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

tuxy · 09-04-2011 11:18PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:18PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:22PM

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

Captain Darling · 09-04-2011 11:24PM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

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SHABBA!

Faith · 09-04-2011 11:25PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:27PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:28PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:31PM

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

bleg · 09-04-2011 11:37PM

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

poppyvalley · 09-04-2011 11:46PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:53PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:58PM

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 · 09-04-2011 11:59PM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:03AM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:04AM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:05AM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:47AM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:48AM

Plane and simple, no

pickarooney · 10-04-2011 12:56AM

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 · 10-04-2011 12:59AM

No.

tuxy · 10-04-2011 01:42AM

Cerocco wrote: »

Plane and simple, no

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Mysticvean · 10-04-2011 01:45AM

Insects? They have their function, sure, but keep them away from me.

x in the city · 10-04-2011 02:47AM

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

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?

fly's are cnuts, f**k them out of it

spiders, are a no no.

take them to a nice warm place by all means but anyone who kills a spider will have a gruesome death

Jesus Wept · 10-04-2011 02:48AM

No, they shouldn't be in my house.

Da Shins Kelly · 10-04-2011 04:09AM

Yeah, I feel really bad for killing them sometimes. I don't kill them that often. Usually if there's a moth, I just open the window, turn off the light and close the door. Give him a little while to get out, and then go back in. I try to give the bugs the best chance possible of escaping. By using this tactic, most of the time I don't have to kill them.

franklyon · 10-04-2011 06:58AM

Mosquito season has just started here and I have no qualms at all killing the little bastards and if they didn't get completely squashed the first time,I enjoy watching them die,:D
people at home don't know how lucky they are not to have those f**king things in your bedroom at night,if one is in my bedroom I can't sleep until it has been found and eliminated. First one of the year last night but luckily it was retarded and stayed nicely on the wall for me to pulverise, they seem to get smarter as the summer progresses-honest.

Everything else, I feel bad killing no matter how small and usually try to make sure it escapes in one piece.

pajor · 10-04-2011 08:45AM

Killing a wasp or a fly that might make me violently sick? KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL
*grabs swatting tea towel*

jokettle · 10-04-2011 10:24AM

This is my house. Insects, spiders etc are not invited guests and are therefore invading my home. Kill them all.

W.Shakes-Beer · 10-04-2011 10:48AM

I just grab them and fire them out the window. Small spiders I dont mind.

Only one every day insect I hate and thats wasps, dont even mind bees.

**Timbuk2** · 10-04-2011 11:07AM

tuxy wrote: »

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.

I used to work in a pub sorting out the empty bottles outside. Every summers day there would be a swarm of wasps around these bottles I'd have to sort. I hate wasps - but these wasps kept flying into walls and into the ground (from drunkness, I assume) and didn't care less that I was rummaging around the bottles. Still, I hated picking up a Heineken bottle and having three wasps flying out of it :eek:

I think I'd be less afraid of wasps if I've been stung before - I've never been stung, so maybe it's not as bad as I'm making out.

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

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