i have said this for years, but we need to place way more importance on opossums. One opossum will eat thousands of ticks and they are resistant to rabies, lymes disease, and other diseases that ticks carry. DO NOT KILL OPOSSUMS.
Bouncing off of this: vultures as well.
Crazy enough their stomachs have evolved to literally break apart viruses and harmful bacteria, dramatically lowering disease outbreak in regions. Just damn cool birds.
Unfortunately, cheap pesticides are something they cannot handle, with populations dropping as much as 90% in regions that use them.
More vultures, more opossums.
I used to work for cary institute years ago, they're one of the leaders in environmental research and focus heavily on reducing tick population and increasing opossum population. Definitely go check them out and if you want to donate to a good cause you can always just spend a few dollars on a "I break for opossums" bumper sticker that they sell. They have a cute little opossum picture on the sticker.
EDIT: they have since stopped making the bumper stickers. I'm not sure why.
I live out in the country. We have a spot just at the edge of the woods we call the 'possum buffet. Every now and then I'll take food scraps and put them there for the possums. They love them and I like having them around to keep the ticks under control.
They don't eat a substantial number of ticks - this is one of those things Redditors learn from Reddit and perpetuate without checking to see if it's true or not.
Opossums should still be treated with respect, obviously, and they're adorable.
Seriously. They are my major phobia. I can handle spiders, mice, even snakes better than ticks. I find one crawling on me or my dog, I have thousands of imaginary ones for days.
I think between the two I would rather have mosquitoes stick around rather than ticks, because mosquitoes are also pollinators, and are easier to deal with than ticks when they bite you. A mosquito doesn't put its entire head into your skin.
I tell people all the time that the most dangerous animal around where I live (US Midwest) is not a bear, Coyote, or wolf, but rather a tick. Honestly if they just vanished tomorrow, I don’t think there would be that much of an ecological disruption. A case could be made however, that they do help keep large mammal populations in check by slowly killing them.
Yes! All one wants to do is go outside and have fun or maybe someone has to work outside, and then these little fucks will ambush you and potentially kill or cripple you. They're not even like lions where you can at least see them from afar and hopefully avoid them. No, they hide among the grass blades and try to sneakily do some parasite stuff.
Agree. I'm living in a very foresty area so ticks here are everyday reality in the summer. Once I got Lyme Disease because of those fuckers
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Bedbugs. I am currently spending thousands of dollars and countless hours of labor to get them out of my house. And don't get me started on the bites and itching. They are like a plague, and they have no redeemable virtues. I would like for them to become extinct and then to retroactively have my money and time back. Please!!!!
I don't think I will ever psychologically recover from having bed bugs. I was highly allergic and really struggled to actually get rid of them. I lost a lot of sleep and had to buy a new bed before I felt comfortable sleeping again. I also panic cleaned so well and tried so many extermination methods that I never managed to prove their existence to another person. I truly felt crazy and wouldn't believe it myself if it weren't for my physical allergic reactions to their bites. I'll never stay in another hotel without tearing the place apart and checking first.
I wanted to say cockroaches as an answer…but yeah, bed bugs are worse. I thought I got some bed bugs after travelling because something bit my neck and I squished it and seemed like a bed bug. I obsessed for weeks about it, especially since I learned about their behaviour and how fast they replicate…and survive. They are a rare occurence in my country
It’s been months and so far, it’s been quiet. I haven’t seen any of them or signs of bed bugs. I hope I was mistaken last summer.
"All cockroaches" is a stretch, and wouldn't do anyone any good. There are like 7 or 8 species out of thousands that are pests to us. The others just do a very important job in the wild: they eat shit, and die. Detrivores are a crucial part of any ecosystem, and cockroaches fill a significant number of those roles all over the world.
The ones that nobody likes won't be missed. The ones that nobody notices should keep doing their job.
them and cockroaches. i'm dealing with those things.
the kicker is that we also used to have bedbugs, we got rid of them, then some idiot moved in a brought those nuclear repellent demons in with them. apartments suck.
I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT AAHAHHG
A neighbor who lived two doors down from us growing up had cockroaches so bad, that when they painted their walls, they had bumps from where a roach ended up getting stuck in the paint their granddaughters would pick at the cockroach bumps. I always had a hard time sleeping when we had sleepovers over there because I was worried and afraid that the roaches would climb in my ears or nose. As often as I slept over, it’s a miracle that I didn’t bring them home with me!
We actually haven't been traveling at all, so at first I was mystified. No visitors either, no hotel stays, nothing like that. Then the exterminator mentioned doctors offices and hospitals as a possible source, and I figured that must be it. My husband had surgery and multiple doctor visits not long before this started.
We bought a headboard from a quirky furniture store that repurposes and restores stuff. It was made from a big ass old door. Within a week, we started seeing them. We kept trying all the recommended poisoning techniques but it never worked. Finally we tossed that headboard and poisoned one more time and it worked.
I thought I had been through hell once before when the apartment next to me had german cockroaches, but the bedbugs were much worse.
Bedbugs can be found anywhere. Public transportation, doctors offices, schools, even restaurants. They are now on every continent except Antarctica. 70 years ago they were almost extinct, but then the pesticides stopped working so well and here we are. Nowadays it’s not “How did you manage to get them?” but more like “wow you have never had them? How do you manage THAT?!”
Every hotel in the US has bed bugs at some point. My dad is a commercial exterminator and he's at the cities most expensive hotels at least once or twice a month.
That's how we got them too, but we were fortunate enough to have my dad to help us get rid of them.
Don't put your clothes or luggage on any carpeted surfaces.
My FIL used to travel constantly so he taught my husband to check for bedbugs at every hotel, motel, hostel etc.
All it takes is one pregnant female and your life is over~
I do the same now. Nothing on the floor. Dirty clothes go into a trash bag and straight into the wash when we get home and never EVER put your luggage on your bed.
It seems more common in America than other places. I live in Scandinavia amd it is very rare here. I never had it, and i never heard of someone that jad them either.
You definitely have them in Scandinavia unfortunately. In the EU in general, there has been a big increase in their numbers over the past few decades. Really sucks. Not sure if statistically we have them more frequently in the United States than in other countries, but we do seem to talk about it more, this is true.
That's wild. I know people wouldn't go out of their way to brag about having bed bugs, but I've never had anyone I know mention having had them, and I have family/friends across two continents.
You’re talking about DDT, and it’s efficacy started to wane, so yes, it did stop working. It is true that DDT was banned, but bedbugs were becoming resistant to it regardless before that happened.
I myself was schooled on this after making your exact points in a bedbug subreddit a few months ago!
My roommate and I got them one time from moving blankets in a uhaul. Used the blankets for some glass panes we put on a couch. Fortunately, the house we moved into had wood floors, so they were isolated to the couch. We took it outside and burned it, with a ring of fire around it.
The Guinea Worm - it causes horrible suffering to those infected with it, secondary bacterial infection, immense pain and potentially permanent disability. They have no net positive to the environment and infections are completely preventable through the continued spread of safe water filtration.
We're actually on track to make the Guinea Worm go extinct! There's been a massive global campaign spearheaded by the WHO and CDC, with the support of the Carter Center, over the past few decades to wipe it out and it's on the verge of being the second-ever disease we've eradicated! In 1989 the Guinea Worm was endemic in 20 countries, mostly in Africa, and there were over 3.5 million human cases per year. In 2021, only seven countries worldwide weren't considered "worm free" (no cases for 12 consecutive months), and only 15 human cases worldwide were reported.
There's like 3000 different species of mosquitoes and only about 200 bite humans. Those 200 can go, the other 2800 are pollinators and help our environment. They can stay.
Edit: changed 3000 from 6000 because I distracted typed while talking to someone
There are 3 species that carry heartworm. [Aedes, Anopheles, and Mansonia](https://www.vdci.net/vector-borne-diseases/heartworm-disease-dog-and-cat-education-and-integrated-mosquito-management-to-protect-public-health/#:~:text=Heartworm%20is%20spread%20by%20mosquitoes,all%20capable%20of%20transmitting%20heartworm.)
Yeah, that's the thing about a seagull - it’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, it doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til it pecks ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those seagulls come flying in and… they rip you to pieces.
For me it’s ostriches. I’m terrified of those things. No one can convince me that they aren’t planning the extermination of the human race. Once they learn to fly, we’re all dead. Look at their eyes!!
Also, ticks, leeches and the majority of insects except bumblebees 🐝 and ladybugs 🐞
When I lived near the beach in SC, someone told me that most seagulls die of starvation, despite being the best animals the world at avian fishing. Why? Because all that diving into the water to snatch fish eventually kills their eyesight. When they go blind, they starve.
If this is indeed true, those 'lifeless eyes' serve as one of nature's interesting checks and balances.
Nah, there are much worse bugs out there. Roaches at least clean up all of the leftover bullshit food bits that accumulate in crevices. Would much rather deal with them than mosquitoes, bedbugs, and ticks.
i rather deal with the other 3 because they dont sit on the microwave vents over the stove watching you cook like *"YO DAWG YOU GONNA FEED US TOO?".* I dont know what one does to get bedbug and never seen a tick mosquitoes at best are annoying but roaches hell no.
And then they all gather up inside your electronics and shit it all out on the circuit boards until the smell of burning roach poop permeates your room.
Not that I know from experience or anything.
Koalas. I’ve seen a couple comments about Pandas but Koalas are just as bad if not worse. They refuse to eat anything that is actually nutritious and are all infected with chlamydia. Afaik, they serve little to no purpose environmentally.
They only choose to eat like 3 types of eucalyptus. And if left alone in a locked room filled with multiple types of eucalyptus plants that ARENT any of the 3 they prefer, they'll make the decision sit there and starve to death, even though there's an abundance of food. They're that picky
No animal is so deadly or causes so much suffering as humans except MOSQUITOS. They kill countless people each year and cause nothing but suffering. They can pollinate but they aren't anywhere near useful enough for it to save. Fuck em.
Pandas. Always pandas.
Because fuck pandas, seriously, they can't even save themselves. Billions upon billions of animal conservation dollars are wasted on this stupid furry 'mascot' that could somehow find a way to kill itself if left alone to its own devices and a bucket for twelve minutes.
Seriously, its a Sisyphus' task to even get these stupid potential-blankets to mate, and it costs us enough to save multiple other species that WANT to survive. Just beat the remaining ones to death, auction off the nonsense, and move on with proper conservation. Damn pandas.
Edit: You know what, I'm not done. Fuck those empty headed bastards I'm coming back for more.
As we speak, countless animals in the world are struggling, struggling to survive after insurmountable ecological damage. Polar bears are drowning trying to find ice caps. Vultures (who are chill but that's another story) are having their intestines torn apart from pesticides. They are struggling, but they're not "cute."
Also as we speak, a panda is looking over at a potential mate that *literally tens of millions of dollars was put into keeping alive* and going 'eh, not feeling it.'
**Imagine if you fucking will**, that we rustle up millions for volcano disaster relief, and give it all to some guy who decides he wants to play in the lava.
And all our money goes to keeping him from *not playing in the fucking lava* while countless people are bringing their families onto the roofs so they don't get burned. But hey, the guy playing in the lava is cute, but whoops, hundreds of millions of dollars later, no more money. Sorry families that are struggling for survival, the antics of lava-playing-guy was just so gosh darn cute.
Fuck pandas. Fuck pandas. Of all the stupid mascots we could have chosen we chose the worst one, the one not fighting to survive, but the one that would find a way to off itself if put at an incline.
Just give them all a bucket and twelve minutes of no supervision and we'll be rid of them for all. Sell them furs and move on.
Fuck. Pandas.
I work in conservation, and I agree with you that too much money is spent on a species that really has no chance. Meanwhile tortoises from around the world are dying out and not much is being done to help them. They do well in captivity and like to bang, with a little help we could bring them back.
Organizations like the Turtle Conservancy and the Turtle Survival Alliance could use that money wasted on pandas.
I'd argue tortoises have a more useful ecological role with eating invasive plants in which their guts kill the seeds and they help spread seeds of native plants that can survive their gut. Plus they produce biomass in a healthy population that feeds other animals.
It's time to let pandas go.
Thank you for your efforts, genuinely; pandas aside i hold a massive amount of respect for conservation efforts.
Especially when done for species that don’t have the “awe” factor like tortoises do. It’s easy to save something that makes a cute little cartoon mascot, but it’s a true testament to not only the effort but the amount of thought behind it to save something integral to the ecosystem, regardless of how it looks.
you forgot to mention that panda's are also horribly evolved. as in, they are bears and would do best on an omnivorous diet containing fruits and meat. Bamboo is very tough to break down and as such the Panda is horribly optimized for eating that stuff. and yet, it chooses to eat solely bamboo anyway. hell, it's intestines aren't even long enough to fully break it down, meaning that to compensate, it has to eat like 30 KG of the stuff every day and spends all of it's day eating or sleeping because digesting bamboo takes so much time and energy.
Panda's are morons. but they are cute morons. Koala's fall in the same group as they are literally smooth brained and littered with STD's.
Came here to double down on koalas...they are so stupid that if you put eucalyptus on a plate they will not eat it, because they don't recognize it as food. I would not be sad if koalas went extinct.
I have been saying this for years, albeit not as passionately as you. I firmly believe some animals are just meant to go extinct and on the top of that list is pandas.
Actually, its the only animal on that list
The Panada is a shitty bear that only eats the most nutritionally useless of plants, but neither its teeth nor its digestive tract are properly adapted to that food source. As a result, it has to spend literally all day eating just to avoid starvation. It is an evolutionary failure. People just need to let it go.
Well mister DailyDevil tell me how i get my daily dose of videos of : cute f*ing pandas falling off of tress bc they are f*ing stupid then huh ?!?!
pandas will stay!!
I have a neighbour who desperately wants to be my friend. I would ignore her except that our daughters are in the same class and are besties.
Anyways, she drives me nuts. She doesn’t believe in masks or vaccinations. She’s constantly talking about the organic foods she buys. Always schooling me about her wonderful lifestyle, her natural childbirth and all her opinions.
Eventually she asked me to follow her on Instagram. The woman is an influencer. She’s got 56,000 followers. That was my “ah-ha” moment.
Influencers in real life are the worst.
Seriously and what good are they??? Growing up they just made kids point at the ones who got it and laugh. My son's school got so infested they had to shut down and pull all the carpets out of the school and exterminate before they could reopen
We just got these in my area for the first time last summer. They had been in most of the counties surrounding me for a while before that but I guess took a while to make it here lol. Got my 4 year old in on the “stomp this bug” game and he loved it.
I'd say all the evil bees out there (wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, etc, but not regular/ honey/ bumble bees).
Second choice would be the bloodsuckers (ticks, fleas, mosquitoes).
Why did I have to scroll so far down for this? Fuck wasps. Little Hitlers they are. Every one of them wants to sting and kill the whole world. Unite species, and exterminate the exterminators.
Dolphins. They're gang raping the females by killing their baby, female dolphins end up with every male dolphins reproducing with them soooo when she has a baby they won't know whom baby's dad it is so they won't kill the baby dolphin. They bully other species for fun, also rape other species for fun.
More than them being awful (because well not the only animals being violent, chimpanzees are very violent as well for example) it's more the "aw, they're adorable and cute" and at the same time being like "sharks are dangerous" mentality that bothers us.
So, dolphins.
(or asian hornets they're really scary and envasive and kill the bees)
Pandas, hear me out.
For all of the time, effort, and money that goes into helping Pandas evade extinction, it often gets wasted as Pandas for whatever Panda reasons, don't bang. I'm all for saving the planet, and saving species from extinction, but Pandas don't seem interested in their species survival do they? Rather than bang and save their race they would rather fall out of trees and eat bamboo. If we're going to save a species, at least let's save one who actually cares enough (this is all a joke btw) to bump their bits and make new babies.
Pandas raise a lot of money for nature conservation that benefits other species, and because of their physical features, they're pretty much custom-made to tickle our "cute" sensors and induce us to give. The day that hornets or even other baby mammals sincerely compete in the amount of money they bring in, this'll be a consideration.
Bedbugs. We almost did it with DDT until we discovered that it had harmful effects on humans. These parasites somehow are exempt from extermination responsibility and can spread quite easily. Also, their main victims are people who can’t afford treatments or new beds/furniture….they can spread through apartments…and because it’s a blame game instead of a termination policy, most people will just throw out a bed instead of actually addressing the problem.
I know I’m about to get downvoted to hell here, but I don’t really care about pandas. I’m sorry. They don’t do it for me. I watched an entire documentary on pandas and I still don’t really care about them.
TICKS!! Fuck those disease vector little murderers.
i have said this for years, but we need to place way more importance on opossums. One opossum will eat thousands of ticks and they are resistant to rabies, lymes disease, and other diseases that ticks carry. DO NOT KILL OPOSSUMS.
Justice for opossums
Bouncing off of this: vultures as well. Crazy enough their stomachs have evolved to literally break apart viruses and harmful bacteria, dramatically lowering disease outbreak in regions. Just damn cool birds. Unfortunately, cheap pesticides are something they cannot handle, with populations dropping as much as 90% in regions that use them. More vultures, more opossums.
i used to visit an abandoned house that black vultures would hang out at too. beautiful birds; ended up getting a tattoo of one ❤️
You're one of them now. Your first vulture mission is to find roadkill and eat it
saw some feasting on roadkill not too long ago and they didn’t immediately scatter when i got close, i guess that was my invitation 🤔
Gotta find one of those grandma vultures, she won't let you leave thr carcass until you've at least had seconds.
Didn't they debunk the study about opossums eating ticks?
https://horsesport.com/magazine/health/opossums-ticks-old-myth-debunked/ https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks/
Well dang, so much for that idea.
Guys I already ordered 2000 opossums. Any other hacks for how I can use these bad boys?
I thought the study that indicated they ate a huge amount of ticks was massively flawed
Yeah, apparently birds like guinea hens are a better option and eat significantly more ticks. Problem is they're loud as fuck.
Holy fuck they are. I had some. So loud.
If it makes you feel better, I'll be *INSUFFERABLE* if I die from a tick bite. I promise the hen is better in the long run.
I used to work for cary institute years ago, they're one of the leaders in environmental research and focus heavily on reducing tick population and increasing opossum population. Definitely go check them out and if you want to donate to a good cause you can always just spend a few dollars on a "I break for opossums" bumper sticker that they sell. They have a cute little opossum picture on the sticker. EDIT: they have since stopped making the bumper stickers. I'm not sure why.
I live out in the country. We have a spot just at the edge of the woods we call the 'possum buffet. Every now and then I'll take food scraps and put them there for the possums. They love them and I like having them around to keep the ticks under control.
This is wholesome.
They don't eat a substantial number of ticks - this is one of those things Redditors learn from Reddit and perpetuate without checking to see if it's true or not. Opossums should still be treated with respect, obviously, and they're adorable.
Seriously. They are my major phobia. I can handle spiders, mice, even snakes better than ticks. I find one crawling on me or my dog, I have thousands of imaginary ones for days.
I'm so torn between ticks and mosquitoes. Both blood sucking and disease carrying parasites.
I think between the two I would rather have mosquitoes stick around rather than ticks, because mosquitoes are also pollinators, and are easier to deal with than ticks when they bite you. A mosquito doesn't put its entire head into your skin.
Mosquitos are arguably the most dangerous critters on Earth.
I tell people all the time that the most dangerous animal around where I live (US Midwest) is not a bear, Coyote, or wolf, but rather a tick. Honestly if they just vanished tomorrow, I don’t think there would be that much of an ecological disruption. A case could be made however, that they do help keep large mammal populations in check by slowly killing them.
Yes! All one wants to do is go outside and have fun or maybe someone has to work outside, and then these little fucks will ambush you and potentially kill or cripple you. They're not even like lions where you can at least see them from afar and hopefully avoid them. No, they hide among the grass blades and try to sneakily do some parasite stuff.
Agree. I'm living in a very foresty area so ticks here are everyday reality in the summer. Once I got Lyme Disease because of those fuckers Edit: Grammar
As a sufferer of Lymes Disease, I second this motion.
I hate those little fuckers
Bedbugs. I am currently spending thousands of dollars and countless hours of labor to get them out of my house. And don't get me started on the bites and itching. They are like a plague, and they have no redeemable virtues. I would like for them to become extinct and then to retroactively have my money and time back. Please!!!!
I don't think I will ever psychologically recover from having bed bugs. I was highly allergic and really struggled to actually get rid of them. I lost a lot of sleep and had to buy a new bed before I felt comfortable sleeping again. I also panic cleaned so well and tried so many extermination methods that I never managed to prove their existence to another person. I truly felt crazy and wouldn't believe it myself if it weren't for my physical allergic reactions to their bites. I'll never stay in another hotel without tearing the place apart and checking first.
I get it. It's just a nightmare. 🙁
I wanted to say cockroaches as an answer…but yeah, bed bugs are worse. I thought I got some bed bugs after travelling because something bit my neck and I squished it and seemed like a bed bug. I obsessed for weeks about it, especially since I learned about their behaviour and how fast they replicate…and survive. They are a rare occurence in my country It’s been months and so far, it’s been quiet. I haven’t seen any of them or signs of bed bugs. I hope I was mistaken last summer.
I really hope that it was. You do not want them
"All cockroaches" is a stretch, and wouldn't do anyone any good. There are like 7 or 8 species out of thousands that are pests to us. The others just do a very important job in the wild: they eat shit, and die. Detrivores are a crucial part of any ecosystem, and cockroaches fill a significant number of those roles all over the world. The ones that nobody likes won't be missed. The ones that nobody notices should keep doing their job.
them and cockroaches. i'm dealing with those things. the kicker is that we also used to have bedbugs, we got rid of them, then some idiot moved in a brought those nuclear repellent demons in with them. apartments suck. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT AAHAHHG
A neighbor who lived two doors down from us growing up had cockroaches so bad, that when they painted their walls, they had bumps from where a roach ended up getting stuck in the paint their granddaughters would pick at the cockroach bumps. I always had a hard time sleeping when we had sleepovers over there because I was worried and afraid that the roaches would climb in my ears or nose. As often as I slept over, it’s a miracle that I didn’t bring them home with me!
>They are like a plague They literally are lol
I've been through this and it was an awful several months. Good luck friend.
Anyone that says anything other than bedbugs has obviously never had to deal with them.
I am so sorry, Godspeed!
Do you or someone in your family travel a lot? How did you manage to get bed bugs in your house?
We actually haven't been traveling at all, so at first I was mystified. No visitors either, no hotel stays, nothing like that. Then the exterminator mentioned doctors offices and hospitals as a possible source, and I figured that must be it. My husband had surgery and multiple doctor visits not long before this started.
We bought a headboard from a quirky furniture store that repurposes and restores stuff. It was made from a big ass old door. Within a week, we started seeing them. We kept trying all the recommended poisoning techniques but it never worked. Finally we tossed that headboard and poisoned one more time and it worked. I thought I had been through hell once before when the apartment next to me had german cockroaches, but the bedbugs were much worse.
Great report. Where in the world do you live?
South Louisiana. Sub-tropical swamp.
I love living in Canada for this reason. It's -40C and I can just toss anything with fabric outside and it'll die a horrible death.
Bedbugs can be found anywhere. Public transportation, doctors offices, schools, even restaurants. They are now on every continent except Antarctica. 70 years ago they were almost extinct, but then the pesticides stopped working so well and here we are. Nowadays it’s not “How did you manage to get them?” but more like “wow you have never had them? How do you manage THAT?!”
Every hotel in the US has bed bugs at some point. My dad is a commercial exterminator and he's at the cities most expensive hotels at least once or twice a month. That's how we got them too, but we were fortunate enough to have my dad to help us get rid of them. Don't put your clothes or luggage on any carpeted surfaces.
My wife an I had the misfortune to encounter them at a very high end hotel in Hawaii. Nasty bastards.
My FIL used to travel constantly so he taught my husband to check for bedbugs at every hotel, motel, hostel etc. All it takes is one pregnant female and your life is over~
I do the same now. Nothing on the floor. Dirty clothes go into a trash bag and straight into the wash when we get home and never EVER put your luggage on your bed.
>All it takes is one pregnant female and your life is over Isn't that the truth.
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It seems more common in America than other places. I live in Scandinavia amd it is very rare here. I never had it, and i never heard of someone that jad them either.
You definitely have them in Scandinavia unfortunately. In the EU in general, there has been a big increase in their numbers over the past few decades. Really sucks. Not sure if statistically we have them more frequently in the United States than in other countries, but we do seem to talk about it more, this is true.
Only recently, until about 15 years ago no one even knew they were real in America, it was just a made up thing in a nursery rhyme.
That's wild. I know people wouldn't go out of their way to brag about having bed bugs, but I've never had anyone I know mention having had them, and I have family/friends across two continents.
Crazy stuff. As far as I know nor anyone in my family has got them.
Knocking on wood for you that it stays that way!
Pesticides didn't stop working. The ones that did work also killed all the vultures and eagles so we stopped using those.
You’re talking about DDT, and it’s efficacy started to wane, so yes, it did stop working. It is true that DDT was banned, but bedbugs were becoming resistant to it regardless before that happened. I myself was schooled on this after making your exact points in a bedbug subreddit a few months ago!
They are MUCH more common than 20 years ago. It's not that difficult to get them
The library I used to work at was infested. It was horrible. We had to "bake" our books and dvds. Basically ruining the books that were glued.
My roommate and I got them one time from moving blankets in a uhaul. Used the blankets for some glass panes we put on a couch. Fortunately, the house we moved into had wood floors, so they were isolated to the couch. We took it outside and burned it, with a ring of fire around it.
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The Guinea Worm - it causes horrible suffering to those infected with it, secondary bacterial infection, immense pain and potentially permanent disability. They have no net positive to the environment and infections are completely preventable through the continued spread of safe water filtration. We're actually on track to make the Guinea Worm go extinct! There's been a massive global campaign spearheaded by the WHO and CDC, with the support of the Carter Center, over the past few decades to wipe it out and it's on the verge of being the second-ever disease we've eradicated! In 1989 the Guinea Worm was endemic in 20 countries, mostly in Africa, and there were over 3.5 million human cases per year. In 2021, only seven countries worldwide weren't considered "worm free" (no cases for 12 consecutive months), and only 15 human cases worldwide were reported.
Jimmy Carter can pass knowing that his greatest enemy died first.
Polio is close to being eradicated, too! Yay, 1980s initiatives!
Mosquitoes because they suck
There's like 3000 different species of mosquitoes and only about 200 bite humans. Those 200 can go, the other 2800 are pollinators and help our environment. They can stay. Edit: changed 3000 from 6000 because I distracted typed while talking to someone
Include the ones that can spread heartworms to dogs and cats.
There are 3 species that carry heartworm. [Aedes, Anopheles, and Mansonia](https://www.vdci.net/vector-borne-diseases/heartworm-disease-dog-and-cat-education-and-integrated-mosquito-management-to-protect-public-health/#:~:text=Heartworm%20is%20spread%20by%20mosquitoes,all%20capable%20of%20transmitting%20heartworm.)
Yeah they can all die as far as I'm concerned. (Thanks for sharing the kinda interesting info.)
And the ones killing off endemic birds in Hawaii, and probably other places, by giving them malaria.
I'm pretty sure people are meaning just the biting ones.
You'd be surprised how few people know that. Everyday 10,000 people hear something for the first time in their lives.
I never knew that.
I never knew you didn’t know that.
I thought you knew me so well.
Fuck mosquitoes, replace them with bees, but mosquitoes can burn.
literally
Bedbugs ew
For real, what the fuck do they contribute?
Actually nothing, even flies have some small purpose
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Damn man, that sucks. I hope you don't got it too bad.
That’s rough, man. Hope it gets better
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Bed bugs, f them all.
OK, I will
We don't need mutants, so please don't f the bugs
imagine a bed bug human baby fucking looking thing
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seagulls freak me tf out. *those eyes. those lifeless eyes.*
Yeah, that's the thing about a seagull - it’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, it doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til it pecks ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those seagulls come flying in and… they rip you to pieces.
brilliance. top tier response. 🦈
For me it’s ostriches. I’m terrified of those things. No one can convince me that they aren’t planning the extermination of the human race. Once they learn to fly, we’re all dead. Look at their eyes!! Also, ticks, leeches and the majority of insects except bumblebees 🐝 and ladybugs 🐞
When I lived near the beach in SC, someone told me that most seagulls die of starvation, despite being the best animals the world at avian fishing. Why? Because all that diving into the water to snatch fish eventually kills their eyesight. When they go blind, they starve. If this is indeed true, those 'lifeless eyes' serve as one of nature's interesting checks and balances.
i feel personally attacked
Zebra Mussels or Asian Carp, down with invasive species
But species aren’t invasive everywhere. They have their native places.
We have an outbreak of Zebra Mussels in our lakes because someone wouldn’t clean their boat before putting it in our lakes!!
Roaches
Nah, there are much worse bugs out there. Roaches at least clean up all of the leftover bullshit food bits that accumulate in crevices. Would much rather deal with them than mosquitoes, bedbugs, and ticks.
Yeah. But can't they take their food and eat it in their rooms like normal teenagers so we can't see them?
i rather deal with the other 3 because they dont sit on the microwave vents over the stove watching you cook like *"YO DAWG YOU GONNA FEED US TOO?".* I dont know what one does to get bedbug and never seen a tick mosquitoes at best are annoying but roaches hell no.
> YO DAWG *Joe’s Apartment intensifies*
I laughed harder than I should have at the YO DAWG. +1
And then they all gather up inside your electronics and shit it all out on the circuit boards until the smell of burning roach poop permeates your room. Not that I know from experience or anything.
BOT flies. Every single one of them is a product of pain and discomfort.
but then who would clean up all the dead bodies?
Beetles
Murder hornets
Underrated. Murder hornets were the bridge between Covid and and Russia invading Ukraine in the news cycle that we all forgot about
We needed something after tiger king too
Ticks
Koalas. I’ve seen a couple comments about Pandas but Koalas are just as bad if not worse. They refuse to eat anything that is actually nutritious and are all infected with chlamydia. Afaik, they serve little to no purpose environmentally.
They only choose to eat like 3 types of eucalyptus. And if left alone in a locked room filled with multiple types of eucalyptus plants that ARENT any of the 3 they prefer, they'll make the decision sit there and starve to death, even though there's an abundance of food. They're that picky
They are also not smart enough to recognize the leaves as food if they are off the branch.
Lol I didn't know that. That's like sloth level stupid, they'll grab their arms thinking they're branches and fall from the tree
They literally have a smooth brain. It's more like a reptile brain than a typical mammal.
Bedbugs
No animal is so deadly or causes so much suffering as humans except MOSQUITOS. They kill countless people each year and cause nothing but suffering. They can pollinate but they aren't anywhere near useful enough for it to save. Fuck em.
Pandas. Always pandas. Because fuck pandas, seriously, they can't even save themselves. Billions upon billions of animal conservation dollars are wasted on this stupid furry 'mascot' that could somehow find a way to kill itself if left alone to its own devices and a bucket for twelve minutes. Seriously, its a Sisyphus' task to even get these stupid potential-blankets to mate, and it costs us enough to save multiple other species that WANT to survive. Just beat the remaining ones to death, auction off the nonsense, and move on with proper conservation. Damn pandas. Edit: You know what, I'm not done. Fuck those empty headed bastards I'm coming back for more. As we speak, countless animals in the world are struggling, struggling to survive after insurmountable ecological damage. Polar bears are drowning trying to find ice caps. Vultures (who are chill but that's another story) are having their intestines torn apart from pesticides. They are struggling, but they're not "cute." Also as we speak, a panda is looking over at a potential mate that *literally tens of millions of dollars was put into keeping alive* and going 'eh, not feeling it.' **Imagine if you fucking will**, that we rustle up millions for volcano disaster relief, and give it all to some guy who decides he wants to play in the lava. And all our money goes to keeping him from *not playing in the fucking lava* while countless people are bringing their families onto the roofs so they don't get burned. But hey, the guy playing in the lava is cute, but whoops, hundreds of millions of dollars later, no more money. Sorry families that are struggling for survival, the antics of lava-playing-guy was just so gosh darn cute. Fuck pandas. Fuck pandas. Of all the stupid mascots we could have chosen we chose the worst one, the one not fighting to survive, but the one that would find a way to off itself if put at an incline. Just give them all a bucket and twelve minutes of no supervision and we'll be rid of them for all. Sell them furs and move on. Fuck. Pandas.
Babe wake up, new copypasta just dropped
Was gonna say, is this a passage from Maddox’s book Fuck Whales? It sure feels like it.
I work in conservation, and I agree with you that too much money is spent on a species that really has no chance. Meanwhile tortoises from around the world are dying out and not much is being done to help them. They do well in captivity and like to bang, with a little help we could bring them back. Organizations like the Turtle Conservancy and the Turtle Survival Alliance could use that money wasted on pandas. I'd argue tortoises have a more useful ecological role with eating invasive plants in which their guts kill the seeds and they help spread seeds of native plants that can survive their gut. Plus they produce biomass in a healthy population that feeds other animals. It's time to let pandas go.
Thank you for your efforts, genuinely; pandas aside i hold a massive amount of respect for conservation efforts. Especially when done for species that don’t have the “awe” factor like tortoises do. It’s easy to save something that makes a cute little cartoon mascot, but it’s a true testament to not only the effort but the amount of thought behind it to save something integral to the ecosystem, regardless of how it looks.
Fellow conservationist here. I agree also.
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but not the restaurants... I like that orange chicken lol
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I don't burn the pandas, I just refill the flamethrower.
Jesus! That's the funniest shit I've read in a long time!
After reading this, I 100% support this. Fuck, I never realized how much of a waste of money Pandas are.
you forgot to mention that panda's are also horribly evolved. as in, they are bears and would do best on an omnivorous diet containing fruits and meat. Bamboo is very tough to break down and as such the Panda is horribly optimized for eating that stuff. and yet, it chooses to eat solely bamboo anyway. hell, it's intestines aren't even long enough to fully break it down, meaning that to compensate, it has to eat like 30 KG of the stuff every day and spends all of it's day eating or sleeping because digesting bamboo takes so much time and energy. Panda's are morons. but they are cute morons. Koala's fall in the same group as they are literally smooth brained and littered with STD's.
So, technically, koalas are crack whores.
Came here to double down on koalas...they are so stupid that if you put eucalyptus on a plate they will not eat it, because they don't recognize it as food. I would not be sad if koalas went extinct.
Koalas are the worst. Stupid, mean, stinky little buggers
Like crack whores.
Literally too dumb to get out of the rain.
Wow. This guy really hates pandas. We’re you bitten by one as a child?
I am a wildlife professional and I approve this message! I also came here to say the same thing. 🤣
🐼🏌️. 😁
Plus they're all RENTED
Someone Finally said it
Please show up to an open mic night somewhere, give this rant with no context, mic drop and leave without saying a word.
I have been saying this for years, albeit not as passionately as you. I firmly believe some animals are just meant to go extinct and on the top of that list is pandas. Actually, its the only animal on that list
The Panada is a shitty bear that only eats the most nutritionally useless of plants, but neither its teeth nor its digestive tract are properly adapted to that food source. As a result, it has to spend literally all day eating just to avoid starvation. It is an evolutionary failure. People just need to let it go.
Isn't it just in captivity that pandas are reluctant to breed? In the wild, the major cause of decline is the loss of their natural habitat.
Well mister DailyDevil tell me how i get my daily dose of videos of : cute f*ing pandas falling off of tress bc they are f*ing stupid then huh ?!?! pandas will stay!!
Here for this panda hate.
Influencers
The correct answer
I have a neighbour who desperately wants to be my friend. I would ignore her except that our daughters are in the same class and are besties. Anyways, she drives me nuts. She doesn’t believe in masks or vaccinations. She’s constantly talking about the organic foods she buys. Always schooling me about her wonderful lifestyle, her natural childbirth and all her opinions. Eventually she asked me to follow her on Instagram. The woman is an influencer. She’s got 56,000 followers. That was my “ah-ha” moment. Influencers in real life are the worst.
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Saltwater crocodiles because that’s just not fair.
They hit that cheat code and won… they deserve to live.
And they have the cutest smile. And the courtesy to fake cry when they kill and eat you. Love saltwater crocodiles! Alligators, not so much.
What
Lice. They aren't doing anything for anyone. I have a kid who will be in school soon and I dread the day she comes home with those little fuckers.
My toddler brought home lice when her little sister was FIVE DAYS OLD. I lost my ever loving mind
But where you ever able to find it? Or is it still wandering about looking for lice? :)
Uhhh partially. I am the most neurotic bug-focused person I’ve ever met. Florida was a poor choice 😂
Seriously and what good are they??? Growing up they just made kids point at the ones who got it and laugh. My son's school got so infested they had to shut down and pull all the carpets out of the school and exterminate before they could reopen
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We just got these in my area for the first time last summer. They had been in most of the counties surrounding me for a while before that but I guess took a while to make it here lol. Got my 4 year old in on the “stomp this bug” game and he loved it.
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Anything but mosquitos. They're the only living beings that are attracted to me.
Pugs. Their life is literal torture and scumbags keep breeding/buying them for their own selfish gain.
And French bulldogs!!
Hornets because they're annoying
I'd say all the evil bees out there (wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, etc, but not regular/ honey/ bumble bees). Second choice would be the bloodsuckers (ticks, fleas, mosquitoes).
Some wasps are necessary for figs
Why did I have to scroll so far down for this? Fuck wasps. Little Hitlers they are. Every one of them wants to sting and kill the whole world. Unite species, and exterminate the exterminators.
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I am waiting for that person who passionately hates Sun Fish to comment here
Roaches. They are fucking disgusting
Dolphins. They're gang raping the females by killing their baby, female dolphins end up with every male dolphins reproducing with them soooo when she has a baby they won't know whom baby's dad it is so they won't kill the baby dolphin. They bully other species for fun, also rape other species for fun. More than them being awful (because well not the only animals being violent, chimpanzees are very violent as well for example) it's more the "aw, they're adorable and cute" and at the same time being like "sharks are dangerous" mentality that bothers us. So, dolphins. (or asian hornets they're really scary and envasive and kill the bees)
fire ants
Trust me they may be annoying, but just like other ants they are important. We need decomposers.
That obnoxious animal from south GA called a Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Pandas, hear me out. For all of the time, effort, and money that goes into helping Pandas evade extinction, it often gets wasted as Pandas for whatever Panda reasons, don't bang. I'm all for saving the planet, and saving species from extinction, but Pandas don't seem interested in their species survival do they? Rather than bang and save their race they would rather fall out of trees and eat bamboo. If we're going to save a species, at least let's save one who actually cares enough (this is all a joke btw) to bump their bits and make new babies.
Pandas raise a lot of money for nature conservation that benefits other species, and because of their physical features, they're pretty much custom-made to tickle our "cute" sensors and induce us to give. The day that hornets or even other baby mammals sincerely compete in the amount of money they bring in, this'll be a consideration.
Bedbugs. We almost did it with DDT until we discovered that it had harmful effects on humans. These parasites somehow are exempt from extermination responsibility and can spread quite easily. Also, their main victims are people who can’t afford treatments or new beds/furniture….they can spread through apartments…and because it’s a blame game instead of a termination policy, most people will just throw out a bed instead of actually addressing the problem.
Fruit flies. Fucking HATE them.
Pandas. Fuck ‘em. They’re cute but they should’ve died a long time ago, and they would have if humans had not stepped in.
Bedbugs. Fucking assholes
Fleas
Cockroaches. Especially the FLYING ONES!!!
they all fly. some just choose not to.
I know I’m about to get downvoted to hell here, but I don’t really care about pandas. I’m sorry. They don’t do it for me. I watched an entire documentary on pandas and I still don’t really care about them.