When you find an insect in your home, Do you kill it?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Poll question: When you find an insect in your home, Do you kill it?

When you find an insect in your home, what do you do?

[SoCalDem]

1. My cats eat every critter that enters

Some of them can catch a fly in the air , and in one swoop,eat it too :(

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Ahh.. someone else is doing your dirty work!

Yeah, my cat does that too. Generally the bugs get up high enough where she can't get to them, so she plays "spotter".

[nickgutierrez]

3. "Heeeeeeere buggy buggy buggy"

[Catshrink]

18. I let my cats do my killing also...

Keeps them active and alert. What's wrong with making them earn their kibbles?

[Shanty Oilish]

4. Sometimes I'm a Buddhist, sometimes I'm a Darwinist

It depends on the bug. Generally, the more legs, the worse its chances.

[Syrinx]

5. I was just about to talk bugs

I've got these ladybug impostors. They're not really Ladybugs, but they look alike. They are a pest. And it's a recent phenomenon.

[ClintonTyree]

6. Insects..............

have the entire outdoors for a habitat. I don't disturb them in their habitat, but I don't want them in mine. I'll squish the hell out of them if they invade my space.
And yes, the little critters do attack if I invade their space outside. Fire Ants, Bees, Wasps etc. They get in their licks outdoors, so I'm going to get mine in on the inside. Death to all insects in my abode.

[Mobius]

7. Kill if not spiders

I dont kill spiders

[POed_Ex_Repub]

8. Why do spiders get the special treatment?

Just curious. :shrug:

The reason I ask is I actually have a hammer for just such occasions... It's not that I'm trying to be cruel, I'm just a fairly severe arachnophobe and that's as close as I can get to one without the need of a change of pants.

[Columbia]

11. Spiders catch the other insects

Haven't you watched Charlotte's Web? :)

[SoCalDem]

15. I had a pet wolf spider , til he died of old age..

He lived in the corner of my greenhouse window over the kitchen sink..

That guy loved to eat flies, and they all flew there because they thought it was a way out.. Hah..were they wrong..

My boys were small then, and they would bring their little friends over to see their mom's spider in action (they thought I was a cool mom ):evilgrin:

We just stunned flies, and tossed them into his web.. That spider was FASSSST !!

[VOX]

9. I do, my wife doesn't...

She will do the cardboard-and-glass capture-thing for all bugs/spiders, etc.

I'm a swatter, but am not particularly proud of it.

[izzie]

10. I have made up mind to keep ladybags as pets. They are pretty.

so be it

[Nihil]

12. Depends on what, where and when

What:

Anything that can bite or sting has a much lower chance of survival
than a mere veggie bug. Sometimes my buddhist side wins and I catch
then release wasps but gnats & mosquitos don't get a choice.

Spiders are always evicted (Mrs.Nihil is an arachnophobe though
gradually improving). Ladybirds (ladybugs?) are always evicted
(I think they're great, especially after having to study them, but
they belong outside, eating the aphids from my roses). Bees are
always captured and carried outside. Woodlice, beetles and other
generic "creepy-crawlies" are evicted - sometimes at speed and without
great care for their landing. Ants die.


When:

During the day I will normally do the opening window/door stuff to
evict and uninvited guest. At night I am more likely to squash as I'd
hate to frighten the neighbours (I sleep in Nature's pyjamas :-)).


Where:

Near a door or window? No problem. Working in the loft or in a
crawlway? Leave the bug to make its own way out (or die).
Anywhere else? Depends on my mood (and the above factors) but will
usually do the good thing rather than killing for the sake of it.


Nihil

[Art_from_Ark]

14. Cockroaches get smashed

as do spiders and flies. Honeybees and ladybugs are captured in a jar and released outside. Wasps are smashed if they are not by a window. Crickets and cicadas are devoured by the cat.

[wickerwoman]

13. No, I move.

Actually it depends on the insect. Flies, ants etc. I'll open a window and come back in a few hours. Spiders, wasps, or roaches, I move.

[Loonman]

16. Depends on what it is

Spiders and such get put outside, cockroaches and such get killed.

[Skittles]

17. I scoop it up in a jar and put it outside

takes the same amount of time that it does to stomp it and dispose of it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. I believe in self-responsibility for all species

They found their way in, I figure they can jolly well find their way out again.

Unless it's a spider or moth that seems confused. Them, I'll help out the door. O8)

And unless it's a roach. No mercy. :grr: After having lived in south Florida, and having a fifteen-pound palmetto bug (AKA roach) fall in my face while I was sleeping one night, my tolerance for them is now zero. Besides, they're pretty-much guaranteed to survive whatever conflagration boosh* gets us into, and I'm tired of their nyah-nyah attitude about it.

(On edit: Well, it felt like fifteen pounds...)

[LWolf]

20. Depends on what it is.

If it's a fly, I swat it.

If it is a line of ants, I set ant traps.

If it's a roach, I set roach traps.

If it's a spider, I leave it there. Unless it is a black widow; then I gently remove to the great outdoors and release.

Most anything else gets the catch and release treatment.

[Nihil]

25. Gosh ...

... you must have a really *small* spade to dig an ant trap!

[curse10]

21. I relocate, if the cats haven't gotten to it first

I try not to kill any living creature. Although I accidently stepped on an ant the other day. It was it's own fault for being in the bathroom.

[Az]

22. Around the office

I am the one they come to to get rid of bugs and critters. I walk up, capture the lil bugger and take them outside. I have caught bats, mice, bugs, and a number of other critters in this way. Sorry, I just don't see a need to kill these things. They have as much right to wander around as I do.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Roaches and ants get crushed and drowned, respectively.

All others are treated in a civilized fashion. Does that make me an arthropodic racist?

[bif]

24. I try to capture it and let it go. Unless it's a mosquito

Then they get squished.

[AlabamaYankee]

26. Depends on the insect

Spiders are catch and release. Roaches the other hand receive summary execution, per orders from Mrs. AY. Actually the roaches we find are already dying from the exterminator's potions, so it's just a matter of speeding up the process.