Adele vs. the Insect World: Reliving the Times She Bugged Out in Concert

The Grammy winner has had a few run-ins with creatures that fly and crawl

By Samantha Schnurr Mar 23, 2017 4:56 PMTags
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Let's just say Adele won't be sending any love to these little guys. 

With just a few more performances left in her Adele Live 2016 world tour, the Grammy winner has juggled far more surprises than any of us expected. From tearful marriage proposals to shooting t-shirts into audiences, the songstress is well-versed in the art of keeping everyone on their toes—including herself. 

However, while the show must always go on, there are some moments that the star had a harder time shaking off—and they included tiny things that flew and crawled. 

Here's a look back at all of Adele's run-ins with the insect world. 

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Remember that time she had to run away from a mosquito in Australia? 

"I'm sorry, I'm not Australian, I don't like bugs! It was sucking my blood, it was sucking my blood!" she screamed in a fan-recorded video. 

"They're everywhere," she continued. "They're all trying to kill me!" 

Spoiler alert: she lived. 

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How about when the star fell to the floor to fight a beetle in New Zealand? 

"For f--k's sake. I felt something f--king bite me—it's on my f--king ankle!" she told her audience as she rolled around on stage. "You f--king bastard. I'm just not cut out for this."

All of Adele's buggin' out even inspired one 8-year-old to gift her a veil to "keep the bugs off." We're counting down the days until we see the look on the runways. 

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Perhaps the most bizarre of all of Adele's encounters with creatures that can fly was the time a bat flew into an arena in Mexico.

"There's a bat!" she yelled onstage while flapping her arms, as seen in a video posted on Twitter. 

"There's a bat there and it landed by your head!" she continued while pointing in the audience. "It landed right by your head! Oh my God, it's a f--king bat. Welcome to Mexico. It's true, I'm happy to be here, but a f--king bat, Jesus Christ!"

Ok, so we know a bat is technically a mammal, but it was such a highlight, we just had to include it.