Crushing cockroaches is a great way to spread its eggs and have more cockroaches in the future. Spray them with soapy water instead.
the pests will destroy homes, and spread diseases. butteflys are much more benign.
A lot of butterflies eat shit. Like literally, I'm not just hurling baseless insults.
There are no cockroaches where I live so I don't have to kill any bugs. The few spiders get put outside in a jar.
There are a lot of things that we as an animal like or don't like due to evolutionary benefits.
For example we don't like the smell of excrement because those that didn't, stayed further away from it and caught less diseases.
Another good example is snake and spider phobias, those innately scared of venomous creatures survived more often than those that enjoyed their company.
I'm 100% that roaches (and relatives) fall into this category as well. We find them slightly disgusting because those that did, killed them and lived with less diseases than those that thought that they were cute.
Butterflies on the other hand posed no threat to us and remind us of flowers that were evolutionarily important to us (interest in agriculture).
Killing cockroaches is self defence. Killing butterflies is murder.
Butterflies on the other hand posed no threat to us and remind us of flowers that were evolutionarily important to us (interest in agriculture).
Butterflies are more associated with death, than pretty things in the east.
I avoid killing insects and other small bugs but you're right, I only kill the ones that carry diseases like cockroaches and mosquitoes.
I only do if they are inside. If they are outside they are just part of the food chain.
But I don't like being a part of the food chain when I'm outside -- unless I'm on top.
house spiders can survive. they can food chain the inside bugs for me.
Roaches infest your home and spread diseases. Butterflies live outside and spread pollen.
I hate pollen
You hate pollen from plants that evolved to spread it without the help of butterflies and other insects. These plants' pollen doesn't float around causing allergies.
well, sounds like a personal problem
Dlaczego wszyscy nienawidzą pyłki, pytam się do kurwy nędzy?
He said pollen not poland
kurwa
I'm literally dying
Because they're allergic presumably
Do butterflies infest homes and destroy property?
I feel like it's less what they look like, and more how they impact us. It's still very human-centric, but ya know, not so much a beauty thing as one might think at first.
nope, its all moths, clothes moths, pantry moths are very hard to eradicate. notable mentions are drain moths, and pantry beetles. butterflies are specializes to mostly flowers, or sometimes carrion, since they are recently evolved from moths, moths are very ancient insects.
Yep. Spiders are top 10 ugliest creatures in history, but I would never kill one unless it was a lethally toxic variety. Because they keep the population of disease-carrying, filthy-egg-laying proboscidean-vomiting flying vermin down. Spiders are bros.
Spiders and centipedes won't actually meaningfully decrease the population of other insects in your house. Both populations will simply grow together if the conditions are correct.
If I removed all of the spiders from my house, the fly population wouldn't increase? I don't remember my high school biology too clearly, but I seem to remember a definite link between predator and prey which would suggest rampant increase in an environment where predators are sparse.
Predators and prey will always maintain some equilibrium, yes. But you can simply look outside and see that equilibrium typically includes a shit ton of other bugs (or birds, or mice, etc). You can also look at homes with serious infestations to see that this organic control alone doesn't typically keep pest populations in check. Nobody has ever gotten rid of roaches by introducing spiders. Sometimes you do get infestations of spiders though, in which case the spiders are usually eating each other.
Generally, inside your home there are other factors keeping pest populations in control. With a few very notable exceptions, most insects do not actively breed indoors because the climate conditions are not correct, or there is not access to food, or they don't like the vibrations and noise. Most of what spiders in your home catch are bugs which get in by accident and would simply die in one way or another.
Yeah, same thing with house centipedes, but I'd argue they're even uglier than spiders.
yeah and they try to pretend they are your eyelashes, lull you into a sense of security and then bam they're drinking your eye juice
Imagine looking in the mirror in the morning thinking why are my eyelashes so tickly, and suddenly they start running around all over your face. This is why you should always keep a flamethrower in the bathroom
you know funny you should mention that. one of the burners on our stove doesn't light well so we had a good excuse to buy that novelty lightsaber blowtorch
For real. I don't like mosquitos, either. Has nothing to do with the fact that they are ugly.
Mosquitos are actually quite beautiful https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58398905
Just lookup mosquito macro photography - they're all colorful and fluffy and everything
really? Because the Prince of Proboscis was talking smack about you, and he has a schnoz like a bent candy cane. i know you two used to mash face puckers. And then there's billy buzzbutt? the homeless blood addict who invented molotov cocktails? that motherfucker gave you leprosy. And menopause. and i don't even know how that is supposed to be contagious. He was ugly as sin. Then there was Virginialetta. I should call her.
Textile moths do. Good thing that they’re drab looking.
Moths are not butterflies.
Biologically speaking, there is no way to define butterfly in a way that includes everything people consider butterflies and does not also include moths.
If not butterfly why butterfly shape?
you're not supposed to use your molars, bonesy
Recently, my sister wanted to kill a caterpillar and I said that when she sees a butterfly, she looks in awe, but when she sees a caterpillar, she wants to kill it, and that it explains a lot about our society. It was enough to save the poor hungry caterpillar
By the way, I don't kill cockroaches, I just shoo them away. They're nice and usually don't come back
I will 100% toss the green ones to the neighbour's chickens. They fuck up my cabbages leaving just the veins and little poop dots then fly away as detestable white moths to fuck up everyone else's shit. Sometimes I borrow a couple chickens and just let them go find all the yummy buggies themselves. They are so silly and make a fun show out of decimating my enemies.
Diocletian, is that you? The Empire needs you!
Idk man, all them spider bros prove this wrong.
Sure ascetics are nice but it’s all about utility at the end of the day
I try to not kill any without asking my scientist friend if they're invasive.
She said I'm allowed to scrunch all the spotted lantern flies, and I think they're very neat looking?
lanternflies definitely defy this particular philosophical postulate
for those of us who like the way they look anyway
i stomped one nearby my toddler niece once and she looked a little too enthused by that, so I reminded her it's important to be a little sad when a living thing dies, even you killed it to help protect the environment :(
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