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Well, what else do you do with it? Insects aren't pandas, there's no world where killing one will have an ecological effect.
by Cpoll 4y ago
Well, what else do you do with it? Insects aren't pandas, there's no world where killing one will have an ecological effect.
- he_is_legend 4y agoYou could say the same for humans, yet for some reason its a crime.
- unixgoddess 4y agoit's the opposite actually. Insects are incomparably more important than highly complex highly specialized animals when it comes to biodiversity.
- ceejayoz 4y agoInsects as a whole, yes. A single insect, generally not. If an endangered insect species is down to a population where single individuals matter, it's already a goner.
- atkailash 4y ago[dead]
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoThe Lord Howe Island Stick Insect bounced back from a remnant population of 24 individuals once rediscovered and taken to a larger habitat free from the predation that extirpated them from their original island.
- ceejayoz 4y agoMaybe. https://lhimuseum.com/learn/phasmids/ https://lhimuseum.com/learn/phasmids/ > In 2014, an unauthorised climbing team sighted live stick insects near the summit of Ball’s Pyramid, in a thicket of sedge plants rooted in very thin soils at an altitude of 500 metres, suggesting that the insect’s range on the island is more widespread than previously thought, and that its food preferences are not limited to Melaleuca howeana. That species likely was a goner, barring the human breeding program. Successful reintroduction is going to require humans to finish wiping out the rat population on Lord Howe Island (which wiped the insects out there in just two years after their 1918 introduction).
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoYep.
- unixgoddess 4y agoit was a "rare insect", so killing it is potentially catastrophic as insects are highly likely to play an important role in any ecosystem.
- myself248 4y ago"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead."
- toss1 4y agoPhotograph & video it, log the location data, and let it live. When it is "a rare, surviving eastern population of giant lacewings that evaded detection and extinction. ", it is very much like a panda, and a single premature death can make a difference in the survival of a population.
- water-your-self 4y agoIt helps to read the article
- toss1 4y agoIt helps to not make incorrect assumption about who has read what. You add nothing with such a vague comment, only distraction. If you have a problem with what I wrote, state the problem or don't bother subtracting value. (Hint: I did, and yes I understand that he didn't even realize what it was until years later. I also recall being taught in middle school to capture and mount insects, so it isn't just the handful of PhDs doing it who will actually do DNA analysis on it...)
- reaperducer 4y agoInsects aren't pandas, there's no world where killing one will have an ecological effect. Ten years ago, people thought the same thing about bees. Today, we're starting to worry about the food supply.
- blendergeek 4y agoAnd still, killing one bee will likely not have an ecological effect. It is mass deaths of bees that are causing the problems, not entomologists taking for collections.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoThe Lord Howe Island Stick Insect was once reduced to a population of 24 living off the understory of one bush.