Take any bug, no matter how adorable or innocuous, and increase its size enough, and you’re going to end up with something horrifying. That’s true even for a moth, because at a certain point it goes from “harmless flying insect” to “soaring nightmare of certain doom.” But you don’t need a sci-fi movie to know that, you can just watch this video of a giant moth crawling over a man’s face.
This video (that came across this mini horror film at Laughing Squid) was shared by German insect breeder Adrian Kozakiewicz on his YouTube channel InsecthausTV. This atlas moth is actually quite stunning to look at on its own, not just because of its size but because of the pattern on its body wings, but that doesn’t matter here. When a bug the size of a human head is hanging out on your face you’ve crossed the threshold from “appreciation” to “abject terror.”
….I need a shower. Two showers. Long showers. Also I need to destroy all the moths, before they accidentally get exposed to radiation and kill us all. [Editor’s note: I want this bug on my face.] The good news is the atlas moth is the largest in the world, so they don’t get any bigger than this. The bad news is LOOK AT THIS THING. Or don’t, that works too.
Meanwhile, this guy is obsessed with letting creepy things crawl all over him.
Dear god. He has so many of these, but I can’t watch anymore. I’m not even over the moth yet!
But what about you? Would you be able to let one of these things crawl over your face, or would you burn down your entire house instead? Tell us in the comments below.
Images: InsecthausTV
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