Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 29, 2022

That is actually sweet.

Keep your eye on the fly(s).

Like Hercules and the multi-headed hydra: take away one fly, three more come back in its place.

No good deed goes..

Just don’t stuff them as toy pets like you did with Hobbes.

One fly forward. Three flies back.

“Some problems won’t be solved without creating ten more.”- Thomas Edison (I think)

That gives him a new hobby.

that’s my life…. but with mosquitoes

At least the boy tried. Have to give him credit for that.

The fly’s around here just come in out of the rain……

So…As he releases one out the door, three more come in above his head. A fair trade?

One step forward, three steps back.

There are levels of achievement.

Back in the early ’70’s, I remember a TV ad for some device that you hung up in your house, and it was supposed to kill flies, mosquitoes, etc.

Those ads didn’t last very long; either those things were ineffective, or there were unpleasant side effects.

I’ll get them!

My new roommate leaves the door open for his dog, and lets in flies. It took a while before I found a flyswatter in the store. I’m praying for an early fall.

When I was at high school, the teacher rolled up a newspaper to kill a wasp that was in the classroom. Another boy said, “Don’t kill it. Open a window and it will fly out.” I replied, “Or others will fly in.”

As the old saying goes, “Kill one fly and 10 come to its funeral.”

If you leave doors and windows open they will fly back out by themselves, plus small insect eating birds can do the same.

When we were little, Daddy told us he’d pay us a penny for each fly we swatted in the house. It didn’t take long before we realized we’d make more money if there were more flies in the house, so we propped the back door open to let more in. He withdrew the deal immediately upon finding out what we were doing to maximize our profit potential.

Once I found a moth in my rooms. I thought, let her live. Some weeks later, little worms came out from my food case. It had placed its eggs into my food case!

That’s my daughter. Any bug in the house she will catch & release. We even have a small box for just such purposes. I actually watched her TALK a spider into the box!

Flys are attracted to light.

If you have a glass or a screen door, just turn off the lights, close all the blinds on other doors and windows and wait.

All the flies collect on the door, open it and they fly out.

Awww! Calvin will be busy today!

Spiders get moved outside, as there is very little for them to eat inside.

Best metaphor for life I’ve ever seen.

My hubby does this with any bug or flying insect. He’s very tender-hearted toward all living things. Good for me!

Ah, I see now. Calvin is practicing for a job with the Border Patrol. Uncle Sam needs You.

An allegory for good intentions and their consequences…?

I’ll move spiders to less open areas of the house. As for flies, they’re on their own to survive from the cats.

I will relocate all bugs to the outdoors except for spiders. I’m extremely arachnophobic and don’t want them breeding, so I admit it – I am a spider murderer. Bwa ha ha! However, ants and other non-flying bugs get rescued one by one via getting them to walk onto a dustpan for transportation to the outdoors. For flying bugs I’m with the person who darkens everything but one open window.

no good deed goes unpunished

it’s a moth.

I love how a few talented strokes of the pen produce such a sweet comic today.

Opps.

Flies are phototropic. I can often get them to go back out by opening a crack in the door but it has to be darker inside.

One step forward, several steps back.

That’s life in a nutshell. One step forward two steps back.

looks like my cats… chasing the one in the house, waiting for more when the door opens.. interactive toys

the version in Spanish was funnier

See if you can find a copy of the radio commercial “Bart the Bedbug.”

Innocence is bliss.

ah human nature, “we got the badgers to kill the snakes that we got to kill the cats we got to kill the rats we got to kill the toads we got to get rid of the harmless flies we had”

No! it is not, if you love flies then go to a barn in August.

o7 fly, live a long life.

One out the door… three in. Good boy.

Sometimes, he does something good.

At least his heart was in the right place! I always release spiders.