Who squashes the creepy crawlies in your home?

*I don't live alone, but I do the squashing.
My son is a big pussy so if anything is going to be squashed I'm going to be the one to do it.
*I don't squish, I catch and release.
Bees I will squash those suckers, things like crickets, lady bugs and even some spiders I catch and release.
*I hate squashing them.
I take no pleasure in squashing anything, it's gross

If I can catch it and send it on its way, I would rather do that. Most of the time, the cats get to it first.

I don't squish, I catch and release, OR I ignore them. Fortunately there is an exterminator the owner of the building hires to come in every few months in order to firmly discourage roaches and rats. Otherwise, with spiders, moths, little bugs, even mosquitoes, I usually hope they'll go outdoors. If a bug is catchable, I'll put it outdoors.

I don't squash them. I pick them up and throw them out the window. Or if they've pissed me off, I flush them down the toilet.

Mostly I do. My SO is scared of them, and I'm generally not. He's convinced that every spider is a brown recluse. When we lived in Boston, though, he had to kill the Creeping Horrors (aka house centipedes).

I do it out of a panicked request from the significant other. My cats do a good job, also.

generally me, My wife hates that

I live in my own apartement but my mother lives right below me...so I get her to squash them.

I've designated myself for that task.

Kinda depends on what it is. I am more likely to leave a spider alone, but the odd roachy looking bug cannot stay. I hate squashing them & make Anne do it. I have been known to catch and release for a lady bug or cricket.

Does your being Buddhist have to do with your catch & release or leave it be?

Uhm......house centipedes?



AH!! This?

I have to squash them, because my husband is a catch and release guy. He'll pick it up, look at it, show it to me and sit there holding it, while I'm freaking out that it might jump off him, or he might drop it. So now I just squish and wipe clean.

I pick the little buggers up on a piece of paper and set them free. When I lived at home with my family.. the same... no squashing.. However, my mom hates earwigs so much that she does flush them.. poor beasties...even though they are horrible..uuugh... my grandmother had one lurking in her inhaler once, she inhaled the bloody thing.. i think she managed to cough it out though out of sheer horror, thats enough to make anybody schitz out.

I don't live alone, but I do the squashing.

I don't squish, I catch and release.

I hate squashing them.

Other---Sometimes I just let them go about their business. I'd rather tell a spider to get lost than actually get close enough to touch it.... even with a tissue or a shoe. Plus, who am I to take his life? I only kill spiders that pose an immediate threat.... like in the shower when I'm naked and vulnerable, in the car where it might get on me when I'm paying attention to the road, or when it's particularly furry.

Isn't that a silverfish?

Nope... guess not... I looked it up.

We call those silverfish here... they tend to show up in basements... damp areas. But I just looked up silverfish and that's not it.

If I'm home alone, I do. If Caleb's home, I get him to.

Yup. Now you understand the nickname.

Silverfish are way less icky than Creeping Horrors.

Silverfish-


Earwig-

Yeah, it guess it does. Bad karma to kill something like a bug that's going about its own bizness and is not a real threat to me.

I wondered if it was just me who thought they were called Silverfish...

So I asked Ben.... who grew up on the other side of the tri-state.... and he called it a silverfish too... so I guess it's a regional thing.

Most of the time the cat eats them. This topic did remind me of something a colleague told me last month. It appears there's a fetish subculture out there who are turned-on by seeing women stepping on things like bugs, grapes, toy cars and such. I found one site here: http://www.clips4sale.com/store/1120 via a googlesearch. Looks like it could be an easy way to make some spare $$$ off pervs via Paypal girls! (grin)

My sister and I jst jst moved in together on satyrday. We're both wimps so it'll be interesting to see when our first 'spider in the bath' situation occurs.

Whoever runs across it. I keep my house sprayed good inside and outside, and everything is clean. So we don't ever see any bugs or spiders.

My husband.

The things we called silverfish when I was growing up were smaller and definitely more silver colored. They had far fewer legs as well. They were still pretty nasty, but nothing compared to the Horrors. The Horrors are more translucent in color, and filled with oozy goo. It makes me shudder just to think about them.

Other - we never get any. Except sometimes ants if it rains too much.

We don't squash the creepy crawlies. The creepy crawlies squash us.

I eat them

I don't live alone, but I do squash the ugly ones I see... he can squash his own. For some reason over the last couple weeks I've had over a dozen ladybugs crawling the window near my computer, inside the house. I've been catching and releasing them.

Are they more of an orangey color? Than a red ladybug. I get that problem on one window in our house. I think the orangey ones are actually a different beetle that just look like ladybugs.

> Are they more of an orangey color? Than a red
> ladybug. I get that problem on one window in our
> house. I think the orangey ones are actually a
> different beetle that just look like ladybugs.

Now that is a thought.... I should do some research into that. Yes, they are orange with two black dots. They sure look, fly, and sound (when they fly) like ladybugs.

Yeah, exactly, but they come a huge flock at just one window, one corner. I heard they're hard to get rid of.

The orange ones bite too! I hate them, I think they are taking over the "real" ladybugs, the little pests.

The only bugs that really bother me are bees. When one gets in the house we get the hairspray out, it stiffens the wings so they cant fly, then we squish them.

I've only seen them one at a time. Just many over a course of a couple weeks. Guess I'd better do some research in case they are destructive.

Bees don't bug me much... it's the damn yellowjackets that get me. They are aggressive and mean. On top of that, they can bite as well as sting, and they can sting more than once. I have to arm myself with that black can of Raid every time I go outside in the spring and summer, and do perimeter checks, spraying nests that I find.

I am now into catch and release all the way.

> Silverfish are way less icky than Creeping Horrors.

"Creeping Horrors" -- a fitting title!! But I think silverfish are much more icky, because I think they move faster, and when I've seen silverfish (my dorm basement in college) they traveled in large groups! *shudder*

Are you trying to give me nightmares posting these creepy pictures?!!

Are you a practicing Buddhist? I've been going to classes for the last six months and I'm really into it. I'm sure learning a lot and it's helping me feel less stressed about things that used to bother me.

Yes, practicing since 1969, but I just practice in my own home. A long time ago I'd go to a few meetings in people's homes. I do definitely think it makes one feel less stressed.

Having had dealings with both, I can definitively say that there is nothing worse than Creeping Horrors.

Yes, and to give Anne a good scare I made the Horror one as our desktop picture!

Wicked girl!!

Very.

I dont squashing. I catch and release.

When the try to climb in my bed with me at night I rolley polley them to death

Juicy spiders hee hee hee hee

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hse-fact/1030.html

We call them stink beetles or something.

I knew I liked you.

Have you had enough of bugs for awhile huh?

Yep, I think so!

Well, sorry. But I had saw the first of this years 'June bugs' I hate things. I suffer just looking at them. They just sit there clinging to the screen like morons. They don't move, until you open your front door, when they are the sneaky type. You can kill them because they are enormous and the sound and feeling is just too much for me. Luckily, Anne has no problem with crunchy gooey things. I will give a link so people who don't want to see any more bugs don't have to.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4562/junebug1yi.j...

Ick! We don't have those around here. Thanks for your consideration, but of course I had to click on the link!

What the heck. My post was full of boo boos. 'I had saw'? Yeah, you're lucky then. I'll find 5 on the screen sitting there hanging on. I'm not even sure how they live because they spend so much time like that. I hate moths and grasshoppers too.

I have been told this story. When I was very little, maybe 3 or 4, in the month of May, I was standing at the door and noticed the bugs on the screen. I asked my Nana what they were and she told me, 'Those are June bugs.' And thought for a minute, they always say, 'You could just see the wheels spinning.' Then I said, 'Well, they must have flown really fast.' Get it?

I hate insects of any kind they are so gross!! normally anybody in my house except for me will squish bugs.

Cuz they got there in May!! That's priceless!!

I don't like squishing them because they always fly at my face! I get my brother to kill them.

that is so hot how you describe killing bugs, it sounds as though you enjoy it. any comments?

I do not enjoy killing bugs. Actually, that's not true, I recently bought a tennis racket fly swatter that you put batteries in. Then when you swat the flies they get zapped. If you swat hard enough you see a small burst of electricity, frying the little things. I have to admit that is fun!! But squishing bugs is not my favorite thing to do overall. It usually gives me the willies.

perfect survey, i was just about to ask about a humane way to get rid of a rodent, despite the face that i have already given him a name and caught and threw him out once, he keeps coming back. i'm not dirty. i put all food in fridge that he could get into. i clean the dishes immediately. what to do? maybe if i put a plate outside he'll eat out there.

My husband. I scream, he comes and kills it. We've got it down pat.

I like to torture the spiders before killing them. Bleach. Household cleaner. Fire.

if the bug/insect is a spider, ant, bee, fly or ladybug, I take it back outside, it's my Native American way to do it...BUT if it's a frickin centipede, hubby has to deal with it and kill it for me...they are creepy...I don't care that they are beneficial to homes, they just need to die in my house...mice, my 3 cats take care of before I can get to them...