What do you do when INSECTS enter your house??

A grasshopper that entered our house - This is a grasshopper that entered our house one day.
@vesuvius (1677)
Philippines
May 31, 2007 8:31am CST
What do you do?? Do you try to ignore them or do you try to drive them away your home?? In our house, when insects come inside, we try to just ignore them if they're not that irritating. I actually love it when grasshoppers, crickets and butterflies come in - I dont know why but it feels great for me. But when I see cockroaches, mosquitoes and flies, I really try to kill them!!
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@castleghost (1304)
• United States
31 May 07
We spray some chemicals around the perimeter of our house to keep out the crawling kind of bugs. If the crawling types of bugs get into our house the children have a tendency to scream. We have tried to explain that some are safe but it doesn't matter to them. We also have some chemicals that we hang in milk jugs that attract the flying type of bugs as well. This has a sweet smell to it so it attracts them away from the house. If a few do get in we try to kill them as best we can.
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@vesuvius (1677)
• Philippines
31 May 07
I just hope you could keep those chemicals away from your children's reach. I am greatly bothered with chemicals getting into a kid's hand. Thanks!
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• Canada
31 May 07
Me? I would leave it, if it was a smaller insect, then I would probably try to get it on a pencil and start playing with it.
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• United States
31 May 07
I guess it depends on what kind of insect. Spiders i catch and take outside. Anything else we catch and feed to our bearded dragon {lizard} he loves it!!! And the kids enjoys running around trying to catch the bug.
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@lols189 (4742)
12 Aug 07
i try to kill any insect that comes into my house except butterflies. i dont like any insects they make my skin crawl
@nicolec (2671)
• United States
31 May 07
I have two cats. So luckily for me, they take care of whatever enters the house. But if i can get to it first, I will most likely capture it and then release it back out side.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
31 May 07
The insects who always try tocame inside our house is the one that's very irritating, and very dirty insects so I killllled them. The good insects seldom goes too because we don't have garden or tress around the house, actually I never seen grasshoper since I moved in the city.
@leese29 (340)
• United States
31 May 07
I can not stand insects or bugs if they come into my home I will kill them. If I can kill it with a paper towel then flush it I will happily doit that way but if not out comes the bug spray.
• Nigeria
31 May 07
well we normally use chemicals to kill off the insects especially roaches cause i don't like them that much and they multiply rapidly. I don't think i like insects in general so be it roaches,bug,butterfly etc they have to go back outside or get squashed
@Thewishlady (1057)
• Netherlands
31 May 07
Hey, Well what I do is call my cat. He will catch every insect. I must say that I rarely see one, probably because he catches them before I see them :) Lol
• Singapore
2 Jun 07
It would depend on where in my house and what I am doing. If it is my bedroom, I will definitely kill them. No one invades my sanctuary without permission. :P Otherwise, I try to shoo them away, failing which I might still kill them.
@youless (112595)
• Guangzhou, China
1 Jun 07
I don't like insects in my house. I will try all methods to vanish them. I hate mosquitoes and cockroaches at home. They are just so bothering.
@rangics (1334)
• Philippines
31 May 07
Oh I feel the same way. Cockroaches ( some of them are flying ) really bothers me! I'd do everything to just stop that thing from flying! ;)
• Egypt
1 Jun 07
i hate all of insects when i see cockroaches i feel scard and disgusted also i hate mosquitoes and flies i tray to kill it but im filled.
@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
31 May 07
I kill them. I either squish them or swat them. LOL. I HATE bugs and they are all irritating to me.
@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
31 May 07
I do not like bugs if I see any kind of bugs like spiders or crickets we spray some chemicals around the house outside and in the house.That keeps most of the bugs out of the house. Sometimes we have to spray the house 2 times a year in the summer time. Flies also like to come in the house I usually try to kill them.
@inked4life (4224)
• United States
31 May 07
I'd most likely run and get my wife to take care of it. I'm a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to bugs. Not a good thing to be where I live as we have some real big ones here. Not too many have made it in mind you as I'm very careful to keep the doors closed and we have screens on all the windows
@nonew3 (1941)
• United States
31 May 07
For me, I kill all bugs and insects that get inside my apartment, except for ladybugs. They are the only exception. I don't know why. I have a weakness for ladybugs.
@KatieS (503)
• United States
31 May 07
I hate bugs, I always kill them. My dogs like to play with flies that don't move too fast, but if I get to them first I just kill them. Spiders creep me out and I definitely kill them, I'm so afraid of getting bit by the brown recluse and can't recognize them over other brown spiders, so they're history right away.
@meatiitr (364)
• India
31 May 07
i try to drive them out of the house by using some repellants , but when i see mosquitoes I also give my best to kill them...
• United States
31 May 07
I follow them! I know, it's funny to see a grown woman crawling behind a crawly, but I do it to see where it is coming from! HAHA!