Regard and respect for Insects, as with regard and respect for any other of our fellow creatures, is down to an individual's educative awareness of the world we inhabit - of inquisitive inquiry from a young age and what altogether rubs off on us in growing up as children in families that empathise. I allow spiders in my home because I know they are likely to help me keep down clothes moths, which, if I can, I catch and release out the window before the spider hanging in a corner of the ceiling gets them first. A few years ago 'without so much as a by your leave' an army of ants marched over the threshold of my home filed in single line down the hallway past the stairs and on into the kitchen where they crawled over the fridge and then back out the way they came again. What they wanted I do not know as they didn't get inside the fridge. I spent a couple of weeks scouring all along their route of the formic acid maker they apparently lay down for each other - also picking them up and depositing them back out the front door. They kept coming. But dogged persistence with the repeated wiping with bleach (a natural agent as I understand) to obliterate their path and water puddle barriers on the front doorstep they could not traverse eventually deterred arrogant intrusive little bleeders.
Bobbie Carnegie ● 2260d