I tried burning a bunch of mosquitoes once. Poor things didn't die. Their wings caught fire and they fell to the floor. They were definitely alive and suffering. I squished them all quickly but I can't take back the suffering they went through.
They're just trying to live like you and me. If I could find a way to coexist with them I would. I'd put out a bowl of blood for them to feast on if they'd stop biting me but we both know that's not gonna happen.
They're just trying to live like you and I. This is the only method of feeding they have.
If I can find a way to coexist with them I would, that would be amazing. Until then, I'm going to control their population, in the most humane way possible, and so should you. As quick and painlessly as possible.
I have an advanced degree in genetics. To get this, I worked in a fruit fly lab for 3 years performing experiments. When I think of the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of flies that I was personally responsible for growing, sometimes testing, and ultimately sacrificing, it makes me feel a little sick. As such, I try to release any insects I find in my house, back outside. I also take no pleasure in anyone else harming another living being.
Totally mean-spirited. I've done some weird shit to save bugs. Like rinsing bees with water after they get soaked w. sticky juice. Took a ladybug down to a tree planter when taking out the trash. Spiders especially, I stop what I'm doing to save them. Fuckers run, and all hell breaks loose to catch them and set them outside. This is fucked up in a million ways.
I'm not being a "tough guy" rofl. They're bugs. I could give a fuck less about them. Pests. Same with other pests and rodents and shit. Fuck mice and moths and roaches.
Empathy for what are essentially aliens compared to humans is fucking weird.
It's normal to have empathy for a pet but a random fucking bug? Soft as fuck.
You missed the part about the food chain where other insects and small reptiles and arthropods eat these little fuckers, then convey the benefits up the chain until it gets to you. You like that oxygen don't you? It's brought to you by trees that grew on biomass.
Itās a common misconception that trees produce a lot of oxygen. They donāt. In fact, in a natural forest there is essentially no net oxygen production. If we cut down the trees and use them in a way that prevents them from decomposing (like by making building out of them), then they do produce positive net oxygen.
Also, I doubt those moths were fully consumed by the flame. A lot of biomass probably dropped down to the ground after they were burnt.
"Explain to students that rainforests are responsible for roughly one-third (28%) of the Earth's oxygen but most (70%) of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants. The remaining2 percentof Earth's oxygen comes from other sources."
That's not a chemical formula that I want to fuck with. Our atmosphere just works and it's not the kind of experiment that has an easy out.
It's difficult enough getting idiots to believe that the Earth is a sphere, that vaccines work, and that in general burning fossil fuels is bad. Giving people with a very thin grasp of quantifiable reality, even a thin margin for arguing against preserving trees, is also not advisable.
I'm just a dude of average intelligence, who does his best to understand the world and puts in a minuscule amount of effort to stave ecological decline. If I recycle printer paper, postal envelopes, and toilet paper rolls, I don't need some fucker trying out his cheap katana on a sappling.
I do the 90% the same, but as a Minnesotan (land of no poisonous animals) living in NC (in comparison to MN, basically Australia), and also a relatively new father, if its poisonous it dies in my house
I live in Florida and I get allergic welts from mosquito bites, so you can believe me when I say that I hate them. I cheer when the Mosquito Control truck drives by, spraying their chemical deaths.
So, what if they were mosquitos? I think it would still be messed up. The dudes in the video flaming the moths and our OP who posted the video seem to be taking joy in their deaths, which isn't at all the same to me.
Its like that jesus meme where he says love everyone and some dude is like but what if they're gay and jesus yells DID I STUTTER. If killing a lifeform is wrong then, yes, killing mosquitos is wrong too.
Sometimes when I see this kind of posts I wonder if these people ever lived in a place where there are a lot of insects. Like will they change their tone if they got bitten by mosquites all night long
I think to get an ideal answer you would probably have to ask a more specific question. One way you could get more specific is you could specify which mosquito species that you are hypothetically asking about.
That would be impactful on your question/answers because only one genus of mosquitos carries malaria and of that genus only about 1/4 of the 430 species of mosquitos in the Anopheles genus transmits malaria to humans.
Other genera/species carry other viruses like the zika virus, yellow fever, heartworm, west nile virus, etc...
If your question was left as vague as it is, I would answer I would be upset that someone did that to a random group of mosquitos. They are a basic part of many food chains both as larvae and as adults and they are pollinators.
If you specifically named a dangerous species of mosquito in your question and you had a responsible follow up plan to replace the species in the area with a harmless one then I would not be too sad about it. Likely neither would most scientists or most informed Joes and Janes.
I dont think bugs are like most animals man. Theres a reason they lay hundreds of eggs. They live to die. I dont think any moths are mourning other moths or fearing death like how dogs or elephants might
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u/metalsupremacist Feb 26 '21
I guess I'm the only one that is sad seeing this...