“When bugs step over the line, I step on them.”

–I approve that Message!–

Currently have field-mice constructing a subdivision under my deck. (They employ ground-squirrels to do the heavy digging.) My Cat can’t do all the work, much like the under-staffed Border Patrol.

Ants are cool but they can become problematic, as they say. What if the ants are under your patio and ruining how level your pavers are? What if they are inside of your house someplace? What if they destroy your yard?

Spiders are much the same way. Some spiders are totally cool just running around eating other bugs and making cool webs but then there are Hobo spiders. These little guys are not dumb. They watch you moving from across a room. They scurry across walls, over floors, and over you! Their bites can become necrotic. When you see one, there are tens more, so it isn’t like just one spider doing its thing but an infestation.

I’m a live and let live kinda guy but that is a two way street. When bugs step over the line, I step on them.

Yeah, I guess it is. Point taken! I can tolerate a whole lot, but never was an “insect person.”
They creep me out. (not so much “ants” but larger Insects such as Roaches.)

Probably should have said, “Personally I’m not an insect-guy & would trend toward killing them in large numbers, BUT fully appreciate their place in Nature & don’t actively/overtly do that sort of thing.”
–If “insects” mess with me, I do go thermonuclear on them. I do have a twinge of “guilt” when I have kill them.
Spider’s are not my favorite, at all, but if-anything, I go out of my way to try and not kill them, because they eat other insects!
Had a rather large spider living in my outdoor garage light-fixture for a few weeks last Fall. Sorta “sad” when it vanished. Beautiful spider-web constructor was she!

–weigh in on the “debate” and Ben Carson Trump endorsement, in the “how I went from Trump Curious to anti-trump” Thread. Would be interested on your take.

The kid with the molten aluminum video’s is very interesting. Thanks for turning me on to him!
Apparently, cooking with hot lava, as well, is an actual thing in Hawaii & other places near active volcanoes.
I’d love to hear from any Metallurgists in the audience!!

I find the gratuitous killing of any life form to be unconscious and ignorant.

Even if it is “only” ants.

Very cool. You should have emailed this link to me and I could have scheduled it as an evening pause. This is exactly the kind of stuff I like to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdpQo3tRPLY

These are good.
-Is he the same guy who shows you how to extract gold from microchips?