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Would you feel bad for killing a worm?

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bangladesh said:
The first. :p
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Oh okay...for the record you're joking about being a massively depressed art school chick. So don't weep too much today. haha


littleworm said:
Your friend is a good person.
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She actually really is, though we differ on our opinions of domestication. She doesn't believe in keeping a pet, period. That cats and dogs would prefer to be wild, etc, and keeping them as family pets is confining them. But that's another thread and frankly, I've already discussed that to death with her.
 
No. In fact, feeding mantis unusual things is very entertaining.

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bengraven said:
Oh okay...for the record you're joking about being a massively depressed art school chick. So don't weep too much today. haha




She actually really is, though we differ on our opinions of domestication. She doesn't believe in keeping a pet, period. That cats and dogs would prefer to be wild, etc, and keeping them as family pets is confining them. But that's another thread and frankly, I've already discussed that to death with her.
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What. But dogs and cats usually are very happy in houses. How does she even.


RevDM said:
No. In fact, feeding mantis unusual things is very entertaining.

[mantisfish]
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Are you the mantis window security guard guy?
 
Nope. I sacrifice bugs to my flytraps, spray my house with insecticide, cover ant beds with acephate, squash roaches and spiders, kill every tomato worm I can find, load a hook with a cricket or earth worm, spray wasp nest, smash any tick, slap every mosqito, swat every fly, and so on. I don't go out of my way to kill every bug I see, but I have no remorse in killing them at the slightest inconvenience. If I find a cricket in my house, I will pick it up and toss it outside and if I find an earthworm dying on my patio, I will put him on shady soil, but for the most part, I don't care about a bug's life. Most of them are assholes anyway.
 
absolutely, only animals i have no problem killing are those fucking mosquitos. and its their own damn fault. most..nah all the people that know me think im crazy because i try to not harm any living beeing, no matter how small ugly or gross it is.
 
Hilbert said:
I mostly grow nepenthes pitcher plants. Thanks for your advice! Do you grow a lot of carnivorous plants?
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I do grow a lot of plants, but only dabble in carnivorous plants. My province's provincial plant is actually S. purpurea ("purple pitcher plant") and I've grown a few of those (mostly because they make gorgeous pond plants for your back yard!), but never any in the nepenthes genus.

Biggest risk from overfeeding is browning/death of the traps, which causes more of the plant's energy to be devoted to regrowing and lower overall trap strength. If you're not experiencing browning or death of traps you're probably not overfeeding, which is good.

Overfeeding is more of a concern with d. muscipula ("venus flytrap"), which, to be completely honest, is what I assumed you were referring to initially since that's by far the most common carnivorous plant that's kept in houses. I was really just being a condescending jerk, sorry about that. ;)
 
Every summer a bunch of earthworms take a trip across my sidewalk and they get fried by the sun before they make it to the other side. I don't know why they do this, maybe it's their annual pilgrimage or something. I usually try to move them back to the garden if I see one but sometimes they get squished when I pick them. I kind of feel bad for a few minutes but oh well, it's probably better then being cooked alive.
 
Stumpokapow said:
I do grow a lot of plants, but only dabble in carnivorous plants. My province's provincial plant is actually S. purpurea ("purple pitcher plant") and I've grown a few of those (mostly because they make gorgeous pond plants for your back yard!), but never any in the nepenthes genus.

Biggest risk from overfeeding is browning/death of the traps, which causes more of the plant's energy to be devoted to regrowing and lower overall trap strength. If you're not experiencing browning or death of traps you're probably not overfeeding, which is good.

Overfeeding is more of a concern with d. muscipula ("venus flytrap"), which, to be completely honest, is what I assumed you were referring to initially since that's by far the most common carnivorous plant that's kept in houses. I was really just being a condescending jerk, sorry about that. ;)
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I know, and I kind of decided to be a condescending jerk back. I was a little miffed that someone would lecture me about growing these plants. I have a closet converted to a greenhouse in my house in which I grow numerous carnivorous plants including d. muscipula and varieties of sundews. I have a thread on GAF somewhere about it.
 
By the way:

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/arbra/bbb/id19.html said:
25 earthworms per square foot of soil equal 1 million earthworms per acre. Studies in England have shown that in healthy soil forty tons of castings per acre pass through earthworms bodies daily. A new USA study indicates 1½ million worms per acre which move 20 tons of earth each year.
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A few dead here and there are no big deal.
 
bangladesh said:
Your animal looks happy. Having a mantis is probably one of the more funner pets to have imo. They literally will eat any small living creature or at least try really damn hard.
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Ya we really are trying to take good care of her. Feed her a variety diet and make sure her cage is clean. We also play with her and give her exercise outside of the cage. She totally acts like a cat, it's pretty funny.
 
Throavium said:
Yes, I would feel bad.
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How about a giant prehistoric mosquito with jaws big enough to rip your face off, trying to do so? I'm pretty sure the feeling bad about it wouldn't be very high on the list of things you'd feel after shotgunning it in the head!
 
Lord Error said:
How about a giant prehistoric mosquito with jaws big enough to rip your face off, trying to do so? I'm pretty sure the feeling bad about it wouldn't be very high on the list of things you'd feel after shotgunning it in the head!
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I'd probably do what Thomas Jane did in "The Mist" when confronted with the same thing (except with one more bullet).
 
Unless I somehow developed an emotional connection with the worm, not in the slightest.

I wouldn't kill any worm or bugs randomly though, unless they annoy me or something

fucking flies hovering in front of your face, they deserve to die
 
Lord Error said:
How about a giant prehistoric mosquito with jaws big enough to rip your face off, trying to do so? I'm pretty sure the feeling bad about it wouldn't be very high on the list of things you'd feel after shotgunning it in the head!
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OK you got me there, given the circumstances, my feelings towards killing certain forms of life would change.
 
Hilbert said:
I know, and I kind of decided to be a condescending jerk back. I was a little miffed that someone would lecture me about growing these plants. I have a closet converted to a greenhouse in my house in which I grow numerous carnivorous plants including d. muscipula and varieties of sundews. I have a thread on GAF somewhere about it.
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Very cool. Found your thread. I just assumed you were a random broham, now that you've passed the cool-guy botanist test, we will be the best of friends ;)
 
Hilbert said:
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A few dead here and there are no big deal.
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Stumpokapow said:
Very cool. Found your thread. I just assumed you were a random broham, now that you've passed the cool-guy botanist test, we will be the best of friends ;)
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Hey Hilbert, is it hard to maintain these plants? I get all sorts of misc gnats/flys/spiders that bug me while I'm trying to work at my desk by the window.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Very cool. Found your thread. I just assumed you were a random broham, now that you've passed the cool-guy botanist test, we will be the best of friends ;)
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Glad to hear it! I kind of want to update that old thread to show off some of my older plants now. Here is my vampire pitcher plant!(Nepenthes Bicalcarata )

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I generally feed this guy whatever bugs I can find outside.

RevDM said:
Hey Hilbert, is it hard to maintain these plants? I get all sorts of misc gnats/flys/spiders that bug me while I'm trying to work at my desk by the window.
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Depends. Flytraps are picky little bastards. Sundews and Nepenthes are pretty easy, but these plants live by eating bugs, so they evolved ways to attract bugs. Getting a few of these may increase the amount of insects that bother you. Just warning.
 
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