--- title: Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Flies By description: See how Fox 5 reporter Brad Wills dealt with an encounter with a large bug while on air canonical: https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-30T14:34:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:02.522Z og:title: Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Flies By og:description: "Was that live? Are we live? Oh brother" og:url: https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Flies By twitter:description: "Was that live? Are we live? Oh brother" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Interrupts His Live Shot  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 30, 2015 2:34 PM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 30, 2015 2:34 PM UTC Fox 5 reporter Brad Wills had a close encounter with a large flying insect on Friday while reporting live from a San Diego beach. In the video, the bug flies close to Wills’ head as he discusses the weather, prompting screams and swats. It’s not long before he realizes what just happened: “Was that live? Are we live? Oh brother,” he says. Luckily, the weather reporter seems to have taken the laugh-it-off approach to his his on-air freak out, retweeting a GIF and screenshot of the viral moment: > [](http://twitter.com/mashable/status/637777797533048833) > [](http://twitter.com/JcruzR2/status/637692439382220800) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/"},"headline":"Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Interrupts His Live Shot","datePublished":"2015-08-30T14:34:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:02.522Z","description":"\"Was that live? Are we live? Oh brother\"","url":"https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4016246/reporter-brad-wills-bug/","name":"Watch This Reporter Totally Lose It When a Bug Interrupts His Live Shot"}}]}] ```