https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:26:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-203047 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:17:11 +0000 meaganceleste 203047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am SO the bug killer in our apartment. My husband hates bugs, so I always end up being the one to "man up" and do it. I am also the fixer of broken things and the builder of Ikea furniture. Its an odd role reversal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-203025 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:08:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 203025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I'm home alone, I kill bugs when I see them. If H is home, I kill the small ones but if it is kind of big and gross, I call him in. If it was something particularly nasty, I'm not above trapping it in an upside bowl or cup and leaving it for H to deal with, but it would have to be really bad. </p> <p>However, when we had a mouse problem? That was H's job. I wouldn't even go near the mouse traps when he wasn't home, because there was no way in hell I was disposing of a dead one. Ew. My job with the mice was to scream like a little girl when I saw one :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202982 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:34:25 +0000 ladyfingers 202982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. If it's like, one or two bugs then OK. But if we have a real problem, we have a pest service that we pay $67 every two months to take care of stuff for us. We had a big vermin problem when we moved in -- more than two dozen access points and breezeway entrances all around the house that were wide open to all the fauna that Florida has to offer, and we had a dead rat and huge fly problem the day of our walk through. We paid our pest guys something like $1200 to seal everything up and set traps. Then we purchased their regular pest service. It's worth it to me, I want the problem just taken care of as quickly and efficiently as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202950 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:16:31 +0000 autumnlove 202950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>gross, but I use a lot of toilet paper or paper towels! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202940 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:08:38 +0000 Alivoo01 202940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup!! Bugs don't bother me, and for some reason I take pleasure in crushing them till I hear their hard shells crumble. Gross, I know. I don't do well with geckos though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202936 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:03:51 +0000 mrsjyw 202936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep... bugs are gross, but I don't have a problem killing them myself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202825 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:58:28 +0000 Beyond2 202825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: usually like swinging the fly swatter with all his might and then not actually hitting the bug. Particularly with bees and spiders and then they get away. It's easier for me to just grab a shoe and squish them and know they are actually dead! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202814 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:16:24 +0000 mamabolt 202814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. Many years of living on my own plus a husband (and a previous boyfriend) who are downright terrified of spiders have forced me to take on exterminator duties. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202789 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:16:37 +0000 lemondrop 202789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, no problem doing it myself. I grew up around scorpions, it tends to make one less squeamish and more murderous.</p> <p>Also when I was a zookeeper I had to feed out crickets, worms, and pinky mice all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202686 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:28:14 +0000 lilteacherbee 202686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If its tiny, I'll kill It, otherwise, nope. I definitely hate killing spiders. When I was little, my grandma killed a spider with the broom and tons of tiny baby spiders went everywhere and it scarred me for life! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202675 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:13:24 +0000 Minnie_Girl 202675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Of course! </p> <p>When one grows up in rural PA, one does not fear vermin unless it is rabid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202657 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:43:08 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 202657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JessLC: Ugh that's so gross. I cant stand the squishing sound. Papa jumper usually catches them then throws them outside. I get them with the sweeper! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202651 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:33:22 +0000 SleepyMonkey 202651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: ooh, my parents do. they have a special technique to kill them and it involves wrapping them up in a tight wad of paper and smushing them after it is all taped up so they don't stink so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202576 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:26:06 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 202576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Heck to the no. We have a pest control service who takes care of insects for us, and we rarely ever have a problem.</p> <p>Does anyone else have stink bugs? We've had a mild summer so far, so we haven't had many. When it gets hot out, we get a million of them. I sweep them up with the vacuum! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202561 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:09:43 +0000 banana 202561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Depends on the "juiciness". If it's small and not so juicy, like an ant or small moth or tiny spider, I have no problems killing it. But anything that has a plump juicy body, heck no! Especially big spiders and cockroaches. heeeeeck no.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202559 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:08:25 +0000 MrsH 202559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bugs, yes. Spiders only after I scream and only if DH isn't around to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202547 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:03:26 +0000 mrbee 202547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Beyond2: Haha, what does "too carried away" entail? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202542 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:01:15 +0000 SleepyMonkey 202542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it if I am by myself and in my home, or if it is small enough to kill with my hand. My greater fear is letting a bug escape and then it has lots and lots of babies that I will have to deal with later! If husband is around, I will ask him to do it if it is a big one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202502 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:13:16 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 202502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only if I'm the only one home and I can't convince the dogs to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202483 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:46:31 +0000 Beyond2 202483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it! My husband always gets too carried away and the thing gets away before he can kill it. It's easier for me to just do it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202470 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:36:50 +0000 Meridian 202470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can kill small bugs, but anything larger than dime sized, I call DH! We've had a moth problem lately, so I've killed tons over the past few days!</p> <p>I would never touch a wasps nest though, yikes!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202429 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:08:28 +0000 chopsuey 202429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can kill anything if I have to.<br /> Usually I'll make DH kill them though.<br /> I killed a fruit fly with my hands the other day :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202428 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:08:09 +0000 wheres_c 202428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! Like @mrsbrewer I scream and OH comes running to take care of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202425 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:03:04 +0000 MrsBrewer 202425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! I don't do bugs at all. I scream like a little baby, and DH comes over and kills it. Although he will only kill the bug and throw it away. I am in charge of cleaning up all the guts that he leaves on the wall! Gross, but better than having to kill the bug myself! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-kill-bugsvermin-yourself#post-202418 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:57:52 +0000 DillonLion 202418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a total wuss about this. DH takes care of it, or the thing just stays wherever I found it, alive, until DH gets home to take care of it. </p> <p>I found a wasp's nest in my in-laws backyard and my MIL took care of business with no fear. I was impressed. </p>