Best way to kill bugs? (no wussies!)

[Guaranteed]

Many bugs, especially spiders, I try to scoop up and throw outside. But my girlfriend has a MAJOR aversion to them, and she gets angry at me when I don't kill them. On top of that, a lot of bugs just aren't even worth the effort, or impossible to get out there (here I'm thinking of ANTS- damn I hate them).

Anyway, you got any creative ways of killing 'em? Any rituals or superstitions or anything?

[trotsky]

1. Vacuum.

Especially those spiders on the ceiling.

[Guaranteed]

2. We have surprisingly few spider/cobweb problems here in IL,

but I usually used a broom for that back in California. Vacuum every once in awhile. Still tried to avoid the spiders. :)

Don't know why, but I like those guys (cept for the really nasty looking or poisonous ones).

[slackmaster]

6. Vacuuming works great for house flies and mosquitos

I rarely have any because my cats catch flies and the spiders I allow to live in my home catch mosquitos.

[Guaranteed]

8. LOL yeah we have four cats, and one's a great...

uh...bugger. :P

She takes 'em down right out of the air, even jumping. Pretty impressive to watch.

[slackmaster]

3. Should you be in a relationship with someone who insists on killing

Innocent animals? ;-)

Seriously, I refuse to kill spiders too. I think it's a sign of good character that you throw them outside alive.

As far as ants go, I usually wipe them out with 409. It kills them fast and cleans up their scent trail very well.

[Guaranteed]

7. She's just deathly afraid of them.

Like, "freak-out" afraid of them.

Like I said, though, I usually don't kill the spiders or anything that I can fairly easily get outside.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. gdb

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html

[qnr]

16. GMTA

Gnarled Minds Think Alike

[StopTheMorans]

5. a lighter

:evilgrin:

[BBradley]

9. Windex seems to work.

Also, I like to set up little ambushes for the ants, spill a bit of juice or soda on some hard surface, find out where they're coming from and hit them at the source then work my way back up to the spill.

[Dufaeth]

10. If the spiders are small,

leave them as they eat the other bugs.

[Dr.Phool]

11. Geckos

They eat bugs. But when they get in the house, my dogs eat them.

[Guaranteed]

12. LOL nt

[ET Awful]

13. Then you just need a tiger to eat the dogs, and you're all set :) n/t

[Dr.Phool]

14. Nah, I have gators across the street for that.

[Gyre]

15. One word.

Terro. Boron-based liquid in little containers that they carry back into the nest which poisons it.

Gyre

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. I try to escort bugs out of my house including wasps.

Ants are impossible and I get ant traps. I guess out of sight killing out of mind?

[DS1]

18. I give props to spiders, and save them whenever possbile, BUT

any other bugs - time and space permitting get the old can of WD-40 and a cigarrette lighter }(