I squashed the wrong bug!

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This annoying fly just would not stop so I had to kill it. It was very elusive and I missed many times. It flew so fast, and sometimes it would stop somewhere and I would approach it, but only to miss. Its reflexes were just incredible. Hours later I saw it on my bathtub, and it did not appear to notice my presence. I could see it crawling slowly. I approached it quickly and squashed it, finally feeling relieved and even celebrating. Then when I looked at it, I realized it was just a harmless potato bug that did nothing wrong. I feel soooo bad. I can't get my mind off of it now. :(
 
prestokeys said:
This annoying fly just would not stop so I had to kill it. It was very elusive and I missed many times. It flew so fast, and sometimes it would stop somewhere and I would approach it, but only to miss. Its reflexes were just incredible. Hours later I saw it on my bathtub, and it did not appear to notice my presence. I could see it crawling slowly. I approached it quickly and squashed it, finally feeling relieved and even celebrating. Then when I looked at it, I realized it was just a harmless potato bug that did nothing wrong. I feel soooo bad. I can't get my mind off of it now. :(
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I wouldn't care to be in your shoes.
That species is notorious for identifying who it was that so callously squashed one of their number. They will remember. They will form a vengeance gang. They will be back.
No, I wouldn't be in your shoes.
 
I can only think of one instance when I came to regret about
killing a bug. It was probably some kind of dung beetle
that was feeding on some fecal matter on the toilet floor.
I'd rather not explain how that stuff ended up on the
floor but not inside the toilet bowel. Creepy they are
I usually try not to disturb the spiders in my residence
until I see the need to clear the spaces around them.
I also take a liking to ladybugs a beneficial beetle and
would avoid killing them.

Squashing a bug is too messy. I prefer to kill them
with an alcohol spray. With ants I capture them alive
and flush them away into the kitchen sink. Occassionaly
I'd use a steam cleaner if it came in handy.
 
Many years ago a friend & I were out on a porch toking up. There was a mid-sized spider web in a corner and as dusk was coming on, mosquitoes started coming out. We would catch them and then throw them into the web for the spider to pounce on and wrap up. We were starting to worry that the spider was going to do itself an injury from producing so much silk, but I'm sure it couldn't believe it's luck that evening. I don't regret in the slightest condemning the mosquitoes to a slow and horrible death.
 
One of those childhood memories you can replay in your mind like it was yesterday was my friend picked up a potato bug with both left and right thumb and index fingers. Lifted it up, then pulled it apart and at the same time uttered one word. "Guts."

It looked like pulling apart a warm caramel filled chocolate from a box of Pot of Gold.
 
Many years ago when my eyesight was still sharp I burned
a running ant alive in the backyard with a sunbeam focused
by a magnifying glass.
 
oil&gas said:
Many years ago when my eyesight was still sharp I burned
a running ant alive in the backyard with a sunbeam focused
by a magnifying glass.
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ewwwwwwwwwwwww, torture chamber for some of you guys. I am not so sure ladies go to such extremes. When I see a spider i usually wad up a piece of toilet paper and go after it and then do a quick flush praying i got it so it won't exact revenge. Ants I step on or I let my cats play with and torture to death. I eat a lot of fruit so in the summertime get the inevitalve nuisance fruitflies that fly in the path of my eyes and hum in my ears. Now bugs are one thing but I cannot take worms which I found while husking some corn one time. I wear gloves for that task now. There are also worms inside of peppers sometimes so I get really grossed out.
 
[video]http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/inside-breaking-bad-310-fly[/video]
 
I don't normally kill bugs but at home i kill: flies, mosquitos and these ugly ugly centipieds with very long legs they gross me and move very fast. Those little very slow moving aramadillo looking bugs in the bathroom I let go....
 
Marla said:
ewwwwwwwwwwwww, torture chamber for some of you guys. I am not so sure ladies go to such extremes. When I see a spider i usually wad up a piece of toilet paper and go after it and then do a quick flush praying i got it so it won't exact revenge. Ants I step on or I let my cats play with and torture to death. I eat a lot of fruit so in the summertime get the inevitalve nuisance fruitflies that fly in the path of my eyes and hum in my ears. Now bugs are one thing but I cannot take worms which I found while husking some corn one time. I wear gloves for that task now. There are also worms inside of peppers sometimes so I get really grossed out.
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Well just last night Marla, I grabbed some moistened tissue and ended the life of a wayward fly in her kitchen. It was crawling on the kitchen floor after it was annoying us just earlier. It seems he ran out of steam, so this was the time for me to pounce on it and end it's wretched life.

I usually use a fly swatter and terminate in a swift manner. No pain I'm sure.

However, as a kid, I recall catching one, and inserting the fly in a pickle jar that's sealed tight. After a while, it will die of lack of oxygen. They will live longer with holes poked through the cap, but without food or water, they will also eventually die.

Now I trap flies and release them into the country.......................not!

(One of the scariest movies of all time was the original Fly).
 
Twister said:
I don't normally kill bugs but at home i kill: flies, mosquitos and these ugly ugly centipieds with very long legs they gross me and move very fast. Those little very slow moving aramadillo looking bugs in the bathroom I let go....
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I've squished a few of those within a dampened tissue or flush them down the toilet or surprise them while they are loitering in a sink with a sudden rush of hot water. (I don't have those in my home but have seen them in my mother's basement, and she keeps a very clean house).
 
Marla said:
I eat a lot of fruit so in the summertime get the inevitalve nuisance fruitflies that fly in the path of my eyes and hum in my ears.
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One way to get rid of fruit flies is to get a large soft drink bottle and cut a slit the side near the top. Drop your fruit rinds in and leave the bottle top open. Soon the bottle will be filled with fruit flies. Come along every couple of hours and close the top with a cap and give the bottle a shake to kill the flies. There will be a new batch fruit flies along in a couple of hours.
 
Doctor Zoidburg said:
One way to get rid of fruit flies is to get a large soft drink bottle and cut a slit the side near the top. Drop your fruit rinds in and leave the bottle top open. Soon the bottle will be filled with fruit flies. Come along every couple of hours and close the top with a cap and give the bottle a shake to kill the flies. There will be a new batch fruit flies along in a couple of hours.
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Such an insidious plan (but I like it). We get fruit flies at work sometimes. Now do you just put fruit rinds in without adding water or other liquid?
 
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