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me if hayfever didn’t exist:
80% of our bugs will be replaced by AI by the year 2026
Yeah if bugs didn’t exist I’d be homeless too
We’re working on it.
I don’t mind bees. It’s the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can’t stand.
Bees and butterflies don’t pollinate all by themselves, FYI. Things that bite/sting also do a lot of pollination work! Flies, wasps, etc
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.
funny how well this fits for both meanings
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.
What a out ticks?
Please don’t fuck the geese
Ahahah why tho?
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.
You’re definitively forgetting about other important insects for agriculture such as worms
Worms aren’t insects, but I agree they are definitely important
Don’t ‘monkey’s paw’ comments usually have a negative?
Everything else dies too.
the capybaras are dead :c
Depends on the monkey
That’s optimistic…
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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Bugs will outlast
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 hate shellfish
but now I hate shellfish with righteous indignation.
I upvoted this before I saw what community it was in. Now I wish I could upvote twice.
Upvoted you since I can’t upvote the post twice
Upvoting this whole chain because I can’t multi-upvote OP too
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
That does happen TBF.
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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?
Mosquitos cause by far the most deaths of humans every year of any animal. So pretty much anything.
One can dream…
Me if ticks didn’t exist.
I used lay directly in the grass without a care in the world.
I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t carry/transmit those awful diseases.
And allergies
My sinuses sealed shut from this picture.
I’d be fine if it was just biting mosquitoes that disappeared.
I get the importance of bugs, but why do they gotta be such annoying assholes.
They know they are important, so they be assholes knowing we can’t do anything about it
If a deity exists, he probably says the same thing about humans. Both are annoying to a more advanced being for similar reasons.
German has a word for it: Insektensterben
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.
Eh, grass would be fine, and cows eat grass.
The snails would get out of hand probably tho
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.
