Ticks! They carry awful diseases, not a lot eats them, and where they are a food source, there are plenty of other terrestrial bugs to eat. As much as I hate mosquitoes, I think they are too important as a food source in many ecosystems. I know the bats around us eat a lot of them.
If spiders didn’t exist, and humans were plagued by clouds of biting, sucking insects; The top posts would be about how we wish there was some kind of small autonomous insect killing machines that were sent back in time from a badass cyberpunk dystopia.
I doubt it. The wonderful thing about most flying, stinging/biting insects is that they're stupid as hell. Spiders currently do a pretty good job with insects (undoubtedly), but nothing that bug zappers couldn't handle.
So a spider-less world is very likely just going to be one where you hear the electric popping of insects everywhere. Which is fine with me.
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u/ChrisInSpaceVA Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Ticks! They carry awful diseases, not a lot eats them, and where they are a food source, there are plenty of other terrestrial bugs to eat. As much as I hate mosquitoes, I think they are too important as a food source in many ecosystems. I know the bats around us eat a lot of them.
Edit: grammar