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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#26994838 - 10/20/20 03:42 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Magenta said: For me personally if a bug is pissing me off i'll kill it without a second thought.
No. I refuse to do even this so I certainly wouldn't add the further immorality of being paid for it.
I have a strict criteria for killing, and it involves eating.
This is pathetic and probably why you are depressed. I just set a cup of apple sider vinegar out and put 2 drops of liquid soap in it because my wife kept some bananas too long and we had a lot of fruit flies, there are about 100 in this 1 cup and 100 in the cup down stairs.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: budmanman]
#26994875 - 10/20/20 03:59 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: SonicTitan] 3
#26994957 - 10/20/20 04:54 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: budmanman]
#26994964 - 10/20/20 04:57 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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budmanman said: I just set a cup of apple sider vinegar out and put 2 drops of liquid soap in it because my wife kept some bananas too long and we had a lot of fruit flies, there are about 100 in this 1 cup and 100 in the cup down stairs.
A little dish full of beer is supposed to be great for controlling slugs in the garden. I've been tempted to try it, but I don't have any food growing...so it hasn't been necessary.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: 1234go]
#26995009 - 10/20/20 05:18 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hear it attracts slugs more than it deters them lol
Moths have it rough man, a lot of species bust out the cocoon without mouths and starve to death a week later
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: 1234go]
#26995099 - 10/20/20 06:13 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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SonicTitan said: Moths are cute.
Moths are absolutely gorgeous insects. Majestic even.
For $100 a pop I would burn them all with a magnifying glass.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Patlal]
#26995128 - 10/20/20 06:36 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Patlal]
#26995183 - 10/20/20 07:11 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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SonicTitan said: Moths are cute.
Moths are absolutely gorgeous insects. Majestic even.
For $100 a pop I would burn them all with a magnifying glass.
This is still a better idea than being a pro poker player
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: koods]
#26995666 - 10/21/20 03:02 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I did already ask: "Why is there a correlation between willingness to kill a bug, and the size of the bug."
Now I ask:
"Why is there a correlation between willingness to kill a bug, and the cuteness of the bug."
And moths come in different grades of cuteness

Who here would kill a ugly moth eating your clothes?
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Malkuthian]
#26995679 - 10/21/20 03:22 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Just any moth of my choosing? Because I pretty much had to kill dozens of moths a few years ago somehow the house I was in had a mad infestation of moths all of the sudden, - they were cute at first and I tried to dispose of them gently - but I simply could not keep up with them

One day I entered the house after having been gone a few weeks and there were like 40 moth larvae crawling up the walls to make cocoons .. lil worms like this

That wasn't really cute anymore, it just got disgusting and annoying and they actually started to do real damage to our clothes it took some serious moth killing to get rid of them over the next 4 months as they were actually quite hard to figure out where they were breeding and feeding. I think it mostly had to do with me having like 20 canvases hanging on my wall (I'm an artist) and they were able to use the backings as nooks to breed in... so it was hard to erradicate! :'(
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: twighead] 1
#26995814 - 10/21/20 06:45 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have the same kind of moths in my house. I didn't used to mind, but seeing those little cocoons everywhere started to get to me. The herd must be culled.
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Magenta said: For me personally if a bug is pissing me off i'll kill it without a second thought.
No. I refuse to do even this so I certainly wouldn't add the further immorality of being paid for it.
I have a strict criteria for killing, and it involves eating.
eating and pest control for me so id kill the moth.
and self defense of course. and invasive species like a fish that you legally must kill and cant throw back.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: BANANA.MAN]
#26996062 - 10/21/20 10:07 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would smack that moth, take the 100 bucks and Donate two goats to two families in developing nations.
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A milking goat can give up to 16 cups of milk a day. Goats milk is easierb to diget than cows milk and a great source of calcium, protein and other essential nutrients needed by growing children
In addition to that, goats eat what humans can't eat and turn it into milk, meat and more goats to sell.
I can live with having squished an insect in exchange for getting 2 families in need a "cash cow", or in this case, cash goat.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Magenta]
#26996063 - 10/21/20 10:07 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I honestly don't think I could do it if it was one of those cool Luna or Emperor moths. Yeah, I'm one of those people that for whatever reason assigns more heft to bigger bugs when deciding whether or not to kill them. They're just so majestic, you know? 
The GF hates spiders to an irrational degree, but I go along with her and usually just smash them but I'll usually put them outside if it's just me. Stuff like wasps or horseflies get smashed even for slight infractions like flying too close or being around me.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: THT]
#26996068 - 10/21/20 10:09 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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THT said: I honestly don't think I could do it if it was one of those cool Luna or Emperor moths.
But the ugly moths can go fuck themselves is what you're saying?
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Magenta]
#26996114 - 10/21/20 10:33 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don’t know about y’all, but I have done a lot worse for less
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Asante]
#26996146 - 10/21/20 10:51 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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THT said: I honestly don't think I could do it if it was one of those cool Luna or Emperor moths.
But the ugly moths can go fuck themselves is what you're saying? 
Yes.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: THT]
#26996609 - 10/21/20 03:35 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I live in the tropics and would be forever killing moths for $100 a pop, could kill 1000 per day and it wouldn't dent the population but would make me uber rich. I let predatory bugs live in my house (huntsman spiders, mantids) and bait roaches, moths and flies. If I didn't they'd just take over and ruin everything. Same as outside I poison termites, trap mozzies and March flies, and make life generally hard for tree ants that try to nest on my good trees. But I'm not going around looking for things to kill, I'm just trying to keep the pest creatures under control. Don't think I'd kill a mantis or a spider for cash though, would definitely not kill a snake or any other native creature unless it was becoming a pest. Creatures that are invasive and destructive to the forest are instantly on the kill list though. Feral pigs, cats and rabbits... line em up so I can mow em down. No payment required.
I trapped inside and released outside a wolf spider the other day. He's a bit dangerous to just let him roam about. Might give someone a nasty nip.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: Northerner]
#26996636 - 10/21/20 03:56 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Generally wolf spiders are not aggressive but if someone startled it I bet it would give a good bite.
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Re: Would you kill a moth for $100 [Re: SonicTitan] 1
#26996803 - 10/21/20 06:14 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Totally. I have kids and animals too, the little guy is better off outside.
Got a big ass huntsman spider roaming my home at the moment, he's been around for about a month. We see him most nights. Even if I wanted him out I don't know how I could do it without killing him. So fast and so timid, almost impossible to catch. If I turn the lights off and watch a movie with my legs up on the couch he loves it. Scoots around and around the loungeroom floor looking for prey. There's often a resident huntsman or two in my home but this guy is the biggest that has stayed in years. Much bigger than the palm of my hand. Clever too, if you look right at him he'll hide. I guess you don't get to be a big ass spider by being dumb.
I wonder how many roaches and other shitty bugs this guy eats. He expends a lot of energy running around so I guess it's quite a few.
Some years back there was a huge one on the glass door protecting a sac. Then out of nowhere another huge one rocks up, eats her, splits the sac and eats as many of the little ones it could before they got away. Was so gory, all this spider juice and blobs running down the window.
I wouldn't kill a cool moth though. We get Hercules moths here, they're the biggest moths in the world. Bat/moth thing. Very cool creatures. Harmless and beautiful.
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