Vibes of when some nature show was picking the best season and they spent half an hour talking about summer, fall, winter, and spring, and then in the end they picked monsoon season, which had not been mentioned even once the entire episode.
They kill millions every year, as a species they are the no. 1 enemy in human history. But where I (and likely OP) grew up, they didn’t spread disease so it seems kind if stupid to call mosquitoes deadly animals.
how did you not grow up with an instinctual hatred of mosquitos? i know what it would do to ecology and shit and i would still wipe every last one off the planet
I’ll deal with mosquitoes if we can wipe out bedbugs. I can smell those fuckers.
see i don’t get why people get mad at other people when we got a full on bug genocide we got to perpetrate
i know what it would do to ecology and shit and i would still wipe every last one off the planet
So, a lot of people say this because it makes a lot of logical sense, I thought the same, but if you actually ask people who are qualified, a lot of them are fairly sure that other insects/etc would likely fill the niche. Obviously still theory, but mosquitoes are usually not a cornerstone and likely mostly replacable.
And it’s only a single species of mosquito that’s response
I haven’t dug too deep into the results, but there have been eradication campaigns using things like genetically modified mosquitos that would produce sterile offspring.
And I thought it was humans.
That bites.
It really sucks too.
Itching to start a fight
Buzzed enough to fight back
You’re probably more interested in relative numbers then eg kills per animal rather than absolute
Also, coconuts kill far more people than sharks.
That’s not true. It was an exaggeration by a shark attack expert some years ago trying to downplay the dangers of sharks.
Now I wonder if you are a coconut incident expert trying to downplay the dangers of coconuts.
Big Coconut is raiding the lemmy comments
Coconuts are very aggressive when migrating.
Fucking swallows…
African or Europe-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan?!
This guy is obviously being paid by Big Coconut to spread disinformation.
deadly mammals
It’s hairy and has milk
I never like calling mosquitoes the deadliest animal. They’re a disease vector, not the actual death-cause.
That’s like saying that guns don’t kill people, bullets do.
If mosquitoes are a major vector for the disease, then they should definitely share the responsibility for the death toll.
I’m not entirely sure how accurate that comparison would be, the mosquito isn’t designed to spread disease, it’s just a byproduct. Contrary to the bullet which is designed to kill and isn’t just coincidentally deadly
The mosquito is the gun in that analogy, the disease is the bullet. Bullets are completely safe until fired from a gun, diseases are completely safe until you are exposed to them.
But water guns are a thing though😂
Isn’t man the deadliest animal?
We’re just behind the mosquito.
IIRC, we were in the top 3.
I still think that mosquitos don’t ring in the next great extinction.
We’re driving so many species to extinction inadvertently through climate change. Why can’t we just do one more but intentionally, just, as a treat. Bats eat other bugs too, it’ll be fine.
I was looking Stamets up just 2 days ago like where did this guy who is responsible for 10% of lemmy content go
Depression
I, too, was wondering. Get well soon (for your sake, not just because I want more posts lol)!
I should probably work some more on my own depression …
that’ll do it. stay safe out there Stamets. post as much or as little as you like, take care of yourself.
It was the mozzies done it.
Lmao, I miss watching these shows🥹
