>Co-workers yelling in fear for me to come here to get a bug>It's a June Beetle >They're genuinely confused as to why I didn't smash it and instead took it outside >Do Entomophobes really?Seriously why do people want to smash insects so much? I don't agree with it but I can understand the reaction to spiders (I just put them in a different part of the warehouse) but this was a June Beetle
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>>5138519I've felt bad sqishing a jumping spider, I smashed it because the people around dont like insects and ngl I had a infected rash from a bug bite, usually small spiders bite me too.
>>5138519So they were women.
Where I live we have beetles called "Christmas beetles" which used to emerge everywhere come summer in December when I was a kid, but now because of Jews spraying pesticides everywhere and shitting up bushland with crappy new build development to scam people you almost never see them anymore. After pupating they like to come out of the ground to eat and have sex, and are generally very derpy constantly flying around bumping into things and dying.Last year there was a heatwave and in October my girlfriend started screaming telling me there was a cockroach that flew into the kitchen. I immediately knew what it was and let the little bugger out. Hopefully it got laid after I saved its life. I think a big part of it is ignorance - people don't know what bugs are and assume it causes disease or something like a cockroach. These same people would not smash a ladybug for example.
>>5138519>I don't agree with it but I can understand the reaction to spidersWhat if it's a big spider like a huntsman which is obviously harmless to humans and live-in pest control but just looks "icky" (to boring foids and brown people)? Hurting it feels very brainlet-coded to me. He's like a little kitty cat
