Insect horror stories from #TravelCorkboard
Guardian Travel readers' creepy-crawly nightmares - thanks to everyone who contributed
RT @Andyho73: @GuardianTravel #TravelCorkBoard Getting to the bottom of my Christmas chicken curry in Malaysia to find a cockroach drowned in the sauce
@GuardianTravel as kid in India, cockroaches nesting in MixMaster crawling out when motor heated up - crunchy ice-cream
RT @CurlyLinz: @GuardianTravel Tenerife, cockroach the size of a mouse, blast of hairspray = one very angry insect . #travelcorkboard
@GuardianTravel trekking in Kerala India and saw blood all over my trousers.. Took them off & leeches were all over me #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel unzipping my wash bag on Koh Tao, Thailand and masses of cock roaches running out #TravelCorkboard I threw that bag out :)
@GuardianTravel Being laughed at in Laos for eating the entire cricket not realising the locals pick off wings, head, legs #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Sleeping in Mexican bus station. Thousands of Earwigs falling from the roof onto our heads. @Ellewurm #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Shower-dodging chum left knickers on floor of our Thai beach hut & woke to find a gussetful of live ants. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel left jeans on floor overnight in a Rhodes villa. Put jeans on next day, put hand in pocket & cockroach ran up my arm!
@GuardianTravel Bitten by a Spider in the Belizean jungle, intense pain. Guide said try sleep, we've adrenaline if you stop breathing.Thanks
@GuardianTravel kochi - was hysterical & woke up whole hostel as spider size of hand in room. Owner broke in & killed it with a broom :(
@GuardianTravel Having a shower in Jendema in Sierra Leone whilst watching a hairy spider eat a huge and unlucky butterfly #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Woken in India by dozens of 'raindrops' falling on my face. Realised they were actually cockroaches. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Camping in Cornwall, a solar shower, finding a massive slug entwined in the shower puff I'd used. Foamy. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Fiat Seicento breaks down in Kazakh desert. Scorpion sneaks up trousers and stings on arse. Faced own death #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel pulled back the sheets on my bed in a hostel in Flores, Guatemala to discover a sea of pulsating bug eggs.
