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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.
Don't 'monkey's paw' comments usually have a negative?
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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Gets mauled by a bear.
Northern Norway doesn't have tics, snakes, or bears. Worst thing that could happen is getting gnawed on by a lemming.
... or a Norwegian
They do have mosquitos.
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.
What could be less harmful to humans than mosquitoes?
Me if ticks didn't exist.
I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.
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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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.
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.
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.
Sounds like a certain lake troll is agitating to improve his lake-dwelling experience, if ya ask me.
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.
I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.
80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026
I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.
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.
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.
Eh, grass would be fine, and cows eat grass.
The snails would get out of hand probably tho
I itch just looking at these.
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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