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Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:45 pm

MadCow2357 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:26 pm

sneepity wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 3:14 pm

oh I've watched that channel before! ants are rad insects please take care of them

This may sound weird but I gleefully flush ants down the toilet if they crawl within my proximity, especially if they're in my room (I have a certain fear/hatred of insects and spiders that is difficult to overcome). That being said, ants are pretty cool as long as they stay far away from me.

Not to freak you out or anything, but I have found flushing/washing insects down the drain not to be very effective...
About half the time they just crawl back out the pipe, so I make a habit of squishing them first.

MoMoney$$$;)0) wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 7:55 pm

Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:45 pm

MadCow2357 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:26 pm

This may sound weird but I gleefully flush ants down the toilet if they crawl within my proximity, especially if they're in my room (I have a certain fear/hatred of insects and spiders that is difficult to overcome). That being said, ants are pretty cool as long as they stay far away from me.

Not to freak you out or anything, but I have found flushing/washing insects down the drain not to be very effective...
About half the time they just crawl back out the pipe, so I make a habit of squishing them first.

I don't know, but it seems like you had a bad experience.

Things2do wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 10:15 pm

MoMoney$$$;)0) wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 7:55 pm

Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:45 pm

Not to freak you out or anything, but I have found flushing/washing insects down the drain not to be very effective...
About half the time they just crawl back out the pipe, so I make a habit of squishing them first.

I don't know, but it seems like you had a bad experience.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a cave cricket in your shirt when you put it in... Or of a fully grown American Cockroach landing on exposed skin in the middle of the night... Cellar Spiders tickle when they walk across you, and American House Spiders have fuzzy backs when you pet 'em. Expecially the large ones. You know, the ones that have a body that's nearly a inch long, excluding the legs? Cellar Spiders don't bite, but they say that American House Spiders do, and it hurts. Fortunately, as much as I've messed with 'em, I haven't been bitten. Yet... I have been bitten by a black Five-Lined Skink. It doesn't hurt for too long. A friend of mine even got one to bite his ear, making a temporary earring from it.
As for flushing bugs, they usually don't come back out of a toilet. I've had roaches crawl out of sinks before, but never a toilet. My father says that American Cockroaches can get back out of a toilet of they aren't flushed, but I've never had one escape, even when given all day.

Things2do wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 10:15 pm

MoMoney$$$;)0) wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 7:55 pm

Creationist127 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 5:45 pm

Not to freak you out or anything, but I have found flushing/washing insects down the drain not to be very effective...
About half the time they just crawl back out the pipe, so I make a habit of squishing them first.

I don't know, but it seems like you had a bad experience.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a cave cricket in your shirt when you put it in... Or of a fully grown American Cockroach landing on exposed skin in the middle of the night... Cellar Spiders tickle when they walk across you, and American House Spiders have fuzzy backs when you pet 'em. Expecially the large ones. You know, the ones that have a body that's nearly a inch long, excluding the legs? Cellar Spiders don't bite, but they say that American House Spiders do, and it hurts. Fortunately, as much as I've messed with 'em, I haven't been bitten. Yet... I have been bitten by a black Five-Lined Skink. It doesn't hurt for too long. A friend of mine even got one to bite his ear, making a temporary earring from it.
As for flushing bugs, they usually don't come back out of a toilet. I've had roaches crawl out of sinks before, but never a toilet. My father says that American Cockroaches can get back out of a toilet of they aren't flushed, but I've never had one escape, even when given all day.

gz839918 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:14 am

Things2do wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 10:15 pm

MoMoney$$$;)0) wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 7:55 pm

I don't know, but it seems like you had a bad experience.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a cave cricket in your shirt when you put it in... Or of a fully grown American Cockroach landing on exposed skin in the middle of the night... Cellar Spiders tickle when they walk across you, and American House Spiders have fuzzy backs when you pet 'em. Expecially the large ones. You know, the ones that have a body that's nearly a inch long, excluding the legs? Cellar Spiders don't bite, but they say that American House Spiders do, and it hurts. Fortunately, as much as I've messed with 'em, I haven't been bitten. Yet... I have been bitten by a black Five-Lined Skink. It doesn't hurt for too long. A friend of mine even got one to bite his ear, making a temporary earring from it.
As for flushing bugs, they usually don't come back out of a toilet. I've had roaches crawl out of sinks before, but never a toilet. My father says that American Cockroaches can get back out of a toilet of they aren't flushed, but I've never had one escape, even when given all day.

On the subject of being bitten by spiders, Nelson, Kelln, & Hayes (2014) made gelatin sticks which they used to poke black widow spiders as a simulation for human fingers. After poking 43 spiders repeatedly once a second for a minutes, totaling 60 pokes per spider, the spiders delivered a bite two times overall (out of 2580 pokes). To imitate a predator catching the spiders, they also gave each spider three "gentle" consecutive 10-second squishes, resulting in 60 total bites (out of 129 squishes). They concluded that spider bites are not very common, and spiders much prefer to flick silk at you or run away than to bite. Maybe that's why you've never been bitten; you've never squished them gently enough to let them survive and bite you back

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:25 am

gz839918 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:14 am

Things2do wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 10:15 pm
There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a cave cricket in your shirt when you put it in... Or of a fully grown American Cockroach landing on exposed skin in the middle of the night... Cellar Spiders tickle when they walk across you, and American House Spiders have fuzzy backs when you pet 'em. Expecially the large ones. You know, the ones that have a body that's nearly a inch long, excluding the legs? Cellar Spiders don't bite, but they say that American House Spiders do, and it hurts. Fortunately, as much as I've messed with 'em, I haven't been bitten. Yet... I have been bitten by a black Five-Lined Skink. It doesn't hurt for too long. A friend of mine even got one to bite his ear, making a temporary earring from it.
As for flushing bugs, they usually don't come back out of a toilet. I've had roaches crawl out of sinks before, but never a toilet. My father says that American Cockroaches can get back out of a toilet of they aren't flushed, but I've never had one escape, even when given all day.

On the subject of being bitten by spiders, Nelson, Kelln, & Hayes (2014) made gelatin sticks which they used to poke black widow spiders as a simulation for human fingers. After poking 43 spiders repeatedly once a second for a minutes, totaling 60 pokes per spider, the spiders delivered a bite two times overall (out of 2580 pokes). To imitate a predator catching the spiders, they also gave each spider three "gentle" consecutive 10-second squishes, resulting in 60 total bites (out of 129 squishes). They concluded that spider bites are not very common, and spiders much prefer to flick silk at you or run away than to bite. Maybe that's why you've never been bitten; you've never squished them gently enough to let them survive and bite you back

Wait, but aren't black widows considered fairly nonaggressive spiders? (although all of them kind of are) They kind of run in the corner, play dead, and flick silk at you unless necessary.

Thank you Potions and Poisons, for putting spiders, snakes, and random poisonous plants/metals/household materials in my search history. Google has given me the poison control hotline at the top of my search more times than I can count.


Also, I learned to squish ants crawling over my homework with the tip of my pencil. It's oddly relaxing.

CPScienceDude wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:27 am

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:25 am

gz839918 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:14 am

On the subject of being bitten by spiders, Nelson, Kelln, & Hayes (2014) made gelatin sticks which they used to poke black widow spiders as a simulation for human fingers. After poking 43 spiders repeatedly once a second for a minutes, totaling 60 pokes per spider, the spiders delivered a bite two times overall (out of 2580 pokes). To imitate a predator catching the spiders, they also gave each spider three "gentle" consecutive 10-second squishes, resulting in 60 total bites (out of 129 squishes). They concluded that spider bites are not very common, and spiders much prefer to flick silk at you or run away than to bite. Maybe that's why you've never been bitten; you've never squished them gently enough to let them survive and bite you back

Wait, but aren't black widows considered fairly nonaggressive spiders? (although all of them kind of are) They kind of run in the corner, play dead, and flick silk at you unless necessary.

Thank you Potions and Poisons, for putting spiders, snakes, and random poisonous plants/metals/household materials in my search history. Google has given me the poison control hotline at the top of my search more times than I can count.


Also, I learned to squish ants crawling over my homework with the tip of my pencil. It's oddly relaxing.

Uhhhh is there something you'd like to tell us, SilverBreeze ?

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:25 am Also, I learned to squish ants crawling over my homework with the tip of my pencil. It's oddly relaxing.

MadCow2357 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:40 am

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:25 am Also, I learned to squish ants crawling over my homework with the tip of my pencil. It's oddly relaxing.

Doesn’t this get messy? The one reason why I hate killing bugs is not that I feel bad for them, but because they leave an icky mess after the squishing process concludes.

gz839918 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:14 am

Things2do wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 10:15 pm

MoMoney$$$;)0) wrote: ↑April 27th, 2020, 7:55 pm

I don't know, but it seems like you had a bad experience.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a cave cricket in your shirt when you put it in... Or of a fully grown American Cockroach landing on exposed skin in the middle of the night... Cellar Spiders tickle when they walk across you, and American House Spiders have fuzzy backs when you pet 'em. Expecially the large ones. You know, the ones that have a body that's nearly a inch long, excluding the legs? Cellar Spiders don't bite, but they say that American House Spiders do, and it hurts. Fortunately, as much as I've messed with 'em, I haven't been bitten. Yet... I have been bitten by a black Five-Lined Skink. It doesn't hurt for too long. A friend of mine even got one to bite his ear, making a temporary earring from it.
As for flushing bugs, they usually don't come back out of a toilet. I've had roaches crawl out of sinks before, but never a toilet. My father says that American Cockroaches can get back out of a toilet of they aren't flushed, but I've never had one escape, even when given all day.

On the subject of being bitten by spiders, Nelson, Kelln, & Hayes (2014) made gelatin sticks which they used to poke black widow spiders as a simulation for human fingers. After poking 43 spiders repeatedly once a second for a minutes, totaling 60 pokes per spider, the spiders delivered a bite two times overall (out of 2580 pokes). To imitate a predator catching the spiders, they also gave each spider three "gentle" consecutive 10-second squishes, resulting in 60 total bites (out of 129 squishes). They concluded that spider bites are not very common, and spiders much prefer to flick silk at you or run away than to bite. Maybe that's why you've never been bitten; you've never squished them gently enough to let them survive and bite you back :P

Umaroth wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 10:01 am

MadCow2357 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:40 am

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 28th, 2020, 9:25 am Also, I learned to squish ants crawling over my homework with the tip of my pencil. It's oddly relaxing.

Doesn’t this get messy? The one reason why I hate killing bugs is not that I feel bad for them, but because they leave an icky mess after the squishing process concludes.

It's not a mess... It's a reminder and a warning for other bugs