What do you do?

KKkitty

When you see a wasp, spider or any other creepy crawlies do you try to kill them or do you just move them away from you? I personally hate anything like them so I'll try to kill them or if I'm not that brave I'll get the fella to do it.

DoYouEvenLift

If the spider's really big I kill them and leave them there for a while so any other spiders who come across the carcass know not to fuk with me.

efb

I ignore them. Live and let live. Unless they land on me, then they must die, or escape in the process, nyeh

efb

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

If the spider's really big I kill them and leave them there for a while so any other spiders who come across the carcass know not to fuk with me.

You should put up posters of your physique to scare them away

K.Flyer

Pick them up with a pint glass and a piece of card and put them outside to play.

DivingDuck

Spiders inside the borders of my dwelling are murdered on sight. Most other things are gently shooed outside.

If outside, I'll be the one to move. It's more their space than mine.

efb

I don't, as a rule kill spiders.

The Dogs Bollix

There was a humongous spider awhile ago. It was scary. The cat killed it. The cat was forgiven for peeing on my stuff.

DoYouEvenLift

efb wrote: »

You should put up posters of your physique to scare them away

You mean they'd all gather around mirin' and be easy pickings.

wat24

I run like my life depends on it from whatever room they're in and go to another room and close all the doors behind me. They terrify me, I'm a serious wimp!

ThinkProgress

I try negotiate a peaceful surrender, to avoid bloodshed... (I hate cleaning that **** up) lol

With the exception of wasps/bees, which I kill on sight. Bees are like the Islamic fundamentalist of the insect world... They love death and suffering. So I give those evil fcukers plenty of both!

It's particularly fun to cut their heads off and watch their body try to find it's head. lol

Niemoj

Don't kill them, just leave them be to do their duty.

Putting them outside is pointless too as they're a house spider, they'll die in the cold.

They mightn't be the nicest looking but they do us a massive favour.

K.Flyer

Niemoj wrote: »

Don't kill them, just leave them be to do their duty.

Putting them outside is pointless too as they're a house spider, they'll die in the cold.

They mightn't be the nicest looking but they do us a massive favour.

I have to put them outside due to the ultra high pitched screams from certain members of the family. So I put them out beside the garage door and they just crawl under the door and back in again.

ThinkProgress

Niemoj wrote: »

Don't kill them, just leave them be to do their duty.

Putting them outside is pointless too as they're a house spider, they'll die in the cold.

They mightn't be the nicest looking but they do us a massive favour.

The giant house spider has venom... There are cases of people getting bites off them.

Someone went into cardiac arrest from one of their bites before.

They're not completely harmless like some people think. (Although they very rarely bite people)

efb

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

You mean they'd all gather around mirin' and be easy pickings.

Ok.., I mean intimated rather than repulsed but...

DivingDuck

Niemoj wrote: »

Don't kill them, just leave them be to do their duty.

What is that in Ireland, though? It's been years since I saw any insect life inside my home other than spiders. What are they killing?

DanielODonnell

I sleep in the spare bedroom.

Valentina

I don't kill spiders or bees. Always try to trap and release. Although the other night there was a humongous spider on the living room floor. I went to get a glass to trap it but when I came back one of the dogs had smushed it into the floor and was eating it.

Wasps and flies get sprayed with Raid.

Yodeling Snake

DivingDuck wrote: »

Spiders inside the borders of my dwelling are murdered on sight. Most other things are gently shooed outside.

If outside, I'll be the one to move. It's more their space than mine.

You can't go around murdering spiders. Have you no conscience? Spiders are in fact our best friends. You should never ever kill a spider. Here in Ireland the poor guys are harmless, it's callously cold hearted to kill the little guys. I also think it's cruel to kill wasps as well. There is no need to kill any insect.

Junkyard Tom

Spiders are our allies and should be left alone or relocated if causing distress. Wasps and bees I try to shepherd out the window. Flies are fair game for execution.

Interesting fact. A sleeping person will unknowingly swallow 4 lizards in an average lifetime.

Smidge

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Spiders are our allies and should be left alone or relocated if causing distress. Wasps and bees I try to shepherd out the window. Flies are fair game for execution.

Interesting fact. A sleeping person will unknowingly swallow 4 lizards in an average lifetime.

Are you sure you meant lizards?

DivingDuck

Yodeling Snake wrote: »

You can't go around murdering spiders. Have you no conscience? Spiders are in fact our best friends. You should never ever kill a spider. Here in Ireland the poor guys are harmless, it's callously cold hearted to kill the little guys. I also think it's cruel to kill wasps as well. There is no need to kill any insect.

Zero conscience on this front. Uninvited occupants in my dwelling get the boot. Literally, in their case.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain the positives of having spiders in an Irish home...!

corner of hells

Yodeling Snake wrote: »

You can't go around murdering spiders. Have you no conscience? Spiders are in fact our best friends. You should never ever kill a spider. Here in Ireland the poor guys are harmless, it's callously cold hearted to kill the little guys. I also think it's cruel to kill wasps as well. There is no need to kill any insect.

Wasps are flyin' Nazis , everyone knows that.

When I go to the bottle bank the little fcuks are hanging round half drunk looking to cause a row and show off to their mates.

Yodeling Snake

You guys are insect bullies. You think you're great killing a little creature. I think what you're doing is terrible.

ThinkProgress

Watch out for these little guys too: false widow spiders!

Usually found behind the wing mirrors on your car... Don't wanna get a bite off these guys!

www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/spider-bite-left-irishman-intensive-4355821

AgileMyth

DivingDuck wrote: »

What is that in Ireland, though? It's been years since I saw any insect life inside my home other than spiders. What are they killing?

Whatever they're killing, they're obviously doing it very efficiently.

Smidge

Yodeling Snake wrote: »

You guys are insect bullies. You think you're great killing a little creature. I think what you're doing is terrible.

Thats a bit rich coming from a snake

DivingDuck

AgileMyth wrote: »

Whatever they're killing, they're obviously doing it very efficiently.

Or there's nothing, and there are very few spiders because they either die from hunger or the boot...

I also don't leave doors or windows open ever, which helps curtail the number of insects around.

Yodeling Snake

Smidge wrote: »

Thats a bit rich coming from a snake

I am a yodeling snake. I'm a comedian. I have my own show. I do acts, like a sing and dance snake. That aside now please. However you perceive me Smidge you cannot condone this spider killing, can you?

efb

DivingDuck wrote: »

Or there's nothing, and there are very few spiders because they either die from hunger or the boot...

I also don't leave doors or windows open ever, which helps curtail the number of insects around.

Insects don't need doors or windows to get in. Pipes are their preferred method of ingress

DivingDuck

efb wrote: »

Insects don't need doors or windows to get in. Pipes are their preferred method of ingress

True, but both spiders and flies are a far more common occurrence when you leave giant rectangles of space open to the outdoors for long periods of time.

NachoBusiness

There's a million of these in your average mattress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpezj8MMhb0

Nite nite.

endacl

ThinkProgress wrote: »

The giant house spider has venom... There are cases of people getting bites off them.

Someone went into cardiac arrest from one of their bites before.

They're not completely harmless like some people think. (Although they very rarely bite people)

They are as close to completely harmless as makes no difference. Cardiac arrest from a house spider bite results from an anaphylactic reaction, and not from the toxicity of the venom. Just bad luck getting bitten if he was allergic.

Do you have as extreme a reaction to the presence of peanuts? Just in case (a) somebody in the vicinity might have a peanut allergy and, (b) might inadvertently eat one? No? Didn't think so.

endacl

NachoBusiness wrote: »

There's a million of these in your average mattress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpezj8MMhb0

Nite nite.

You know each of those carries their own specialised mites?

hairyslug

Ants and flying ants get killed on the spot, most other things will either be let go (small spiders) or popped on a glass and put out (big spiders)

starling

endacl wrote: »

You know each of those carries their own specialised mites?

Damn both of you to hell.

starling

corner of hells wrote: »

Wasps are flyin' Nazis , everyone knows that.

When I go to the bottle bank the little fcuks are hanging round half drunk looking to cause a row and show off to their mates.

Flyin Nazis....lmfao

I don't usually kill spiders or bees, we really really need bees but if the spiders die after I put em outside that's just tough sh1t.

Wasps, moths and flies are fair game. I usually spray hairspray on them, so they can't fly, then it's the glass-and-card treatment and down the jacks with them.

I used to live on the upper floor of a Georgian house, so I left the windows open from April to October, and never really had an issue with winged insects of any kind. But in my parents house I used to be plagued with moths at night for some reason. (I mean I know the reason, I had the light on, but I don't know why they were so prevalent there and not anywhere else I've lived).

Moths can fúck right off, I do without so I can afford proper wool and silk instead of acrylic and polyester, I'm not letting those baxtards feed it to their babbies.

Diamond Doll

Ugh, I hate them, but I'm really squeamish about killing them. So I usually just leave them be.

I had to kill a daddy long legs the other night because he was in the middle of my bathroom floor and I'd only have ended up standing on him in my bare feet in the middle of the night. So he got squished into a Dettol wipe, and into the bin. Yuck. I could here him crunch as I squished him, or maybe I imagined that. Anyways definitely got no pleasure or satisfaction out of it.

Oh yeah, this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVh_005Sokc

starling

Diamond Doll wrote: »

Ugh, I hate them, but I'm really squeamish about killing them. So I usually just leave them be.

I had to kill a daddy long legs the other night because he was in the middle of my bathroom floor and I'd only have ended up standing on him in my bare feet in the middle of the night. So he got squished into a Dettol wipe, and into the bin. Yuck. I could here him crunch as I squished him, or maybe I imagined that. Anyways definitely got no pleasure or satisfaction out of it.

Oh yeah, this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVh_005Sokc

Ahahahaha love how yer man is just sitting there calmly enjoying his toast while she's practically Ripley in aliens

Also I followed the link after the video ended to the 80mph video...I'd seen it before but Jesus I forgot how funny it was

mad muffin

I kill them and make a necklace from their ears…