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11 Jan 2016, 1:59 pm

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Every life form on the planet deserves to live. I'll at least give it a chance to fly out the door before I kill it.


You couldn't survive much more than 3 weeks or so without consuming some life form.


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11 Jan 2016, 2:27 pm

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I would never bring harm onto an insect of any type. Indeed, when I find an arthropod invader in my home, I simply pick the poor thing up and sit it outside. :D
I bring bugs outside when I'm able to catch them but it's a lot easier to kill a fly than it is to catch it.


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11 Jan 2016, 2:32 pm

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Austinfrom1995 wrote:
I would never bring harm onto an insect of any type. Indeed, when I find an arthropod invader in my home, I simply pick the poor thing up and sit it outside. :D
I bring bugs outside when I'm able to catch them but it's a lot easier to kill a fly than it is to catch it.


Yeah. I know insects and such are the equivalent of a laptop in terms of intelligence, watch the video where a wasp gets tricked into an endless loop, but I get sentimental sometimes. It's really easy to catch them against a window. It's also better not to get their guts all over the location they get swatted.



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11 Jan 2016, 2:45 pm

when I worked in the operating room, when a fly would get in there somebody would pick up a can of benzoin spray [antiseptic used for bandaging incisions] and spray at it, its wings would stick together and it would fall in place, then we'd pick it up and dispose of it.



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11 Jan 2016, 5:34 pm

If it's annoying me, it has to go.



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11 Jan 2016, 6:05 pm

flee from thee, filthy fly!

disturbing my peace is a buzzing fly
until it is gone my plans are awry
if it crash-lands in my soup i will cry
its continued buzzing i can't abide
it cannot be part of the food i'll fry
so a clean kill with no splat i will try
my vacuum will suck it up nice and dry
and the next fly had better be more shy.

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11 Jan 2016, 6:24 pm

That's pretty good auntblabby. :)



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11 Jan 2016, 6:25 pm

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That's pretty good auntblabby. :)

why thank you, my good man! :flower:



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11 Jan 2016, 7:49 pm

If every single bug and insect lived its whole life cycle there would be so many of them the world would be destroyed, so we shouldn't feel too guilty for prematurely ending their lives.

Of course, humans in developed countries are living long lives more than ever now, so I guess we're not much better. :(



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11 Jan 2016, 8:02 pm

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If every single bug and insect lived its whole life cycle there would be so many of them the world would be destroyed, so we shouldn't feel too guilty for prematurely ending their lives.

Of course, humans in developed countries are living long lives more than ever now, so I guess we're not much better. :(

in terms of possible highly advanced alien life, we could be [the equivalent of] THEIR insects. :o



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12 Jan 2016, 6:31 am

I've been told that I look like someone who couldn't hurt a fly.
However, I killed at least hundreds of flies.


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12 Jan 2016, 11:29 am

nick007 wrote:
Austinfrom1995 wrote:
I would never bring harm onto an insect of any type. Indeed, when I find an arthropod invader in my home, I simply pick the poor thing up and sit it outside. :D
I bring bugs outside when I'm able to catch them but it's a lot easier to kill a fly than it is to catch it.


Well than by that logic it's easier to kill a stray cat than it is to cage it.

Insects lives matter too.


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12 Jan 2016, 3:09 pm

When we were kids my brother used to tell me lovely things about houseflies, like how they regurgitate on their food before eating it. One time as we were watching a fly eating he told me it was probably retching violently and we just couldn't hear it. :eew:

The proboscis on houseflies grosses me out, both for the above reason and its phallic appearance. My brother also said that whenever I saw flies rubbing their two hind legs together they were defecating. Thank you, big brother, I guess I'm qualified to be an entomologist now. :roll:



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12 Jan 2016, 3:26 pm

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12 Jan 2016, 3:40 pm

yep, flies are troublesome. that's why I never hurt spiders (this includes putting spiders outside because if the spider is inside they came in for a reason, and many are adapted to live in interior places anyway so putting them outside just f***s with them).



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12 Jan 2016, 4:12 pm

my dad was almost killed by a spider [cellulitis from a bite] so I am leary of letting them stay indoors at least in my sight. IOW they'd better be shy if they wanna remain warm and dry.