If you see an insect in your house, what do you do?

I capture the insect in question and release it from a window. I don't believe in killing things, even insects, intentionally. The only exception would be a noisy blue bottle keeping me awake and if it was impossible to catch, I'd have to practice my baseball skills.

I picked:

Combination of the above depending on what it was/mood I'm in, I usually just leave it, or move it elsewhere...

But sometimes I kill stuff, like a big fly or something

I catch it and put it outside... as I don't believe in killing creatures unnecesarily.

I don't kill any insects, I scoop them up and then release them. There is a place and reason for all living creatures on this earth. OK so I admit that I'm having difficulty finding the reasons for slugs and snakes but I'm thinking :D

I have been known to hit snails with a hammer. :o I did so once at head height and got a face full of juice...yes it probably served me right! Pretty instant and humane tho'
Wasps have a 50/50 chance of survival early in the year, late summer I squash the vicious so and so's.
I am not all bad tho' folks, I revive dozens of dying bumble bees with honey every year. They work so hard that their energy reserves just plummet sometimes (particularly if it's cold)

Seems to me that only vegans should have a conscience on this matter

The only ban we have is on slugs and ants. We put slug pellets down, but individuals are escorted out, ants get poison too, but there isn't a great deal of point squashing an ant, or releasing it outside.

The way I see it is if you encourage and save spiders at every opportunity you will have less creepy crawlies in general, and a reduced amount of needless squashing.

Every bug you squash is noted on the cosmic register.

You really want a combination of funnel web and orb spiders to deal with all pesky bugs that crawl and fly respectively.

Wasps, flies,bees, ladybirds and grasshoppers all get ushered outside. Mosquitoes, greenfly, aphids, mealybugs, silverfish, fleas

Cold, wet or starving wasps and bees get taken inside and fed honey - and then frequently you find that once they have dried out and got their energy back up, they will fly off and come back later to see if there is any more free food to be had. Bumblebees especially.

I once spent a lovely summers evening feeding minute fragments of chicken to a very friendly wasp.

She must have returned to the same spot on the plate eight or nine times to dutifully receive another pinhead chicken morsel, which she would pick up in her jaws and carry off home or whereever.

Scream until someone kills it/moves it.... Scream more if they attempt to move it and it gets any closer to me than it was previously!!!

I'd capture it in a glass and put it out in the garden. I don't like killing anything unnecesserely, even a fly.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
I once spent a lovely summers evening feeding minute fragments of chicken to a very friendly wasp.
By any chance were you drinking copious amounts of alcohol and inhaling deeply from a particularly large spliff that summer evening? :D

Personally, it depend on what mood I'm in. I was once stung by a wasp (I sat on it) and chased it around the room until I finally managed to get my squishy revenge. I left it stuck on the telly, entrails exposed, for two weeks as a warning to others!

Originally posted by Zamo
By any chance were you drinking copious amounts of alcohol and inhaling deeply from a particularly large spliff that summer evening? :D

Personally, it depend on what mood I'm in. I was once stung by a wasp (I sat on it) and chased it around the room until I finally managed to get my squishy revenge. I left it stuck on the telly, entrails exposed, for two weeks as a warning to others!

Just a glass or two of wine. With wasps I think you have to pick your moment. This was in the evening, so quite cool - and the wasp was quite docile. Also fed it chicken (I was very surprised it ate chicken) rather than sugar, so the wasp didn't start up with ADHD type stinging fit.

Wasps are cool animals, you just have to understand them a little better and accord them the respect they deserve.

hate spiders, get my bloke (who also thinks theyre ukky) to get it in a glass and then flush it down the toliet, we must get atleast 5 a day in the house its disgusting. i love snakes tho and other creepy crawlies, just not evil spiders lol.

I'm another non bug squisher! I dont want the karmic retribution of being stomped on by giant psychic insects from outer space - you know it could happen!!!

Originally posted by evildrneil
I'm another non bug squisher! I dont want the karmic retribution of being stopmed on by giant psychic insects from outer space - you know it could happen!!!
You worry me sometimes Neil... :P

Much the same though... only exceptions being slugs inside the house and mosquitoes... for the latter I have NO mercy at all.. :mad:

All bees and some wasps get swished back out of the window, or picked up and put back out by someone else. Though if i am alone i will squish the occasional wasp if i am feeling brave.
Spiders i don't mind they get to be playthings for the cats who are not bright enough to catch them, and Egor runs too fast and is too scary for them. Apart from ones in the bedroom, they get escorted out.
Slugs, i kill them at any oppotunity. What is the point in them, they eat my garden and occasionally creep into the house. Smily horrid things. I have to say i am quite viscious with them, late night culls occur in the garden. Plastic bag with salt in, collect them, tie it up, shake them up and down.

i used to sqwash them but i sort of empathise with them....how would i like to be sqwashed & killed by a giant just because they dont like the look of me?

i dont really like creepy crawlies, if there is a spider stuck in the bath in the morning, i will put a piece of toilet roll over the side so it can climb out & its normally gone by the time i get home.

if there is a flying stinging insect (like wasp) flying round me i just stay still & if there is one stuck in the window i get our small fish net to catch it an let it out side.

i dont really kill them that much, buti do find satisfaction in sicking the kettle on and pouring it down the ant hill on our path, also used to play wasp attack, where you sood next to a bin, banged on it, waited for the wasp to come out, then try and get it with a bottle and not get stung. i wa like lightning

Why do people get scared of spiders and things? The other morning my colleague at work was screaming :help: I rushed upstairs thinking someone was being murdered when in fact there was the tiniest spider on her desk.

I put it outside on the fire escape, but why get so worked up about a tiny thing? :huh:

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
The only ban we have is on slugs and ants. We put slug pellets down, but individuals are escorted out


haha i like that description! come on Mr Slug, you've no reason being in here have you, if you'd like to accompany me to the back door :D

Originally posted by Andy
Why do people get scared of spiders and things? The other morning my colleague at work was screaming :help: I rushed upstairs thinking someone was being murdered when in fact there was the tiniest spider on her desk.

I put it outside on the fire escape, but why get so worked up about a tiny thing? :huh:

I just dont like them looking at me. I dont scream but I do remember sitting in a bath for two hours because a spider was staring at me and playing games with me by running backwards and forwards over the door handle. In the two hours I sat watching him play his menacing game I had named him Damien and had become quite attached to his fun personality-still didnt stop me squashing him with the door when I made a runner.

I thought I was the only one to revive sickly bees and wasps! I use suger though, cos we dont have honey in the house.


I move most bugs outside, but we did get a few ants find a way in under the front door last summer, so I destroyed all the nests I could find around the house with poison and boiling water.
Think that day alone must have counted for thousands of insect deaths, but you cant let ants get in the house or they wreak havoc.

But that mass carnage aside, I dont harm bugs. They dont do any harm to us, generally.

I try to get them outside,apart from flies, theydeserve to die just because of the disease they carry.However lots of times i've done more harm than good as the spiders stick their legs out of the glass when i lift it up towards the window,i panic and down comes the glass on its legs,i don't mean to!Plus letting them out of the window when you live on the top floor probably isn't good for them either.I try not to kill them 'cos they kill the nasty ones.

Originally posted by Andy
Why do people get scared of spiders and things?

it’s the legs, I cant stand the amount of legs they have!

Originally posted by magicgem
I just dont like them looking at me. I dont scream but I do remember sitting in a bath for two hours because a spider was staring at me and playing games with me by running backwards and forwards over the door handle. In the two hours I sat watching him play his menacing game I had named him Damien and had become quite attached to his fun personality-still didnt stop me squashing him with the door when I made a runner.

haha, that made me laugh…we call all spiders Albert. That’s my dads doin tho.

Originally posted by jackthedog
I thought I was the only one to revive sickly bees and wasps! I use suger though, cos we dont have honey in the house.


I move most bugs outside, but we did get a few ants find a way in under the front door last summer, so I destroyed all the nests I could find around the house with poison and boiling water.
Think that day alone must have counted for thousands of insect deaths, but you cant let ants get in the house or they wreak havoc.

But that mass carnage aside, I dont harm bugs. They dont do any harm to us, generally.

You know there is a simpler way to keep ants out of the house. rather than killing the nests you can buy non-foaming soap pelets which the ants wont go near…they hate soap. When I went to cyprus we would rub soap on the walls & floor to keep ants away from the beds.

Its also cos spiders can teleport - its a well known fact - watch one for a while and it will get from point A to point B without moving - it MUST be teleportation so theres no telling where they might end up!

Originally posted by SaxonLeigh
You know there is a simpler way to keep ants out of the house. rather than killing the nests you can buy non-foaming soap pelets which the ants wont go near…they hate soap. When I went to cyprus we would rub soap on the walls & floor to keep ants away from the beds.


Soap? Sounds like a good idea!
I'll try it if the little beggers come back this year!

I voted other ... i would only sqish a bug if it presented a health hazard to my own organism ... otherwise ... why bother !?

Originally posted by Zamo
I finally managed to get my squishy revenge. I left it stuck on the telly, entrails exposed, for two weeks as a warning to others!
Good show! any other forms of creepy crawlie life I do the glass over top and bit of card underneath and release then back into the wild, but wasps have got it coming to em!
Do try my best to let them out through the window (once Ive stopped screaming and waving my arms around like a pillock) but if they continue to bang their heads stupidly on the glass when I opened the window wide enough to admit low flying light aircraft then they deserve to be killed!!!
I have been known to set up wasp traps involving glass with sweet syrup in bottom... wasp flies in, trap wasp by placing card over glass, make small hole in card and pours lots of water in!!!!!!
*Mwah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!*

Sorry but I really do fear and loathe wasps!

I never used to be scared of spiders, i would happily scoop them up and dump them outside but this all changed on saturday night.

All i'll say is that i had a dream i don't consider to be a nightmare but it was vivid enough to and involved more than just one sense (i normally only get sight, no sound or feel within dreams). This dream was about spiders and now i can't bear to loom at them and i have to squash them.

I do hope this phobia passes, i don't really like hurting things but the paranoia i have right now is too great.

Damn, you all know my weakness now. :o

Wilf

My saying on the matter is, if they don't pay rent they dont stay!

I give them a chance to leave, usually by trying to usher them out of a window or door, but if they take the biscuit, death becomes them :D

Unless its a wasp. Then I scream like a sissy and let someone else deal with it !

this has to be the funniest thread iv'e read for a while :D :D

keep um coming! :thumbsup:

Kill em!

But depends who gets to it first, me or the cat!

I would never intentionally hurt any nice bugs such as bees, butterflies, ladybugs etc but spiders,earwigs, slugs, - yeuch.

I know I shouldn't be scared of such little creatures but I completely over react to spiders and end up screaming and throwing things at them or attempting to drown them with Jif in the bath.

I will no doubt pay for being a so anti spider in my next life. Perhaps I will be reincarnated as a fly.