Again with the Great Grey Hunter

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Jo Firey wrote:

My chief aversion to the squish factor is I know exactly who is
going to be cleaning up the squishee.

Well, no wonder most men don't have an aversion to that.

Personally, I hate the *crunch* factor. But I would hate making them
die in agony even more - then I'm not only grossed out, I'm also upset
that I'm causing a being to suffer. I just want to dispatch with them
quickly. I have been known to kill a bug by dropping an unabridged
dictionary on it.

Listen, Joyce, some creatures deserve to die in agony. Leaches, for
example, ought to be sprinkled with salt. --JB

Actually, I don't get many bugs in my apartment that would bother me.
Spiders crawl on the ceiling or high up on the wall, and I wouldn't
even notice them if not for Roxy and Smudge going ballistic over them.
I just leave them up there - they don't seem to have much interest in
the lower altitudes in my apartment. I think they sense what their fate
would be if they came down to cat level

Concurr. My attitude toward spiders is: if they are finding something to
live on, they're welcome to it. --JB

Sometimes I get the little ants that come in for the cat food. Those
guys come in by the thousands, and that bothers me, but there's no
point in killing them, either, because there are many thousands more
outside, just waiting to come in. Whenever I get infested by ants, I
just become extremely anal about cleaning, so there's nothing for the
ants to eat. They then leave my house out of boredom.

I'm glad that I don't get any of the weird and large creepy-crawlies
that people in other parts of the country and the world seem to get.
We might have 7.1 earthquakes here in San Francisco, but by god, we
don't get any really bad bugs!

Joyce

That was one of the many, many things I loved about living in Bay area,
Joyce (San Carlos, then Sunnyvale) back in the 80's......too bad we couldn't
afford to buy housing the and from my relatives still there, I hear
matters have gotten even worse with living expenses sky-high and so many
tech workers (my nephews included) long out of work in S. Valley, and
reduced to manual labor in Fresno area......we returned to south FL *only*
to be able to buy a house (people have returned for stranger reasons than
that).


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: Jo Firey wrote:
:
: My chief aversion to the squish factor is I know exactly who is
: going to be cleaning up the squishee.
:
: Well, no wonder most men don't have an aversion to that.
:
: Personally, I hate the *crunch* factor. But I would hate making them
: die in agony even more - then I'm not only grossed out, I'm also upset
: that I'm causing a being to suffer. I just want to dispatch with them
: quickly. I have been known to kill a bug by dropping an unabridged
: dictionary on it.
:
: Actually, I don't get many bugs in my apartment that would bother me.
: Spiders crawl on the ceiling or high up on the wall, and I wouldn't
: even notice them if not for Roxy and Smudge going ballistic over them.
: I just leave them up there - they don't seem to have much interest in
: the lower altitudes in my apartment. I think they sense what their fate
: would be if they came down to cat level.
:
: Sometimes I get the little ants that come in for the cat food. Those
: guys come in by the thousands, and that bothers me, but there's no
: point in killing them, either, because there are many thousands more
: outside, just waiting to come in. Whenever I get infested by ants, I
: just become extremely anal about cleaning, so there's nothing for the
: ants to eat. They then leave my house out of boredom.
:
: I'm glad that I don't get any of the weird and large creepy-crawlies
: that people in other parts of the country and the world seem to get.
: We might have 7.1 earthquakes here in San Francisco, but by god, we
: don't get any really bad bugs!
:
: Joyce

In my house there are many extremely tiny ants - smaller than a flea, and
they bite - that are carnivorous. All I have to do is set an overturn a cup
on any large bug on the carpet, and within hours, its body will have been
totally consumed by the little bitty ants.

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Jo Firey wrote:

My chief aversion to the squish factor is I know exactly who is
going to be cleaning up the squishee.

Well, no wonder most men don't have an aversion to that.

Personally, I hate the *crunch* factor. But I would hate making them
die in agony even more - then I'm not only grossed out, I'm also upset
that I'm causing a being to suffer. I just want to dispatch with them
quickly. I have been known to kill a bug by dropping an unabridged
dictionary on it.

Actually, I don't get many bugs in my apartment that would bother me.
Spiders crawl on the ceiling or high up on the wall, and I wouldn't
even notice them if not for Roxy and Smudge going ballistic over them.
I just leave them up there - they don't seem to have much interest in
the lower altitudes in my apartment. I think they sense what their fate
would be if they came down to cat level.

Sometimes I get the little ants that come in for the cat food. Those
guys come in by the thousands, and that bothers me, but there's no
point in killing them, either, because there are many thousands more
outside, just waiting to come in. Whenever I get infested by ants, I
just become extremely anal about cleaning, so there's nothing for the
ants to eat. They then leave my house out of boredom.

I'm glad that I don't get any of the weird and large creepy-crawlies
that people in other parts of the country and the world seem to get.
We might have 7.1 earthquakes here in San Francisco, but by god, we
don't get any really bad bugs!

Joyce

I'm in southern Missouri.

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In article , "Pat"
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In my house there are many extremely tiny ants - smaller than a flea, and
they
bite - that are carnivorous. All I have to do is set an overturn a cup on
any
large bug on the carpet, and within hours, its body will have been totally
consumed by the little bitty ants.

Where do you live? I have those to in Mass.
Suz
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