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Post by BloodKnight on Apr 21, 2007 23:04:13 GMT -5
Well in the home I live in now, a swarm of flying ants(look 'em up if you don't know what they are) populated the kitchen. Being the bug-disliker I am, I squashed the ground forces with a box(my friend sniped them on the walls and ceiling with Raid). Lots of guts, some of them ended up in more than 2 pieces, it was gruesome... like the VT massacre.
After a while, I looked at how they behaved and whatnot, and thought "Man, they were probably just gathering for a saturday night party. They were probably like "w00 party! Happiness, love and peace, YAY!!!!" And then they all got destroyed. Like a bunch of hippies minding their own business, being attacked by the military during woodstock. I felt sorry for them.
They weren't doing anything particularly wrong either. Just simply swarming around, making homes of the fruit and whatnot and making their presence known with their generally loud buzzing. Now that I think about it, it sounded particularly beautiful. And a select few people came and ruined it, because they didn't like it when a particular space of theirs was invaded by foreign insects. I guess that's life in the wild for ya. Perfect episode of National Geographic huh?
I think that next time, I'll try and let the "guests" have their way for a while and work around them. Then after a day or so, if they haven't moved on, they've been given fair warning, I'll have to deploy my WMDs.
Now that the sob story is over, what do you guys think about bugs?
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Post by realitybites on Apr 21, 2007 23:28:38 GMT -5
Its all part of the circle of life, . And I don't like bugs, particularly spiders, I have arachnophobia.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Apr 22, 2007 12:40:38 GMT -5
That's an interesting take on the issue of bug infestations . Flying ants have always bothered me for some reason. One time, I was at my aunt's taking a shower, and when I went to dry off, the towel turned out to have a bunch of dead flying ants folded up in it, so when I wiped it over my body to dry off, I got them all over me. It was kind of gross; I had to take another shower. As for the question of whether it's right to kill them, I think that is quite debatable on a philosophical level. If you look at it from a biological standpoint, you have every right to kill them if they are decreasing your ability to live healthfully. If not, and you are killing them just because you don't like them, that would apparently be wrong. Typically, however, we do not consider biological arguments for morality, so I think you're on your own there. Buddhists would think it wrong to kill bugs intentionally, I believe.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2007 20:15:59 GMT -5
I say yay for modern technology/Raid since I'm also arachnophobic and bug-a-phobic. ;D
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Post by BloodKnight on Apr 24, 2007 15:44:01 GMT -5
One time, I was at my aunt's taking a shower, and when I went to dry off, the towel turned out to have a bunch of dead flying ants folded up in it, so when I wiped it over my body to dry off, I got them all over me. It was kind of gross; I had to take another shower. Eww, that does sound gross! When the extermination was over, we washed whatever cloths we used right away. As for those despicable flying ants, they've come back, albeit in much smaller numbers. Despite their buzzing, I'm trying to tolerate them. I seem to be attracting a lot more bugs this summer. A few days ago, I was approached by a few bees while on my cell.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Apr 24, 2007 15:45:27 GMT -5
I seem to be attracting a lot more bugs this summer. A few days ago, I was approached by a few bees while on my cell. I really did LOL at that one.
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Post by Joey MURDERFACE! on Apr 26, 2007 23:00:35 GMT -5
Yea, I always find myself running from bee's all summer. One time I saw this huge line of stones and was like "WOAH, look at them lined up so neatly, it's just chanting screw us up, screw us up" So I go and completely destroy that thing for no reason, I guess I was just struck with boredom. Well some kids came running over to me screaming of what I thought was "see" so stupid me is just screaming back "SEE WHAT?" well I do believe they were trying to say "Bee's" cause about 2 seconds later I got stung a few hundred times. I still havent decided on what lesson it is I learned haha, but I havent really kicke dover anymore rocks lol.
And as for the whole bug thing. they dont bother me unless they are big, and I am deathly afraid of grasshoppers "they can grow to quite a large and unnusual size, and I do believe they actually bite" learned that the hard way. I also hate spiders, shoot man, I was with my friend Crystal and her little sister's Kandee and Kayla, and shoot a spider crawled on me so I started crying and throwing a fit and made them kill the spider haha. I sure sowed them what man I can be lol. Well this was completely worthless lol. Just thought I'd share a bug story or two haha.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2007 1:24:29 GMT -5
I learned recently that, like with bees, with ants you might need to kill the queen ant to fully get rid of them (like, if the queen ant burrowed and is living under your house). It sounds like this might be the case with you. A good exterminator could crawl under the house and kill the queen for you. Gl BK!
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Post by Neo Samurai on May 16, 2007 13:11:19 GMT -5
Being the bug-disliker I am, I squashed the ground forces with a box(my friend sniped them on the walls and ceiling with Raid). After a while, I looked at how they behaved and whatnot, and thought "Man, they were probably just gathering for a saturday night party. They were probably like "w00 party! Happiness, love and peace, YAY!!!!" And then they all got destroyed. Like a bunch of hippies minding their own business, being attacked by the military during woodstock. I felt sorry for them. Those ones cracked me up. I used to be a real bug phobic, but lately, I seem to empathize with them more. Just think, you're crawling/flying around, minding your own business and then, suddenly, before you even realize it, you get crushed. You lost your life, just because you look different and are a different size. Man, must suck.
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