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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Clegs can go extinct and no one will cry about it. Fuck clegs. I will take mosquitos and wasps any day over clegs.
Not only are they the insect version of a bad day they were also adorned the worst color scheme in nature: gray and poop brown. They have nothing going for them. Delete.
I killed two of them while swimming in a nearby lake to day. I'm doing my part
Thank you, my hero! 😚
Wikipedia would have me believe that these meat drilling, bloodsucking mistakes of nature actually pollinate when they aren't in the process of ruining the lives of warm blooded creatures so now I feel a tiny bit bad, but still. So many other bugs can take over their jobs and manage to lay eggs without feeling the need to turn someone's skin into Swiss cheese.
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.
Tics we can eradicate tho. They are also a food source but afaik not nearly as big as mosquitoes
Nah
Just make good enough solar panels that can run machines to turn your faeces into Tasty Wheat and all your excreted gases into useful ones and you can get rid of all the animals and insects you want.
Oh and you will need to cover the top of your structures on Earth with them and constantly maintain them against environmental wear and also make sure you have enough energy required for continuous micro-terraforming required to keep the place habitable for humans after the following ecological collapse.
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
nah, that's a insect shield.
Things that are not bugs:
- snails/slugs
- rats/mice
- other insects that are not bugs
- poop of any state and origin
- thugs
me if hayfever didn't exist:
If you hate bugs so much why not cover yourself with DDT
I don't mind bees. It's the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can't stand.
Bite you for no reason?! You're the one crushing their home and messing everything up!
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
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.
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
Without mosquitoes many birds and bats (also both great pollinators) would die out :(
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.
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