Poll Do you ever save insects?

[supersonic]

I have made a pact with spiders, where I will leave them be in the outside world (it's their domain), but once they step inside I'll slaughter them if they are in eye-shot. If they are crafty enough to stay hidden from me, good for them, they are super helpful (though they just creep me out).

In the summer-times here, we usually get an ant infestation so I have to go to work poisoning a colony which isn't very fun. Most other bugs, I let be.

That really is the same for me.
Wasps at my house are beaten past the time they are dead. They are a huge problem here.

 

[N_Molson]

You can also try to introduce a less-annoying predator, so you keep your hand's clean

The anti-mosquitos laser looks really awesome !!! That's what one call a surgical strike I guess !

 

[bujin]

I never kill insects, and occasionally I'll save a spider (or some such creature) from drowning in the bath if I can.

I also have a pact with the spiders in my house. They understand that they are free to roam around the hallways and in certain corners of the bathroom or high up in the walls in my living room, but if they enter my bedroom or any other part of the house that I'm living in, they get ejected from the house (but not killed by me).

As irrational as it may be, I consider that some time in the ridiculously distant past, the insect and I had the same parents.

 

[jedidia]

I have a pretty simple pact with spiders: I don't care where you go, not even where you make your webs, but I sure expect you to eat as many mosquitos as you can!

They're doing a pretty good job, but since we moved to a flat on the first floor, spiders reduced drastically in numbers.

Generally, I kill everything that stings, except sometimes I'm trying to show a wasp or a bee the door (or the window) if they're near it. If they don't take the pointer, they're dead.

And I definitaley kill all the scorpions I find in the bath tub. Although, since we moved to a flat on the first floor, I have never seen one again.

What do you guys do with snakes in your house?

 

[Sky Captain]

Anything that sucks my blood or stings gets exterminated, other non harmful insects and spiders are free to roam around my bedroom unless they become too annoying.

 

[Ghostrider]

The anti-mosquitos laser looks really awesome !!! That's what one call a surgical strike I guess !

You should have seen the bug-killing radar-guided 2mm revolver cannon a group of misguided students I knew threw together some 17 years ago. A pity the 2mm pinfire ammo was ludicrously expensive to make...

 

[Andy44]

Sure, I save insects.

For fishing bait.

I hate bugs. I can't understand why God couldn't figure out how to make an ecosystem without creepy crawlies that bite, sting, carry lyme disease, etc. Birds can eat seeds. Microbes can eat dead things.

Anything inside my house gets executed, and the carcass placed on display outside the front door to warn the others.

 

[bujin]

Anything that sucks my blood or stings gets exterminated

I should add that stinging insects that actually are in a position to sting me aren't spared if I consider them a threat. Self-defence stuff. I don't kill a wasp just because it has the ability to sting me, but if it is likely to sting me or does actually sting me then it rapidly becomes an ex-wasp.

 

[RisingFury]

I can't understand why God couldn't figure out how to make an ecosystem without creepy crawlies that bite, sting, carry lyme disease, etc. Birds can eat seeds. Microbes can eat dead things.

Yea, or why he gave us an appendix, which serves no purpose other then killing us, why he made us eat, drink and breathe through the same hole so some part of us can choke to death, why have gave us eyes that can only see a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, why he gave us five senses, but nothing that can detect ionizing radiation, why he gave us muscles that are less fuel efficient then an SUV, why he made us eat and drink constantly and so on and on and on.......

 

[Andy44]

Yea, or why he gave us an appendix, which serves no purpose other then killing us, why he made us eat, drink and breathe through the same hole so some part of us can choke to death, why have gave us eyes that can only see a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, why he gave us five senses, but nothing that can detect ionizing radiation, why he gave us muscles that are less fuel efficient then an SUV, why he made us eat and drink constantly and so on and on and on.......

Yeah, it was a joke. Thanks for not getting it.

Also, why don't I have eyes in the back of my head? And why didn't my brain come with free wi fi?

 

[Ghostrider]

I can't understand why God couldn't figure out how to make an ecosystem without creepy crawlies that bite, sting, carry lyme disease, etc.

... To bug us?

 

[Izack]

... To bug us?

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

 

[n72.75]

Camel spider...

I'm not going to be able to go outside for a while now.

 

[RisingFury]

Camel spider...

I'm not going to be able to go outside for a while now.

Oh... then we need to place one in your bed. I bet you'll be enjoying the outside for a long time, then :tiphat:

 

[Wonderer]

I have a cat that uses Ir tracking system to hunt bugs, I mean no bug has ever gotten past her, but strangely she enjoys torturing them (once she kept squeezing and releasing a fly for half an hour) not just eating them.

 

[statickid]

i pretty much save or smite bugs on a whim. some bugs i feel deserve to be destroyed. others i feel deep compassion for their struggle and assist them. the main factor, in hindsight, is quite frankly a whim. perhaps something greeks reflected upon while authoring the foundation of the greek mythos.

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btw. laser warfare on mosquitoes... AWSOME!!!!!11!!111!!1111 :lol:

 

[jedidia]

but strangely she enjoys torturing them

that's not strange, that's completely normal cat behaviour. Especially house cats hunt for sports, not for food **being torn apart about wheather or not to make a joke about texans. No, I won't**:leaving:

 

[tblaxland]

My kids have a penchant for stomping on ants. I don't mind too much but I normally stop them once they've had a bit of fun.

Camel spider...

I'm not going to be able to go outside for a while now.

You ought to find yourself a huntsman spider. I used to park under a bottlebrush tree (the huntsman loves their loose bark) and the spiders drop out when it rains. The first couple of times I got quite a surprise when a six inch specimen crawled across the windscreen whilst driving down the road

 

[Suzy]

Flies and mosquitoes - no!

Huntsman spiders sometimes take up residence in my parents' home (usually in warm weather), so they have to be escorted outside with a mop (too big messy to squash!). I used to kill spiders but try not to now (though I am terrified of them!). I did escort one outside last summer:

• See it in corner of ceiling, to my horror
• Go grab a mop
• Gingerly knock it down and hope it doesn't come towards me
• Frantically shove the thing so it scuttles in the direction of the outside door (I hate how they scuttle - they are so fast)
• Knock the damn thing outside

 

[SiberianTiger]

They come on some nights in July to my home, and have problems reverting after unhappy landings on their backs:

When roaming around my house, due to their cumbersomeness, they produce as much noise as a little mouse potentially could. I always try to help them out through the window. I still fail to identify the species exactly. Here's on as compared to a standard tin can: