I usually brush it away...it doesn't die and I don't get a bite unless it was too late.

Sometimes though, I become a shitty vegan and don't think about it and slap.  Kick me off the boards now.

Desdemona wrote:

bryophyte wrote:

Sometimes though, I become a shitty vegan and don't think about it and slap.  Kick me off the boards now.

As long as the mosquito is free-range, and you make sure to honor its spirit, give thanks for its sacrifice, and then build some sort of pretentious, masturbatory Bourdainesque recipe around it, it's all good!

OMG!  I should get a tattoo of a "bloody smashed on my arm mosquito" tat!

I bet someone already has one.

Sorry, but I come up really allergic to bites so now it's an instinctive thing.

I guess I'm a shitty vegan, because I smash the mustards any chance I get.  Ants, too.  And roaches (haven't seen a roach in a long time, thank goodness.)  Oh and flies.  Damn, I had no idea I was this murderous.  I do escort spiders, crickets, and other bugs gently out the door, though.

rachandra wrote:

dude, the mosquito is trying to eat me! it's just self defence.

Um, yes!
Insects that aren't trying to suck my blood get to live, though.

Dr Apricot wrote:

Any bug that lands on me will get smashed.  Cockroaches and ants in my apartment will be destroyed.  Spiders that won't stay out of my way will face the same fate.

Yep. I don't go outside and try to find them and hunt them down, but if something lands on me and bites me, it gets a smackdown. I don't stomp on anthills, but ants, cockroaches, termites, and the like that enter my home and decide not to turn around and leave are exterminated.

A large spider usually results in me flailing and screaming and forcing Carl to take it outside. Small spiders, as long as they keep to themselves, may do as they wish, especially if they eat the aforementioned other bugs.

Our dogs are not predators. Popcorn has probably sniffed and inhaled a few bugs, but is otherwise just a cuddlemonster and pillow warmer.

Dr Apricot wrote:

Any bug that lands on me will get smashed.  Cockroaches and ants in my apartment will be destroyed.  Spiders that won't stay out of my way will face the same fate.

I feel the same way.  I don't go out of my way to hurt bugs but yeah, if one lands on me or I find a line up of ants headed towards my dry pantry, they're gonna get it.

I normally just wipe them away or blow on them so they fall off.

Yup yup yup. I avoid smashing, but some bugs get it. Roaches we vacuum, because we are both scared of them. Luckily we don't see many of them. Spiders can hang out, we even have a garage tarantula (he's wild, not sure if he'll make it through the winter), except black widows, who are caught and released.

Invictus wrote:

Yup yup yup. I avoid smashing, but some bugs get it. Roaches we vacuum, because we are both scared of them. Luckily we don't see many of them. Spiders can hang out, we even have a garage tarantula (he's wild, not sure if he'll make it through the winter), except black widows, who are caught and released.

wow, you are badass and much more brave than I.  I have a completely irrational fear of spiders which I attribute to growing up in the country - instead of getting USED to seeing big spiders, the more I encountered them, the more scared I became. 

Back when we were young and stupid, we used to play hide-and-go-seek in corn fields (yeah breathing in all those nice pesticides.) I was running super fast down an aisle, between 5' tall rows of corn, and came about 5 inches from running face first into one of these: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1161/145 … 488509.jpg
Ugh.

Kill it. I don't just get an annoying bump. They usually make me run a fever and get a nice rash.