is it unethical to kill bugs?

[Diana]

So this is where you are torn between your love for crickets and your love for Frantz,  what can I say, life is complex.

Beautiful, Flofrog. I love it that you fed the crickets. I, too, have a "pet" lizard who hibernates in the winter and comes back to live on my patio in the summer. His name is Shorty (because when I first saw him his tail had fallen off—this was several years ago). He loves watermelon. He brings friends sometimes.  

I also feed mule deer as everyone here knows. Last year Spot, one of the young does, was killed by a cougar. She left two new fawns, who were taken care of by the herd. I found her half-eaten body in the wash next to my house. It was incredibly sad. But the cougar has to eat as well. So I totally get being torn.