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BYTEMITE

Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:25 PM

Hey, some bugs are nice. Ladybugs eat aphids, human civilization would crash without the honey bee, and both bugs and fungus are an important part of decomposing dead material and returning the nutrients to the ground.

*chitter*

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NIKI2

Friday, January 21, 2011 8:35 PM

Oh, unquestionably Byte. It was just a snark at insects and memory of many sci-fi movies :biggin:

You of all people should know how I feel about balance of nature and how useful most bugs are, eh?

I love ladybugs, and many other insects. I swat yellow jackets in Summer 'cuz they kill bees, etc., etc.

I even feel for worms; in heavy storms, I'll "relocate" them from the road/path, and yesterday I cleaned my pond. There are always a LOT of worms at the bottom...they don't seem to be too bright about where they go!...and I take the time to carefully haul each still-living one out (there are few dead ones, I think the fish eat them) and relocate them into the garden.

What surprised me was when I found out how many OTHER people "relocate" worms...I thought I was the only weird one.

So I like little crawling beasties, with some exceptions. Potato bugs and pincher bugs (can't remember the name right now) are among the exceptions, tho' I lived in harmony with the silverfish in the little attic room I inhabited as a kid (to escape the constant nastiness of mom towared dad).


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off