Moths \ Spiders.

[Stewart]

So I'm sitting down t'other night, about to tuck in to a nice supper, and a moth who was in the room appears. Now, it announces its arrival by flying into the side of my face at mach 3. Hit me like a train it did. It was the size of a barn owl, easy, so it made quite an impact.

Then I spent 15 minutes trying to get hold of it, while it wizzed about the room, at the fastestestest speed I've ever seen anything move. I tried and failed many times to cup my hands over it.

I give up, sit down to my supper, and it lands on my monitor screen. So I try to cup it, and it struggles free and lands in my cuppa.

So now its runied my supper, punched me in the face, wasted 15 minutes of my time, and spoiled my cuppa, and what did I do - I rescued the little pri... bugger from my tea, and gently took it to the window and let it free.

If I see a spider, minding its own buisness walking across the floor - I DEAD IT IN THE HEAD TO DEATH IN THE HEAD.

So why the different treatment? This moth was well asking for it and I let it free.

I reckon its because a moth looks like a Victorian butterfly, and as everyone knows, you can't kill a butterfly. A spider though, looks like a alien thing, intent on doing weird things in my ear while I'm asleep.

Anyone else always kills spiders but never moths?

[staffsMike]

Opposite for me. Moths beware.. you will crunch before your time if you enter my domain!!

I try not to kill any of them but if push comes to a dusty shove.. I'll squash the annoying little ****.

[tiggerai]

I had a moth with an alcohol problem last night... was flying around the bowling alley and then all of a sudden dive bombed MY PINT. I was not impressed.

and I looked like a bit of a plum waving my arms around getting rid of the thing!

[Zhaoman]

I used to flush spiders down the toilet when I was young but now I just leave them. Except for the big ones which I set outside. Still terrified of them though... Moths I don't mind but I tend to shoo them out the window, the big ones are pretty terrifying as well but nothing compared to big spiders!

[AdamAnubis]

Depdrant can + Lighter = no moremoth

However, the other day i looked inside my case cos it has a clear panel, and saw a moth in there! How on earth it had survived the fan i have no idea!

[shadowmaster]

Anyone else always kills spiders but never moths?

Same here, our primeval instinct to mercilessly kill anything that's ugly kicks in whenever we see a spider.

[JimmyBoy]

i tend to just capture moths and put them outside but spiders im terrified of, works out well with my girlfriend because shes scared of moths, so shes on spider dutie im on moth dutie

i tried capturing a spider not so long ago but i ended up knocking it onto the floor paniched and trod on it. i felt really bad.

[chicken]

I catch and put out moths, spiders and bees, but get a fly or a wasp in the room and I'll kill it.

Reasoning? Flies are dirty, wasps are pointless stingy things, bees try to avoid needing to sting however, moths are just harmless and spiders help by killing flies!

[Stewart]

Thats the exact scientific description given for a wasp on wiki.

Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) - Pointless stingy thing of the order Hymenoptera.

Also:

Moth (Plutella xylostella) - Victorian butterfly of the order Lepidoptera.

[DDY]

The parasitic blood sucking disease spreading creations by God aka mosquitoes cause me far more grief than spiders or moths which 99% of the time just sit there minding their own business...

My solution:

Freeze them!

Invert a canned gas duster and freeze the suckers! If a mossie has managed to get some of your blood at least this way you can be cloned post apocalypse.

BTW, give me a few secs and I'll take a picture of the stuff I froze.

[shadowmaster]

The parasitic blood sucking disease spreading creations by God aka mosquitoes cause me far more grief than spiders or moths which 99% of the time just sit there minding their own business....

You know its only the female mosquito's that suck blood from us males. This has led me to believe that there must be an evolutionary link between the female of the Homo sapiens and the female mosquito

[DDY]

You know its only the female mosquito's that suck blood from us males. This has led me to believe that there must be an evolutionary link between the female of the Homo sapiens and the female mosquito

You may have something there , certainly the parasitic part

Also, pic of the stuff I froze last night. Those things were flying into my monitor while trying to play TF2, they had to be destroyed!

[Stewart]

Moth killer!

I hope you get Stephen Hawkings disease now.

[DDY]

I didn't kill it, I preserved it!

When moths become extint in 700 years time due to the over use of bug zappers, you know who to ask for some moth DNA, or if you're really clever you can revive the thing.

[IBM]

I reckon its because a moth looks like a Victorian butterfly

Best description of a moth. Ever.

[digit]

I didn't kill it, I preserved it!

When moths become extint in 700 years time due to the over use of bug zappers, you know who to ask for some moth DNA, or if you're really clever you can revive the thing.

Thats some proper creepy insects you had flying around, I would have gone skitz if I had seen any of them! Never knew gas duster upside down = handy freezing device