It's an odd thing and considering the amount of hikes I've been on, living in Banff ffs and the amount of time spent outdoors in general...I've been fortunate.

We were camping one night and kept seeing this huge creature fly past the fire. Most of us thought it was a bat. At one point it settles down on the ground in front of the fire and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was - Holy shit. That's the Queen Mother of all Bees with a wingspan of around 8 inches

Panic starts, hal grabs the badminton racket and when it moves I tee up and give it my best Serena Williams smash. Nailed it and when we checked the corpse it was a moth.

But it was the demigod of all moths...I swear that fucker weighed 2 pounds and was bigger than most birds