Nasty wasps, spiders, flies etc

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I just came up with this brilliant and not scary idea with bugs and insects. Just start your vacuum cleaner and zap them. I just zapped 2 wasps and a big butterfly. Not even scary! And a long distance if you remove the front attachment.

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@TooFriendly112,

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...and a big butterfly.

May I ask why?

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

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...and a big butterfly.

May I ask why?

I think she might be a serial killer.

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@tsarstepan,

we gotta protect Snap Krackle and Pop

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@hightor,

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...and a big butterfly.

May I ask why?

don't you know that many butterfly species are endangered?

And yeah - you gotta watch out for their sting.

Speaking of endangered bugs - I saw several lightning bugs in my yard last night - so nice to see! We live in area that is a really good habitat for them.

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@Linkat,

I'm assuming that the OP was referring to a moth, not a butterfly. You see moths indoors more commonly than you'd see a butterfly.

But a few years ago I discovered a chrysalis of a Monarch butterfly in my dining room, at the top of an interior window. There must've been a caterpillar in the bouquet of wildflowers in the vase below. I relocated it outdoors and tied it to a milkweed stalk.

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There are lots of bugs that deserve to die. Mosquitoes are one of the biggest risks to human health. I would add termites, fire ants and bedbugs to the list.

When I was a kid, we were paid a bounty for each gypsy moth caterpillar we killed. These are nasty critters that kill trees across large swaths of upstate NY.

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@maxdancona,

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There are lots of bugs that deserve to die. Mosquitoes are one of the biggest risks to human health. I would add termites, fire ants and bedbugs to the list.

When I was a kid, we were paid a bounty for each gypsy moth caterpillar we killed. These are nasty critters that kill trees across large swaths of upstate NY.

Certainly especially the invasive species. Stink bugs for instance - they go down the toilet with their stink intact.

But some are very important to our ecology - like bees

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@maxdancona,

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There are lots of bugs that deserve to die.

No, they don't "deserve" to die. Humans may be excused for trying to eradicate them but it's not a matter of which species "deserve" to live and which don't.

As to "Gypsy" moths...

This Moth’s Name Is a Slur. Scientists Won’t Use It Anymore.

I think this is dumb — I don't think the name was applied to disparage any ethnic group; it was always explained as referring to the way the moths would move from one area to another, showing up some years and not others.

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@Linkat,

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But some are very important to our ecology - like bees

Yup. A lot of other ones as well. The pesticides we use to control one particular unwanted species end up killing many others, many of which are helpful.

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@Linkat,

Of course Linkat.

Humans are smart enough and advanced enough to decide which insects are beneficial and which are harmful.

We spray to kill mosquitos. We change policies to protect bees. Mosquito species that carry human disease are bad bugs. Bees are good bugs. I dont think this distinction is that difficult.

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@hightor,

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I think this is dumb — I don't think the name was applied to disparage any ethnic group; it was always explained as referring to the way the moths would move from one area to another, showing up some years and not others.

The pendulum has yet to return to the middle.

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@maxdancona,

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Humans are smart enough and advanced enough to decide which insects are beneficial and which are harmful.

But not smart enough to prevent the mass killing of beneficial insects while we attempt to control harmful ones. The introduction of genetically modified mosquitoes which confer sterility is an example of humans being "smart enough" – but don't be surprised if these solutions end up creating new problems further down the road.

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We change policies to protect bees.

Except when we give in to political pressure.

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@Mame,

Has it?

The Roma remain one on the most disadvantaged groups in the World.

They were treated exactly the same as Jewish people during the Holocaust.

There’s no Roma homeland, things just went back to how they were before the war.

I’ve known people use disparaging terms towards Roma who would never use insulting terms about other ethnic groups because they’re not seen as an ethnic group.

My father would never use the N word, but regularly referred to Roma as “Gippos.”

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@hightor,

first I heard that term. In recent years Ive gotten our Amish neighbors to stop using neonicotoids an the state and township spray trucks. We have several bee keepers whove been rally crippled since the 70;s from ag usage of nicotoids .

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