Moths - why should they be allowed to live?

[radioheadrule83]

I've just read this:

"Both adult moths and their caterpillars are food for a wide variety of wildlife, including other insects, spiders, frogs, toads, lizards, shrews, hedgehogs, bats and birds. Night-flying adult moths form a major part of the diet of bats. Many birds eat both adult moths and their caterpillars, but the caterpillars are especially important for feeding the young. Some of Britain's favourite garden birds rely on caterpillars to rear their nestlings, with our blue tit chicks alone needing an estimated 35 billion a year!"

I don't care. All that stuff can suffer. In fact, I've just read that Moths have declined in the UK by 28% since 1968, and it fills me with great hope and optimism for the future.

I wouldn't mind them, honestly, but they seem to fucking LOVE my face and computer screens. I've been ambushed more than once while completely naked and vulnerable in the shower too. Which is NOT COOL. I'm not sure why the thought of them flapping against my supple epidermis fills me with such revulsion and fear, but it does. I feel certain they were a plague on humanity in some past life or something. Its too hot to shut them out. Would the eco-system suffer that badly if we just eradicated them with germ warfare or something?

[Rufus]

I wouldn't mind a world without all insects and spiders and anything else that has more than four legs. Actually, I don't mind them existing in general, but divebombing my face is really crossing the line. Wasps and mosquitos need to die regardless of their proximity to my face though. And botflies, however unlikely I am to ever have one nesting in my skin. The mere thought is disturbing.

Tiny birds, lizards and mammals need to fill the gaps as far as pollination and food chain fodder is concerned.

[Raban]

Goddamn, fuck y'all Insects are the most anatomically fascinating living creatures on this planet and you're wishing death on them. Moths don't really hurt you, hell, they can't. What was the point of humankind spending thousands of years ensuring their dominance over life on this planet if you're just going to cower at the sight of every winged insect zipping about your house?

I'd rather you go than the moths

[Himu]

i'm confused as to why you're waging war with moths. moths don't do shit. they just look cute and eat your clothes. wasps, however...

[Madrun Badrun]

Because you can collect a bunch of them in a jar and put your junk in said jar and it will tickle. 

[Mr. Gundam]

How about you keep your doors and windows closed, or invest in screens.

[Madrun Badrun]

Because who wants to go outside for tickles?

[Yeti]

There are so many worse bugs than moths that they don't even rate.

[pickle]

Don't be such a baby.

[Diunx]

Moths? Really? This should be a thread about mosquitos, those fucking cunts.

[Momo]

All insects should be eliminated

[Verdigris Murder]

In the q'uran it says 'let not man nor beast raise hand to fluffy butterflies, unless they frequent symbols of devilment (big towers, underground railways, theatres and schools)'.
 
A wise moment, snatched from madness.

[king of the internet]

All insects should be eliminated

Agreed, it's time to cleanse the earth.

[Human Snorenado]

Only a Nintendo fan would ignore mosquitoes in favor of bitching about moths.

[chronovore]

FUCK YES.

Erryday, with the mosquitos. It has entered the stage in Japan where the only relief from a mosquito bite is to be bitten somewhere else and have it itch MORE than the last. Going outside for more than a few seconds with any exposed thin-skin areas (wrists, ankles, back of the foot, neck...) guarantees that MOSQUITOES WILL FIND YOU AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD.

Also, fuck cicadas. I don't know how Japanese people sleep through this crap. Every morning, 5AM, the fuckers are going off like a thousand alarm clocks.

[Great Rumbler]

"I'm coming for ya, chronovore!"

[chronovore]

GAH!

 

[drew]

because they are the key to reading the Elder Scrolls without going blind