer, when I felt something _crawling across my face!_ :eek: :eek: Something large!!! :eek: :eek: GREAT BIG #$%^ **CENTIPEDE**! _HAIRY_ CENTIPEDE!!! Crawled across my _lips_! 24 hours later, I’m imagining bugs crawling on my skin! Every time the hair on my head rubs against my neck…EEEEWWWW! NASTY! [/QUOTE] That’s what you get for suggesting there might be hoppers in my ears! Insect karma… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/7 "2006-07-18T13:02:58Z")
[QUOTE=Amazon Floozy Goddess] That’s what you get for suggesting there might be hoppers in my ears! Insect karma… [/QUOTE] I did not suggest that. I had a _very different_ bodily orifice in mind… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/8 "2006-07-18T13:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] GREAT BIG #$%^ **CENTIPEDE**! _HAIRY_ CENTIPEDE!!! Crawled across my _lips_! [/QUOTE] _GAAAAAAAH!!!_ Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew, _why_ did I open this thread? Why, Og, _WHY_??? I’m going to be peacefully drifting off to sleep tonight, only to suddenly think of this and sit bolt upright, shrieking. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/9 "2006-07-18T13:33:03Z")
It’s Gnat AFB lately _chez Doug_. They like coffee puddles, computer screens, people, soap…they’re pretty much happy anywhere. Occasionally we bring in a fruit fly or so. Whapped a centipede in my bed last month. But outside, burrowed in the lawns, are the [BIG ASS WASPS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_killer_wasp). Mostly harmless. Unless you are a cicada, and then, my friend, you shall DIEEEE!!1 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/10 "2006-07-18T14:15:25Z")
Harry Centipede? Isn’t he a character on some Nickelodeon cartoon? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/11 "2006-07-20T01:26:47Z")
DAMNATION! I’ve just found a bite on my leg, several days old! Filthy vermin bit me! :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/12 "2006-07-20T01:42:05Z")
Our house was full of these little fruit-fly gnatty things. They like to congregate where there was water. At a suggestion from a friend, we put out a small glass with about a half-inch of wine it. They spent the night drowning themselves in it. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/13 "2006-07-20T01:46:42Z")
I always thought that I held the prize for “being invaded by disrespectful creepycrawlies” with my story about [the spider building a web on my glasses](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332313&highlight=spider+glasses), but bugs up the nose might displace me… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/14 "2006-07-20T04:53:00Z")
I just ate one. It was on my soda can. Thought it was a popcorn seed coat. I was wrong. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugs-in-my-office-and-up-my-nose/364975/15 "2006-07-20T05:05:06Z")
I woke up with a silverfish body stuck in my teeth the other day.