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I've been catching a lot of stink bugs in the house. You can't kill them becaue they'll stink. Nice defensive mechanism. So I catch them in a paper towel and either toss them outside to freeze to death or I wad the paper towel up and toss them in the trash can. Hopefully they stay in the nice warm trash can until I empty it.
I have no remorse or regret what happens to them. They entered the house and are annoying. I let spiders stay in their webs in the basement windows and leave them be. I don't hate bugs, really.
I give Huntsmen spiders plenty of warning to leave my house before killing them.
It's their choice whether to stay and be killed or leave and go free. So I don't feel gulity at all.
If you've never seen a huntsman, (click here if you have the stomach for pictures of spiders) they can grow to the size of your hand, are extremely fast, and have a tendency to hitch a lift in cars and appear dropping down over your shoulder while driving on freeways.
I attended a talk once by some woman who said she sorts of gets into a meditative state and then 'thinks' to bugs in her house to go away. She tells them they don't belong there, in her abode. She surrounds herself with this imaginary bubble of light and 'says' no insects can enter the bubble. It is not a good space for them. Then, she expands the bubble, encompassing each room while repeating that no bugs can survive in the bubble, until the thing reaches the size of her entire house.
She says they all leave and her house is bug free.
I don't know, I've never tried that. I just think there is a place for everything and their place is not in my house. If they wander in they are suicidal bugs!
Oh, the stink bugs, I vacuum up without smelly repercussions.
The worse thing to do for roaches is to step on them, It releases eggs. So a friend told me who was an exterminator. I do something like goldengrains friend or have my husband to the dirty deed. I cannot kill.
This one place I lived in had a waterbug problem on rainy days. If they were in a room I wouldn't go in it until the left. I felt very silly and decided to try putting down a shoe box and telepathically telling the bug to get in the shoe box for release outside. It worked, as my confidence grew I put the box closer to the bug, one day before I even had the box on the floor the dang bug was running for it, I screamed like a sissy girl and ran for it....
Here is a thought to ponder. If most insects were human size would they have a problem killing you for food or just because you are in proximity. No the human race would be wiped clean from the planet in short order.
Things live and things die its part of the circle of life. don't you remember when Mufasa told us this pearl of wisdom?
I can just imagine that damn mosquito coming after me if it was my size 6'3" 300lbs.
There is an Eastern religion which holds ALL life as sacred, even insects.
Not that I agree, but there's apparently other people out there that agree.
Jainism. Devout members of the Jain religion will wear gauze masks over their mouths so that might not breath in or swallow minute insects. One of the founders was Mahavira, who was a contemporary of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha.
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Jainism. Devout members of the Jain religion will wear gauze masks over their mouths so that might not breath in or swallow minute insects. One of the founders was Mahavira, who was a contemporary of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha.
If it's proved that plants feel pain would Jains starve to death?
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don't you remember when Mufasa told us this pearl of wisdom?
