Vaping Toxicity - Torturing Spiders

[Linthorn]

As for mosquitoes, we know that vaping causes lactic acid to build up in the muscles and on the skin (especially if the vaper isn't properly hydrated). Mosquitoes are attracted to lactic acid. QED.

Lactic acid is the end-product of PG, what about VG? Goes to Glucose. Anyway, we use motly VG but we're getting torn up by them skeeters. Never thought it was the vaping. I guess we need to get a concentration of cigarette smoke up.

I'll tell my wife she can't quit the analogs.

 

[olderthandirt]

Ok, I'll take the hit for cruelty to animals, but... If you blow cigarette smoke on a spider dangling from a thread it scuttles away like it's burned...Yesterday I had a spider dangling so I blew my vape onto it. Full-bodied VG/PG mix, 24mg. The spider didn't even notice. I did it about 10 times in a row and the spider didn't react at all (except to getting blown back and forth)...

I've killed a house centipede in a container with vapor, but I had sucked the vapor into my mouth, not my lungs.

a drop of 36mg ON a large house spider makes for some entertaining freakout for a few seconds, followed by death

Perhaps..... but I am pretty sure that sealing an insect in with a cloud of 'tobacco' smoke isn't enough to kill it, so something is strange, I think I shall have to experiment with this and see it for myself.

Great.

If you kids don't stop picking on the bugs we're gonna have PETA after us too!

 

[SLDS181]

Great.

If you kids don't stop picking on the bugs we're gonna have PETA after us too!

People for Eating Tasty Animals?

 

[olderthandirt]

People for Eating Tasty Animals?

Hmm, originally had a diff group in mind, but after I turn the pork ribs over on the grill I'll have to check 'em out!

 

[Linthorn]

People for Eating Tasty Animals?

I'm a pseudovegitarian - I only eat animals that only eat plants.

 

[Probot]

I've have found one downside to switching from analogs to vapor....
As a fisherman, mosquitoes hate analog smoke but I'm finding they sure as !@#$$%^ don't mind vapor and seem to actually be, gulp, attracted to it

Yes they dont like analog smoke but they ARE attracted to humidity heat and lactic acids. Im not sure if that helps.

 

[pcore]

I had a huge, hairy Florida wolf spider move in with me a couple of summers ago. I told him that he could stay on the side of the house away from my bedroom, but if I woke up with him on my face he was going to be an EX-arachnid.

Saw him lurking and scurrying around (well, they don't really scurry - they don't get that excited) for about two months, and then he disappeared. Never did encroach upon my sleeping space, either.

Wasn't this an interesting post?

Best. Post. Ever.

I also make deals with spiders. Basically, stay out of my sight and we'll be cool. I think they listen, too - I've only had to kill a few in the past year, mainly from my wife demanding that I perform my manly duties.

 

[Scaralouche]

i keep thinking about keanu reeves blowing smoke in the upturned glass he trapped the spider in, peering at it, and then saying "Welcome to my world"...i loved constantine.

edit: i leave the mashed up bodies of spiders around the house as examples to the others the price of being seen by me. and my cats love to mess with em.

 

[surbitonPete]

I keep telling all the summer bugs that all they have to do is keep away from me and everything will be fine ....I even warn them that I am much bigger than they are...........but do they ever listen....nah!

 

[steven.rn]

That's kind of worrying because it's suggests that second hand vapour is highly toxic....I wouldn't have expected it to have done it any harm other than make it cough!

We used to get infestations of box elder bugs to where they would literally cover the house. They kinda look like fireflies with red spots.

We used to have the guy come out and spray with poison- til we got a tip.

You take a pump type sprayer, put a couple ounces of dishwashing detergent in, fill up with water and spray away.....

They drop over dead. Seems the surface tension of the soap keeps em from breathing, t'would be my guess.

I will NEVER breathe a word to the FDA about this... they would probably ban soap as well as e-cigs! 8-o

 

[EasyE]

a drop of 36mg ON a large house spider makes for some entertaining freakout for a few seconds, followed by death

OMG............yes!.......................I'm not doing this right now

 

[jboze]

I had a huge, hairy Florida wolf spider move in with me a couple of summers ago. I told him that he could stay on the side of the house away from my bedroom, but if I woke up with him on my face he was going to be an EX-arachnid.

Saw him lurking and scurrying around (well, they don't really scurry - they don't get that excited) for about two months, and then he disappeared. Never did encroach upon my sleeping space, either.

Wasn't this an interesting post?

Probably swallowed it while you were asleep.

 

[SomeGuy]

Good posts, gave me some new idea to experiment with when I get mine, LOL.

 

[mintee]

I've killed a house centipede in a container with vapor, but I had sucked the vapor into my mouth, not my lungs.

Seriously, those thinks scare the hell out of me. I can't believe anyone would even get that close to one.

 

[Superstargoddess]

Aww, I love animals so much that I can't even bring myself to kill a spider when it's in my house. I usually either ignore them and let them go on their way, or if they are big mamojamas, I will get a newspaper or something that can scoop them up and take them to my door and toss them outside.

I killed a spider once and felt soooo bad about it, still do. When I accidentally kill them now I feel bad. I'm such a softy! Roaches on the other hand... DIE DIE DIE! (I don't have roaches, but I once lived in a seedy place where there were more roaches per inch than there are people per mile in NYC)

 

[SLDS181]

(I don't have roaches, but I once lived in a seedy place where there were more roaches per inch than there are people per mile in NYC)

... so you lived in NYC then?

 

[surbitonPete]

When I was about 11 years old I had an air rifle and being a boy I just couldn't help targeting birds, until I shot one that didn't die and when I reached it, it was laying on the ground looking up at me far too injured to fly and I had to finish it off, I felt sick with myself for what I had done to the poor thing and never did it again. To this day I can still see that bird looking at me and feel the guilt.

 

[EasyE]

When I was about 11 years old I had an air rifle and being a boy I just couldn't help targeting birds, until I shot one that didn't die and when I reached it, it was laying on the ground looking up at me far too injured to fly and I had to finish it off, I felt sick with myself for what I had done to the poor thing and never did it again. To this day I can still see that bird looking at me and feel the guilt.

HAHahaha. I think EVERY boy has done this. I know i did. Dont worry bro I dont think your going to hell....

 

[EasyE]

i remember that feeling coming over me as well. ...OH ...its not dead. Thats when you realize its not that "cool". At least i did. I think i would feel bad killing or hurting any animal. Insects are another story , we(I) have an agreement with them. Dont touch me or you die! Dont get really close to me and look like you might touch me or you die.As far as animals , I Fish but i throw back or eat them. I wanted to experience hunting at some point. But i think i would need to eat whatever i killed to be ok with it. Killing for fun is not right.

 

[surbitonPete]

i remember that feeling coming over me as well. ...OH ...its not dead. Thats when you realize its not that "cool". At least i did. I think i would feel bad killing or hurting any animal. Insects are another story , we(I) have an agreement with them. Dont touch me or you die! Dont get really close to me and look like you might touch me or you die.As far as animals , I Fish but i throw back or eat them. I wanted to experience hunting at some point. But i think i would need to eat whatever i killed to be ok with it. Killing for fun is not right.

Ha ha.. yes we sound like the same kind of person. I feel no guilt, perhaps even pleasure in killing all the bugs that will never stay out of my house or leave me alone. Wasps are my no 1 summer time enemy.