being a genuine honest to god spare no expense bug lover is a goddamn BATTLE EVERY DAY I SWEAR TO YOU. i meet someone. i go "i love bugs." they go "OMG ME TOO except wasps and mosquitoes eeeew i hate them" i go "oh. those are some of my favourites actually." they tell me "omg HOW? wasps are so mean-"
they have innate defensive instincts that, if they did not have, would make their homes (usually way smaller and more vulnerable than bees nests btw) susceptible to danger and You my friend Look Like Danger. this is incredibly common in animals.
"y-yeah but they dont even make honey or pollinate-"
they dont make honey For You. many many wasps make honey to feed their young, but it isnt tasty to you because its for wasp babies Not For You. are you upset that you cant drink bear milk either. also wasps do pollinate, maybe not as efficiently as bees but like, basically any insect, particularly ones that fly plant to plant all the time, POLLINATE.
"ok but mosquitoes just suck and they dont even do enough to justify their place in the ecosystem"
ok. open up the back of a computer, spot a teeny tiny wire, use this same logic and remove the wire then tell me how the computer runs now. remove one seemingly unimportant bug from the ecosystem, especially one with as large of population numbers as mosquitoes, and suddenly a whole lot of "more important" species are out of a major food source. also mosquitoes pollinate too.
yea and that sucks but do you think they do that for fun. only female mosquitoes feed on blood, because they need it to produce eggs. a lot of mosquito species actually dont feed on blood at all or get it from other animals.
considering everything ive just heard from you, hypothetical person representing a variety of encounters ive previously had combined into one convenient but plausible strawman who might actually be a real guy reading this, you dont actually like bugs that much. you like the sanitized, inoffensive concept of bugs you carry within your own mind of these cute tiny harmless creatures who do nothing but help us Important Creatures. and the moment a creature dares to stray outside of this perception, being uncute or unhelpful or generally unpalatable, suddenly, they dont deserve to be thought of as an animal, for the crime of not catering to your human ideal of what an animal is. which i think is, in as kind of words as i can muster, Lame.
im not saying you should love every single bug. im not saying youre wrong for having a phobia. im not saying youre morally wrong to swat a mosquito that lands on you. what im saying is that you shouldn't HAVE to like them to think of them as animals deserving of existence on earth alongside you and every other animal you DO like. the sooner you stop framing animals as valuable only in relation to their usefulness, palatability, etc. to HUMANS, the better. oh oops sorry i forgot this was an object show blog ummmmmmmmmm what if firey had whatsapp
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