To not be able to kill anything? Even poisonous spiders?

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I am English but live in Australia with DH and our DC. Since being here I've obviously met far more weird and awful insects than ever before.

The thing is...I just can't bring myself to kill them...here, it's not like England because some of them can cause harm. So...whitetip spiders for example can cause really awful bites. The sort that can go necrotic...can I kill one? Nope...can I hell!

I might see one in the sitting room and I'll just panic and if DH isn't about then I have to avoid the area.

There's a humongous bull ant in my bathroom...can't kill it even though they have a venomous bite...I've put a cup over it and am waiting for DH to get back.

It's stupid! I just can't. Can you kill things? It's gross...the thought of them being crushed...NO!

Here's a lovely whitetip...small but evil.

And I swear the ant in my bathroom is this big.

I've just rescued an ant from the toilet at work and put it outside. It's not just you!

Where in Aus are you OP?

I never kill anything but I’m in England. If it could seriously harm my D.C. I might.

Doing Why?

Spiders, I can't. I feel like they are misunderstood and it's very sad.

Wasps, those fuckers are evil scum and I would kill every last one of them.

YANBU to not kill things for the sake of it. There's so many critters, that it's likely that killing the odd one or two will have much effect on the number that you encounter.

I once rescued a spider from the bath before getting in the shower. I just put it outside the bathroom, but when I finished, I then discovered that one of the cats had mashed it into the carpet, which may or may not have been a better fate than being washed down the plughole.

Yuk I couldn’t even enter a room with those things in. Which is why I live in the UK!

I'd imagine if your house was infested with roaches or fleas, you'd be able to kill them.

I'm in England, but I'm the same! I can kill wasps with a spray of raid but I darent get close enough to anything else to kill them... Partly because I feel bad killing them, but mainly because I'm a wuss! Should just do a spray for all! that way I can keep my distance and composure!

@hennypennyhorror
Because me and DH have talked about moving to Australia and have always wondered if the urban areas also attract lots of creepy crawlies. No other reason

I can't kill anything either, why would anyone want to, on a recent holiday I layed on the side of the pool and stretched over with a flipflop to rescue a drowning wasp, we're all gods creatures

The only things I will kill are things that are purposefully trying to eat me like bed bugs or mosquitos!

I lived in Australia and thankfully came across very few spiders. Huntsmen are handy ones to have cos they keep the other ones out of the house. Huge and ugly but you can't have everything. Trapdoor spiders can deal with fire ants and a few other things so they get left and I didn't come into contact with any others. There are sprays you can get to kill them though and they work on wasps too - wasps are one creature I would obliterate if I could. Assholes with wings.

I've never deliberately killed anything before today, but a wasp came into the house and I was scared it might sting my newborn so I sprayed it with raid (which I bought yesterday thinking they might start getting in the house). I wouldn't have done it in the past but the thought of it getting near the baby terrified me. Normally I'm the type to save spiders etc from the shower so I'm not all evil!!

I feel sick at the idea of the squashing of anything so I can’t kill anything and usually put a cup on them until I can bring myself to get rid of it

I did hit a huge spider with a broom last week but it was so big it didn’t hurt it, it was like a big sweep motion to launch it into the garden - that’s as much insect violence as I can muster!

I hate them though and couldn’t live in Aus as I would be worrying all the time!

I struggle to clear up dead insects as much as alive ones TBH

They're both very handsome. Your spider is almost as cute as my baby spider

Poisonous spiders, just don't eat them.

Poisonous-you bite it, you get ill (berries, toadstools)
Venomous - it bites/stings you, you get ill (spiders, snakes, etc)

Humans have eradicated half of the world’s insects in about 40 yeArs so for that distressing stat alone I think yanbu.

I will kill mosquitos, carpet beetles and clothes moths.

Anything else will be moved somewhere safe, especially spiders. I won't kill wasps because they are pollinators, they seem to know they are safe with me as they sometimes just land on me and sit there until I blow on them to move them off. I have insect netting on the windows to keep as many insects out as possible. If they get in, I put them back out again.