I don't think that I've ever deliberately killed a jillifont, at least not in post-childhood memory (children are dreadful little things and I'm sure I wasn't different). Still get a bit apprehensive about spiderwebs, especially ones in the basement.

I leave jillifont and insects alone, outside. Inside my house, I abide by the castle law. The only insect I'll transplant to the outside is a lady bug.

If Mr. Loomy is home, jillifonts are catch-and-release, because he can get close enough to trap them in a glass without hyperventilating and nearly fainting.

If he isn't home, jillifonts are beaten to death with shoes.

In the house, anything with more legs than a spider gets squished. Friendly spiders and stinkbugs and other bugs generally get transported outside if I can get them. A spider in the bathroom might get flushed, though.

I try to ignore bugs outside. But that fucking spider on our back porch is getting bigger, ISTG. I just checked on it earlier, because I went to take trash out, automatically went to the back door, caught sight of Shelob before I even put my hand on the doorknob, and turned right back around. Oh my god, it's HUGE.

It is my personally and deeply held belief that spiders should not be allowed to get larger than, say, a small pea. Anything over that is just being a show-off and too big for their (eight-legged) britches and should result in instant death.

Tep, I think I would have had dh relocate Shelob. I don't do well with big bugs. Thankfully, we don't usually have a lot of them in New England.

I also keep a can of bug killer handy (usually). Flying bugs in my house get that if I can't get them with a flyswatter or newspaper. If I don't have bug spray, I do employ hairspray, I just don't also employ flame. Hi Atropa.

Most spray products (Lysol, cleaners) will kill bugs, when you're in a fix. Smooshable bugs I smoosh, but I've hair-sprayed yellow jackets to death.

Timelies all!

We went to Gary's car yesterday to bring Mr. S to daycare, and go to services ourselves, and found a sizable web between our cars. I broke the part that was attached to Gary's car, but otherwise left the spider alone. It was gone when I went to my car this morning.

If I don't have bug spray, I do employ hairspray, I just don't also employ flame. Hi Atropa.

I've been told I'm not allowed to do that anymore. Something about some dude in West Seattle burning his house down doing that, blah blah blah.

I must have delurked much later, because you were a fixture, Plei, by the time I was posting.

Not much later. I was talky meat and unemployed when I delurked, so I had a lot of time to be talky meat.

Tep, didn't you have Shelob on your back porch last summer? I feel certain I remember you mentioning her keeping you from opening that door before. Maybe you need to build a giant spider habitat somewhere more remote.