Bugs, Dirt and other Nasties...

[Moros]

Nope bugs or dirt don't gimme the creeps. As long as I don't have to eat it, I can't be bothered by them. I usually clean my room and my bureau enough, so I don't have many bugs, but if there are I just leave them if they leave me.
Spiders for example, I just let them be, let them kill the bugs and there are thousands in every house anyway, so killing them is impossible anyway.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Bugs are cool, especially spiders, except those caterpillars which come in great force every seven years or so, but those don't creep me out I just kill them by the hundreds to save our trees.

[doc_bean]

Bugs rarely annoy me, but zooming insects at night have certainly angered me

One of the reasons I'm not likely to kill (small) spiders, I hope they catch whatever flies around. I used to be afraid of spiders when I was little, but I see their use now

[Subedei]

I hate mosquitos...by heart. they are pretty much the only bugs i try to hunt down. I don´t mind spiders . They are on my side!

I once read in a paper that the average Western citizen swallows while sleeping around 6-7 spiders in his live.....Bon apetite!!!

[AntiochusIII]

Spiders for example, I just let them be, let them kill the bugs and there are thousands in every house anyway, so killing them is impossible anyway.

Come to think of it, I actually *like* the spiders.

They never bother me the way crickets (very little, live and let live, but if I see you you die), flies (moderate, I don't like my food "touched"), or cockroaches do (very high...almost a phobia really or may be it is ; damn bastards). Like Subedei said, these guys are allies!

Subedei: That comment is actually a very old and classic example of an urban legend actually.

[I of the Storm]

Spiders are good for you. They are almost as venerable as the almighty camel. I'm keen on keeping them in my place. If it's getting too much, I take away some of their webs or if they overpopulate, I take a few of them out of the house but generally I let them go about their business.

I'm not much of an insect killer anyway, I even let the common house flies escape. Except gnats. For them it's sudden death.

[R'as al Ghul]

I'm not much of an insect killer anyway, I even let the common house flies escape. Except gnats. For them it's sudden death.

Way to go. We generally leave a spider or two in every room. If they venture to places we don't like them to be I'll escort them outside with a glass. Same with other insects. Agree about the gnats, though. BTW, the spiders let their finished prey fall down. If you don't clean up after them it can pile up.

[Subedei]

Subedei: That comment is actually a very old and classic example of an urban legend actually.

O.k., so no actual unconscious midnight-snacks?

But do you guys realize how good we treat animals? Carry them out with glasses [I am doing the same, even if it is hard to get the little buggers in there!]. We are sending thousands of men to war and death without raising an eyebrow, but we carry our little 6-leged friends out of our houses!!!

[Mikeus Caesar]

I don't mind bugs being in my house, it's when they're in my hair that it's horrid. Some jackass of a 'friend' has given me and lots of other people headlice. Horrid little sods, it's horrid to scratch your head and have a bug fall out, engorged on your blood.

Satisfying to crush them beneath your fingernails though. A nice pop as your stolen blood squirts out.

[I of the Storm]

Oh, that reminds me of something: flea!!

Had them twice in my place. I have not the slightest remorse about using whatever possible horrid things against them. Preferably the biggest, ugliest chemical club. They're a pain in the ***.

They pop nice too when you crush them.

[Sigurd]

Man!!!

I sometimes wonder what kind of country people lives in that see the necessity of keeping spiders in the house to kill other bugs.
I used to live in Aussie... I have never been more scared of insects since. Not knowing the fauna of the nation you live in is scary. You see a bug or somthing and wonder: Is that dangerous for my kid?
We deliberately lived on the third floor in the middle of the city in a new built apartment complex (first resident in the flat). Those damned Australians keep a slit at the bottom of the frontdoor. What an insane idea with all that creepy crawling things found there.
Our first appartment with the frontdoor out to the streets on the ground floor was a nightmare and we didn't stay there very long.

I am glad I live in a new house in a cold land. No bugs and the occational stray fly that promptly leaves either by window or death.

[R'as al Ghul]

I sometimes wonder what kind of country people lives in that see the necessity of keeping spiders in the house to kill other bugs.

Well, in my case it's not a necessity. It's more a "let live" mentality.
Creatures in my household in Germany:

• ladybug
• green lacewing
• common fly
• fruit fly (comes with the fresh fruit)
• moth
• crane fly (daddy longlegs)
• gnats/mosquitos
• sometimes Opiliones (better known as "harvestmen")
• I don't know what the spiders are called but they are harmless
• there're some other "real" bugs but I don't have time to translate names and some I don't even know. All harmless creatures that get lost indoors when attracted by lights

Oh, and I only keep those spiders that behave. Meaning those sitting up in a corner in their net waiting. Those hunting spiders that run everywhere to catch their prey freak my girlfriend out. And I admit I feel uncomfortable with them, too. Then there're those that my father breeds in his pile of firewood. If you can hear them walk they're too large.
I reckon in Oz you'd need one or two of those nasty non-endemic frogs that eat everything.

R'as