I hate the bug haters

Neither roaches, earwigs, nor crickets are beetles. Just FYI. :slight_smile:

Bees are our friends

However when your house becomes infested by THESE it’s “take no prisoners” time. I’ve killed five in my bathroom in the last two days. All males who are aggressive, venomous and will attack.

Thank YOU for starting this thread. I understand that bugs are creepy looking and scary, but you gotta realize they’re JUST BUGS.

I only really hate moths, flies, and cicadas. Why? Because these bugs fly into my face alot. I don’t kill them, I usually swat them away from me and leave the area.
Flies are just icky to me. To me they’re just little germ carriers that love to pester me.

Spiders are cool.

Earwigs, crickets, and scorpions just wig me out completely…

…but I’ll still carry them outside rather than kill them.

I don’t fully understand the bug-squashing concept… squished bugs are disgusting! It’s so much cleaner to just chuck them out the door!

BAH HA HA HA HA!!! Sorry, not possible. I turn into Homer Simpson after he’s been hypnotized at the mere sight of any stinging insect. Childhood trauma.

You haven’t had any presents, have you, Opal? When I had a herd of inside kitties, they decided to bring me a gift. As I awoke, my fuzzy eyes focused on a brown thing about the size of 1949 Buick on my pillow, several inches from my face. Naked man leaps backwards from the bed and is now doing his best impression of fight promoter Don King, while the collective fuzzlot purrs appreciatively. The offending object was a brown cricket who suffered death by play, death by catspit, or a combination. Interment was private, via the toilet.

I don’t really mind bugs, particularly spiders, so long as they aren’t trying to hurt my house or it’s contents. The banned list includes: carpenter ants, carpenter bees (you can tell them from the ordinary variety by looking for their tool belts, hard hats and crass comments made to the female of their species, such as Yo Baby! Nice pollen. Lemme come over and check out your hive, silverfish, and the aforementioned cricket. Flies are not welcome, because they’re flies. Centipedes and millipedes have always been on my don’t come inside list, just because.

My cats eat any bugs they catch, and are stingy with presents. They express their love with inconvenient snuggling positions at inconvenient moments instead.

Bees are ok.

Wasps are thugs and not welcome.

Everyone hates midges and mozzies.

But moths are evil incarnate. They sew their little moth tombs in the halls of satan himself and emerge as the undead to do his bidding. This consists primarily of beating their little mummified dry wings against light bulbs or in your face.

I like cats. Cats eat spiders.

I worked in an animal shelter, and occasionally we would get these icky looking fuzzy spiders. The cats were allowed to roam around the place, and they ate the 8-legged beasts of Satan right up.