Do Animals Love You More If You Don't Kill Flys?

Are we all connected in some way in our minds, the humans and the plants and the animals?

Of course we are.

Tell us at random thoughts about your experiences with the random universe here

I love all animals

 

Seriously, I don't kill anything unless I have to. And that includes even people. ;-)
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Non seriously:

Some years back, I was walking through the woods and I came across a live fly trapped in a spider's web, and the spider was moving in on the fly.

Do you:

A. Carefully remove the fly from the spider's web, doing your best to not damage the fly or the web?

B. Carefully remove the fly from the spider's web without giving a damn about the web?

C. Leave the fly in the web, but snap its neck before the spider gets to it, to save the fly any unnecessary suffering?

D. Look around on the ground for a dead bug of some kind (at least as big as a fly). Then free the fly and replace him with the dead bug?

E. Kill the spider, and then release the fly?

F. Kill both the fly and the spider, and then destroy the web, thus putting an end to this nightmare?

G. Make a serious commitment to stop walking through the woods?

H.Set fire to the woods to put a stop to all such future nonsense?
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Of course, the answer is to allow existence to be what it is without injecting my rules into the situation. I guess. But if I happened to see someone kicking the crap out of a dog or a cat, I would definitely inject my rules into the situation by injecting my foot into their . . . well you get the idea.

 

Community cash flow.

 

Financial imbalance.

 

an odd question. most birds depend on flying insects for their prey.
but then; birds.
i would imagine most four footed people would be quite happy not to be plagued by them.

 

I try my best to help them just move along. Unless they attack

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vRvquEQi0

 

I'm going to start killing all flies and insect squatters

 

My house is like a jungle. I don't mess with any insects that enter unless they are roaches which hasn't happened since I lived here. Or if they try to drink my beer or eat my food. Which is only various flies. The only exception is wanting to kill the wasps on my porch. Although I haven't done it yet.

 

I work with nature. The upper corners of every room in my house are covered with very large spider webs that trap any flying insects. Those insects are consumed by the equally large spiders that constructed those webs. As spiders are kind of creepy, I don't care for the idea of big spiders crawling on my floor and then onto the chair I watch TV from or the bed I sleep in, so I have several small lizards patrolling the entire floor area of my house. The spiders know what will happen to them if they come down from their webs.

However, I also don't like the idea of lizards climbing onto my living room chair while I'm watching TV . . . or while I'm doing anything, really. So I have a pet weasel that stays on my lap and sleeps on my bed. One lizard ventured too far once, and there wasn't enough left of him to even bury. A weasel is essentially a smaller version of a wolverine, and the lizards know it. The one that ventured too far and paid the price may have had a learning disability, which is too bad because other than that, he was loyal when it came to his duties as a scarespider.

 

My dog chases and kills all flying insects, He will torment a bee on the ground he has half killed, stalking it, dragging his claws over it, dismembering it over 15 minutes. Loses interest, come pack, steps on it to make sure it's still moving. Lots of bee comrades never make it back home once they're in our yard. Of course they still give it to him, not uncommon to see him bury his face in the grass in agony as a sting gets his nose, mouth or tongue. 30 seconds later he wants back after them again.

I have 3x fly tapes at the moment hanging under my pergola. They are like sticky tape, extremely sticky with a scent insects like. Once they touch the tape it's end game, they stick forever. They're a disgusting thing to display, but if you hate flies as much as I do, you get enjoyment watching flies get stuck and die.

 

And if you don't care for spiders, snakes, and weasels, there is another way. Flies know the way into your house. They also know the same way out. What I do is swat about six flies; not hard, just hard enough to kill them without causing too much bodily damage. Then pull six strands of hair from your head and tie an end around the fly's neck, which is not as hard as it sounds; you'll just need a magnifying glass and maybe tweezers. The longer the hair, the easier it will be. But if you have short hair, you'll have to make do with that because you cannot--and I can't stress this enough--knock on your neighbor lady's door and ask her for six strands of her long hair. Apparently, that's a bozo no no. She will call her husband to the door, and he will tell you to get the fuck off their property. You can ask for a cup of sugar or coffee, or even to borrow their lawn mower, but not strands of hair. It's not like I was asking her for six pubic hairs.

Ohhhh! Wait a minute. She probably mistakenly thought I meant six pubic hairs. I've got to go back over and let them know that I did not mean pubic hairs. That should straighten this mess out. Anyway, when you've finished tying the ends of your hairs around the necks of the flies, hang them around your living room. When other flies enter your house, they'll see the hanging flies, and they will go back the way they came because flies are not stupid. Works every time. But you have to change flies every two days or they begin to decay and will actually draw flies in because . . . that's what flies like.

 

i try to discourage insect colonizations of my own shelter. killing them individually is generally a futile and ineffective gesture.
finding what attracts them and removing it, or if not possible, removing it from their awareness, also takes some effort, but generally works better.
this might result in some colateral damage among their scouts and marching bands.

anything larger then an invasive insect, i would only kill if i were going to eat it, (or in the rare and unlikely event, it had both the intention and capacity, of eating me)

generally, any place other then within my own shelter, i leave every living thing to go about its own business as it sees fit.

within, anything smaller then 1/3 of my own mass, that doesn't bring the invasion with them, is generally however welcome it is willing to be friendly and non-destructive.

by non-destructive, besides not chewing on me or the furnature, it does need to be willing to learn where not to poop.

outside of my own shelter, i am in THEIR house, and believe it appropriate to conduct myself accordingly.

 

Have you ever seen an injured stray animal with a bad wound and a maggot infection being hounded by flies left and right? Its nasty.

However maggots supposedly only remove dead matter so it's probably a plus.

I'm sure several animals would thank us for removing the parasite species of the world.

 

I found a wounded raven a few months ago, flies swarming round it. I didn't leave it to die though.

I'm going to start swatting these bastard flies soon though, or get a Venus Fly Trap installed in my bedroom.

Different area. Before it was moths moths moths, now the flies are buzzing around me day and night.

Die flies

 

I saw sheep being rubbed in with anti maggot stuff and there were like dozens of maggots (if not more) crawling out of the sheep's living flesh. Check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myiasis

 

What I'd do to get a raven.

I don't hate flies, they are much more beneficial than cancer/asbestos/lead in drinking water. Venus flytraps and company will barely make a dent if you want them dead. Trust me.

Get a fly zapper light fixture instead.

 

Ick!

Well it *is* the month of October after all...

 

I bet they were happy with the treatment. But yes, it was quite a site....! Amazing how fast that stuff worked. You put it on their backs and within minutes those maggots couldn't stay in that skin anymore and were pretty much racing each other to get out of there the quickest

 

I'd love a raven as a pet too. I'd settle for Felicity Jones though.