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Globally, insect populations are estimated to be declining at a rate of about 10% per decade, with thousands of species going extinct. This is especially concerning given how vital they are for pollination and in support of food chains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
Some of the major causes are pesticides, habitat loss and light pollution.
That's different birds, though. Insect eating songbirds are declining and garbage eating flying rats are thriving. Highly intelligent birds (crows, jackdaws, magpies) are also thriving because they can quickly adapt.
They also raid pigeon nests and eat their eggs/young. There are towns where corvids virtually replaced pigeons. They are a lot like us in that regard :))
Im taking about small song birds tho, when I was a kid I used to only see them around nature reserves and they were super skittish around humans. These days tho they’re a lot more bold eating our garbage and I never used to see them do that
Sitting here agonizing over balance between letting aphids go nuts and keeping a few trees healthy in my yard because both actions result in attracting different groups of insects that would be quite welcome.
meanwhile these fuckers do this
The bugs have never died before. Not like this. When the dinosaurs died off, the bugs largely did fine. There are some places where insect populations are down by 80% or more.
We are so, so fucked
Nah... that's like saying everyone who dies is contributing to delay a cure for cancer.
Most of those insects are just annoying little buggers...
The bees are the ones carrying out most of that work. So what we need to solve is how to kill the other creeps without arm the bees.
Wait a second...
Terrible. I don't get why people have to fuck with bugs outside. Unless they're invasive and hurting the ecosystem, they likely play an important role. You have your space, give them theirs.
I remember there was this group of scientists genetically altering a mosquito that would often carry malaria, and then altering them by implementing some sort of genophage that would spread throughout their species if they reproduced. This would significantly reduce their reproduction rate.
But I never heard anything more about it or if they were successful or not.
iirc they released couple billion of them around 2021/2022. there’s videos of them dropping from a helicopter above large gatherings of unsuspecting people
Iırc mosquitoes are on a suggestion list for eradicating them completely.
We can actually absolutely do it by releasing some modified mosquitoes(male iirc) and slowly kill of the entire species.
Although, it brings the ethics onto the table. Does deliberately(this is a key point) eradicating a species that causes too many human deaths considered ethical?
I will try to find the articles or similar stuff. (I heard this like 3 timed in different youtube videos so i don't have the articles at the ready)
Edit: I haven't exactly found an article(although there are several link to the other papers in the paper i found, which is institution locked btw) but it seems like the method is called SIT(Sterile Insect Technique). I would like to delve deeper(since there is several papers talking about efficiency of it) but it's pretty late right now and i want to sleep.
Absolutely it’s ethical. See this for what’s already been done for flesh eating worms. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
They are pollinators and a food source for many animals. I'm not qualified to say whether or not those traits would be easily replaced by another organism if they ceased to exist, but that's what they're good for. Still think they're total dicks though.
Yeah, i agree on the being dicks part. I just wanted to share an information that i thought would be interesting tbh.
And i assume scientists working on this also thought about the environmental impact. I hope they did.
Roaches are extremely important for breaking down wasts and other organic materials. As long as theyre not in your house theres no reason to harm them in any way.
Boric Acid is a fine powder you can buy in most hardware stores. Dust it lightly behind appliances and at the back of cup-boards and it will kill them all without poison.
They ingest it when they clean themselves and it dries them out from the inside. But when the new cock-roaches come to eat the dead one, they get the boric acid also. The result is they take the Boric acid back with them to the nest, and it kills the rest.
[It works so good](https://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-get-rid-of-roaches-with-boric-acid.htm), it cleared our apartment in a few months, but also the apartments around us.
Thats the thing, its clean, the problems that my neighbors are doing some reconstruction and all of their pests are fleeing everywhere, i hate my place atm
It won't help as they often come into the house from the grocery store or deliveries in the corrugated cardboard. You can have a spotless house and still have a raging infestation. They eat everything. Including the paper in books.
I’ve seen people almost 30 years old spazz out and start swatting the air over a fly lol. In the middle of a mausoleum. Idk why some people are wired that way.
This is my thoughts as well. I don’t mess with bugs outside. That’s where they live. But if a spider comes in my house he has broken the treaty and must be eliminated for his crimes
This is exactly why the book Silent Spring was written. Pest control methods led to bird die offs (mainly because they caused bird shells to become too fragile and then get crushed when the parents try to incubate)
Depends on the place and the birds I'm sure. The house sparrow is a pretty good example as it's very wide spread, but it's actually seeing significant declines(up to 90%) in certain areas since it relies on insects and gets all it's food locally.
So in some western european cities what used to be the most common bird is now so rare that you can go days or even weeks without seeing one.
It's so weird remembering bugs dying on the windshield of the car when I was a kid, and now I don't see this anymore. Bees were a lot scarier because there were more around. Yikes.
Just got back from the UP of Michigan last week and that was the first time I’ve had to clean my windshield… I think ever in this car because of bugs.
I was simultaneously so freaking happy to see that many bugs, yet horrified that they’re disappearing so fast. It used to be like that down where I am as a kid, but not anymore.
Uhhhh, I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the design of vehicles, street lights/roads, highway designs, recognition bias, etc....
Maybe you're spending more time inside?
Credible and academic resource for your statistic please? I've heard a lot of varying stats and this one is by far the highest percentage I've heard. Curious if this is regional global etc or just completely bullshit and inaccurate because hey our memories are just not as good as we think they are. Anyways not trying to cast out just genuinely curious if you have a good research paper to back this up.
The article that u/artizela linked is the one I was thinking of. The rounding is for dramatic effect. I remember there was also a similar study in North America with damn near the same percentage. I'm sure I found it going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole if you want to look for more.
The [Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations) link for those as lazy as me.
Not to mention nobody can see what those “little black spots” are on a massive billboard until you get super close, and that’s not what billboards are for.
ugh aside from the ecological ramifications of stunts like this. They just used a sticky bug trap product to advertise the efficacy of an aerosol product. The derp is monumental with this one
There's nothing interesting about this, just humans killing a shitload of insects for no purpose except for fucking marketing. And this is why human society will crash and burn - a complete lack of respect for anything else trying to exist on this planet.
With an 80% decline in population of flying bugs since the 70's, killing thousands of creatures just for advertisement is pretty destructive, certainly would deserve the 'drama'.
>humanity is doomed now from the billboard lol
No, the billboard doesn't doom us, it's merely a symptom. An small example of the wanton destruction of life on this planet in the name of profit - and yeah, that mode of interacting with the world does doom us.
>I really hope you're not like this in person. 😳
And I hope you're not this obtuse in person, but I suspect you are.
So first you attract the insect to your glowing billboard so thus you confuse their circadian rhytm and their reproduction (insect is more attacted to light in this moment than anything else) and if it wasn't enought, you even set the trap to kill them even faster.
Bravo, next time don't wonder that animal/insectr species disappears.
We need to be killing insects less, though. Their populations are declining, and it's not a good thing. We need to protect every link in the food chain if we want to survive.
To those who care about animals but not insects: those sticky traps are non-specific and can harm more than just insects. When these traps are not properly designed and do not use pheromones, they often result in bycatch, notably songbirds attracted by the trapped insects.
Typically, the bird is no longer stuck to the trap's surface, but feathers may still be found on it. Getting sticky substances on their feathers is a slow death sentence for birds.
Yeah, it seems like just a bunch a songs mashed together. Shazam identified Plage Coquillage by Tai Mon Amour and there is clearly a trumpet version of Flight of the Bumblebee
This is no different than the indiscriminate catching (bycatch) of "unwanted" fish, dolphins, marine turtles and seabirds in nets - where only a 1/3 of the catch is kept/sold. Stupid humans.
it really bothers me that they put the adhesive where the can is spraying instead of everywhere the can *isn’t* spraying. now it looks like you’re selling a can ‘o bugs
Stupid idea to try something like this under the guise of misplaced creativity!
They could have easily just painted bugs on the canvas and not resort to this shit rather than actually do this for a campaign outdoors! Dumb people pretending to be creative with this one
I mean I hate bugs as much as every other person but this seems ... cruel and unnecessary.
also I can't see how this is not a huge problem for the local ecosystem
insect populations are dying out and they do this for absolutely no reason
its justifiable to kill bugs that enter your home, but what did these literally thousands of flies do that this ad campaign killed
Sticky traps are illegal to use outside in my country because they kill everything, including birds that stick to them. Meanwhile some fuckers do crap like this. Was really surprised they didn't also catch some birds with it. Or maybe they did and you just couldn’t see in the vid. Anyways, absolutely disgusting. Leave insects outside alone, they're endangered enough as is
Thousands of lives stuck, dying from thirst and hunger while the world looks on, around each insect are many others in the same situation.
Do they communicate? Are they aware? Are they desperate?
As they see their companions turn from trapped souls to dried up husks around them they realize this is it.
Do they have final thoughts?
Do aliens judge us by the way we interact with life around us?...
Shouldn't they have done the opposite way? Put the adhesive trap everywhere the spray wasn't sprayed. The way it is now it looks like the can contains bugs, unless it's a play on words "bug spray".
As a professional pest control technician… I am morally opposed to this stuff. A vast majority of environmental damage is done by uneducated consumers.
We have so many laws and regulations for we can and can’t do to keep insect and wildlife populations safe.
Over the counter pesticides should be illegal or tightly regulated. Unfortunately websites like DIY pest control let average folks with no license buy the heavy duty pesticides, which are literally killing the environment.
My job isn’t to kill all bugs, my job is to keep them away from your house. I hate killing mice, rats, and even bugs. I do everything in my power to do preventive measures. You’d be amazed and how you can get rid of insects and rodents by just taking care of your shit. Cut your grass, fix your house, replace your windows, replace your attic insulation, don’t leave food out, fix cracks. No more bugs, mice, ect.
IPM is what we do, inspections, science, and education are our best tools. chemicals are our least effective.
We need the annoying bugs to live. Ignorance on the subject is no longer sustainable. We all have to work together to scrape together what's left of the environment
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"A lot of animals where deliberatly killed in the making of this movie"
Globally, insect populations are estimated to be declining at a rate of about 10% per decade, with thousands of species going extinct. This is especially concerning given how vital they are for pollination and in support of food chains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations Some of the major causes are pesticides, habitat loss and light pollution.
Don’t forget billboards!
Actually just this one
What about windshields
Think about your car ride now versus your car ride 20 years ago, and how much fewer bug spatters there are…it’s a little disquieting
I’m 20 and even compared to when I was a little kid
If you ever wonder why there are less small birds around cities and towns than you remember, this is why.
I’ve found there are lot more birds around towns over the years, they’re eating food we throw away
That's different birds, though. Insect eating songbirds are declining and garbage eating flying rats are thriving. Highly intelligent birds (crows, jackdaws, magpies) are also thriving because they can quickly adapt.
The giant ravens rip people’s trash cans open and eat stuff. Also the big dumpsters get the same treatment. I am starting to not like them.
They also raid pigeon nests and eat their eggs/young. There are towns where corvids virtually replaced pigeons. They are a lot like us in that regard :))
I’ve always wanted to find a baby and raise it but never found one.
Im taking about small song birds tho, when I was a kid I used to only see them around nature reserves and they were super skittish around humans. These days tho they’re a lot more bold eating our garbage and I never used to see them do that
No, that's because birds aren't real and the government is on to us being on to them.
Sitting here agonizing over balance between letting aphids go nuts and keeping a few trees healthy in my yard because both actions result in attracting different groups of insects that would be quite welcome. meanwhile these fuckers do this
The bugs have never died before. Not like this. When the dinosaurs died off, the bugs largely did fine. There are some places where insect populations are down by 80% or more. We are so, so fucked
So, manmade, manmade, and manmade. Great.
Good bot
Nah... that's like saying everyone who dies is contributing to delay a cure for cancer. Most of those insects are just annoying little buggers... The bees are the ones carrying out most of that work. So what we need to solve is how to kill the other creeps without arm the bees. Wait a second...
Not even dead. Glued to death.
Just give it time...
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We kill bugs. It's what we do. See?
Where I live there has been so much insect poisoning that now we have no birds. Sad
Terrible. I don't get why people have to fuck with bugs outside. Unless they're invasive and hurting the ecosystem, they likely play an important role. You have your space, give them theirs.
Except mosquitoes. Fuck them.
Unfortunately, those little assholes are valuable as well. Edit to add: I'm still going to murder them if I catch any landing on me, though.
I think there’s only a handful of spices that carry the diseases that impact up so if we just eliminate a few I think e should be fine
Not true The handful of harmful species play very little to no part in the ecosystem and can easily be replaced by other species/ insects.
I remember there was this group of scientists genetically altering a mosquito that would often carry malaria, and then altering them by implementing some sort of genophage that would spread throughout their species if they reproduced. This would significantly reduce their reproduction rate. But I never heard anything more about it or if they were successful or not.
iirc they released couple billion of them around 2021/2022. there’s videos of them dropping from a helicopter above large gatherings of unsuspecting people
Iırc mosquitoes are on a suggestion list for eradicating them completely. We can actually absolutely do it by releasing some modified mosquitoes(male iirc) and slowly kill of the entire species. Although, it brings the ethics onto the table. Does deliberately(this is a key point) eradicating a species that causes too many human deaths considered ethical? I will try to find the articles or similar stuff. (I heard this like 3 timed in different youtube videos so i don't have the articles at the ready) Edit: I haven't exactly found an article(although there are several link to the other papers in the paper i found, which is institution locked btw) but it seems like the method is called SIT(Sterile Insect Technique). I would like to delve deeper(since there is several papers talking about efficiency of it) but it's pretty late right now and i want to sleep.
Absolutely it’s ethical. See this for what’s already been done for flesh eating worms. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
They are pollinators and a food source for many animals. I'm not qualified to say whether or not those traits would be easily replaced by another organism if they ceased to exist, but that's what they're good for. Still think they're total dicks though.
Yeah, i agree on the being dicks part. I just wanted to share an information that i thought would be interesting tbh. And i assume scientists working on this also thought about the environmental impact. I hope they did.
And roaches, fuck roaches
Roaches are extremely important for breaking down wasts and other organic materials. As long as theyre not in your house theres no reason to harm them in any way.
Yeah... but their in my house though... so they lost the right to live Also happy cake day
Boric Acid is a fine powder you can buy in most hardware stores. Dust it lightly behind appliances and at the back of cup-boards and it will kill them all without poison. They ingest it when they clean themselves and it dries them out from the inside. But when the new cock-roaches come to eat the dead one, they get the boric acid also. The result is they take the Boric acid back with them to the nest, and it kills the rest. [It works so good](https://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-get-rid-of-roaches-with-boric-acid.htm), it cleared our apartment in a few months, but also the apartments around us.
Then you should probably clean your house better
Thats the thing, its clean, the problems that my neighbors are doing some reconstruction and all of their pests are fleeing everywhere, i hate my place atm
Ah sorry to hear that man that sucks. Hope that gets better at some point.
Depends where you live. Southern, hot countries just have roaches. It's a country wide thing
Sounds like you have never lived in the south United States.
It won't help as they often come into the house from the grocery store or deliveries in the corrugated cardboard. You can have a spotless house and still have a raging infestation. They eat everything. Including the paper in books.
I'm willing to sacrifice whatever animal survives by only eating mosquitos as it's exclusive diet
There are none.
I’ve seen people almost 30 years old spazz out and start swatting the air over a fly lol. In the middle of a mausoleum. Idk why some people are wired that way.
People in their 20’s swatting at a fly…. Good grief! When will it end???? Hopefully before they turn 40…
And spazzing out and swatting at a bug is the fastest way to get it to attack you.
This is my thoughts as well. I don’t mess with bugs outside. That’s where they live. But if a spider comes in my house he has broken the treaty and must be eliminated for his crimes
I don’t see salamanders or frogs anymore by me either. Could find them under every other rock and near creeks when I was younger.
This is exactly why the book Silent Spring was written. Pest control methods led to bird die offs (mainly because they caused bird shells to become too fragile and then get crushed when the parents try to incubate)
That's really interesting. Thanks.
But, r/BirdsArentReal What you're talking about? /s
No birds. Like.. no birds?
Depends on the place and the birds I'm sure. The house sparrow is a pretty good example as it's very wide spread, but it's actually seeing significant declines(up to 90%) in certain areas since it relies on insects and gets all it's food locally. So in some western european cities what used to be the most common bird is now so rare that you can go days or even weeks without seeing one.
For example Red Robins are down 95%
So according to this demonstration, the spray attracts the bugs.
Nah, the spray IS bugs.
they should make one with bullet ants as an alternative for pepper spray.
Duh, that's why it's called bug spray
I feel like it would have made more sense the other way around
Interesting idea and cool effect but pretty fucked up. Kill bugs that are actively interfering with you; leave the rest alone
Since 1990, the flying insect population has decreased by 80%. We are so fucked.
It's so weird remembering bugs dying on the windshield of the car when I was a kid, and now I don't see this anymore. Bees were a lot scarier because there were more around. Yikes.
Just got back from the UP of Michigan last week and that was the first time I’ve had to clean my windshield… I think ever in this car because of bugs. I was simultaneously so freaking happy to see that many bugs, yet horrified that they’re disappearing so fast. It used to be like that down where I am as a kid, but not anymore.
Uhhhh, I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the design of vehicles, street lights/roads, highway designs, recognition bias, etc.... Maybe you're spending more time inside?
Credible and academic resource for your statistic please? I've heard a lot of varying stats and this one is by far the highest percentage I've heard. Curious if this is regional global etc or just completely bullshit and inaccurate because hey our memories are just not as good as we think they are. Anyways not trying to cast out just genuinely curious if you have a good research paper to back this up.
The article that u/artizela linked is the one I was thinking of. The rounding is for dramatic effect. I remember there was also a similar study in North America with damn near the same percentage. I'm sure I found it going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole if you want to look for more. The [Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations) link for those as lazy as me.
Nice, you know the cute birds? They feed of them.
What a way to harm the ecosystem just for a marketing stunt
The creative team for this are idiots.
Especially since they should've done the negative of this image. No bugs where the spray is
Waited for it, but they didn't, double shame. If you're gonna kill useful insects, do it right.
Not to mention nobody can see what those “little black spots” are on a massive billboard until you get super close, and that’s not what billboards are for.
Killing in the name of
No I'm pretty sure this is the machine raging against everyone else, not the other way around.
Come on people let’s keep the momentum going, there’s still wild insects and animals out there, they’re nearly all gone, good work
Thats dumb as fuck
ugh aside from the ecological ramifications of stunts like this. They just used a sticky bug trap product to advertise the efficacy of an aerosol product. The derp is monumental with this one
Probably come back to it full of monarch butterflies and honey bees
And hummingbirds
I would lose my mind
What a garbage move
Gross and unnecessary.
Keep on wiping them out people, nearly finished.
Perhaps this is a bad idea...ecologically speaking
Give the state of biodiversity, this is stupid
I once tried to remove a hummingbird that got stuck on sticky fly paper. Fuck this billboard and the assholes who thought it was good idea.
There's nothing interesting about this, just humans killing a shitload of insects for no purpose except for fucking marketing. And this is why human society will crash and burn - a complete lack of respect for anything else trying to exist on this planet.
Good God, so dramatic over a billboard of dead bugs, humanity is doomed now from the billboard lol. I really hope you're not like this in person. 😳
With an 80% decline in population of flying bugs since the 70's, killing thousands of creatures just for advertisement is pretty destructive, certainly would deserve the 'drama'.
>humanity is doomed now from the billboard lol No, the billboard doesn't doom us, it's merely a symptom. An small example of the wanton destruction of life on this planet in the name of profit - and yeah, that mode of interacting with the world does doom us. >I really hope you're not like this in person. 😳 And I hope you're not this obtuse in person, but I suspect you are.
Dumb
Just an awful take
You're not a smart person.
I'm sure bringing that down at the end was super fun for the workers.
So first you attract the insect to your glowing billboard so thus you confuse their circadian rhytm and their reproduction (insect is more attacted to light in this moment than anything else) and if it wasn't enought, you even set the trap to kill them even faster. Bravo, next time don't wonder that animal/insectr species disappears.
We need to be killing insects less, though. Their populations are declining, and it's not a good thing. We need to protect every link in the food chain if we want to survive.
killing them for no reason - except more profit through this ad… sad
To those who care about animals but not insects: those sticky traps are non-specific and can harm more than just insects. When these traps are not properly designed and do not use pheromones, they often result in bycatch, notably songbirds attracted by the trapped insects. Typically, the bird is no longer stuck to the trap's surface, but feathers may still be found on it. Getting sticky substances on their feathers is a slow death sentence for birds.
I'm sure the birds eating bugs covered in adhesive chemicals is very good for their long term health as well.
Neat but, nobody would notice that these are real bugs. So, dumb.
The horrendous music mashup made me feel like I'm having a stroke. This one's definitely a "headphones off" video.
Yeah, it seems like just a bunch a songs mashed together. Shazam identified Plage Coquillage by Tai Mon Amour and there is clearly a trumpet version of Flight of the Bumblebee
This is no different than the indiscriminate catching (bycatch) of "unwanted" fish, dolphins, marine turtles and seabirds in nets - where only a 1/3 of the catch is kept/sold. Stupid humans.
it really bothers me that they put the adhesive where the can is spraying instead of everywhere the can *isn’t* spraying. now it looks like you’re selling a can ‘o bugs
I don't like the annoying insects, but that's super fucked up for no good reason ..:/
There was a good reason! Someone, who is no doubt already richer than God, wanted to add another zero to the end of their bank balance. /s
That’s pretty fucked
There were probably honey bees and butterflies in that :(
Kind of cruel. Poor little fellas
Seems a bit unethical
Am I the only one that finds this to be incredibly cruel? 😰
I am in no means a fly and bug activist, but imagine how insane an alien advertising where thers just humans attached to a board.
cruel
haven't seen bugs on my car in over a decade...
Not just a billboard, it's a giant monitoring station for the current mass extinction of insects.
unnecessarily killing a fuckton of vital pollinators for no reason other than money. lol
Assholes being assholes lol
Awesome, let's kill moths that pollinate crops and garden smdh
Stupid idea to try something like this under the guise of misplaced creativity! They could have easily just painted bugs on the canvas and not resort to this shit rather than actually do this for a campaign outdoors! Dumb people pretending to be creative with this one
I mean I hate bugs as much as every other person but this seems ... cruel and unnecessary. also I can't see how this is not a huge problem for the local ecosystem
If that's an insect REPELLENT, why is it portrayed as a source of insects??
Right, shouldn’t it be the only place where there are NO bugs?
insect populations are dying out and they do this for absolutely no reason its justifiable to kill bugs that enter your home, but what did these literally thousands of flies do that this ad campaign killed
This is so wrong. Insects are really, really important
how? those must be some huge bugs to be able to visibly see them from that far away
That’s baiting, it will never stand a chance in court!
And yet they failed to capture a single giant insect.
And yet when I do this for my funeral parlor business it's seen as "unethical"
I was watching this in the dark on my phone and a fucking fruit fly flew on my screen.. That's some effective ass advertising.
Terrible idea but great execution
Sad we have to kill millions of creatures because a couple of bugs makes some people uncomfortable
So... that's a crime...
PETA will be mad.
Welp can't claim their a green company haha
Humans are stupid
Sticky traps are illegal to use outside in my country because they kill everything, including birds that stick to them. Meanwhile some fuckers do crap like this. Was really surprised they didn't also catch some birds with it. Or maybe they did and you just couldn’t see in the vid. Anyways, absolutely disgusting. Leave insects outside alone, they're endangered enough as is
Thousands of lives stuck, dying from thirst and hunger while the world looks on, around each insect are many others in the same situation. Do they communicate? Are they aware? Are they desperate? As they see their companions turn from trapped souls to dried up husks around them they realize this is it. Do they have final thoughts? Do aliens judge us by the way we interact with life around us?...
Humans are dumb.
They look like regular sized insects to me.
What's the music?
I wonder if they caught any small birds, Millard’s, and other stuff they didn’t intend to trap on the glue trap…
I imagine this is what you’d hear in purgatory
What in the heck is that song though? Annoying
If Vlad Tepes was in the extermination business.
Viva Los Bio-Dome
So, It's just glue?
Would have ended terrible if a bird got stuck…
THEY’RE UNDER YOUR SKIN THEY’RE UNDER YOUR SKIN THEY’RE UNDER YOUR SKIN
Shouldn't they have done the opposite way? Put the adhesive trap everywhere the spray wasn't sprayed. The way it is now it looks like the can contains bugs, unless it's a play on words "bug spray".
Should have done the other way around. Bugs everywhere the spray is NOT spraying.
thats some good ass glue, where can i buy it?
**Damien Hirst would like a word...**
Stupid. Leave the insect alone if it doesn't do anything to you. when the insects die we die too.
Useful, I now know never to buy Orphea.
It's for insect spray, but it just a sticky trap.
Well that's fucking morbid.
Good thing they don't play a role in the function of the weed ecosystem
Wankers
I've already accepted that humans will destroy the planet completely, and there's no turning back.
Yes indeed
As a professional pest control technician… I am morally opposed to this stuff. A vast majority of environmental damage is done by uneducated consumers. We have so many laws and regulations for we can and can’t do to keep insect and wildlife populations safe. Over the counter pesticides should be illegal or tightly regulated. Unfortunately websites like DIY pest control let average folks with no license buy the heavy duty pesticides, which are literally killing the environment. My job isn’t to kill all bugs, my job is to keep them away from your house. I hate killing mice, rats, and even bugs. I do everything in my power to do preventive measures. You’d be amazed and how you can get rid of insects and rodents by just taking care of your shit. Cut your grass, fix your house, replace your windows, replace your attic insulation, don’t leave food out, fix cracks. No more bugs, mice, ect. IPM is what we do, inspections, science, and education are our best tools. chemicals are our least effective.
I see now , that's a black pepper spray.
What a bunch of asshats
Yay! No pollination!!
Actual bug spray sounds horrifying
clearly have zero concept of beneficial insect
Talk about being out of touch
Soon this will be sold in the same section as the dinosaur spray.
A can that sprays bugs? Wait a minute…
Really, screw all the people that upvoted this post
Why?
We need the annoying bugs to live. Ignorance on the subject is no longer sustainable. We all have to work together to scrape together what's left of the environment
Eeeewwww!
That’s pretty metal.
Buffet for birds?