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  • I save everything that comes in my house except those hairy centipedes, yellow lady bugs (invasive species), and earwigs. I freaking hate earwigs
  • Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana



    You know, I was gonna say that insects don't feel pain at all, then I jumped back to all the nature videos I've seen of insects battling other insects, and they do struggle. That may be reflexive, but maybe it's not. I still don't feel bad for them, though. top kek

    When i was in middle school, me and a few other guys used to skip out on gym class (coach gave us an A just for attendance and suiting up, but we weren't required to participate if we didn't want to), we'd stand there on the edge of the practice field and kick open ant piles for entertainment.



    Sometimes we'd catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off so they couldn't jump, then "sacrifice" them to the ant piles. They would struggle for a very long time before the ants devoured them and finally pull the corpses inside the mound. Yeah I was pretty sick in the head back then...  



    Also a guy in our church youth group once cut a cockroach in half with a pocket knife, and both the top and bottom half were sitting around struggling for what seemed like an eternity before he stepped on them and put them out of their misery. Seems if cockroaches had a central nervous system with an actual brain like humans, both ends would not continue to operate autonomously and independant of each other.



    Fun fact, octopii are the most intelligent of all invertabrates, and only dolphins and elephants have larger brains than humans. So the phrase "an elephant never forgets," has credence.



    I was eating when I read that, but I was smart enough to gloss over the rest when I saw something about cockroaches. >_>

     

    So mutilating grasshoppers and feeding them to angry fireants is somehow not worse than a bisected cockroach?  



     
  • Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana



    You know, I was gonna say that insects don't feel pain at all, then I jumped back to all the nature videos I've seen of insects battling other insects, and they do struggle. That may be reflexive, but maybe it's not. I still don't feel bad for them, though. top kek

    When i was in middle school, me and a few other guys used to skip out on gym class (coach gave us an A just for attendance and suiting up, but we weren't required to participate if we didn't want to), we'd stand there on the edge of the practice field and kick open ant piles for entertainment.



    Sometimes we'd catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off so they couldn't jump, then "sacrifice" them to the ant piles. They would struggle for a very long time before the ants devoured them and finally pull the corpses inside the mound. Yeah I was pretty sick in the head back then...  



    Also a guy in our church youth group once cut a cockroach in half with a pocket knife, and both the top and bottom half were sitting around struggling for what seemed like an eternity before he stepped on them and put them out of their misery. Seems if cockroaches had a central nervous system with an actual brain like humans, both ends would not continue to operate autonomously and independant of each other.



    Fun fact, octopii are the most intelligent of all invertabrates, and only dolphins and elephants have larger brains than humans. So the phrase "an elephant never forgets," has credence.



    I was eating when I read that, but I was smart enough to gloss over the rest when I saw something about cockroaches. >_>

     

    So mutilating grasshoppers and feeding them to angry fireants is somehow not worse than a bisected cockroach?  



     





    With how terrified I am of cockroaches, nope. I'm afraid not. As I alluded to earlier, I used to get these really big ones... easily long enough to cover half of a 44 ounce cup. Talk about utter terror.  
  • Cockroaches are disgusting and make me anxious. Irrational, but true.
  • Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana



    You know, I was gonna say that insects don't feel pain at all, then I jumped back to all the nature videos I've seen of insects battling other insects, and they do struggle. That may be reflexive, but maybe it's not. I still don't feel bad for them, though. top kek

    When i was in middle school, me and a few other guys used to skip out on gym class (coach gave us an A just for attendance and suiting up, but we weren't required to participate if we didn't want to), we'd stand there on the edge of the practice field and kick open ant piles for entertainment.



    Sometimes we'd catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off so they couldn't jump, then "sacrifice" them to the ant piles. They would struggle for a very long time before the ants devoured them and finally pull the corpses inside the mound. Yeah I was pretty sick in the head back then...  



    Also a guy in our church youth group once cut a cockroach in half with a pocket knife, and both the top and bottom half were sitting around struggling for what seemed like an eternity before he stepped on them and put them out of their misery. Seems if cockroaches had a central nervous system with an actual brain like humans, both ends would not continue to operate autonomously and independant of each other.



    Fun fact, octopii are the most intelligent of all invertabrates, and only dolphins and elephants have larger brains than humans. So the phrase "an elephant never forgets," has credence.



    I was eating when I read that, but I was smart enough to gloss over the rest when I saw something about cockroaches. >_>

     

    So mutilating grasshoppers and feeding them to angry fireants is somehow not worse than a bisected cockroach?  



     





    With how terrified I am of cockroaches, nope. I'm afraid not. As I alluded to earlier, I used to get these really big ones... easily long enough to cover half of a 44 ounce cup. Talk about utter terror.  



    I looked up and saw you and I live in the same state. Welcome to Louisiana.



    They fly too, LOL! Nothing worse than having a giant roach crawling on the cieling then fly through the air and kamakazi itself onto your face in your sleep. I speak from experience...  

     
  • Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana



    You know, I was gonna say that insects don't feel pain at all, then I jumped back to all the nature videos I've seen of insects battling other insects, and they do struggle. That may be reflexive, but maybe it's not. I still don't feel bad for them, though. top kek

    When i was in middle school, me and a few other guys used to skip out on gym class (coach gave us an A just for attendance and suiting up, but we weren't required to participate if we didn't want to), we'd stand there on the edge of the practice field and kick open ant piles for entertainment.



    Sometimes we'd catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off so they couldn't jump, then "sacrifice" them to the ant piles. They would struggle for a very long time before the ants devoured them and finally pull the corpses inside the mound. Yeah I was pretty sick in the head back then...  



    Also a guy in our church youth group once cut a cockroach in half with a pocket knife, and both the top and bottom half were sitting around struggling for what seemed like an eternity before he stepped on them and put them out of their misery. Seems if cockroaches had a central nervous system with an actual brain like humans, both ends would not continue to operate autonomously and independant of each other.



    Fun fact, octopii are the most intelligent of all invertabrates, and only dolphins and elephants have larger brains than humans. So the phrase "an elephant never forgets," has credence.



    I was eating when I read that, but I was smart enough to gloss over the rest when I saw something about cockroaches. >_>

     

    So mutilating grasshoppers and feeding them to angry fireants is somehow not worse than a bisected cockroach?  



     





    With how terrified I am of cockroaches, nope. I'm afraid not. As I alluded to earlier, I used to get these really big ones... easily long enough to cover half of a 44 ounce cup. Talk about utter terror.  



    I looked up and saw you and I live in the same state. Welcome to Louisiana.



    They fly too, LOL! Nothing worse than having a giant roach crawling on the cieling then fly through the air and kamakazi itself onto your face in your sleep. I speak from experience...  

     



    palmetto bug? 

     
  • Originally posted by: 42 foot tapewom

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana

     
    Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: Nirvana



    You know, I was gonna say that insects don't feel pain at all, then I jumped back to all the nature videos I've seen of insects battling other insects, and they do struggle. That may be reflexive, but maybe it's not. I still don't feel bad for them, though. top kek

    When i was in middle school, me and a few other guys used to skip out on gym class (coach gave us an A just for attendance and suiting up, but we weren't required to participate if we didn't want to), we'd stand there on the edge of the practice field and kick open ant piles for entertainment.



    Sometimes we'd catch grasshoppers and pull the hind legs off so they couldn't jump, then "sacrifice" them to the ant piles. They would struggle for a very long time before the ants devoured them and finally pull the corpses inside the mound. Yeah I was pretty sick in the head back then...  



    Also a guy in our church youth group once cut a cockroach in half with a pocket knife, and both the top and bottom half were sitting around struggling for what seemed like an eternity before he stepped on them and put them out of their misery. Seems if cockroaches had a central nervous system with an actual brain like humans, both ends would not continue to operate autonomously and independant of each other.



    Fun fact, octopii are the most intelligent of all invertabrates, and only dolphins and elephants have larger brains than humans. So the phrase "an elephant never forgets," has credence.



    I was eating when I read that, but I was smart enough to gloss over the rest when I saw something about cockroaches. >_>

     

    So mutilating grasshoppers and feeding them to angry fireants is somehow not worse than a bisected cockroach?  



     





    With how terrified I am of cockroaches, nope. I'm afraid not. As I alluded to earlier, I used to get these really big ones... easily long enough to cover half of a 44 ounce cup. Talk about utter terror.  



    I looked up and saw you and I live in the same state. Welcome to Louisiana.



    They fly too, LOL! Nothing worse than having a giant roach crawling on the cieling then fly through the air and kamakazi itself onto your face in your sleep. I speak from experience...  

     



    palmetto bug? 

     

    http://www.orkin.com/cockroaches/difference-between-a-cockroach-and-a-palmetto-bug/

    Possibly. It was dark as hell and they usually scatter into the cracks the instant you hit the lights.

     
  • I remember a really fond memory of mine, visiting a small island near Taiwan with my girlfriend. We had stayed at a bed and breakfast, and that night part of the package included us doing a night time nature walk with the owner. So we got to see all kinds of neat insects, plants and flowers, some that even only bloomed at night.



    While walking down the pathway, my girlfriend had seen a bug crawling on the ground, and I knew what it was. She asked the guide and he laughed, telling her it was a cockroach. She screamed and ran behind me for protection, and the guide and I were laughing. He then explained that cockroaches aren't dirty creatures in nature, but in places like the cities, they become dirty basically due to humans and pollution.



    Ever since I got a cat, I've never had to worry about cockroaches in the house. At my old apartment, I'd see cockroaches one or two a week, during the "season". But that all changed one night when I saw the cat chewing on something, turned out it was a headless cockroach, hahaha. Never saw cockroaches there since, and never see them at the new apartment. The cat takes care of them, I don't have to worry about it or feel good of bad towards them.



    With stuff like ants, I try to take them out if they are in the house. I won't waste time trying to chase down mosquitoes, but if I see one I'll try taking it out too. But other insects and bugs, I just them be, especially things like spiders. I don't particularly like killing bugs, and also think we should respect them a bit more.
  • Spiders actually eat insects, and very few are actually venomous. I usually let them be since they consume pests. My fiance has an irrational fear of them however. Just seeing spiders or their webs and she starts screaming. Flies, ants, roaches, locusts, cicadas, moths, beetles, or other bugs don't bother her at all. Well maybe bees and wasps which I understand because they can sting. I just don't get the whole arachnophobia thing.
  • Move them when you can.



    Fight them when you must.
  • Originally posted by: NostalgicMachine



    Move them when you can.



    Fight them when you must.



    Insects are open season.



    Any kind of vertabrate (birds, lizzards, etc) that the cats try and drag in, I attempt to capture and set it loose outside. Once I did this with a bird that was passed out unconscious. The kitty chased it in, and it started flapping it's wings before it went limp. Poor bird was breathing heavily and I picked it up and set it in the bushes upside down. I went back to check 15 minutes later, the bird had righted itself and 15 minutes after that, had flown away.



    Sometimes however if an animal is mortally wounded, I might do a mercy kill. I've had to crush the skulls on a couple of lizzards when it was obvious it was wounded beyond hope of saving it, typically if the cat had bitten it's torso, generally resulting in paralysis or severe organ damage. Better than throwing it in the garden half alive to suffer for hours.

     
  • Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

     
    Originally posted by: NostalgicMachine



    Move them when you can.



    Fight them when you must.



    Insects are open season.



    Any kind of vertabrate (birds, lizzards, etc) that the cats try and drag in, I attempt to capture and set it loose outside. Once I did this with a bird that was passed out unconscious. The kitty chased it in, and it started flapping it's wings before it went limp. Poor bird was breathing heavily and I picked it up and set it in the bushes upside down. I went back to check 15 minutes later, the bird had righted itself and 15 minutes after that, had flown away.



    Sometimes however if an animal is mortally wounded, I might do a mercy kill. I've had to crush the skulls on a couple of lizzards when it was obvious it was wounded beyond hope of saving it, typically if the cat had bitten it's torso, generally resulting in paralysis or severe organ damage. Better than throwing it in the garden half alive to suffer for hours.

     

    I don't disagree at all with this.



    I just try and use the best judgement possible, whenever possible. It really depends where I am in the house with bugs, etc. I've never had to deal with anything large (other than picking up and moving already-dead animals (cats, etc) ). Mercy kill is the way to go if the situation is dire.
  • Only the ones in my house get killed.
  • Would be thrilled if every tick and mosquito were wiped of this planet immediately.
  • Spiders are instant death in my house.



    Mice, I try to set them free, but the cats generally get to them first.



    I don't have to worry about roaches (in Connecticut, if you have roaches, it's because you're dirty as fuck), mosquito's I'll kill, bee's I'll kill, ants I'll kill (depending on the species, they can be harmful to your house), flies I'll kill if they keep bothering me (very rare that I have flies in the house anyway, but sometimes they sneak in), and house centipedes, I leave alone (though the cats generally eat them anyway). The rest I'll also destroy.



    Fleas, on the other hand, are the most obnoxious infestation you can get IMO. I have a cousin who had 12 dogs, none of which were treated with flea prevention. He spent the weekend, and by the time he left, my house was infested with fleas. I couldn't bomb due to no place of housing myself or my animals, so I ended up having to spend about $800 in flea medicine (front line, because the other crap that claims to work better really doesn't) over the course of 2 months.
  • I get those house centipedes in my basement. They're to big to kill by foot... and they are so fast... I just try not to make eye contact. I'm a pussy.
  • It's territorial. I don't actively go out and squash bugs, but if they invade my space, get into something they don't need to be, then yeah.
  • I love bees. Any time I see a bee struggling, i'll grab some sugary drink for it. Its pretty tragic what is happening with them, and people need to be more concerned about them.
  • I only respect the lives of insects that I do not deem as pests. We can not compare human or mammal life to insect life, to give them moral considerations. Insects do not seem to experience pain either, as some scientific studies suggest, so for them it is just lights out anyways.
  • Originally posted by: dra600n



    Fleas, on the other hand, are the most obnoxious infestation you can get IMO. I have a cousin who had 12 dogs, none of which were treated with flea prevention. He spent the weekend, and by the time he left, my house was infested with fleas. I couldn't bomb due to no place of housing myself or my animals, so I ended up having to spend about $800 in flea medicine (front line, because the other crap that claims to work better really doesn't) over the course of 2 months.





     
  • Originally posted by: TDIRunner

     
    Originally posted by: dra600n



    Fleas, on the other hand, are the most obnoxious infestation you can get IMO. I have a cousin who had 12 dogs, none of which were treated with flea prevention. He spent the weekend, and by the time he left, my house was infested with fleas. I couldn't bomb due to no place of housing myself or my animals, so I ended up having to spend about $800 in flea medicine (front line, because the other crap that claims to work better really doesn't) over the course of 2 months.

     


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    Pretty much! hahaha



     
  • Like anything living, if they dont bother me, I dont bother them.
  • if insects gross me out I will smash the shit out of them. Otherwise I will pick them up in a kleenex and set em free. Just depends on the "icky" level of the insect or bug in question.
  • I hate bugs. I try to let bees back out but as for the rest they go squish. I hate spiders
  • I don't like to kill or hurt any creature personally. I let spiders back outside and even saved a wasp from my work place by scooping it up and sending it back outside. (almost got stung for my efforts.) However for things like mosquito's and ticks or other creepy crawlers that hurt me personally, they get squished.
  • Death to all bugs!! I hate em, so I squish em.
  • Originally posted by: Richardhead

    All bugs must die ! EDF, EDF, EDF!!'
    My thoughts exactly.

    Originally posted by: Richardhead

    Especially Tapewoms and robots!
    As far as robots go... well...

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    KILL ALL HUMANS!
  • I don't feel bad because ants are already ruling the Earth!
  • Originally posted by: meta-mark



    I don't feel bad because ants are already ruling the Earth!



    "And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, 

    I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

     
  • Originally posted by: Murray

     
    Originally posted by: meta-mark



    I don't feel bad because ants are already ruling the Earth!



    "And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, 

    I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

     



    Thanks Kent  

     
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