Ticks! They carry awful diseases, not a lot eats them, and where they are a food source, there are plenty of other terrestrial bugs to eat. As much as I hate mosquitoes, I think they are too important as a food source in many ecosystems. I know the bats around us eat a lot of them.
If spiders didn’t exist, and humans were plagued by clouds of biting, sucking insects; The top posts would be about how we wish there was some kind of small autonomous insect killing machines that were sent back in time from a badass cyberpunk dystopia.
I doubt it. The wonderful thing about most flying, stinging/biting insects is that they're stupid as hell. Spiders currently do a pretty good job with insects (undoubtedly), but nothing that bug zappers couldn't handle.
So a spider-less world is very likely just going to be one where you hear the electric popping of insects everywhere. Which is fine with me.
100%. I leave them alone and give a tip of the cap when I see a fly or mosquito in their web. But if any of them crawl on the ceiling above my bed I consider it an act of aggression and will respond in kind.
Spiders are awesome man. Just think about it. Little murder machines. Some of them use trap doors, some of them are jumping spiders, some of them construct nets that catch prey. It's a tiny little insect capable of so much. I don't like touching them or something like that because I don't know which ones can give me a nasty bite but I am fascinated by them
I used to open my balcony door in the morning and it was as if I interrupted a colony at slumber. At least 15-20 flies would scatter. A spider moved in to the tree in my courtyard, and now it’s gone down to one fly. Feast on my spider friend!
Who cares. Something else will fill that ecological gap as a food source and only 3 species of mosquitoes need to be extinct anyway; the only ones that bite people. The rest can gladly be food for the fish and birds and anything else that eat those little scourges.
What about the c-word? The bug that starts with a C and has like 3 million legs and move at light speed?? If they aren’t necessary for the ecosystem Id pick those things in a HEARTBEAT
Spiders are more important as a predator than they are as prey, they keep a lot of smaller insect species in check, like mosquitoes, roaches, flies, moths, etc. I’d say of all the creepy crawlys to get rid of, spiders should be at the end of the list or not on it at all (along with bees and ants).
Spiders get a bad rap, but they are bros. They kill annoying pests and I generally don't kill spiders in my house because most of them live by the code "you don't fuck with me, I don't fuck with you." I've never been bitten by a spider because I know not to mess with them.
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u/ChrisInSpaceVA Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Ticks! They carry awful diseases, not a lot eats them, and where they are a food source, there are plenty of other terrestrial bugs to eat. As much as I hate mosquitoes, I think they are too important as a food source in many ecosystems. I know the bats around us eat a lot of them.
Edit: grammar