Its all our doing. We will bear the brunt, if not the responsibility. I think some of us will survive whats coming .. most, i fear, wont.
- The outside is yours, you can do whatever you want there.
- Inside the walls is my own territory. I want you in minimum numbers there.
- If you're an harmless bug (most except cockroaches, centipedes and venomous animals), I'll transport you to nature with utmost care.
Notes:
- Balconies are outside.
- I'll try my best to not to poison outside or kill you in high numbers unless you try to invade my home.
I love spiders but avoid touching them if I can.
If you don't like the idea of catching and caging spiders, keep one by a window. The small amount of webbing they leave isn't prominent, unless they have trouble climbing (like in glass terrariums).
One spider took up residence in an upper corner of my shower during a time when I had a bizarrely intractable issue with drain flies. All well and good. We developed a routine: I had a series of taps on the stall I would deliver, which was Shower Spider's cue to retreat to the web. I then showered and left multiple large drops of water on the nearby ledge to drink. At all times I would fling drain flies (and other randomly encountered bugs) into the web for devouring.
Shower Spider died one day and I was never able to determine why. Water and bugs were delivered by me on the regular. We had a really good working relationship. Other Shower Spiders have come and gone, but the first one was a real trooper.
For instance running after moths at night isn’t fun, and they don’t bring much troubles so I gave up on the in/out separation for them.
Or spiders: people who don’t want insects in their house might want to let spiders and other predators live with them, as a helping factor.
And then bringing plants inside also bring other kind of life and a lot of tradeoffs depending on the species.
The spiders I have locally tend to hoard the dead, empty shells of the pillbugs (mostly) or millipedes (in one interesting case) that I presume they once caught and ate. They make for "interesting" caches to find.
I'm actually afraid of bugs, so trying not to hurt them and acting cool is very energy consuming for me.
I don't know if any of the centipedes in the continental US are problematic like that or not.
[0] "Ugly" is used here as a stand-in for "fundamentally terrifying to many people"
There are probably quite many bugs "inside your walls" in the literal sense.
For the former I'll make an attempt to capture and transport outside (and if not I'll leave it alone), if it's the latter I'll either try to shoo it outside or kill it, with killing being the last resort.
I don't use pesticides or weed killer and I also actively leave a couple patches of wild flowers and clover in the back yard unmowed for bees and butterflies and other insects to use. If my dogs didn't like trying to eat bees I would consider doing some sort of beekeeping.
I can't ignore them indoors because they multiply quickly.
> unless my wife complains (she hates big bugs for some reason)
Some of us are absolutely terrified of bugs and spiders. Some of it is fueled by not knowing the true nature of them and some of it is instinctive. Also traumatic events in the childhood involving bugs play a big role too.
They still take a bite or two on occasion.. it itches for less than an hour (worst was a week before did this ..) but not like before - its as if they let me be after i let them be.
There seems to be a strange relationship between prey and predator we still haven't understood that yet.
What is going to come?
Both will feed the cycles of imbalance more and more.
Thankfully, thanks to legislation (reducing SO2 emissions for the acid rain, the Montreal Protocol banning the production of CFC's and co on the other) those issues have been resolved.
What predictions of doom have you heard from your childhood that are still a thing? I mean climate change is still a thing, and it seems to take a lot more investments to resolve it.