Technically those images would be different without insects.
You wouldn't believe how dead everything would be without insects.
Humans would have an extinction level event if suddenly all bugs were gone.
OP IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL!
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Okay, I can settle for mosquitos and wasps going extinct.
Actually mosquitoes are a major food source for other animals.
And wasps are a major aspect of nature's dead creatures cleanup crew.
Tichs we can eradicate tho. They are also a food source vut afaik not nearly as big as mosquitoes
If you hate bugs so much why not cover yourself with DDT
80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026
Don't worry, AI will reintroduce those bugs into our software to live on there
Yeah if bugs didn't exist I'd be homeless too
me if hayfever didn't exist:
I don't mind bees. It's the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can't stand.
Bees and butterflies don't pollinate all by themselves, FYI. Things that bite/sting also do a lot of pollination work! Flies, wasps, etc
mosquitoes can fuck right off. the rest stays.
Actually mosquitos help as well, they are a food source for many other insects and animals. It’s just a food chain (and you are at the bottom… with that sweet, sweet blood)
I remember reading a long time ago that most insects are a very protein dense food source ... beef when looking at the whole cow is about 50%-60% protein overall .... while an insect is about 90% protein.
if you're not concerned about the texture crickets taste almost exacly like peanuts
You confuse bees with wasps or what
Just because your puny human brain can't comprehend the reason doesn't mean they didn't have one.
Also bees don't really bite. They sting.
Bite you for no reason?! You're the one crushing their home and messing everything up!
It makes you realize why we want to destroy the world so easily when we only ever see the world as being convenient for us only and not for all life no matter what shape or form it comes in.
Exactly. I'd like to see OP's reaction if a giant would crush his house and maybe even his loved ones.
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
- poem by William Blake
funny how well this fits for both meanings
We're working on it.
I used to sleep on the grass before my jujutsu class. Got bit by some bugs once, but honestly, the worst problem was trying to find a spot without goose poop.
I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they're born required to bite somebody 🤷♂️
Fuck the Canada goose.
Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.
Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.
You need to meet it's bigger brother, the swan.
Where I live we get white swans, Canadian geese, and Egyptian geese. Egyptian are smaller and absolutely fine. Canadian will get angry and tell you to fuck off Swans are 50% bigger and will run you out of the county.
Nah fuck mosquitos, specifically the genus that sucks blood, which is a subsect. They don't even add to an ecosystem and its been widely theorized they could be wiped out without environmental harm, but only benefit.
Death to biting mosquitos.
What a out ticks?
Sounds like a certain lake troll is agitating to improve his lake-dwelling experience, if ya ask me.
Please don't fuck the geese
Ahahah why tho?
The monkey paw curls: all insects and other "bugs" are gone now, the food chain collapses bottom up and the human race is just about extinct within 10 years.
I would say It's not really the loss of bugs in general that cause the food chain to collapse, but the loss of pollinating insects specifically that really causes problems.
You're definitively forgetting about other important insects for agriculture such as worms
Worms aren't insects, but I agree they are definitely important
Don't 'monkey's paw' comments usually have a negative?
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It's kind of funny how cyclical the solution is here. Compute needs power. That power is driving climate change. Which kills the bugs which kills the humans which prevents any more bugs from being created.
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I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.
Upvoted you since I can't upvote the post twice
Upvoting this whole chain because I can't multi-upvote OP too
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