Zone1 Would You Ever Kill An Insect?

[Road Runner]

We used to zap ants with magnifying glasses in the sun as kids.

I squish wasps and spiders. For every insect you swat there's millions more.

I side with the birds like take them out, field mice also!

Only if those things are inside my house. The outside ones I leave alone.

Spiders and millipedes, hell yeah. Die!!!
Mosquitos and flies? Absolutely.

I leave the harmless and less creepy bugs alone though, like butterflies and dragonflies.

There was a butterfly in our house a long time ago before we had a cat but she probably would have enjoyed chasing it.

could you consider threatening the family and breaking a couple legs?

either that or a one way fishing trip ...lol

What exactly are you talking about?

 

[martybegan]

Or do you just not have the heart to? I'm sort of in-between. Ants and (most) spiders need to die if they're in my house but I'm lenient about other insects.

Spotted Lantern Flies are invasive in the US, and die on sight.

 

[lg325]

Thousands of them Have been destroyed by me over the years. Roaches , fire ants, spiders , wasp and hornets mostly.

 

[Yarddog]

Only if those things are inside my house. The outside ones I leave alone.



There was a butterfly in our house a long time ago before we had a cat but she probably would have enjoyed chasing it.





What exactly are you talking about?

It was just a joke. I was playing off of Skye's slightly cryptic expressions.... well, I think she got it.

Urban Dictionary: Sicilian Fishing Trip

(n) A journey on a boat arranged by a group of mobsters who secretly plan to kill you and toss you into some body of water. They do not have to necessarily be Italian.

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[Pellinore]

When I first saw this listing it was truncated, and I clicked expecting a much more challenging question.

The answer is, absolutely. I won't go out into the garden and murder butterflies and bumblebees, but if there's a bug in my living space, then of course I will, and then I will go upstairs and sleep like a baby.

If nothing else, they sting, bite, and carry disease. It's a health and safety issue.

 

[Road Runner]

How long would the spider stay alive for you. Mine probably wouldn't even make it past the floor.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Or do you just not have the heart to? I'm sort of in-between. Ants and (most) spiders need to die if they're in my house but I'm lenient about other insects.

All your pointless OPs? You should do less of them.

 

[westwall]

Or do you just not have the heart to? I'm sort of in-between. Ants and (most) spiders need to die if they're in my house but I'm lenient about other insects.

I leave most everything alone. Mosquitoes being the exception. I massacre them with great glee.

 

[Picaro]

Most of the insects around here are either poisonous, bite, or carry diseases or all three; I kill them all, except ladybugs and bees. I leave lizards and non-poisonous snakes alone; some are fairly large now, which means they're doing a good job.

 

[GLASNOST]

Would You Ever Kill An Insect?​

I kill wasps "on sight". I am allergic to their sting and I need a cortisone injection as quickly as possible. Oh, and the popular belief, "If you don't bother them they won't bother you" is a myth, I've been stung twice without even knowing there was a wasp in my vicinity.

 

[GLASNOST]

I believe with all my heart that a small group of posters here are Insect Aliens .
PM me and I will identify them and we can make plans to remedy matters .

PM me your list please. I'll be certain to add them to my ignore list if I haven't already done so.

 

[GLASNOST]

I pretend they are democrats .....

They are.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Cockroaches?

 

[Road Runner]

There was a butterfly in our house a long time ago before we had a cat but she probably would have enjoyed chasing it.

Never mind it was a dragonfly.

You should do less of them.

And you should get a life but I don't see much chance of that happening.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

And you should get a life but I don't see much chance of that happening.

I win at life. I pay taxes so you can sit at a keyboard and create goofy OPs while living on the government dole 24/7. There isn't a reality where I answer to you about lifestyle.

 

[MarathonMike]

I catch and release tarantulas, wolf spiders and millepedes. Every other bug, it's over.

 

[skye]

I killed a small scorpion once.....when we were on holidays, at the beach.

I stepped on it.

 

[GLASNOST]

I killed a small scorpion once.....when we were on holidays, at the beach.

I stepped on it.

Whilst hitch-hiking across the US I got a lift with a couple of guys whose car ran out of fuel along the highway in the desert of Arizona. The two of them kipped out inside the car while I rolled out my sleeping bag in the sand alongside of it. When we woke the next morning I started to roll up my sleeping bag from the foot end of it to find a scorpion charging at my right hand. I didn't kill it but it did give me a fright.