Would you ever hurt a fly?

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10 Jan 2016, 3:48 pm

Farmers usually don’t kill ladybugs because they eat plant lice, which are a real pest. There’s more to it than looking nice.

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10 Jan 2016, 3:50 pm

ladybugs are nice

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10 Jan 2016, 4:10 pm

Spiderpig wrote:

Farmers usually don’t kill ladybugs because they eat plant lice, which are a real pest. There’s more to it than looking nice.

And spiders eat all sorts of pests that could cause devastation to crops, but people have no problems squashing those to smithereens. It seems sadistic to me.

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10 Jan 2016, 4:21 pm

I catch spiders in the house and gently place them outside.

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10 Jan 2016, 5:07 pm

No, but I'd kill and eat a lion.

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10 Jan 2016, 5:10 pm

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.

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10 Jan 2016, 5:32 pm

<--- Would never hurt a fly or wasp or cockroach or ant or bedbug or whatever. Jain to the bone.

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10 Jan 2016, 5:36 pm

Ishi2 wrote:

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.

the problem is getting them to cooperate with your plan to shoo them out the door, they will go everywhere BUT the door.

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10 Jan 2016, 7:13 pm

I'd kill em if I had the chance but I usually don't. Has anyone tried the Bug-A-Salt :?: I'd imagine they'd be very hard to hit sense they're so small.

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11 Jan 2016, 6:14 am

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.

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11 Jan 2016, 6:33 am

I do, but I don't use fly swatters. My dogs' flea spray causes quick death to flies and I can zap them with it while they're in mid-air. I'm just careful before I spray to make sure no food is laying around in the area.

After being hit with this stuff, flies fall to the floor fast where I just step on them.

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11 Jan 2016, 1:15 pm

I don't care if they live or die, i care about about one thing: do they feel fear and pain like me and cows and chickens and fish? i think no cause they lack bla bla ( insert scientific big words here)

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11 Jan 2016, 1:56 pm

equestriatola wrote:

Um, I kill spiders? Does that count?

Spiders, with a couple of exceptions in the US, are harmless and eat other, more harmful bugs. Like flies.

Flies spread disease.

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11 Jan 2016, 1:59 pm

Ishi2 wrote:

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

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.

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

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.

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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