RE: The thread for flipping shits (and tables)
06-02-2013, 12:03 PM
@btp: I'm not berating Credit because he wailed on a hornet. I'm berating him because Wheat already summed it up:
Namely, I'm criticising the fact he wailed on something he didn't know about. Honestly, I'm cool with a hornet dying! While we don't have hornets in New Zealand, introduced wasps disrupt beech forest ecosystems by monopolising the honeydew secreted by sapsucking scale insects. As well as depriving birds like the kaka of food required to successfully breed, they'll also kill and eat any available invertebrates.
We also have native wasps! They're solitary, burrow-dwelling insects that don't bother anybody.
What I keep getting at is that (if you could be bothered) you could learn and count the number of truly deadly arthropods in your region on one hand. Seriously. Insects that can bother you would likely number less than twenty species, which collectively do a horrendous job at misrepresenting all the other neat bugs.
Ultimately, what I am getting mad at is wilful ignorance. If you've got me handy, you've got no excuse to not learn more about bugs!
(06-01-2013, 04:45 PM)Wheat Wrote: »That being said, "oh no a bug" is a bad attitude based on the Fear Of Unknown Things.
Namely, I'm criticising the fact he wailed on something he didn't know about. Honestly, I'm cool with a hornet dying! While we don't have hornets in New Zealand, introduced wasps disrupt beech forest ecosystems by monopolising the honeydew secreted by sapsucking scale insects. As well as depriving birds like the kaka of food required to successfully breed, they'll also kill and eat any available invertebrates.
We also have native wasps! They're solitary, burrow-dwelling insects that don't bother anybody.
What I keep getting at is that (if you could be bothered) you could learn and count the number of truly deadly arthropods in your region on one hand. Seriously. Insects that can bother you would likely number less than twenty species, which collectively do a horrendous job at misrepresenting all the other neat bugs.
Ultimately, what I am getting mad at is wilful ignorance. If you've got me handy, you've got no excuse to not learn more about bugs!
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow