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Title: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: ToxicAdam on August 15, 2014, 12:41:52 PM
I was shooting hoops last night and noticed a horsefly hanging onto the basketball pole for a bit. I was overcome by this primal urge to kill it. Without even thinking about it much, I kicked off my sandal and wapped it dead. 

I just found it so strange that I was so compelled to kill this thing that really posed no threat to me.

Which insect is it for you?

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Post by: Steve Contra on August 15, 2014, 12:44:06 PM
These fuckers can get me shrieking like a little girl:

(http://getridofhousecentipedes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/house-centipede-300x225.jpg)
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 15, 2014, 12:44:56 PM
wasps and the other insects and bugs.  Actually anything that isn't a mammal and I wouldn't keep as a pet.
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Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 12:46:25 PM
Mosquitos and wasps, common housefly if it insists on flying past the opened window I'm trying to coax it through.

Anything that flies right at my face in general.
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Post by: king of the internet on August 15, 2014, 12:48:39 PM
I hate bugs with a passion but I just can't bring myself to smush them. I'll usually just scoop them up with a kleenex and throw them into the trash or something. I'm weak. :fbm
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Post by: Brehvolution on August 15, 2014, 12:49:52 PM
Horseflies deserve death. Along with hornets, mosquitos, house flies, fruit flies. Pretty much anything that isn't supposed to be in the house.
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Post by: archnemesis on August 15, 2014, 12:52:34 PM
I kill mosquito and wasps on sight. Most other insects get a friendly ride outside.
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Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 12:53:12 PM
Fruit flies, good point. Merciless mass murder using a glass of juice and a funnel or drop of soap to break the surface tension.
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Post by: Take My Breh Away on August 15, 2014, 12:54:02 PM
I hate bugs with a passion but I just can't bring myself to smush them. I'll usually just scoop them up with a kleenex and throw them into the trash or something. I'm weak. :fbm

I just do that with the bro-insects like Spiders and Bees. There is a bush filled with bees near where my car is parked and they just chill on the bush whenever I walk by. I even let some Spiders hang out on the ceiling for a week during a hot spell and they got around five flies for me before I moved them on. I ain't gonna kill something with a positive contribution to society.

Wasps and flies are just assholes who get the business end of a RAID can tho' 
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: ToxicAdam on August 15, 2014, 12:54:40 PM
Oh yea, I forgot about fruit flies. It's a good test of the ninja skills when I catch them in mid-air.

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Post by: Kara on August 15, 2014, 12:57:49 PM
Only ants, really.

Like if a spider is in my bathtub I'll go get a cup and take it outside. :snoop
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Post by: G The Resurrected on August 15, 2014, 01:09:56 PM
I'm permanently scared all over my legs due to fleas. They are in a category known as "burn it all" in which I'll most likely go to jail due to arson. So fleas, bed bugs, ticks, and all those freaky parasite carrying bugs can all go fuck themselves.

I'm cool with most spiders. I've been bitten twice by brown recluse and have been lucky. But I understand they are natures equalizer and are there to eat the pesky bugs. Too bad they can't get rid of my slug problem in my garden.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on August 15, 2014, 01:13:11 PM
Mosquitoes. Those fuckers are the devil.
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Post by: king of the internet on August 15, 2014, 01:13:24 PM
Mosquito bastards

Okay, I will murder the fuck out of mosquitos.
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Post by: benjipwns on August 15, 2014, 01:15:42 PM
Anything above a certain size I can't take the chance that it's some kind of bug monster like from Men in Black.

Also anything that has like weird gross dangly things.

I set up demarcation lines with spiders usually, let them have a corner to catch all the little crap that comes through the screens at night. But they can't move too far out of it.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 15, 2014, 01:17:54 PM
Children.  I would curb stomp those fuckers if it weren't illegal.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on August 15, 2014, 01:18:26 PM
JayDubya
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Post by: Reb on August 15, 2014, 01:51:35 PM
Those little worms you find in your poop.
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Post by: Shaka Khan on August 15, 2014, 01:51:40 PM
+1 for centipedes. I've broken furniture from scare jumps. Real talk.
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Post by: Mupepe on August 15, 2014, 01:54:24 PM
Mexicans and roaches.  For both of these, if you don't squish them early and let them breed they become unstoppable.
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Post by: Shaka Khan on August 15, 2014, 02:11:18 PM
Does this fucker count?

(http://www.imgur.com/5yHfqZt.jpeg)

I literally just found it in my sandals. #3rdworldproblems
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Post by: king of the internet on August 15, 2014, 02:13:20 PM
Please don't hurt the lizard.  :(
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Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 02:18:52 PM
Yeah, tiny lizards are cool. :uguu
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 02:19:39 PM
But if he does, he gets to go to heaven!
So why's the US not air-dropping them over Iraq?
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: Shaka Khan on August 15, 2014, 02:20:38 PM
He was already smeared on the bottom of my sandal by the time I posted the photo. #sorrynotsorry
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Post by: Brehvolution on August 15, 2014, 02:26:25 PM
Islam 11:10 "Seeketh out the heaven lizard. alu akbar"
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 02:34:26 PM
He was already smeared on the bottom of my sandal by the time I posted the photo. #sorrynotsorry
.___________________.
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: PigSpeakers on August 15, 2014, 02:39:30 PM
I had this horrible flying ant infestation INSIDE my house the other day. There was just a swarm on my floor in the hallway. I ran to the store and bought some murder spray. I haven't seen any since, but I'm sure they're just in hiding. Waiting.
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Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on August 15, 2014, 02:43:08 PM
Fuck roaches, wasps, horseflies and mosquitos.
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Post by: Squiddy on August 15, 2014, 02:43:28 PM
Flies and mosquitoes.

Spiders I will go out of my way to safely catch & release.
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Post by: Fifstar on August 15, 2014, 05:21:00 PM
Mosquitos mos def. I will catch spiders in a glass and put em outside (throw em out the window more like) though.
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 15, 2014, 05:25:03 PM
Fuck a mosquito, fuck a silverfish.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 15, 2014, 05:27:22 PM
Mosquitoes
Wasps/Yellow Jackets

Dead on sight

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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 06:03:45 PM
He was already smeared on the bottom of my sandal by the time I posted the photo. #sorrynotsorry

You squished the whole damn thing? Brutal. I mean, you realize the clean up's going to be worse than just shooing it outside?
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Post by: Dickie Dee on August 15, 2014, 06:07:38 PM
I got stung by a Wasp on my pinky finger back in high school while playing hacky-sack at lunch. My hand swelled up to the size of a baseball glove. So fuck Wasps.
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 15, 2014, 06:16:07 PM
Ain't nobody got time for mosquitos and wasps.
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Post by: PigSpeakers on August 15, 2014, 06:44:12 PM
Last summer I just could not get rid of the fruit flies in my house. I disinfected everything from top to bottom, made sure to clean all dishes immediately after using them, went through the cupboards looking for anything they might be subsisting on, and just couldn't figure it out.

After about two weeks I found this bag of onions that my roommate had bought months before and stuffed between the fridge and the oven. The whole bottom layer had rotted, and the flies were coming from that. I threw it out, and the problem vanished.

But for those two weeks I was the Pol Pot of the insect realm.

Last year it was fruit flies. I remember going to grab a bread roll out of a bag. This was a fresh bag from the day before. The inside was absolutely swarmed with the little jerks.

As I was typing this post, another flying ant came into my room and hit the window. They reemerged from their little home in the wall earlier and I had to take care of them.
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on August 15, 2014, 06:45:51 PM
It's all love between me and insects/spiders. I run a catch and release program almost exclusively. Personally only go for the kill with particularly dangerous guys. Your black widows, brown recluses. Everything else I'll pick up and move outside or try to guide out a window.

Friend made me kill a spider in her kitchen a few weeks ago. Felt awful about it. These hostilities will only end when we stop using disproportionate force against insects. Otherwise we're dropping bombs on women and children while the real villains get exactly what they want.
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 06:47:20 PM
I know we're not supposed to kill spiders, but...ugh. Don't we all eat a few in our sleep every year or something? Ick.
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Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 06:55:46 PM
That eating spiders thing is complete nonsense.
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp

Last summer I just could not get rid of the fruit flies in my house. I disinfected everything from top to bottom, made sure to clean all dishes immediately after using them, went through the cupboards looking for anything they might be subsisting on, and just couldn't figure it out.

After about two weeks I found this bag of onions that my roommate had bought months before and stuffed between the fridge and the oven. The whole bottom layer had rotted, and the flies were coming from that. I threw it out, and the problem vanished.

But for those two weeks I was the Pol Pot of the insect realm.

If it ever happens again, just fill a glass with juice of any kind and put a drop of dish soap into it. They will all happily commit suicide.
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 07:02:48 PM
TIL we don't actually eat spiders. Thanks, Rufus  :lol

I hadn't heard about the soap and vinegar trap until about a year ago. We were at a gardening store looking at something that had the same chemicals but was like $7. Someone passing by told us about the much cheaper equivalent.
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Post by: Dickie Dee on August 15, 2014, 07:08:46 PM
I spent a week at our family cottage and someone had picked up a few of these electric fly swatters. The untold satisfaction :lawd

(http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/116842/5094534/0/1240628427/Electric_Fly_Swatter_CE_Rohs_pass.jpg)

NOW I AM BECOME DEATH
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 07:10:16 PM
I wonder if those would work to keep our cats off the dining room table.
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Post by: Kara on August 15, 2014, 08:54:25 PM
Friend made me kill a spider in her kitchen a few weeks ago. Felt awful about it. These hostilities will only end when we stop using disproportionate force against insects. Otherwise we're dropping bombs on women and children while the real villains get exactly what they want.

:clap
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Post by: RowRow on August 15, 2014, 09:11:52 PM
cockroach I see is cockroach that dies, I'm the cockroach slayer
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Post by: bachikarn on August 15, 2014, 09:12:48 PM
If I could destroy every wasp on the planet, I would.
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 09:16:22 PM
There was a story I ran across a few days ago where some Japanese dude had trained a giant wasp into wearing a leash. Jumpin Jesus Christ that thing was huge. Thank Allah I live in a part of the world where insects are miniscule.
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Post by: Rufus on August 15, 2014, 09:23:31 PM
There was a story I ran across a few days ago where some Japanese dude had trained a giant wasp into wearing a leash. Jumpin Jesus Christ that thing was huge. Thank Allah I live in a part of the world where insects are miniscule.
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Venom

The Japanese giant hornet is large and very aggressive, especially if provoked. It has a venom which is injected by the 6.25 mm-long (quarter-inch) stinger and attacks the nervous system and damages tissues of its victims.[2] Tests with mice find the venom not to be the most lethal, having an LD50 of 4.0 mg/kg, which compares to the deadliest wasp venom (to mice) by weight of Vespa luctuosa at 1.6 mg/kg. The potency of the sting is due to the relatively large amount of venom injected.[4] Being stung is extremely painful and can require hospital treatment. Asian giant hornet stings in general can cause anaphylactic shock in allergic people, and can be lethal even to people who are not allergic if the dose is sufficient. Advice in China is that people stung more than 10 times need medical help, and emergency treatment for more than 30 stings. The stings can cause renal failure.[5] Thirty to forty people die in Japan every year after having been stung,[2][6] which makes the Japanese giant hornet the second most lethal animal in Japan after humans[7] (bears kill zero to five people[8] and venomous snakes kill five to ten people each year).
(http://i.imgur.com/UUIHCiz.gif)
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 09:25:44 PM
He claimed he'd removed the stinger with tweezers. He posted a lot of pictures of the wasp perched on various objects and I guess most people think it's fake. Damn, I can't find that page anymore. Maybe it was on Reddit.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 15, 2014, 10:20:31 PM
http://bugasalt.com/
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 15, 2014, 10:23:20 PM
http://bugasalt.com/

:ohhh
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 10:28:27 PM
Oh my God. Do you have one of these, Eel? How well do they work?
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 10:30:36 PM
That would be a great public works project, to exterminate those wasps.
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 10:47:33 PM
Are we talking African killer bee aggressive?
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on August 15, 2014, 10:52:02 PM
Yeeeeeesh I'm glad we don't have bugs like that here.
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 10:55:13 PM
Cordoning off a park because of insects. I thought that only happened in Australia.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 15, 2014, 11:04:58 PM
Oh my God. Do you have one of these, Eel? How well do they work?

No, but I sure do want one!
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Post by: Rusty Shackleford on August 15, 2014, 11:07:36 PM
Reminds me of that Family Guy skit where Peter's got a rifle in bed shooting at a fly. "Come in my house, will you?" *BLAM*
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Post by: Dickie Dee on August 15, 2014, 11:52:28 PM
Cockroaches and mosquitoes get no mercy, flies can live if they piss off, otherwise I run a catch and release as well.

And the oosuzumebachi (giant wasps)?  They get my fear and infinite respect.  I will literally cross the street or stay inside my house to avoid going near one.  I'm super racist against them.  I had one fly in my window a few years ago, thought he went back out so i closed the window.  Woke up the next morning to hear a giant buzzing sound... slide open the door to my living room, fuckin' thing is flying circles in there.  So I head out to the balcony, open the door from outside, and out he goes.

NOPE

FUCKING NOPE

Only vaguely remember hearing about these but NOOOOOOOOOOOPPPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7Q1ncgcoY

Edit: Plot twist at the end though. Motha Nature  :mynicca
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Post by: a slime appears on August 16, 2014, 11:21:38 AM
I kill all insects if I catch them inside my house. I actively hunt and kill bees/wasps as well near my house. No mercy, no fear, just death.
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Post by: Fifstar on August 16, 2014, 11:41:01 AM
Killing bees  :comeon
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Post by: a slime appears on August 16, 2014, 11:49:35 AM
I guess you never heard of the Africanized Bee (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0307/100-000-killer-bees-attack-Florida-park-rangers).

They are fucking vicious, love to swarm, and if you get even close to their nest they will light your ass up. Regular bees are cool though, I guess I should've been more specific.
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Post by: Fifstar on August 16, 2014, 12:45:43 PM
Heard about them, but didn't think about them when you said that. My mum has a couple of bee hives (normal bees obviously) and they are absolutly peaceful, you can stand a couple meters away from the hives and the bees don't care about you.
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Post by: chronovore on August 16, 2014, 07:16:45 PM
Cockroaches and mosquitoes get no mercy, flies can live if they piss off, otherwise I run a catch and release as well.

And the oosuzumebachi (giant wasps)?  They get my fear and infinite respect.  I will literally cross the street or stay inside my house to avoid going near one.  I'm super racist against them.  I had one fly in my window a few years ago, thought he went back out so i closed the window.  Woke up the next morning to hear a giant buzzing sound... slide open the door to my living room, fuckin' thing is flying circles in there.  So I head out to the balcony, open the door from outside, and out he goes.

NOPE

FUCKING NOPE
I saw my first one of these up in the mountains a couple weeks ago. The fuckers are a little bigger than the size of my pinky finger. I didn't think, just moved away at a brisk pace. It was one of those Dark Souls moments when the enemy is revealed in line-of-sight, and the player is just all: NOPE. I would have Homeward Bone'd if I'd had one. Jesus.

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:noooo
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There was a story I ran across a few days ago where some Japanese dude had trained a giant wasp into wearing a leash. Jumpin Jesus Christ that thing was huge. Thank Allah I live in a part of the world where insects are miniscule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGl7855RA8

about a minute into this, there's the Oosuzumebachi wrecking a normal wasp nest.  :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF1sphwTBrc
Title: Re: Which insect gets no mercy from you?
Post by: Yeti on August 16, 2014, 08:04:16 PM
I had a palmetto bug attack me in the shower once, I bludgeoned it to death with a shampoo bottle.