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Do you kill insects?

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Bees - Only inside if I can't get them out and they go bonkers.
Mosquitoes - Always.
Ants - Only inside.
Centipedes/Millipedes - Always. Too alien-like.
Spiders - Only inside and only if they are crawling around on me or make a web near my head where I sleep or something similar.
Maple Bug (Bexelder) - No.
Lady Bug - No.
Grasshopper - No.
Beetles - No.
Hornet/Wasp - Only if they are inside or are pestering me constantly.
Flies - Only inside.
Sow/Pill Bugs - Always. Gross me out.
Brain Slug - No, they are our friends, and we should all be gracious for their presence!
 
LostCaress said:
Centipedes aren't insects either.
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Arthropods, right?

Why do I know so much about this stuff that freaks me out?

I kill pretty much everything except spiders in the house. I leave spiders alone as long as they're not black widows. Black widows I will try to safely move outside to the garden, but if it's a big one I might just kill it even though I'd prefer not to.

Spiders are generally your bros. They're just there to hang out and get rid of the nasty stuff.

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Depends on their level of annoyance. Mosquitos and roaches I kill on sight but most other insects I leave alone unless they are bugging me in some way.
 
It depends. Theres 3 or 4 small spiders in the corner of my ceiling now but they never leave there so they don't bother me. If a wasp or fly comes in i'll try and shoo it out but i'll swat it if i have to. I have very little patience with crane flies. They freak the shit out of me for some reason.
 
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I worked for an aerial applicator through high school and my undergrad collegiate work. I've mixed up many a vat of chemicals which have led to the death of millions of bugs. In one case the state of Texas actually eradicated an entire species (boll weevil).

I'm basically Genghis Khan to bugs and I'm okay with that.
 
I cut the heads off and put them on toothpicks to send a message.

Inside my house i will brutally murder any insect. Outside? Depends, if it's on my front porch or something like a spider webbing shit up i will firebomb it.
 
Yeah, but after a while a little thought appears in my head about an Ant reporting the death on a little Ant News. Every. Single. Time.
 
Usually no, unless it's something I fear to be venomous.

Outside the house it's whatever, though I do use some pesticide for the sake of my fruit trees. Even still, i think of pesticide more as a means of keeping holes out of my leaves and fruit rather than killing insects. I don't hate insects at all.

Inside, I just trap them in a little cup and release them outside. Who could ever kill a ladybug, and some cool looking green beetles and even the ugly ones get a pass as long as they aren't trying to kill me or there are so many that I need to get out the bug spray. I love crickets also. A cricket had gotten into the house once, and we couldn't track it down. We would just hear it at night. Loudest little fucker ever. Mostly everyone was annoyed but I just thought it was extremely cute and funny.
 
The ones in my room? Yeah. I find them very distracting/annoying.

Outside? Nope. I even learned to watch out for ants when I'm walking sometimes.
 
I let spiders live, they are very useful at controlling the less desirable insects (flies and mosquitos). Cockroaches will be squished.

Outside the house the only things I would kill are wasps. Evil things.
 
Yes, I have an ant problem in my apartment, so I've been killing them.
I did fail to kill a spider recently, because I was trying to take a picture of it since I knew no one would believe me about how fucking huge it really was. It escaped and now a huge fucking spider is roaming my one bedroom apartment.
 
Little Fly
Thy summer's play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink & sing;
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
 
I need to surface spray around my house again. Spring has arrived and I'm finding more millipedes and spiders creeping into my home.
 
Inside, absolutely.

If it's a spider just minding it's own business and not pissing me off, I usually try and put them outside alive. But moths, roaches etc... there's just no way they deserve to be alive while in my domain.
 
-If it's an ant or beetle or cricket walking along, no.
-If it's something that could infest, like a roach, yes.
-If it's annoying but I'm outside, no.
-If it's in my room when I'm going to sleep, yes.
-If it's a bunch of flying things getting all up in my business, especially where I am eating? Genocide.
-Do I sometimes regard the rarity and preciousness of life in any form and feel a bit guilty about killing things, even this insignificant, in consideration of my own ultimate insignificance in the grand scheme of things? Yes.
-Does it stop me? No. Just as it doesn't stop me from eating meat.
 
I usually have no problem with them but when they start threatening me with their little knives and guns then shit gets real and I introduce them to the bottom of my shoe.
 
Some context? I probably kill tons of insects by hitting them with my windshield.

Some of the responses in this thread weird me out, like squashing non-harmful spiders minding their own business. I guess it would be the same if we had a thread on killing squirrels. Fuck those squirrels, they deserve to face the end of my baseball bat. Ugly little shits.
 
Inside house? Yes. It's my house, if bugs want to stay alive, stay away.

Outside: no, unless they bite me or something (mosquitoes for example). I'm not interested in destroying life.. but I will defend ("defend") myself and my home.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Generally no, just ones that are unwelcome in my territory. Spiders indoors, and wasp nests in my yard, for example. House centipedes meet untimely deaths. For a lot of bugs, we catch them and let them go outside.

For bugs in our yards, I teach my kids to respect them and about the role they play in the ecosystem. My younger daughter loves animals and insects, and tends to catch them and keep them for temporary 1-2 day pets, then releases them in the yard. Moths, butterflies, house flies ("Fly Guy!"), grasshoppers, rolly pollies, slugs, you name it. She loves them all.
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I'm 100% this with my own four children. Centipedes inside die immediately. Almost everything else is caught and taken outside.
 
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