I try to avoid killing bugs too. If I by accident step on an ant, or, for example, this one time I was getting into the hot tub at my mom's and there was an ant getting tossed around in it. I tend to feel bad when I see something struggling. I took it out and put it on dry tile and kept an eye on it for a long time. I would have felt pretty bad if it didn't recover, but after a while, it got itself back together again. I don't kill bugs, I put them outside. I cringe if I see someone kill one, like my mom kills spiders, for example. I don't want it where I live, but you don't have to kill it, just move it!
There are these people, especially girls become "screechie," who freak out if there is a bee flying around them. They start swatting at the bee or wasp like rabid lunatics, attacking the thing, so it might sting them. If you just sit still when they are flying around you or land on you, they will eventually fly away if you just let them bee
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I also feel bad when it rains and all the earthworms appear on the street and sidewalk and I just know they are going to get squished. Sometimes I bend down and tell them "wormie, you're going to get squished if you are here" and then I move them to the grass, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea anymore, because a few times I did that in Finland and I would cross the same path a little later and the worm would be working it's way across the pavement again, so...I guess I would have to try to guess specifically where the thing is going, or else I will just make a lot more work for it
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I have to admit, though...there is
one problem I have...with mosquitos. They are the reason I could never be a Buddhist...