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Oh, ugh. I searched for an answer and came up with this: https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Where-Have-All-The-Ladybugs-Gone https://soapboxie.com/social-issue

Oh, ugh. I searched for an answer and came up with this: https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Where-Have-All-The-Ladybugs-Gone https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Where-Have-All-The-Ladyb... It looks like we introduced the invasive Asian ladybirds and ended-up killing off most of the native ladybirds. Now I have smelly orange beetles trying to get into my house. Thanks, other humans! (It's times like these that I think the last human dying can't come quickly enough.)

jeena 7y ago
I was in my summerhouse last year when a swarm showed up and within minutes the whole house was getting black and they were trying to get into the house. I made a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xst1HYJK9Og https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xst1HYJK9Og Seeing them in such huge numbers is terrifying, I totally see why people during biblical times thought the end was nigh. That was October last year and they got into my car. Now in Sweden I saw some of them crawling out of the car last month when it got a bit warmer.
- dillonmckay 7y ago
  Offtopic, but does your summerhouse have wired internet access or LTE and if so what speed (down/up) and cost? Just curious.
  - jeena 7y ago
    We use a local provider http://www.trans.net.pl/ http://www.trans.net.pl/ and they have some special setup I'm not sure what it's called but I think it's long range wifi and they use a satelite dish as the antenna. The speed is not super great, especially the uplink is to low for us with 1 Mbit/s and we need to stream cctv from there continously, but the downlink is ok with 20 Mbit/s and we pay 56,12 zł which is about $15 per month.
    - dillonmckay 7y ago
      I live in the US, in a small city, and I have DSL. It is $50/mo and downlink is 6Mbps, while upload is 768kbps. That is the fastest available speed.
      - jeena 7y ago
        At home in Sweden I have 250 down 100 up for around $38. I can get 1000/100 for $74 here too but I don't have use for such a huge down link.
eggy 7y ago
Conservationists or environmentalists looking for ways of insect control without pesticides, and it backfires. It's self-hating human comments like yours that beg for the obvious response: why not start with you. But I don't wish that on anyone. Hummankind are part of nature, not supernatural, so if you love nature you should love humankind, and ergo, yourself.
- EvanAnderson 7y ago
  I should have elaborated on my flippant closing comment, given that several people have referenced it (or, better yet, just not made it-- little good ever comes from flippant comments). I don't particularly care about conservation. I find the hubris humankind has repeatedly demonstrated to be supremely odious, though. The repeatedly-demonstrated attitude of putting ourselves outside of nature, saying "Oh, but this time our actions won't have unintended consequences...", fills me with white-hot rage. I recognize that hindsight makes bad decisions seem self-evidently bad. I can't help thinking that some historically bad decisions must have seemed bad at the time, too, yet we made them anyway. Maybe our evolutionary progeny will be imbued with an intuition that speaks to the complex behavior that arises out of dynamical systems. Maybe they'll innately understand that they're inside the systems they want to influence, and not apart from them. Maybe they'll have sufficiently long lifetimes to skew their thinking away from short term gains. Maybe they won't exhibit the willful ignorance and motivated reasoning that we do. Maybe they'll just be less stupid. Aside: Your retort of saying, effectively, "kill yourself" followed by "Yeah, but I don't really mean that" does seem a little gauche. I suppose, taken in kind with my flippant statement, it's not so out-of-place, but I do wish that the whole "kill yourself" meme hadn't ever made its way into Internet discourse.
kortilla 7y ago
If the last human dies there certainly won’t be anyone left who cares about conservation. So what does that outlook solve?
- WorldMaker 7y ago
  The feeling of Guilt from complicity in this whole human experiment? Easier to not feel bad about the mistakes people make if there aren't people left to make them?
setr 7y ago
Imagine what smelly creatures might follow our extinction..!

jeena 7y ago

I was in my summerhouse last year when a swarm showed up and within minutes the whole house was getting black and they were trying to get into the house. I made a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xst1HYJK9Og https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xst1HYJK9Og Seeing them in such huge numbers is terrifying, I totally see why people during biblical times thought the end was nigh. That was October last year and they got into my car. Now in Sweden I saw some of them crawling out of the car last month when it got a bit warmer.

dillonmckay 7y ago
Offtopic, but does your summerhouse have wired internet access or LTE and if so what speed (down/up) and cost? Just curious.
- jeena 7y ago
  We use a local provider http://www.trans.net.pl/ http://www.trans.net.pl/ and they have some special setup I'm not sure what it's called but I think it's long range wifi and they use a satelite dish as the antenna. The speed is not super great, especially the uplink is to low for us with 1 Mbit/s and we need to stream cctv from there continously, but the downlink is ok with 20 Mbit/s and we pay 56,12 zł which is about $15 per month.
  - dillonmckay 7y ago
    I live in the US, in a small city, and I have DSL. It is $50/mo and downlink is 6Mbps, while upload is 768kbps. That is the fastest available speed.
    - jeena 7y ago
      At home in Sweden I have 250 down 100 up for around $38. I can get 1000/100 for $74 here too but I don't have use for such a huge down link.

eggy 7y ago

Conservationists or environmentalists looking for ways of insect control without pesticides, and it backfires. It's self-hating human comments like yours that beg for the obvious response: why not start with you. But I don't wish that on anyone. Hummankind are part of nature, not supernatural, so if you love nature you should love humankind, and ergo, yourself.

EvanAnderson 7y ago
I should have elaborated on my flippant closing comment, given that several people have referenced it (or, better yet, just not made it-- little good ever comes from flippant comments). I don't particularly care about conservation. I find the hubris humankind has repeatedly demonstrated to be supremely odious, though. The repeatedly-demonstrated attitude of putting ourselves outside of nature, saying "Oh, but this time our actions won't have unintended consequences...", fills me with white-hot rage. I recognize that hindsight makes bad decisions seem self-evidently bad. I can't help thinking that some historically bad decisions must have seemed bad at the time, too, yet we made them anyway. Maybe our evolutionary progeny will be imbued with an intuition that speaks to the complex behavior that arises out of dynamical systems. Maybe they'll innately understand that they're inside the systems they want to influence, and not apart from them. Maybe they'll have sufficiently long lifetimes to skew their thinking away from short term gains. Maybe they won't exhibit the willful ignorance and motivated reasoning that we do. Maybe they'll just be less stupid. Aside: Your retort of saying, effectively, "kill yourself" followed by "Yeah, but I don't really mean that" does seem a little gauche. I suppose, taken in kind with my flippant statement, it's not so out-of-place, but I do wish that the whole "kill yourself" meme hadn't ever made its way into Internet discourse.

kortilla 7y ago

If the last human dies there certainly won’t be anyone left who cares about conservation. So what does that outlook solve?

WorldMaker 7y ago
The feeling of Guilt from complicity in this whole human experiment? Easier to not feel bad about the mistakes people make if there aren't people left to make them?

setr 7y ago

Imagine what smelly creatures might follow our extinction..!