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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 337 pts · 1y
sus@programming.dev · 73 pts · 1y
funny how well this fits for both meanings
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
I don't mind bees. It's the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can't stand.
Tankton@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y
Bite you for no reason?! You're the one crushing their home and messing everything up!
Huschke@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Exactly. I'd like to see OP's reaction if a giant would crush his house and maybe even his loved ones.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
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.
iheartneopets@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Bees and butterflies don't pollinate all by themselves, FYI. Things that bite/sting also do a lot of pollination work! Flies, wasps, etc
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
mosquitoes can fuck right off. the rest stays.
WhyIAughta@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
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.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
if you're not concerned about the texture crickets taste almost exacly like peanuts
iheartneopets@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Without mosquitoes many birds and bats (also both great pollinators) would die out :(
SunshineJogger@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
You confuse bees with wasps or what
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Just because your puny human brain can't comprehend the reason doesn't mean they didn't have one.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Also bees don't really bite. They sting.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 1y
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.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Bugs will outlast
entwine413@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
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.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 1y
I used to hate shellfish
but now I hate shellfish with righteous indignation.
fed0sine@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Shrimps is bugs
They good tho
Thorry84@feddit.nl · 65 pts · 1y
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.
Mac@mander.xyz · 28 pts · 1y
Don't 'monkey's paw' comments usually have a negative?
match@pawb.social · 47 pts · 1y
the capybaras are dead :c
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Depends on the monkey
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 7 pts · 1y
Everything else dies too.
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
Extremophiles: "Are we a joke to you?"
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
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.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
You're definitively forgetting about other important insects for agriculture such as worms
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
Worms aren't insects, but I agree they are definitely important
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 1y
We're working on it.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 1y
I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
Upvoted you since I can't upvote the post twice
CDenno@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Upvoting this whole chain because I can't multi-upvote OP too
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
Gets mauled by a bear.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Northern Norway doesn't have tics, snakes, or bears. Worst thing that could happen is getting gnawed on by a lemming.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1y
... or a Norwegian
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
That does happen TBF.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Osprey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
They do have mosquitos.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
What could be less harmful to humans than mosquitoes?
Alenalda@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Mosquitos cause by far the most deaths of humans every year of any animal. So pretty much anything.
artifex@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
One can dream…
can@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y
Me if ticks didn't exist.
I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.
brrt@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t carry/transmit those awful diseases.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
And allergies
entwine413@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
My sinuses sealed shut from this picture.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org · 23 pts · 1y
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!
meliaesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Okay, I can settle for mosquitos and wasps going extinct.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
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
ulterno@programming.dev · -1 pts · 1y
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.
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 1y
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.
bipedalsheep@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
I killed two of them while swimming in a nearby lake to day. I'm doing my part
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 1y
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.
epicshepich@programming.dev · 22 pts · 1y
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.
PolarKraken@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
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.
Metamist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Please don't fuck the geese
Mustakrakish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
What a out ticks?
PolarKraken@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y
Sounds like a certain lake troll is agitating to improve his lake-dwelling experience, if ya ask me.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
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.
Ougie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ahahah why tho?
bier@feddit.nl · 21 pts · 1y
Yeah if bugs didn't exist I'd be homeless too
paulbg@programming.dev · 20 pts · 1y
80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
Don't worry, AI will reintroduce those bugs into our software to live on there
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
They know they are important, so they be assholes knowing we can't do anything about it
krashmo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
If a deity exists, he probably says the same thing about humans. Both are annoying to a more advanced being for similar reasons.
entwine413@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
I'd be fine if it was just biting mosquitoes that disappeared.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
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.
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
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.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Eh, grass would be fine, and cows eat grass.
The snails would get out of hand probably tho
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
German has a word for it: Insektensterben
QuazarOmega@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 1y
Yes, happily unemployed 😊
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
me if hayfever didn't exist:
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
nah, that's a insect shield.
Gerudo@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I itch just looking at these.
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, sadly gras is still plenty itchy
Dicska@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Things that are not bugs:
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
If you hate bugs so much why not cover yourself with DDT