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Gross. Never although. Ants are amazing little creatures.

Never. Not even a little bit.

ETA: I never kill bugs outside (except mosquitoes). I kill them if they invade my space. So if those little suckers stay outside in their own domain they are safe from me. I don't understand people who do things like step on an ant hill outside. Were those ants bothering you in any way??

@mrbee: Great, I never felt bad killing ants but now I will.

Nah... i figured we all die someday. They just had a horrible "OH MY GOODNESS WERE GONNA DIE" kinda death.

I don’t feel badly about killing them if they are in my home. Their home is outside, not inside! I found the most effective way to deal with tiny annoying ants was to pour chemicals (can't remember what I used, 409 maybe?) down the wee crack in the wood flooring they were coming out of, and then seal the area with clear nail polish. Have not seen a single ant inside my home since!!! Haha, they fear me!! ;-p

No. I hate bugs!

You know that typophobia (is that what it's called?) thing? I feel the same way about swarms of ants. I want to die right now just thinking about it. *barf*

I don't feel bad at all. Actually just like a week ago we had a huge swam of them in our kitchen! We have 2 kittens, and rather than eat their dry food that we leave out for them, they insist on hitting it out of their dish and playing with it until it gets stuck under the fridge! Who would have thought ants like kitten food?? Ugh....yea that was gross. I made my DH move the fridge out, and I was killing all of the ants, and then I was soooo grosssed out that I can to wipe everything down with bleach water! hahahah

@mrbee: Oh wow, weird!

@Sweet T: the spider I screamed to death was MASSIVE. I had just moved my headphones from on top of my hard drive to my head, and I felt what I thought was a hair on my forehead, so I brushed it away. A few seconds later, I reached for my mouse and noticed that I had a spider-like bracelet on my wrist - AND THEN IT MOVED. It was so big that it almost covered my wrist and its legs wrapped all the way around my wrist (like a bracelet). I physically couldn't stop screaming for like 5 minutes because I was so freaked out.

@MsLipGloss: WTF! OMG! That sounds horrifying!!!! I'm sooooo thankful I live somewhere where we don't have giant spiders!

@Sweet T: Yep. I screamed myself to within an inch of losing my voice. And to top it all off, I flung the big bad spidey somewhere whilst I was panicking, and I have never seen it again. It could still be in there somewhere! : / I like to think I screamed it to death tho.

@MsLipGloss: I would have to move out of my house if a spider of that size was on the loose!! You are a braver woman than I!

@MamaMoose: I made hubs patrol the office daily for almost 2 weeks before I would walk back through it. And now everytime one of my kitties stares at some random spot on the ceiling/wall, or gets all twitchy, I think that the spider has come back.

@mrbee: I read that cinnamon is also a natural ant repellent.

We had ants last summer...we bought the ant bait/traps and put honey on them so the ants devoured the bait...then they take the poison back to their home base to share with the others...it was scary seeing so many ants but they were gone after 1 day

@sandy: Maybe I need to put honey in my traps... I wonder if that would work. Stupid ants just go around the ant baits I have out now.

@Mrs.Wagon: It was pretty surreal . . . I remember thinking, "wow, that looks like a spider . . ." and then it *moved*, and that's when I realized that it was a spider, and that it was shimmy-ing down my wrist. >.<

For it's size, it was remarkably light on its feet--errr--legs.