bogleech:

ghostsareassholes:

zooophagous:

matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll:

reggiemess:

reggiemess:

People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake.

Here’s the thing about the post. You don’t have to love or even like every animal. You can dislike things! Humane, intelligent pest control is fine and necessary.  This isn’t the issue and never has been.

It’s violent, blind hatred and hypocrisy that’s the problem. People who gush over foxes and owls and hawks but want coyotes and snakes dead in the next breath. People who will rescue prey from predators because predation is mean. People who find it appropriate to leave sadistic comments on pictures of spiders or snakes someone is appreciating or owns. People who insist on labeling species as ‘good’ or ‘evil’.  This is the sort of behavior that bothers me.

People who only appreciate nature when it’s aesthetically pleasing to them and want to destroy the parts they find ugly and unpleasant don’t truly understand or love it. They love an ideal that isn’t actually representative of reality.

Ok, but what good are wasps? I’m really curious.

Wasps are one of the single most important insect predators. They control not only other insects but also spiders, as well as acting as pollinators for certain plants (such as fig trees, which famously cannot fruit without a wasp inside them) there are hundreds of different types of wasp, the vast majority of them harmless to or fearful of humans.

I had no idea wasps were pollinators.

At least as much so as bees, and with many many flowers that evolved to *only* accept a wasp pollinator. This is also true of flies.

If we lost either of those we would actually be EVEN MORE FUCKED than if we lost all bees, but bees are “cuter” and make honey so the media puts way more focus on them than is really fair.