I hate mosquitoes too, but why do we keep insisting on changing/eliminating other creatures to suit us? Let's modify OURSELVES to smell like citronella, or better yet, let's make ourselves grow a thick coat of luscious, too-thick-for -mosquitoes fur! That should be relatively easy, and it would come with other benefits too.
I wish. Just an overworked TTRPG-Obsessed father. I'm currently playing a gnoll, so I tend to look at real world problems through the lens of a big hairy dude.
19 Comments
db2@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
I hate mosquitoes but they do have s valid slot in the food web.
Ticks on the other hand can fuck off and die.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
Ticks??? No no no no! They'll fight hard against injustice, with blue muscles and signature battle cry!
db2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
The Tick gets a pass.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
The sign says "No Ticks Club". We're allowed to have one.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
You wouldn’t.
Godric@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
I would trade bats for no mosquitoes, not even close
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 1y
Bats pollinate the plant that is used to make tequila.
Godric@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
I would hesitantly trade tequila for no mosquitoes, but admittedly you have somewhat shaken my beliefs.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 1y
I salute your conviction to the annihilation of mosquitos.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Something something the animals that do eat them will die and the whole ecosystem will collapse.
Or you’re Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch ¯\(ツ)/¯
Tower@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Here! Educate yourself!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1y
Aliens are using earth to rebuild the mosquito population! Without them they will glass the planet.
UNY0N@linux.community · 9 pts · 1y
I hate mosquitoes too, but why do we keep insisting on changing/eliminating other creatures to suit us? Let's modify OURSELVES to smell like citronella, or better yet, let's make ourselves grow a thick coat of luscious, too-thick-for -mosquitoes fur! That should be relatively easy, and it would come with other benefits too.
lemmur@szmer.info · 18 pts · 1y
Furry spotted
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
And (genetically) approved 🐒
UNY0N@linux.community · 1 pts · 1y
I wish. Just an overworked TTRPG-Obsessed father. I'm currently playing a gnoll, so I tend to look at real world problems through the lens of a big hairy dude.
cm0002@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It would actually be of benefit to many other species (hence the meme)
Many mammals suffer from the scourge that is mosquitos just as much as we do
UNY0N@linux.community · 1 pts · 1y
Good point!
stacktrace_whisperer@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
We can’t do that because then mosquito bites will become extinct.