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:

tuxy

phasers wrote: »

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.

Did you ever spill beer on a table or something like that and watch a wasp come over and drink it. It's funny, they can't fly straight for the next few minutes.

Blazer

Cú Giobach wrote: »

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:

Witchie

I felt bad in the shower yesterday coz flushed a wee spider down the plughole!

Captain Darling

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

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SHABBA!

Faith

Badgermonkey wrote: »

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.

I'm very similar. I'd rarely kill the "nicer" insects. Spiders are fine as long as they're just in the corner minding their own business. The only insects I get pleasure out of killing are daddy long legs. Evil fockers. The noise they make just makes my skin crawl. And they fly at you. I'm too afraid to kill wasps because if you fail the first time, you just know they're coming for you. I generally try to get them back outside, or else I go into overkill mode and use something like a dictionary to squash them.

Captain Darling

I just chuck 'em out. Whats the point in squishing them? They just fcuk off out and go about their business. Live and let live.

pragmatic1

landsleaving wrote: »

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.

They're getting bigger every year and faster.

pragmatic1

Does anyone feel bad for the annual midge holocaust that happens every summer.

bleg

I feel awful for the harmless ones. The ones that bite can die a shoey death.

poppyvalley

I always try & get rid of them out my open window. I shoo them with newspaper sheets. The only one I will Kill is a fly or a blue bottle(only if I really have to) & that's b'cos they spread disease & food poisoning.

DoesNotCompute

I normally just find a way to capture them and f*ck them out of the house. The wife usually freaks out when she sees a spider (she had a bad experience with a tarantula when she was a kid). I'm not particularly fond of spiders myself, although I can't justify why exactly. Suppose it's an inherited genetic fear of dangerous insects from back in the gatherer-hunter days.

I've read on boards.ie that chucking a "house" spider out into the garden is as good as killing them slowly (they can't compete with the garden variety spiders, and there are predators in the garden that house spiders don't usually have to deal with inside a house).

I've no problems with other insects, in general. Although I try to "lure" moths outside by switching off the lights everywhere except for in the hall and try to get them to fly out the front door. Wasps generally don't bother you unless you strike out at them.

poppyvalley

Witchie wrote: »

I felt bad in the shower yesterday coz flushed a wee spider down the plughole!

I work in a nursing home. I adopted a little spider once when I was doing nights. Loved that little guy! Used to feed him at 2am and sang to him. One night an old lady squashed him with her zimmerframe. I Felt really BAD!

Diabhal Beag

It would be fine if they stayed were they were. When you're playing on the xbox and the ****ing ***** think they should be distracting while moving across the screen and flying towards you every 5 minutes it gets annoying and I get out the magazine to kill the bastards.

I have no remorse killing flies because they are gigantic twats.

landsleaving

pragmatic1 wrote: »

They're getting bigger every year and faster.

Gonna have to buy a gun then, aren't I?

"I shot it in the leg and it JUST. KEPT. COMING."

landsleaving

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

It would be fine if they stayed were they were. When you're playing on the xbox and the ****ing ***** think they should be distracting while moving across the screen and flying towards you every 5 minutes it gets annoying and I get out the magazine to kill the bastards.

I have no remorse killing flies because they are gigantic twats.

This is why they have to ban violent games.

merlie

No. Lately I've been getting some moths come in to the house and I try and catch them and I've killed some of them in my hand. They are usually easy to get..everything else like giant moths, flies etc...usually have to be killed by fly killer. Blue bottles are pretty easy to get out.

Kidchameleon

I literally never knowingly killed an insect all my life. About 3 years ago I noticed a good few moths in the apartment. This went on for a few weeks until I discovered a frickin crap load of moth eggs and maggots living in a bag of self raising flower in the press. It totally bloody disgusted me. Since then I have had no problem killing any insect on sight. God dam it, I had the common courtesy to let them live in my house and they go and put maggots in it? DIE!!!!

Cerocco

Plane and simple, no

pickarooney

Ant season has just started and while I admire their work ethic they just completely invade the place so with some regret I have launched Formicide 2011. Mosquitoes can all just die die die though. No qualms at all about wiping them out.

galwayrush

No.