DO YOU KILL BUGS?

Usually I kill them when I think they're potentially annoying, distracting or dangerous. I never kill them "just because".

I do give it a lot of thought, though. Sometimes I feel bad for killing them. And sometimes, when I'm more patient, I try to remove them from wherever I'm at, instead of killing them.

What comforts me is knowing that insects don't live much. Though I just made a quick research that proved me wrong. Ants may live up to a full year. Though a typical butterfly only lives for 2 weeks or so.

Killing spiders and ants doesn't bother me. I figure there's enough room outside for them not to come inside. However... moths or any other harmless insect I just throw outside.

I kill them depending on size. Mosquitoes I always kill, going on murderous mosquite killing sprees occasionally. Flies I kill when I am carrying the right equipment (a rolled up newspaper), otherwise I can show mercy towards them and just shoo them away. I never show any mercy towards horse-flies though. Those buggers all need to die in a fire.

Bees and wasps I try to avoid killing (mostly because they're resilient and I don't want to anger them).

I rarely see any point in killing ants or spiders. Though sometimes they invade my privacy too much and they'll have to go.

I kill bugs.

I smoosh them when they are in my house. If there is a wasps nest in my yard, I kill it with fire (seriously! I grab a can of Raid and a blowtorch. Wasp stings hurt dammit, and I have a 2 year old)

I find ants fascinating, but I will still smoosh them. Moths - smooshed. Mosquitoes - smooshed with a vengence. Horseflies - hunted down and smooshed (those bites hurt!). Flies - smooshed unless it is easier to shoo them outside.

I do think about it, but I weigh their assassination against their invasion of my home. Not in my house!

I don't kill anything. I stopped like 2 years ago and haven't since.

If I see a spider or something that I want to get rid of I'll just get a cup and put it outside.

Any bug that annoys me will generally be fried (I'm armed with an electric flyswatter for extra attack bonus).
Wasps and flies are generally killed on sight if I have my weapon nearby.
Spiders aren't bugs though and they eat flies and stuff, so I normally don't kill them. If bothersome I simply move them, and sometimes I will feed them flies I kill.

I don't give it too much thought when I kill them, but enough to avoid stepping on them when I'm walking outside or to make them any trouble if they're just minding their own business (i.e. not flying in my face or constantly following me)

I live in an area where, every spring/summer, the whole city gets infested with fishflies (I believe they are more commonly referred to as mayflies, but we call them fishflies around here.) The live only a few hours, mate, and then die. At night, you can see them congregating around light sources like street lights or even traffic lights, and in the morning, you'll just see piles of dead fishflies. They literally need to call out street sweepers to clean them up at the end of the season. It's pretty gross.

Anyway, on to the more relevant points, these things are so abundant they literally get everywhere. You can't open a door without one getting inside. And they're very docile during the day, so docile that you can literally just walk right up to one and grab it by the wings. When I was a little kid, I used to grab them and then pull their wings off just for fun. I realize now that this was a horrible thing to do and I still feel bad about it to this day, so now I never kill fishflies. I just grab them by the wings and toss them outside.

I murder the crap out of centipedes, though. I hate those guys.

author=LockeZ
Hmm. I don't really think of spiders and insects as animals that feel pain and deserve life, the way I think of other animals. If I squashed a chipmunk or pulled the wings off a blue jay, or even killed a pest like a mouse or a bat, I would feel at least a little bit bad for it. But bugs, I feel nothing. They are on the same level as bacteria to me.

Sorry Lockez in 90% sure insects and arachnids can feel pain, they just don't have an emotional reaction to pain and there's a difference between feeling pain and reacting emotionally to pain, I'm pretty sure they're quite closely related to crustacea (who also have exoskeletons) who I'm almost certain feel pain. I'm 99.9% certain that gastropods do (slugs, snails etc) as they're essentially mollusks. Pain is an almost completely necessary survival tool as it provides a stimulus to get away from things that are causing bodily damage and may cause you to die.

There's a huge difference between bacteria and an organism with a nervous system.

/animalrightsmode

I'm the same as Calunio and Kazesui. I only kill frustrating bugs like cockroaches (no remorse), flies and wasps and ants that keep hovering around the house and flooding the sugar bottle :|

I don't kill spiders even when they're as big as my hand since they eat stated bugs from above (I heard that it also eat cockroaches when that big '3')) and if others are in the way, I just scoop them with whatever I can use and set them outside.

Yeah fuck bugs.