Why don't we just kill all insects?

Loaf · September 15, 2015, 11:54:50 AM

Honestly why do we need them? Yes, birds would die. Except why the fuck do we need birds either? It's not like a suburb or something is actually an ecosystem.

Jim · September 15, 2015, 11:56:31 AM

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The Lord Ruler · September 15, 2015, 11:58:49 AM

How about just mosquitos and ticks

clum clum · September 15, 2015, 11:59:35 AM

It's a thing called the food chain. The extinction of every single species of insect - I'm going to assume arachnids and crustaceans will be wiped out as well - will consequently result in a mass extinction, which would mean the death of the human race.

Just because inverts are unpleasing to the eye and are a general nuisance does not mean that they aren't a critical part of the food chain.

velox · September 15, 2015, 12:00:24 PM

Nearly every single organism has a place in the food chain. Killing of several or even one species would have far reaching consequences for entire ecosystems, maybe even for ourselves.

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Korra · September 15, 2015, 12:02:52 PM

Everything has a purpose. Take the icky insects out and you will destroy the global ecosystem (biosphere) and doom us all. Including plants.

Mat Cauthon · September 15, 2015, 12:04:43 PM

Fucking tree huggers itt.

Sandtrap · September 15, 2015, 12:06:42 PM

Off the top of my head. Anything that fed primarily off insects that wasn't an insect itself would die.

Plants would also undergo massive mass extinctions because of how much pollination work multiple species of insects do.

Loaf · September 15, 2015, 12:12:46 PM

Quote from: Mikasa Ackerman on September 15, 2015, 12:02:52 PM

Everything has a purpose. Take the icky insects out and you will destroy the global ecosystem (biosphere) and doom us all. Including plants.

bees can stay or whatever. trees just need air water dirt and sun to survive. all the other insects can fun right off. They can stay in other corners of the world where there's forest and where humans don't live. Just make sure they're dead once they come around the areas where humans live.

XSEAN · September 15, 2015, 12:18:19 PM

Cause it would fuck over alot of animals who eat insect and also fuck over the animals who eat the animals who eat insects

SecondClass · September 15, 2015, 12:47:18 PM

Nah, just wasps and hornets.

rC · September 15, 2015, 12:56:24 PM

we can't do that because there wouldn't be any more black people to make fun of

DAS B00T x2 · September 15, 2015, 02:38:24 PM

Wild birds are great food, you suburban shitlord.

Assassin 11D7 · September 15, 2015, 02:45:10 PM

Have you ever tried? They're like the Russians, there's always more of them, no matter how many millions you kill.

Mattie G Indahouse · September 15, 2015, 06:36:05 PM

Quote from: Carsonogen on September 15, 2015, 12:47:18 PM

Nah, just wasps and hornets.

Korra · September 15, 2015, 06:47:22 PM

Quote from: Loaf on September 15, 2015, 12:12:46 PM

Quote from: Mikasa Ackerman on September 15, 2015, 12:02:52 PM
Everything has a purpose. Take the icky insects out and you will destroy the global ecosystem (biosphere) and doom us all. Including plants.
bees can stay or whatever. trees just need air water dirt and sun to survive. all the other insects can fun right off. They can stay in other corners of the world where there's forest and where humans don't live. Just make sure they're dead once they come around the areas where humans live.

Hm, I would agree but...the consequences...too great. Let's just wait for some sort of way to do that in the future.

Saleem · September 15, 2015, 07:04:21 PM

I learned that mosquitoes are actually significant pollinators.

So GG.

Coomer · September 15, 2015, 07:04:55 PM

Pollination mainly

Also, they are on one of the lowest rungs of the ecological ladder so taking that out would be disastrous

Just because they're annoying doesn't mean they don't play their part

Mr. Psychologist · September 15, 2015, 07:15:53 PM

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on September 15, 2015, 06:36:05 PM

Quote from: Carsonogen on September 15, 2015, 12:47:18 PM
Nah, just wasps and hornets.

It's funny because I've been working next to a wasps nest for the last month solid with maybe 20 of them in the air at any one time and not a single one has been remotely aggressive.

If you scream and run around and flap at them like a chimp on fire, or kill them, then yeah you'll piss them off and they'll attack but if you ignore them and just work around them peacefully they ignore you equally.

Zonda · September 15, 2015, 09:17:16 PM

were it so easy.

Thun · September 15, 2015, 09:18:56 PM

To piss off little fuckers like OP.

Go ahead and block me, just proves how much of a bitch you are.

Risay117 · September 15, 2015, 09:20:57 PM

Quote from: Loaf on September 15, 2015, 11:54:50 AM

Honestly why do we need them? Yes, birds would die. Except why the fuck do we need birds either? It's not like a suburb or something is actually an ecosystem.

You know Mao tried that, and it fucked up China for a long time. Causing a famine that killed millions. Yeah he was good as a General but man his Governing ability were shit. The guys after him were geniuses.

Lee Kwon Yu you can say is one of the few guys in the 20th century you can call a great example of autocratic governance.

On topic it is a stupid idea.

Kiwicake · September 15, 2015, 09:21:44 PM

Bugs are friends!

Loaf · September 15, 2015, 10:04:16 PM

Quote from: Thunder on September 15, 2015, 09:18:56 PM

To piss off little fuckers like OP.

Go ahead and block me, just proves how much of a bitch you are.

The internet is serious business tbh fam.

Batch · September 15, 2015, 10:06:54 PM

Why is everything you post full of stupid?

Loaf · September 15, 2015, 10:08:11 PM

Quote from: Batch on September 15, 2015, 10:06:54 PM

Why is everything you post full of stupid?

>implying

Batch · September 15, 2015, 10:09:36 PM

Quote from: Loaf on September 15, 2015, 10:08:11 PM

Quote from: Batch on September 15, 2015, 10:06:54 PM
Why is everything you post full of stupid?
>implying

>fact

Like your homosexuality

Winy · September 15, 2015, 10:11:40 PM

It would have profoundly negative effects on the food chain, which would inevitably have consequences for human interests.

Loaf · September 15, 2015, 10:14:39 PM

Quote from: Batch on September 15, 2015, 10:09:36 PM

Quote from: Loaf on September 15, 2015, 10:08:11 PM
Quote from: Batch on September 15, 2015, 10:06:54 PM
Why is everything you post full of stupid?
>implying
>fact

Like your homosexuality

>implying