something thats funny about bugs is that my grandma Hates Bugs and she is constantly constantly spraying any bug she finds in her house especially spiders. always using massive amounts of poison.
I do not use any poisons or insecticides and I actively encourage my house spiders
the result is that her home is full of poison-resistant cockroaches and nothing else, while mine is a healthy bug ecosystem of Mostly Spiders and sometimes the junebugs who like to come die in my sink. and the moths that I have to rescue from Glimmer. but no roaches!
pest control is just such a scam and it troubles me deeply how normalized it is idk. people react with revulsion when I'm like "no I just encourage the house spiders and they do a pretty good job" bc they are classing house spiders as equally bad as every other bug and that's TERRIBLE bc bugs are TERRIBLE due to they're YUCKY
rather than like. some bugs will leave you alone. some bugs want to eat you or your house. other bugs pose health and safety hazards bc they want to infest your cornflakes. a healthy crop of house spiders will prevent all of these from becoming a problem much of the time, barring extreme circumstances
I think the pest control industry is one of the worst ones and a lot of that is honestly ideological if that makes sense? like the way the existence of the pest control industry necessitates a narrative about animals that live in and near our homes that is. well. extremely violent and weirdly sterile and aggressive