J. Allen, that salad dinner of yours looked gorgeous. My kind of food! I can't believe no one commented on this.
^I had a real bastard in my room a couple of weeks ago. I kept waking up with bites all over, and had 8 in all. I'm also very allergic to them, so they swell the size of half dollars and itch like mad. Finally I awoke to it perched on the wall by my bed, and obviously engorged. I smashed it, but it left a huge streak of blood dripping down my wall! EW! It did inspire me to paint my bedroom, though. My new grey walls look lovely and soothing.
I always have a glass and postcard handy for any errant arachnids, then let them outside. Hate killing anything smaller than self.
My attitude towards spiders is basically the same as that of the character played by John Goodman in Arachnophobia.
I'm not enlightened enough to have qualms about killing mosquitoes and flies. Spiders I generally like. Because they kill mosquitoes and flies. I guess they're kind of allies.
I get fucking distraught whenever I accidentally run over a snail. And let's not talk about frogs jumping around in the lawns I cut during the summer... But yeah, mosquitos. Love killing them as well. I've found best way is just to grab them with my hand and squash them. They're slow enough to let me do that. Also wasps. but i have an electric racquet for those.