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.
I found a wasp's nest in my in-laws backyard and my MIL took care of business with no fear. I was impressed.
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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!
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No way! Like @mrsbrewer I scream and OH comes running to take care of it.
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I can kill anything if I have to.
Usually I'll make DH kill them though.
I killed a fruit fly with my hands the other day
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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!
I would never touch a wasps nest though, yikes!!
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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!
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Only if I'm the only one home and I can't convince the dogs to do it.
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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.
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@Beyond2: Haha, what does "too carried away" entail?
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Bugs, yes. Spiders only after I scream and only if DH isn't around to do it.
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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....
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Heck to the no. We have a pest control service who takes care of insects for us, and we rarely ever have a problem.
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!
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@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.
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@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!
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Of course!
When one grows up in rural PA, one does not fear vermin unless it is rabid.
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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!
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Yeah, no problem doing it myself. I grew up around scorpions, it tends to make one less squeamish and more murderous.
Also when I was a zookeeper I had to feed out crickets, worms, and pinky mice all the time.
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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.
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@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!
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Yep... bugs are gross, but I don't have a problem killing them myself.
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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.
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gross, but I use a lot of toilet paper or paper towels!
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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.
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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.
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
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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.
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