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07/24/2011 04:57:17 PM · #1 |
| I am a murderer. This morning, I killed a big fly outside just because I didn't like it. Then about 5 minutes ago I killed a spider for daring to walk on my walls. I cannot help myself. I know I will kill again. |
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07/24/2011 05:15:00 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
I am a murderer. This morning, I killed a big fly outside just because I didn't like it. Then about 5 minutes ago I killed a spider for daring to walk on my walls. I cannot help myself. I know I will kill again. |
Exactly like my Wife Sandi...she's from Michigan too.. heart of gold..lotta guilt. |
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07/24/2011 05:15:32 PM · #3 |
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07/24/2011 05:20:23 PM · #4 |
Oh yeah..good Idea Ben
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07/24/2011 05:23:40 PM · #5 |
I used to be so afraid of bugs that my hubby said I would kill myself trying to get away from flying insects, lol.
Unless something can jump at you, which most cannot, I now get a glass and a piece of paper or something and catch them, then take them outside. :) They are even more afraid of us than them. As for flies...they poop on everything, leaving fly specks! Go, Ben, Go!! :P |
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07/24/2011 05:24:39 PM · #6 |
I'm not afraid of them....just didn't want them around.
I did find this guy the other day and let him live.
 I like hoppers.
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07/24/2011 05:24:55 PM · #7 |
Dead.. :)
No guilt though.. other bugs I usually don't kill, but houseflies must die! |
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07/24/2011 05:29:35 PM · #8 |
| Huzzah!!! What Cory said!! |
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07/24/2011 05:35:57 PM · #9 |
| Mosquitoes, yes. Almost anything else, I save. Just saved a millipede yesterday. Why he was in my house, I don't know. Not only that -- I saved him from my cat! |
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07/24/2011 05:36:53 PM · #10 |
Please take them outside. There is no reason to kill anything that isn't a harmful pest. Flies have unwittingly entered your lair and can be safely snatched and released outdoors. Spiders that are determined to enter your home are beneficial, since they kill pests like silverfish and carpet beetle larvae. And house centipedes, those larger and most fast-moving of the creepier arthropods, are extremely beneficial to have, since they actively hunt everything else in your home, including spiders. Do not kill them. If absolutely necessary, capture them and release them in your basement.
There is a veritable ecosystem in your home that you are largely unaware of. Let it be. |
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07/24/2011 05:42:34 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Please take them outside. There is no reason to kill anything that isn't a harmful pest. Flies have unwittingly entered your lair and can be safely snatched and released outdoors. Spiders that are determined to enter your home are beneficial, since they kill pests like silverfish and carpet beetle larvae. And house centipedes, those larger and most fast-moving of the creepier arthropods, are extremely beneficial to have, since they actively hunt everything else in your home, including spiders. Do not kill them. If absolutely necessary, capture them and release them in your basement.
There is a veritable ecosystem in your home that you are largely unaware of. Let it be. |
Those are the creepiest things!!! They give me the willies! A coworker and I caught one at work -- I photographed him and let him go. :) |
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07/24/2011 05:50:07 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Please take them outside. There is no reason to kill anything that isn't a harmful pest. Flies have unwittingly entered your lair and can be safely snatched and released outdoors. Spiders that are determined to enter your home are beneficial, since they kill pests like silverfish and carpet beetle larvae. And house centipedes, those larger and most fast-moving of the creepier arthropods, are extremely beneficial to have, since they actively hunt everything else in your home, including spiders. Do not kill them. If absolutely necessary, capture them and release them in your basement.
There is a veritable ecosystem in your home that you are largely unaware of. Let it be. |
As for the house centipedes, We have no basement (lol)...so I am guilty too.
In Bullhead City AZ. (where we used to live}... I tried to smash a (what we thought was a centipede) bug, on carpet...and my foot slid 2 feet...so I will continue to be guilty....lol
Message edited by author 2011-07-24 17:51:38. |
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07/24/2011 06:16:42 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Please take them outside. There is no reason to kill anything that isn't a harmful pest. Flies have unwittingly entered your lair and can be safely snatched and released outdoors. Spiders that are determined to enter your home are beneficial, since they kill pests like silverfish and carpet beetle larvae. And house centipedes, those larger and most fast-moving of the creepier arthropods, are extremely beneficial to have, since they actively hunt everything else in your home, including spiders. Do not kill them. If absolutely necessary, capture them and release them in your basement.
There is a veritable ecosystem in your home that you are largely unaware of. Let it be. |
yes, but houseflies are not easy to catch, if they were they wouldn't die. |
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07/24/2011 06:19:47 PM · #14 |
| Even the cats have given up trying to catch the occasional stray house fly, lol. If I can shoo them out the door (lots of work and patience involved, heeheehee) I'm all for it. Everything else lives. |
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07/24/2011 06:23:51 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Louis:
And house centipedes, those larger and most fast-moving of the creepier arthropods, are extremely beneficial to have, since they actively hunt everything else in your home, including spiders. Do not kill them. |
Mmmm, Just wait for them to scamper over your bare feet when you're sitting at the computer late at night. See how benevolent you feel then. |
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07/24/2011 07:20:10 PM · #16 |
| My dog eats any bug that dares enter my house. He hasn't missed a fly yet. |
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07/24/2011 07:34:26 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by bergiekat:
Unless something can jump at you, which most cannot.... |
You obviously don't live in Australia!
Message edited by author 2011-07-24 19:34:39.
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07/24/2011 07:36:02 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Kelli:
My dog eats any bug that dares enter my house. He hasn't missed a fly yet. |
My dogs eat any pizza that dares enter my house....lazy pugs and lazy Waldo |
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07/24/2011 07:40:00 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Originally posted by Kelli:
My dog eats any bug that dares enter my house. He hasn't missed a fly yet. |
My dogs eat any pizza that dares enter my house....lazy pugs and lazy Waldo |
That's funny! When I had my pug he also never ate bugs, he was too refined for that. And he was once chased home by a rabbit. |
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07/24/2011 07:41:20 PM · #20 |
The powers that be decided to fumigate the offices where I once worked.
On Monday when it was 'safe' to come back in, I discovered one large, bug survivor at my
desk and carefully took the critter outside to a patch of grass. Where one of our salesmen,
coming in from the parking lot, promptly stepped on it and squashed it.
PS. My only story about dog "food" comes from a friend who had a dog and cats, and talked
about the cat's litter box, and the dog's liking for what he considered 'candy.'
No, you don't want to hear that one.
Message edited by author 2011-07-24 19:44:11.
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07/24/2011 08:49:24 PM · #21 |
Once upon a time I lived in an apartment that was infested by cockroaches. We tried boric acid and other sorts of things but they were impossible to get rid of since they were all over the building. So my two very young children spent their first few years hearing, "It's a bug. KILL IT!" Usually followed by an attempt to do so. I was not proud of this but ... cockroaches are gross.
Finally we saved up enough money to move into a townhouse. No roaches :-) And we had a small yard of our very own. So I take my toddler outside and she sees a pill bug and says, "It's a bug. KILL IT!!" and stomps on the poor thing. I spent a lot of time convincing her that outside bugs belonged there and did not need to be squashed on sight.
A few years later, when she was 5, the cicadas came in droves. I would arrive to pick her up at preschool and find her "wearing" a necklace of live cicadas she had carefully placed around her neck. Her 3-year old sister preferred to line them up on her arms in long rows. I think I had succeeded in convincing them that bugs weren't scary by then ;-)
And from various conversations it seems my daughters and I are now all inclined to shoo bugs back outside if we don't want to share living quarters with them rather than do anything lethal. Soft-hearted bug lovers ... or at least bug tolerators.
Except maybe mosquitoes that have the colossal gall to bite me in my own home. Then it's self defense! |
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07/24/2011 09:01:01 PM · #22 |
I, hopefully, have killed EVERY. SINGLE. FLEA. in or around our house yesterday and today.
I am on a killing binge. And, I'd do it again.
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07/25/2011 12:02:21 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by MaryO:
Once upon a time I lived in an apartment that was infested by cockroaches. We tried boric acid and other sorts of things but they were impossible to get rid of since they were all over the building. So my two very young children spent their first few years hearing, "It's a bug. KILL IT!" Usually followed by an attempt to do so. I was not proud of this but ... cockroaches are gross.
Finally we saved up enough money to move into a townhouse. No roaches :-) And we had a small yard of our very own. So I take my toddler outside and she sees a pill bug and says, "It's a bug. KILL IT!!" and stomps on the poor thing. I spent a lot of time convincing her that outside bugs belonged there and did not need to be squashed on sight.
A few years later, when she was 5, the cicadas came in droves. I would arrive to pick her up at preschool and find her "wearing" a necklace of live cicadas she had carefully placed around her neck. Her 3-year old sister preferred to line them up on her arms in long rows. I think I had succeeded in convincing them that bugs weren't scary by then ;-)
And from various conversations it seems my daughters and I are now all inclined to shoo bugs back outside if we don't want to share living quarters with them rather than do anything lethal. Soft-hearted bug lovers ... or at least bug tolerators.
Except maybe mosquitoes that have the colossal gall to bite me in my own home. Then it's self defense! |
Hehe... I went to biology class wearing a live giant hissing Madagascar roach as a "b-roach pin"... Certainly caused all of the commotion I was hoping for... :) (I borrowed the critter from the entomology professor) |
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