Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It's like a reflex or impulse and honestly it's kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There's like no thought or contemplation, it's just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.
Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.
EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn't actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who "immediately stomp" without "thought or contemplation" have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it's not like there's a kneejerk intentional kill response, it's usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck's sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus... It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.
Inside the house, everything but spiders are getting killed. Outside the house everything but mosquitoes are left alone
I leave predators alone, since their priorities are mostly my priorities. Spiders, silverfish and even centipedes, although I try to put the latter outside. Fantastic hunters, but just a little too gross for me.
Once I got over my initial revulsion I became best buds with the house centipedes in my basement. They were all huge and fat and I never had any pests. I compare them to lions hunting on the plains of your living room floor when I'm trying to convince people to appreciate them as allies.
Centipedes are cool as hell. Also their chomps can't break human skin. They're totally harmless.
feel lucky you don't live in an area that lets you continue thinking that.
i.e. not somewhere these have extended their range to yet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra
Aren't silverfish there to eat your books and wood and carpet glue
I looked up silverfish and apparently I have simply been calling house centipedes the wrong thing