Lol, I hear you. Mosquitos are a pain lol. Luckily we don't have as many so it's easy.
Ticks, yah, Joy is a tick collector but instead of flushing them down the toilet I throw them out of the window.
I mean in nature things get killed, it may be the intention behind it ;)
Sometimes I had the feeling that the fruit flies knew when I was there and got xtra drunk on purpose knowing that I would save them lol.
If we throw everything together we are closer to ZEN than a lot of people out there ;).