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People using bleach to kill insects and bugs

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Myrugrats1 · 22/08/2018 20:12

I've noticed recently not just on here but on fb with people now casually using bleach to kill insects. I've seen numerous maggots in bins threads on mn of people bleaching maggots and tonight on a gardening fb group people suggesting to pour bleach on an ants nest on the patio. Bleach is such a horrible way for any animal to die. I'm just sad people have such disregard for other forms of life to now just casually squirt bleach over a creature.

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AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 22/08/2018 21:05

Someone in a dog owner group I'm in on FB posted a pic of a tick she'd pulled off her dog, the pic was of the tick on a switched on ceramic hob on her cooker Envy < not envy. She was clearly taking great delight in burning it to death on there. I know ticks are horrible creatures but torturing one to death like that is a bit... psychopathic.

Ansumpasty · 22/08/2018 21:06

Maggot lives matter Grin

Soubriquet · 22/08/2018 21:07

I dunno, they dissolve pretty quickly in bleach.

I do the same to fleas. If I find one on the animals, I throw it in a cup of bleach to make sure it is a flea and not something else.

They can't get out of a bleach cup and die quixkly whereas they can get out of a cup of water

donquixotedelamancha · 22/08/2018 21:09

Spiders have personalities? Mind blown!

I wouldn't get too excited, most of them are total dickheads. If they could drive they'd park in a disabled space every time.

Alicatz66 · 22/08/2018 21:09

I'm with you OP .., there is no need xx

ShackUp · 22/08/2018 21:09

OP I am firmly of the 'carefully usher the spider out of the window' school of thought. I would actually consider myself a Buddhist in some respects. However, I was not about to let several tens of thousands of maggots wiggle around for the next ? many days in front of the neighbours.

It was truly grim.

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 22/08/2018 21:13

Found the screenshots I took that I sent to my friend because I was so horrified.

People using bleach to kill insects and bugs
People using bleach to kill insects and bugs
FinallyHere · 22/08/2018 21:22

If you were a maggot, would you rather be bleached to death or eaten alive by a bird?

BarnabyBungle · 22/08/2018 21:22

OP. Why is being eaten alive by a bird so much better than being killed by bleach? I’m not sure at what point the maggot dies when eaten by a bird but I wouldn’t be surprised if the bird doesn’t gulp it down and the maggot dies in the birds stomach acid, so rather similar.

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Myrugrats1 · 22/08/2018 21:40

@ain'tnobody - yeah that is not right enjoying something else's suffering.

@shack - I'm not being. I guess it's your castle and you do what you see fit. Bleach is not a nice way though.

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Myrugrats1 · 22/08/2018 21:48

I'm glad someone does alicatz. I think someone else up the thread agreed so that's three of us I guess Grin

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FlowersAndHerts · 22/08/2018 21:53

I don't really see what's unhygienic about maggots in the bin. They just turn into flies, and the birds eat them!

ShackUp · 22/08/2018 21:55

Okay, if you had to leave a bin TEEMING with thousands of maggots on your driveway for at least the next 3 days, what would you do?

FlowersAndHerts · 22/08/2018 21:56

I'd just leave it. I think maggots are quite interesting. (DH would probably insist on boiling water though!)

JoffreyBaratheon · 22/08/2018 22:08

I've not used fly sprays ever but made the strange discovery years ago that using Detox or similar sprays kills flies. Pretty quickly, too.

Riotgrrrrrl · 22/08/2018 22:20

I agree with you OP. It's not necessary be cruel for the sake of it.
At least if they're eaten by birds they're serving a purpose and being food for another animal rather than just being killed for no real reason.

CherryPlum · 22/08/2018 22:26

Hmm, would I prefer to be eaten by a bird, poured down a drain, or bleached? I don't know

Eaten alive = horrific
Death by sewer = horrific
Bleached = horrific

They are MAGGOTS!! Who cares how they're killed so long as they're gone?!

Ohyesiam · 22/08/2018 22:32

Sitting here Pondering the relative merits of being bleached or eaten.

Lookatyourwatchnow · 22/08/2018 22:37

I want to know more about spiders having personalities, come back PP!

AnoukSpirit · 22/08/2018 22:44

All death is horrific.

BarnabyBungle · 22/08/2018 22:52

All death is horrific

Should I feel guilty for trying to kill the cold virus affecting me by eating carrots and other veg that have been unceremoniously pulled from the ground, and causing their death.

BarnabyBungle · 22/08/2018 22:54

In other words, at what level does causing death become acceptable? Viruses, vegetables, insects, fish, mammals....

liverbird10 · 22/08/2018 22:54

Not remotely arsed about maggots.

TheSultanofPingu · 22/08/2018 23:20

I once poured boiling water over maggots in my wheelie bin. They squirmed around a lot and were in obvious pain. I felt really guilty and haven't done it since. Not had that many this summer surprisingly, which is good.

firehousedog1 · 22/08/2018 23:25

How can you tell the difference between a maggot squirming as they usually do and them squirming in pain? Squirming is what they do, no? Confused

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