Chapter 25
Dangerous Nuisances and Hazards to Health
INSECTS AND OTHER PESTS
3. The rules with regard to insects such as gnats or mosquitoes*, which are liable to bite or sting people but do not cause great pain, are as follows:
a. While they are on one’s body, whether or not they are actually in the process of biting one, one may pick them off and throw them aside, if it is impossible to remove them without catching them or picking them up.
b. When they are not on one’s body, one may drive them away, but should not catch them.
c. Nevertheless, if they cannot be driven away, one should not object to a person taking a less stringent view and picking them off when they are not actually on his body but on the inner surface of his clothes.
d. 1) In no case may one kill them,
a) even incidentally, as in paragraph 2a2 above,
and
b) even while they are engaged in biting one.
2) One may likewise not throw them into water, because this will certainly kill them.
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* Where there is a risk of malaria, the rule set out in paragraph 1 above applies.
