Same xD.
My main usually tries to fit in so he is often accompanied by pets native to the region he's travelling. Before he got the torchbug, he was followed by a swamp jelly (and tried to harvest it).
I haven't, but that's because I don't try to catch the red torchbugs anymore at all, weird thorax less things that they are. I've definitely checked other players torchbugs for harvest but I don't have the standard torchbug pet myself.
Only in Murkmire?! I've lost count of the times I tried to catch mine in Vvardenfell. I don't even think there's any crimson torchbug there. I guess my harvester mind never shuts down...
Oh, I remember trying to do a petsorc with a clannfear. He scared me every now and than. I tried to run away and you know what? The beast was chasing me!
The first few months that I went to CC I would harvest every skeevatron, dovah fly, etc., for all of their gears. I spent a long time trying to harvest dovah flies before I realized they were pets.