Just had this try to climb into my ear!

[Dirk]

It's a Shield Bug.

 

[a.twiddler]

And i thought this was a thread about catchy music tunes

View: https://youtu.be/8DNQRtmIMxk

Aah! An earworm. That'll be following me about all day now.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The enormous tarantula was probably eating the shield bug when it tried to put one of its fat hairy legs into your earhole

It dropped it when it ran away and hid.

 

[Poacher]

Certainly isn't a vine weevil - wrong shape, particularly the head. Much more likely to be a species of shield bug.
@Accy cyclist, do you recognise the villain from this identity parade?

 

[Poacher]

Hecky-kopecky! There are more species in the UK than I ever thought; also a complicated series of stages before full adulthood for many.
Fine painted illustrations of some of them here. Photographic guide here. Provisional atlas, which should rule out a few, here.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Certainly isn't a vine weevil - wrong shape, particularly the head. Much more likely to be a species of shield bug.
@Accy cyclist, do you recognise the villain from this identity parade?

If i was doing a police identity parade I'd say it's either 4 or 5 who attacked me. 🤔

 

[stephec]

Do you reckon it thought, 'looks like there's plenty of space in there to make myself comfy.'

 

[Mo1959]

Do you reckon it thought, 'looks like there's plenty of space in there to make myself comfy.'

Probably crawled through from the other side.

 

[craigwend]

Who you gonna call...

https://www.accypestcontrol.co.uk/

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In a few weeks

 

[rockyroller]

There I was ...

at least you're not this guy: "During this trip Speke, marooned on an island, suffered severely when he became temporarily deaf after a beetle crawled into his ear and he tried to remove it with a knife."

Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to ...