Do you kill insects in your house? Which ones?

Mr Rhode Island Red · 02-07-2015 07:42PM #1

Saw a woodlouse having a stroll across the kitchen floor the last night. Sure, I could have killed him, but I didn't because woodlouse are sound and don't really cause any damage or trouble. Modest, non-intrusive "don't-mind-me" kinda guy.

But the wasp that flew in the window today got rekt, because wasps are a nuisance, going around the place stinging people and the like. Always outstaying their welcome. Upstarts.

So where does everybody on AH draw the line when choosing which insects to let go free, and which insects to bludgeon to death?

Anything with an aggressive defense mechanism is usually enough for me. Wasps...and that's it really. Bees are sound, making honey and stuff, so they don't get killed.

fleet_admiral · 02-07-2015 07:45PM

Lidl are selling a weed burner and Butane at the moment. They arent just for weeds....

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-07-2015 07:46PM

Anything between the size of a dog and a bear I murder.

frozenfrozen · 02-07-2015 07:46PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Lidl are selling a weed burner and Butane at the moment. They arent just for weeds....

its for hash too?

Rubberlegs · 02-07-2015 07:48PM

No, as much as I'm not fond of crawly things, I can't kill them. I always imagine their Mam will be looking for them, and I just can't . If I did kill them, maybe an army of them would kill me in my sleep.

Alexis Sanchez · 02-07-2015 07:50PM

Woodlouse is a sign of dampness.

I get a lot of flies in the kitchen because my cat never finishes her food, but if I put the food outside, my next door neighbour's cats (there's at least 10 of the cúnts) will come up to my house.

failinis · 02-07-2015 07:51PM

Normally I try to get them out the window/door alive, but if a wasp is not co operating its dead.
I will help bees and wood louse and all those types of things outside, just not wasps.
Blue bottles and flies also get the shoo out the window but if they don't its the fly swat.

Antar Bolaeisk · 02-07-2015 07:52PM

I hate doing it as they are beneficial to have around but I have to kill ants when they start invading the kitchen, particularly the biscuit box.

Most things I'll generally throw outside to go their way, cockroaches get flushed down the toilet and wasps/hornets get squished.

Galwayguy35 · 02-07-2015 07:54PM

Most things that make their way in I leave alone or put them outside but not blue flies.

I hunt them down and get great satisfaction sending them to fly heaven.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-07-2015 07:55PM

I don't kill them, if it's annoying me I'll pick it up in a tissue and throw it out the window. With wasps and flies I scoop them out the window with a newspaper.

MadDog76 · 02-07-2015 07:57PM

I kill any living thing I find in my house that I haven't personally brought in or invited in .......... which I consider reasonable.

Precious flower · 02-07-2015 08:31PM

Bluebottles, dirty/annoying things and therefore must be destroyed!:mad: Though sometimes I shoo them out the window. Bees are sent out the window, woodlouse are left alone or put gently outside and spiders are either left alone or sent outside

Wasps are killed but not by me as I go run and hide until they are dead :pac:

The Backwards Man · 02-07-2015 08:35PM

Wasps and bluebotlles are fair game, everything else gets left alone.

diomed · 02-07-2015 08:40PM

I always help spiders out of the bath, or any tricky situation.
I get a few silverfish. Go spiders go. Sort out the feckers.

Ethel · 02-07-2015 08:55PM

Any crawlies are caught and released outside. Flies and wasps get the swatter.

The Adversary · 02-07-2015 08:57PM

Have to laugh at people who say they won't kill spiders. You put them outside and they search for the source of heat again and simply re-enter your home. Fair enough if you want those heinous creatures around but the minute I see one it gets punished for trespassing.

WoollyRedHat · 02-07-2015 08:59PM

Only the ones who freeload

suicide_circus · 02-07-2015 09:13PM

Fruit flies can fcking die

ollaetta · 02-07-2015 09:50PM

Silverfish. Absolutely hate the disgusting yokes.

bodice ripper · 02-07-2015 10:02PM

Anything with more than four legs is killed. Except moths, cause they are little dudes.

mad muffin · 02-07-2015 10:08PM

Anything that comes into my house without knocking gets a whack over the head.

KingBrian2 · 02-07-2015 10:10PM

I never like killing or harming Spiders but sometimes it is necessary, Moths though are another story.

retro:electro · 02-07-2015 10:11PM

I used to always stand on or kill whatever insect I saw because I was afraid of them but I don't anymore. There's always woodlice in my bath lately so I try and scoop them out with a piece of paper and let them out the window. Sometimes they're dumb though and won't get up on the paper. Wasps and stuff I just open a window and they'll fly out eventually.

darkpagandeath · 02-07-2015 10:12PM

Yes I kill bugs, And no it does not lead to strangling cats and then to serial killing.

Vincent Vega · 02-07-2015 10:45PM

While I can understand people feeling they need to sometimes, I just can't get my head around people who seem to take pleasure in the killing.
Sure, it's probably insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but you never know....

edit: ^lol thumbnail

jon1981 · 02-07-2015 10:53PM

Moths... Cheeky bastards, how dare they think they can casually lie around my house!

PARlance · 02-07-2015 11:00PM

My 2 year old darling (butter wouldn't melt, pink pink pink, hugs & kisses) daughter goes into beast mode whenever she sees a creepy crawly..STAMP ON IT, STAMP ON IT, STAMP ON IT!!!!!

She'll give me a loving smile of approval once I've taken another life for her as she trots off to tuck her dolls into bed.

Ciaran_B · 02-07-2015 11:02PM

Anything that buzzes dies, the quiet ones (spiders, moths) live. Deadly buzz.

doolox · 02-07-2015 11:08PM

I remember as a 12 yr old being mightily impressed by the ability of a swarm of bees being able to reduce a tough friend of mine to tears with the pain of their stings. He was stung several times by a disturbed nest and we ran like the dickens from the angry mob of bees which attacked us luckily I didn't get stung but, at that time I was a fast long legged skinny dude who could run when properly motivated and that day I was properly motivated. Normally I hate sports and wouldn't run 20 yds.

I also recall a day when my dad used a vacuum cleaner to empty out a wasps nest in the attic so he could get rid of it. We managed to suck up all the wasps into a vacuum cleaner bag and take the empty nest out of the attic dispatching the lot in a small can of diesel. The flames were very satisfying......

My policy on insects in the house is to kill.

captbarnacles · 02-07-2015 11:08PM

Wasps and bluebottles are hunted down.

Spiders with thick bodies have to go. Slim bodied spiders are welcome and are left alone.

PizzamanIRL · 02-07-2015 11:09PM

Just moths. Everything else can do what they want. I hate seeing everyone else in my house killing spiders up in the corner of the wall. They're no harm.

Do you kill insects in your house? Which ones?

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