What do you do with insects?

[PhunkyPhazon]

Say there's an unwelcome bug in your home, do you smash it, spray it, ignore it, lure it outside, eat it, what do you typically do? I prefer to smash it so long as I have a flyswatter, but ONLY with a flyswatter. I once smashed a fly too hard and was surprised to find out that fly's actually do have blood- more then you would think, even. So I refuse to use anything like a book in fear I'll get bug guts all over it. If I don't have a flyswatter handy, I find a way to just transport it somewhere else. If it has wings I'll trap it in some kind of container, if it doesn't I get it to crawl on a book or something flat that I can carry. After that, I just put it outside.

I just ended up having to do that with a stupid fly, since this house seems to have lost its flyswatter. Normally I wouldn't bother with anything since I'm about to go to bed, but have you ever had a fly buzzing around while you're trying to sleep? Most. Annoying. Thing. Ever.

 

[Tim_Buoy]

i electro smash them
http://www.amazon.com/True-Tiger-Electric-Zapper-Racket/dp/B0046BY2VC

 

[Fanta Grape]

I'm a vegan so I even let mosquitos take my blood... Mostly just let them be...

But if it's a cockroach, I'll kill that ************

 

[MorsePacific]

Depends on the bug. I once had a large spider crawl on me and I screamed like a little girl and called my mom to kill it. Anything else and I just smash it until it can't keep going.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Ignore them or smash them, depending on the size and proximity to me.

Usually I ignore them, though.

 

[dyre]

I squish the ones that don't splatter much, and trap + flush the ones that do

 

[noxymoron19]

If its a flying bug I snatch it out of the air to prove you badass. Nothing is more satisfying ten successfully snatching a black fly.

 

[loc978]

Spoiler: Decapitation.

Spoiler: WARNING FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: this is actually a picture of a decapitated bumble bee

Actually, that was a fluke. I happened to have my wakizashi in my hand (cleaning it), when the bee started to buzz me. I swatted at it a couple times to scare it off, and wound up cleanly separating its head from its body. Total accident.

Spoiler: Here is a picture I took of a pretty dragonfly to cleanse your soul. I didn't hurt it in any way.

In all seriousness, though... I have a lot of fly swatters, and they see a lot of use.

 

[Hafnium]

I usually wack 'em, but flies are usually too much trouble, and I don't kill bees or those common flying bugs, don't know what they're called in english.

Actually I'm pretty sure insects don't have blood, the oxygen in their body is transported through a similar system of gases.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Depends on the bug. Cockroaches get baking soda mixed with sugar though. I leave traps for those bastards. Dig in...

 

[basedg0d_a0s]

i smash them with a paper towel and then throw them away.

 

[foolish snails]

For some reason I often refrain from killing bugs. It's not because I'm opposed to it: if a fly is particularly annoying I will kill it's ass dead. But for the most part if I see a spider in my home I usually let it continue or put it outside.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I usually wack 'em, but flies are usually too much trouble, and I don't kill bees or those common flying bugs, don't know what they're called in english.

Actually I'm pretty sure insects don't have blood, the oxygen in their body is transported through a similar system of gases.

Then it's a very red, liquidy gas. Unless that particular fly was a freak of nature.

 

[Hafnium]

I usually wack 'em, but flies are usually too much trouble, and I don't kill bees or those common flying bugs, don't know what they're called in english.

Actually I'm pretty sure insects don't have blood, the oxygen in their body is transported through a similar system of gases.

Then it's a very red, liquidy gas. Unless that particular fly was a freak of nature.

I got confused it seems, they do have blood and obviously a form of heart. I just realized that even though they get their oxygen in another way, they still need blood for nutrient/waste/misc. transport.

I also have an electric swatter to smack them without getting guts all over the wall/myself.

 

[ElectroJosh]

Eat them! (is that the right answer? - eating them?)

 

[XIII's Number XIV]

I'm very...for lack of a better term, kindhearted to bugs (I often save them from my pool, friends, other people who might smash them), so I gently pick them up with a napkin and take them outside.

...except spiders. Those little freaks can taste the back of my squashing book (which is actually my sister's copy of Twilight - she hates it when I do this).

 

[The Becker]

I grab them and then flush them down the toilet while laughing maniacally

 

[Shoggoth2588]

i electro smash them
http://www.amazon.com/True-Tiger-Electric-Zapper-Racket/dp/B0046BY2VC

My dumbass brother-in-law has one and whacked himself a few times with it. Funny as hell and those things get the job done.

I'm a vegan so I even let mosquitos take my blood... Mostly just let them be...

But if it's a cockroach, I'll kill that ************

That made me laugh a bit. Love the double-standard there.

As for me, I leave them alone for the most part. I'll swat at a fly to make it leave me alone. Otherwise I'll leave them alone. I'm close to wanting to try a roast tarantula and other prepared insects/ arachnids.

 

[MrMixelPixel]

I have a few methods of dealing with bugs.

1. Pick it up and take it outside
2. Ignore it
3. Capture it and place it in cage
4. Feed it to my pet snake

I really like bugs, probably my favorite animals.