I fail to see the connection.

My students found a bedbug in my classroom today.  Even talking about it makes my skin crawl a little.  I promise I was NOT the source.  Anyway, they being ninth graders, behaved like ninth graders and slid their desks away from the tiny bug.  I had never seen a bedbug before and so had no idea what they looked like.  As I got closer students started yelling helpful comments like, "Eeew, Miss.   Don't touch it."  Thanks for that.  What made them think I had any interest in touching it I'll never know.  I got closer and they showed me that it was crawling all over one of the workbooks.  

I don't like bugs, but,  I don't like smashing them.  Not because I'm a pansy, but because then you leave some of their guts in the room when you do. However, I couldn't have the bug continue to distract my very easily distractible students (you should see them when flies get into the room), so I picked up the book, walked to the window and returned it to nature (such as it is in Harlem.)

As I returned the book to its proper desk I heard one of my students ask,   "Miss, are you a vegetarian?"  That's where I failed to see the connection.  What does my not wanting to kill a bug have to do with my eating habits?  I guess I can see that there might be some sort of relation if I had a problem with the general killing of things.  But I don't.  Well, I guess I do if I'm the one doing the killing.  But if it's a delicious steak that's already dead, why waste it?

Anyway, there appears to be a bedbug infestation at my school.  I did NOT follow proper protocol by throwing the thing out.  I should have kept the "specimen" so they could send it out for testing.  They have to be positive it's a bedbug.  I'll tell you what.  I searched google images and I'm pretty darn sure that's what it was.  When we're talking about bug infestations isn't "pretty darn sure" good enough to get some sort of bug terminators in?