I heard that having an arachno- or insectophobia is the Mark of their respective deities: The Spider God and Ant Man, and thus instead of fearing them you should work towards conquering your phobia, after which Spider God or Ant Man will visit you and uplift you to a higher plane of existence. I'm an archnid whisperer myself, so I'm against killing or hurting them, but there was this one time Martin (my spider friend) brought his girlfriend home with him and they mated with Martin dying in the act. I was really angry at her, but she just said "your too late, it's all ogre" and gave birth to a bunch of little spiders and died. I had to abort the little guys. I'm sorry, Spider God. I truly am.
Just kidding. I deal with them like I deal with people: if they annoy me I'll k- Oh, wait. I think I know where this is going...
Okay, for real. There was a little news article maybe a week ago which told that hoovering up a spider is animal cruelty and a finable offense (though nobody will ever get caught, but in theory you should only instakill bugs). Spiders are cool so I try to spare them, but anything out for my blood dies. I mean, I see it that they're playing the Game of Life and simply risk playing on a hard difficulty (sucking my blood). Mosquitoes seem to have an infinite lives cheat every summer, so I try to slap-kill as many as I can. I didn't make the rules. Sometimes with mosquitoes and horse-flies I try to catch them straight from flight and the tear their heads off. I mean, you gotta have different death animations. Ants are fine, but inside houses I don't use the present tense when talking about them. I've had to deal with so many annoying ant colonies inside the floors and walls that I've developed creative ways of killing them. For example rolling them over (little ants only) with an A-size battery is super effective (the colony itself must be poisoned, but what the heck). But y'know, butterflies are often really pretty and their larvae are cute and pudgy and fuzzy. I have a picture of one as my phone background too. Then there are some larvae that eat ALL THE LEAVES. They die.