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[FStop7]

Bugs in general...

Some nasty looking wasps started to build a nest over my front door. I didn't really have any other choice but to kill them and knock down the nest.

Ants? Yes I kill them because they generally go after food.

Spiders? Generally no - they help keep pests away. If I see one indoors I try to catch it and put it outside. Or I might just leave them alone. I had to kill a black widow because I didn't have a good way to catch her and I didn't want to leave her alone since the cat might have been bitten as she had a web set up at floor level.

That's pretty much it for bugs I see around here. I found a praying mantis on my balcony the other day. Again, I left it alone because they're a natural pesticide.

Mosquitoes - Don't have them here but when I lived in FL they were kill on sight. Fuck mosquitoes. They spread disease, they suck your blood, they make your skin itch.

 

[Hellsing321]

I deal with them how I deal with anyone who violates my personal space. With violence.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Unless they can cause serious injury or death (Funnel Web Spider), I never kill insects or arachnids. To the people putting the poor spiders outside...

 

[abuC]

Only mosquitos, I put a jihad on them, and if you side with them I'll put a jihad on you too.

 

[FStop7]

Oh and fuck cockroaches. Another thing i don't miss about Florida.

 

[Haly]

Yes, although I avoid it if I can. I'll try to dump stuff outside in my backyard instead of squashing it, mostly because I don't want bug guts on my wall or anywhere really.

 

[LuchaShaq]

I kill anything in/near my home besides non poisonous spiders (let them eat any mosquitoes/flies etc.

Randomly walking down the street? No except maybe bees because I'm allergic

 

[parrotbeak]

Roaches, ants, mosquitoes, and anything eating my plants. Anything else is cool. Spiders are free to come and go as they please.

People should not kill bees. We need them to pollinate food plants and in the US they are in trouble. Hardly see honey bees anymore here.

 

[hypersheep]

If it's annoying me I kill it without discrimination, but it's not like I actively seek to destroy all bug kind or anything.

 

[Night_Trekker]

I hate killing anything, insects included. But sometimes there's no choice...

 

[alphaNoid]

I kill insects no sweat, sleep like a baby.

 

[Drazgul]

All of those insects would kill us if they only could, so they get no remorse from me.

 

[Hey You]

Fuck no (not in my house atleast), I spray them with whatever I can get.

Sprayed this fucking spider in my bathroom with some Windex an hour ago.

 

[Asparagus]

Enter my home and they forfeit their lives.

Fucking hate insects.

 

[RiccochetJ]

I'll let them live and move them to another place where they won't annoy me. Except for mosquitoes. I'll let those little fuckers fill up on my blood so when I smack them there's a splatter.

Ha

Haha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha!

 

[Lesath]

2 rules:
1. If it draws blood, it's dead.
2. If it wants my food, it's dead.

All other insects and arachnids get a nice escort to the outside my home.

 

[Broder Salsa]

I kill them all, I like to think it sends the insects friends and family a message. A weeks time ago this motherfucker was on my wall, it was a long battle with the adrenaline rushing through my body, but I got it in the end. The picture doesn't really do it justice, it was scary.

 

[Orcastar]

I usually kill mosquitoes, flies and ants, but everything else, like moths, bees, wasps and whatnot get escorted outside. Or thrown out the window (6th floor).

I would kill for example wasps if they started building a nest inside my house, but I'd probably still feel bad about it afterwards.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

I'll kill cockroaches and flies (disease carriers) if I find them inside.
Everything else deserves a second chance IMO. Even spiders.
Doing otherwise is just inflicting unnecessary pain on innocent creatures IMO.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I love jumping spiders...they are so f'ing cool.

 

[Ushojax]

Depends. I'll normally try to let a fly/wasp/bee/spider out of a window, but moths/mosquitoes? Shoot on sight.

 

[FyreWulff]

Everything is left alone/taken outside except for roaches

When something carries disease and can live for two weeks after being decapitated, FUCK YOU.

 

[jaxword]

Serious talk here, for religious types, why doesn't anyone feel bad about killing the insects? They're God's creatures too.

 

[duk]

if it can harm me, i kill it like a boss

 

[Vilam]

How is killing snakes fucked up? They're terrifying. I used to have to mow the lawn as a child for my chores, and I would chase them down with the lawn mower to ensure they didn't surprise me and give me a second heart attack.

Needless to say, anything living that I find in my house that's smaller than a cat meets a swift death.

 

[Piggus]

Insects apparently aren't even conscious/aware and therefore pain to them isn't the negative experience that we and larger animals perceive. Even if you're kinda messed up in the head and torture bugs all the time, they have no way of knowing or "feeling" what you're doing. It would be like trimming a tree branch. The tree can't feel it, but it can still react in a way. Insects react on natural instinct.

So I don't really care if I have to exterminate a few ants or spiders. I certainly don't go out of my way to kill random insects though. I used to work in a really large insect collection and so I've seen some really beautiful and fascinating insects.

 

[DieNgamers]

It lives so why should I kill it? I like to let them have their time, no matter how small. : ) Feels good!

 

[Stahsky]

I've been having an on-going war with fire ants in my house these last few weeks. Just pulled out the Indoxacarb, so this war will end soon. Whoever brought fire ants to Texas needs a good slap on the wrist.

How is killing snakes fucked up? They're terrifying. I used to have to mow the lawn as a child for my chores, and I would chase them down with the lawn mower to ensure they didn't surprise me and give me a second heart attack.

Needless to say, anything living that I find in my house that's smaller than a cat meets a swift death.

Snakes rule. Lizards too!

 

[HappyPuppy]

Today was a good day for my house. A big fat cockroach about 10 cm long was near the dryer outside of my house, decided to nuke a cup of water in the microwave and throw it at it. Yep they have a high radiation resistance but boiling water is super effective.
Also killed a spider that was right next to my bed, hope it was the spider that left this bite mark on my hand. I wanted to live with you little spider since you helped me with the flies but now I don't trust you anymore, for the moment I will remove you from this world until I find a reason not to or another method.

 

[zon]

Spiders, wasps and mosquitoes all die as soon as I see them. Harvestmen too, not because I hate them like the first three I mentioned, but because they die so quick anyway and I don't want spiders to find food inside my room.

 

[strafer]

If I see a spider it's dead.

Though I have no problems with the tarantulas, the big ones that moves slowly.

It's the small ones that moves fast, damn those.

 

[Totalriot]

I kill mosquitoes, that's about it. Everything else I try to put outside unless there is no pressing need to do so (in the case of spiders or things that are beneficial.)

That is exactly what I do.

 

[Uchip]

survival of the fittest and all

yeah
that mantis in my room the other day looked like it wanted to kill me in my sleep!

not this time!

 

[Finaika]

Yes, except ladybugs because I don't hurt ladies.

 

[Swig_]

You better be...

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/07/13/buzzkill-cars-murder-trillions-of-insects-each-year/

These motorists drove their cars as normal, and after shutting off their engines, counted the number of smashed insects on their front license plates.

A total of 19,184 miles were traveled by these test subjects over the course of six weeks, after which the results were tallied: 17,836 insects had met their demise. That's a lot of bug guts, but it's not until you extrapolate that data across the entire frontal area of an automobile and the total number of cars in the world that your head starts spinning.

The friendly buggers from Treehugger decided to do a little math in an attempt to estimate the total number of insect fatalities in the United States. Are you sitting down? An astounding 32.5 trillion insects (estimated, of course) are killed in the U.S. each year by automobiles. Total insect genocide.

I'ts funny. I was actually thinking about that on my drive home tonight. I drive home on a long, lonesome highway. Pretty much there are dead animals on the side of the road there all the time. I was thinking about that, and then I saw a bug hit my windshield. I counted like 20 that I could see that died on my drive home. I wondered how many die each day to vehicles..

Then I thought about the fact that there have been approximately 110 billion people on the Earth. I wonder how many insects have ever lived. I bet the number is mind boggling.

 

[Swig_]

Serious talk here, for religious types, why doesn't anyone feel bad about killing the insects? They're God's creatures too.

I also have thought about this.. lol. I'm not very religious. Do people think that everything goes to "Heaven" in the afterlife? Are there spiders and roaches crawling around near the pearly gates? Or do only people, puppies, kittens and other cute, cuddle creatures count?

 

[Bearthgar]

The only good bug is a dead bug!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmEiSSiiwKE

Do your part!

 

[eXistor]

Nope, never. But I am a bit hypocritical as I will gladly kill off mosquitoes if they're bothering me at night. Other than that I will never kill an insect just 'cause.

/edit: of course I realise that simply driving a car makes me a mass murderer, but if I can help it I won;t kill them. If I see a bug struggling in the water in my backyard or something, I will take it out of there and put in in the yard. I just don't see the point in squashing a bug when you're in the position of letting it live. If it's in the house, just take it outside.

 

[Yagharek]

Gaf has a really loose definition of insect.

 

[Kyaw]

I put all the creepy crawlers and buzzing flyers outside of my house as much as possible. Killing is not my thing.

 

[9BR]

I don't kill spiders. They never harmed me anyway..
Ants, roaches, flies and mosquitoes all deserve to die. Annoying bastards.

 

[Kentpaul]

I kill wasps, fuck wasps.

 

[LOZLINK]

Gaf has a really loose definition of insect.

Lol didn't read all the posts but hope you're not the first to point out spiders are not insects.

 

[Sotha Sil]

No, I just cannot kill them directly. For some reason, I have empathy for the little fuckers. And it sucks.

 

[Kentpaul]

No, I just cannot kill them directly. For some reason, I have empathy for the little fuckers. And it sucks.

even wasps? they will string your ass for the fun of it.

I was fighting with a wasp the other day, right next to a busy road i looked like such a jackass.

 

[Gregorn]

All of those insects you kill are just trying to be your friend.

 

[AVclub]

Projecting some sort of morality code on insects is just crazy to me. They are heartless, soulless creatures with no qualms about killing humans if it serves their purposes. They are also our direct competition for dominance of this planet.

Doesn't matter if it's spiders, ants, beetles, or caterpillars, I treat insects as I do any other creature who has entered my home uninvited: They are invaders who must be destroyed and made an example of. I know that, left unchecked, they would devour all my stuff and even my whole family without feeling bad in the least. So I exterminate them with extreme prejudice!

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

No living thing with more than 4 limbs has escaped my feet

Ever

 

[Kentpaul]

Projecting some sort of morality code on insects is just crazy to me. They are heartless, soulless creatures with no qualms about killing humans if it serves their purposes. They are also our direct competition for dominance of this planet.

Doesn't matter if it's spiders, ants, beetles, or caterpillars, I treat insects as I do any other creature who has entered my home uninvited: They are invaders who must be destroyed and made an example of. I know that, left unchecked, they would devour all my stuff and even my whole family without feeling bad in the least. So I exterminate them with extreme prejudice!

What if a random cat came into your house, would that be made example off?

 

[BGBW]

One of my favourite household gadgets is my electric flyswatter.

Small insects just require a quick zap. Flies take a little more effort as they only get stunned. In order to ensure their total demise you have to catch them on the swatter's surface and fry them a little. Lets of a right whiff it does. If flies were silent I wouldn't bother, but their irritating buzz gets on my nerves. I give them five minutes to find an exit.