Pass me that magazine...

I'm not a Buddhist, but I do have this "they're all God's creatures" attitude to most wildlife, so I will carefully gather up spiders, beetles and such and take them outside and put them in the garden.  But there are two things I will cheerfully splat - flies and wasps.  And yet, I hadn't thought about it, but wasps are the main predators of aphids, and in a world without wasps, greenfly and blackfly would devour all our roses, tomatoes, cabbages and such.  So they have a purpose.  And if there were no flies - well, there's no delicate way of putting this - we would all be up to our eyeballs in shit.  So I'll continue to splat them. but perhaps with more awareness.