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[–] 321 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't mind bees. It's the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can't stand.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bite you for no reason?! You're the one crushing their home and messing everything up!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly. I'd like to see OP's reaction if a giant would crush his house and maybe even his loved ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Bees and butterflies don't pollinate all by themselves, FYI. Things that bite/sting also do a lot of pollination work! Flies, wasps, etc

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    mosquitoes can fuck right off. the rest stays.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Don't 'monkey's paw' comments usually have a negative?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago

    We're working on it.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Northern Norway doesn't have tics, snakes, or bears. Worst thing that could happen is getting gnawed on by a lemming.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Regrettably. But it's more of an unending torment situation than a life threatening situation. And they don't harass you on the beach or on the mountains, just in the forest. And let's face it, if you're doing anything with your summer other than sitting in a boat with a fishing line, you're doing it wrong.

    The sea Sami had the right idea. Spend the summer fishing on the sea and spend the winter hunting in the forest. A lifestyle I intend to resurrect once I retire.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Me if ticks didn't exist.

    I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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.

    Thank you for reading my Black mirror fanfic brought to you by noctua.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The only caveat is that at some point we will likely start farming insects as a food source. They require way less resources to produce than animal protein, and are actually pretty healthy (and tasty if cooked right)

    People might be grossed out, but shellfish is basically just ocean insects and many of us love that shit.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/20/467094440/would-it-be-a-bad-thing-to-wipe-out-a-species-if-its-a-mosquito

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Yeah if bugs didn't exist I'd be homeless too

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I'd be fine if it was just biting mosquitoes that disappeared.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    German has a word for it: Insektensterben

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yes, happily unemployed 😊

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Image is accurate, since without bugs, the food chain collapses and takes society with it, and the survivors will have to migrate to rural areas that can support a hunter-gatherer lifrstyle.

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  • If pollinators weren't necessary, human food wouldn't be affected too much. But given we eat plants (and the animals we eat eat plants) hunter-gathering would have the same problem as just continuing farming. Can't gather if there are no plants, can't hunt if the prey starved to death.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I itch just looking at these.

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  • nah, that's a insect shield.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    me if hayfever didn't exist:

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  • If you hate bugs so much why not cover yourself with DDT

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Things that are not bugs:

    • snails/slugs
    • rats/mice
    • other insects that are not bugs
    • poop of any state and origin
    • thugs
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