AIBU?
I'm creeped out and don't think I'll be able to sleep
Millana · 24/01/2023 23:32
This happened about 1hr ago and I'm still creeped out.
I put on my clean pjs and got into bed. I'm by myself tonight so all the lights were off etc. My hip started itching/feeling a bit scratchy so I adjusted my trousers to move the label that seemed to be bothering me. A few minutes later, it was bothering me again so I thought maybe a feather was sticking into my trousers so had a feel about.
Not a label. Not a feather. There was something MOVING in my trousers. I jumped out of bed as fast as I could and pulled my trousers down. I managed to get it out of my trousers. I think it was a GIANT moth. It flew (possibly jumped?) off before I could properly look but it was MASSIVE. Seriously, it look up most of my cupped hand.
I think it was a moth. I'm sort of guessing it was because it felt fluttery or shaky and furry in my hand.
This giant fluttery furry thing that was IN my pjs is now somewhere in my house.
I'm all itchy and unsettled. Insects don't normally bother me but now I'm all itchy and had a thought about more moths in my bed/pjs climbing up my nose while I sleep.
On top of that... I'm freaked out but also sad now that the moth (if that's what it was) is going to die because there is no way that escapade didn't damage it's wings.
I mean, what is a giant moth doing in my pjs in January?!
Shudder. Check your pjs over folks.
Am I being unreasonable?
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Carouselfish · 26/01/2023 00:49
Re. mice jumping: once set my pet mouse to sail in a soap dish. He put his paws on the side of the sink and his back feet floated away and he fell in! He leapt out of the water high in the air to land soggy and trembling on my leg. (Sorry Joey - don't ask about the time I made him a fairground ride from a yoghurt pot).
Re. clothing creatures: Tried on a jacket that had been hanging for a while. Turned around to check it out the back view in the mirror. Saw two, BIG, long, hairy legs poking out from under the collar. Yep. Huge housespider. Screamed like I was being murdered and hurled the jacket off. Don't know where it went. Jacket went, rather unfairly, in bin.
ashitghost · 26/01/2023 01:00
My friend had a huge cat drop from ceiling onto her face in a Russian hospital. It clung on for ages.
Vetoncall · 26/01/2023 01:20
A few years ago on a hot summer's day at work, I was mad busy and between clients I unthinkingly grabbed and took a massive gulp from a can of Diet Coke that I'd left open on a shelf near an open window. I immediately felt and heard buzzing in my mouth and retched/spat out a huge wasp that had crawled into the can. The fucker managed to sting me on my lower lip in the second it took me to realise what was going on. The feeling and noise of it in my mouth were worse than the sting though, ugh 🤢
Toadybum · 26/01/2023 01:28
ashitghost · 26/01/2023 01:00
My friend had a huge cat drop from ceiling onto her face in a Russian hospital. It clung on for ages.
😅😅😅😅😅
SiobhanSharpe · 26/01/2023 01:39
Clothes moths are small and insignificant brown things. They lay their eggs in your lovely cashmere jumpers and it's the bloody larvae that chew holes in the fabric.
The moth that attacked the OP sounds like a hawk moth of some kind. They are really lovely, actually
QuestionableMouse · 26/01/2023 01:49
Daffodilsandtuplips · 25/01/2023 00:04
My daughter got one caught in her hair, she about 10, totally freaked her out, and me, I thought she was being murdered. I had to write her a note for school to excuse her from the school trip to Butterfly World the following year.
Girlmama · 24/01/2023 23:56
Having an absolute horrific and, I understand, wholly irrational fear of butterflies, the idea of one being in my clothes would lead me to expire on the spot!
user143677433 · 24/01/2023 23:38
At the risk of staying the obvious, leave a light on (with a shade) in the corridor and leave your bedroom door open. Then you know it’s not in the bedroom.
Wings might be fine. Moths are surprisingly sturdy.
If it makes you feel any better, there is no real difference between moths and butterflies. Would you be as freaked out if there had been a butterfly in your T-shirt on a summers day?
Butterfly World at Preston Park is the reason I have a butterfly phobia. One of the massive ones landed on my face as a child and i was petrified of hurting it so couldn't even brush it off.
allabitmadtbf · 26/01/2023 08:26
ashitghost · 26/01/2023 01:00
My friend had a huge cat drop from ceiling onto her face in a Russian hospital. It clung on for ages.
Now that made me laugh.
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 26/01/2023 10:35
ashitghost · 26/01/2023 01:00
My friend had a huge cat drop from ceiling onto her face in a Russian hospital. It clung on for ages.
So many questions.
Millana · 26/01/2023 15:01
This is the OP's daughter. I am sorry to tell you that we found the creature hiding under a bookcase and put it in a tub (with air holes) to release in the morning. It was some of moth with a huge body and tiny wings. We went to bed but my brother (who knows about these things) thinks it must have been bitten by a radioactive spider because overnight it grew. When we went downstairs in the morning it was the size of a small dog with the tub stuck on one of it's legs. It crawled quickly towards us making odd chattering noises and dragging it's tubbed leg behind it. My mum pushed me up the stairs in front of her. Unfortunately she wasn't fast enough despite all her 10k training and the moth caught her with it's front legs. It flew off with her out of the open window (my brother knows about radiative spiders but not home security). The worst part was that she'd decided not to put on new pjs and we've no idea where she left the TV remote.
Slowingdownagain · 26/01/2023 15:03
Urgh, I HATE moths so much. I would be freaked out too.
I hope you find the remote.Millana · 26/01/2023 15:13
I've just found the remote in the garden. I think the moth creature tried to eat it.
Holliegee · 26/01/2023 18:39
And this is why I can’t dleep
at night - radioactive moths and cats on the ceiling in Russia (wtaf??)
Johnduttonsbuttocks · 26/01/2023 19:15
larkstar · 25/01/2023 23:59
@vaccinistatotebagchicbarista - good point!
I once had a lovely light summery suit by Yves St. Laurent (from a time when I had money to waste in such things) - one year, hadn’t worn it in a while and it wasn’t In it’s suit bag for some reason - I found it covered in tiny holes - so sad! Moths! Nothing else has been eaten.
Expensive taste.
SicParvisMagna · 26/01/2023 19:16
Not going to lie, I turned my pjs in and out about 80 times last night shaking them violently the whole time. My husband just looked on puzzled. Funniest thing was he didn't even ask what I was doing lol.
Gindrinker43 · 26/01/2023 19:24
I have read this post with increasing horror due to a huge phobia of moths (thanks Mum). I am never going to sleep again due to mutant moths and Russian attack cats, and I’m off to buy a water bottle to replace the glass by my bed.
Johnduttonsbuttocks · 26/01/2023 19:25
ashitghost · 26/01/2023 01:00
My friend had a huge cat drop from ceiling onto her face in a Russian hospital. It clung on for ages.
Cat or bat??
OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 26/01/2023 19:34
SoShallINever · 24/01/2023 23:42
Oh wow, how amazing, I'd be up all night trying to find and identify it. Might be an elephant hawk moth? Or even a bat.
Doubtful at this time of year. They are absolute units though. We had two in the moth trap this summer.
Dont know if British moths hibernate.
Dominoeffecter · 26/01/2023 19:37
user143677433 · 24/01/2023 23:38
At the risk of staying the obvious, leave a light on (with a shade) in the corridor and leave your bedroom door open. Then you know it’s not in the bedroom.
Wings might be fine. Moths are surprisingly sturdy.
If it makes you feel any better, there is no real difference between moths and butterflies. Would you be as freaked out if there had been a butterfly in your T-shirt on a summers day?
Er, YES!
Dominoeffecter · 26/01/2023 19:48
Butterflies are even worse than moths as they pretend to be pretty but still have those hideous bodies
Dominoeffecter · 26/01/2023 19:48
I once had a lump in one of my knee high boots, unzipped it and found a massive beetle 🤮
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