Do you feel bad when you have to kill insects in your home?

Mr. Loverman

I just spent the last hour chasing a giant moth around my house. He was a bit of a legend. He refused to die and was avoiding me (while injured) for a good while.

I feel very bad for killing him, but unlike spiders you can't really catch moths and put them outside.

If he could understand English I would have told him he can live in the corner, and as long as he stays there he can call it his home. But unfortunately he only speaks moth.

I reckon if I were a moth we probably could have been friends.

He didn't do anything wrong. He didn't deserve to die.

Do you feel bad when you have to kill insects in your home?

KeithM89_old

No. I used to love pulling the legs of Daddy long legs, leaving just one and seeing it try to move.

Daegerty

No insects dont feel any pain. I just feel relieved that they are gone

If its a big massive wasp I'm after killing I feel great. Wasps are an awful torment during the summer

NoDice

I only feel bad because it's blood ends up smeared across my wall...

Latchy

I dont kill spiders at all so other than that it's run / fly away quick muddafcukas :cool:

Bog

Moth, you say?

Saila

no, any time I can get my kill fix Ill take thanks

Bradidup

Intentionally killing any insect will usher in bad luck.

Millicent

Daegerty wrote: »

No insects dont feel any pain.

What? How do you know?

m@cc@

KeithM89 wrote: »

No. I used to love pulling the legs of Daddy long legs, leaving just one and seeing it try to move.

Cue some post spouting shite about them being deadly but having small fangs.

Daegerty

Millicent wrote: »

What? How do you know?

Past life.

tuxy

Do you feel bad when you return from a drive and see your bumper covered in dead insects?

Yeah, I hate doing it so I try not to as much as possible.
I squished a daddy long legs once and I felt so bad for doing that just cos it was annoying me - not really fair.

Pauleta

It depends if the insect puts up a good fight or not. Ive had mercy on many a spider. If i dont get ya 1st time and have me hunting for a while, i release them out of respect. Even though i know they wouldnt do it for me. I dont think ive ever had mercy on a moth. For flies i usually try to shepard them out of the room.

charlemont

My attitude is that insects must have similar emotions to us, so I never kill spiders. If the spider gets in my way, Ill jut chuck him outside. I kill ants though but iv respect for them too.

OutlawPete

Yup, I often feel bad when I kill spiders and the like (and yes I know, spiders are not insects there, clever clogs). Was mopping the kitchen floor earlier and there was a few creepy crawlies I did my best to avoid. Then later I drove into town and a guy broke a red light and near cream cracked my car and I could easily have hunted him down and executed him without so much as a hint of hesitation.

hondasam

I'm scared of spiders. someone has to kill them.
moths and flies are annoying.

landsleaving

Why can't you put a moth outside?

I wouldn't kill an insect, but spiders are arachnids. Technicality gets me off. Also if I kill it first it can't kill me. I know that's the cowardly way to deal with things but I'm terrified of the damn things.

heno86

i make my dogs do the dirty work....just put a hit out on a massive spider runnin across the floor while i cowardly jumped on the couch..they pawed and licked him to death ,sadistic ****ers

pragmatic1

Nah cause I dont kill them unless they creep up on me and give me a shock.

Badgermonkey

The Bee, Bumble-Bee, Butterfly, Ladybird & more attractive varieties of Spider are shown great mercy. Gods speed my noble friends.

The Wasp, Bluebottle, Housefly, Daddy long-legs and common or garden aphids get what they deserve, unless they land on the Farrow & Ball elephants breath, in which case trapping precedes inevitable death.

Cú Giobach

Yep, I always to try and put out the very annoying or dangerous* ones and only kill as an absolute last resort.
I think its because of guilt over the torment I used to inflict on them as a child, one of my favourite pastimes was clipping the wings and cutting the feet off flies and keeping them in Lego castles.

(*my dogs try to catch bees & wasps).

tuxy

hondasam wrote: »

I'm scared of spiders. someone has to kill them.
moths and flies are annoying.

What happened to make you scared of spiders? Did you ever live in a country that has dangerous spiders?

hondasam

tuxy wrote: »

What happened to make you scared of spiders? Did you ever live in a country that has dangerous spiders?

I just don't like them crawling around the place.

CoalBucket

Not bothered about spiders, flies and moths though that head for the tv screen deserve what they get.

phasers

I only kill wasps .wasps deserve it. I put a jam jar filled with water at the end of the garden and drown the bastards.

It really keeps them out of the house, it's deadly.

stovelid

I'm terrified of moths. I feel cowed by your bravery.

tuxy

hondasam wrote: »

I just don't like them crawling around the place.

Babies also creep around the place, perhaps we should kill them.

On a slightly unrelated topic does anyone know if you can buy chocolate grasshoppers in Ireland? I would love to try them.

landsleaving

tuxy wrote: »

What happened to make you scared of spiders? Did you ever live in a country that has dangerous spiders?

It's a 'fear what you can't understand' situation. If we had dangerous spiders we'd know what they were planning. Irish spiders are unpredictable, they definitely have something to hide and far more legs than is really necessary.

hondasam

tuxy wrote: »

Babies also creep around the place, perhaps we should kill them.

On a slightly unrelated topic does anyone know if you can buy chocolate grasshoppers in Ireland? I would love to try them.

I don't like babies either so kill them if you want.

dip the grasshoppers in chocolate !

Blazer

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Yep, I always to try and put out the very annoying or dangerous* ones and only kill as an absolute last resort.
I think its because of guilt over the torment I used to inflict on them as a child, one of my favourite pastimes was clipping the wings and cutting the feet off flies and keeping them in Lego castles.

(*my dogs try to catch bees & wasps).

holy fúck Dexter :eek: