Unsurprisingly, I love bugs. It sticks with me one night when me and some folks are chilling outside. A lady points at a spider on the ground just chilling and her boyfriend stomps it. It's fucked up this attitude is just "normal". Maybe it's not fascy, but it does show s lack of connection with the outside world, like a microcosm of carbrain attitudes.
this site is real fucken weird sometimes
I know right, so many fragile bug stompers getting mad, despite a very clear OP
I have arachnophobia and I'm autistic. I don't fuck with bugs. Damn right I'll kill them as soon as I see them. Bum ass fucking bugs belong outside not in my damn room
Hue and cry about it
I accidentally kicked a big ant in my apartment and broke his lil leg and I still feel the pain. Certain bugs are extra freaky looking so I kinda get there might be some instinctual defensive reaction I guess
I get what you're saying, but we have to draw the line between animals and vermin somewhere. Ticks, ants, bees, mosquitoes, roaches... these creatures are pests, and aren't worth the same consideration as, say, a bird or whatever. Everyone's line is somewhere different - maybe you are fine with spiders, maybe you hate even some mammals like rats, but there are some pretty reasonable experiential reasons people hold these opinions. It's easy enough to think a rat is cute when there aren't a bunch scurrying around your apartment complex making a mess of the place.
I do think there are of course exceptions. I'll never sympathize with people who go after animals that stay outside in their natural habitats, stuff like gophers or whatever. They have to live somewhere, after all.
Swap bee for fly and I'll agree, bees and wasps are pollinators and don't bother you if you don't bother them
Flies on the other hand are the most disgusting of all, they land on and eat literal shit then land on your food to spread filth and disease
Bees are pests if they're in your house. Like, one or two getting stuck in, yeah I'll help them find their way back home, but beehives inside your house? Nightmarish. Happens more in cold places, I'm told, since houses are warm.
Flies are actually really significant pollinators.
Depends on the bug for me.
If it's an earwig, cricket, beetle, or spider? Eh let em be.
Bees get captured and released or escorted out if possible.
Flies and mosquitoes get swatted.
Ants I usually try to occlude entrance to with caulk but I put down borax bait because otherwise they bring their friends and are everywhere.
Cockroach? I'm both squishing it and fumigating.
If that makes me insect Hitler to some of you then so be it.
I used to work with a guy who went hunting. Guy had some interesting views.
I used to live on an old farm with a fucking MASSIVE property. Like 2 square kilometers. Turns out that outside of like, an acre from you house people are just allowed to hunt on your land where I am unless you expressly say not to with signs, which they ignore or burn so they can say they weren't there. So we'd look out the window at times and see a dude with a rifle walking around way up the hill and have to go tell the guy with the gun to piss off of our property and hunting was absolutely not permitted. They also could lay down traps and snares which was extra fucked cause we had 5 huskies and like 12 cats. By the 3rd year living there things got even more fucked cause by making people piss off, turning deer blinds into bright colored tree forts where i kept my dry snacks, liquor and tools for playing in the woods as well as spraying the structure and trees down with deer repellant, the rest of the area thst wasn't near those trees had a LOT of deer using it for a safe zone to raise kids and stuff and holy fuck did the hunters descend. I was clearly braver than I was now cause I would do a patrol of the area 5 times a day with 3 dogs and a machete. I should have gotten a gun.
ITT bugs you should kill and burning ants with magnifying glasses is two different things
Charlie Brown had hoes.
Especially don't smash kissing bugs on sight if you're bitten by one. You'll probably be fine unless it shits out Chagas disease into the wound. Smashing it basically guarantees you'll get its fecal matter in the bite, so you'll have a much higher chance of contracting Chagas disease. Probably applies to some other biting insects.
Mandatory tapeworms for all comrades
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