This is a stink bug

[84superchamp]

What'd the bug do to "deserve" that bro'?

It was alive. It had a life. Put yourself in its shoes.

It invaded my house and created a stink. I also have wasp spray, insecticide and fly swatters. I have to admit that killing bugs never bothered me at all, it's them or me.

 

[Monkey Man]

I understand bro'.

So many peeps embrace the "it's them or me" mentality but I put it to you that it in no way threatened your life.

Also, it had no conception of the fact that it "invaded" your house. Insects seek out food sources, such as fruit flies around a food-waste bin, then spiders appear "out of nowhere" to eat them and so on.

Anywho, just executing my "duty" to remind one and all that one of the things that separates us from animals is the ability to place ourselves in others' shoes. With greater ability comes greater responsibility IMHO.

Thank you for listening. Moralising rant over.

 

[Floyd Eye]

My spider, Harold, who lives behind the porch light, disapproves of this thread.

 

[Monkey Man]

I love jumping spiders myself. Completely-harmless.

They sit there looking around and seem very-intelligent. I love how they cock / move their heads as they follow you around.

Also, they don't leave webs around the joint and of course I know that if I see any in the house, it's 'cause I've inadvertently allowed food to attract insects that they feed on.

 

[Monkey Man]

I meant to say that in Africa it was geckos that hung around to eat the insects.

Some spent their entire lives indoors and thus became translucent.

Funny little buggers and they did their jobs well. In Australia the equivalent might be Huntsman spiders, which of course are not cute ( big-and-hairy) and scary to many.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

I love jumping spiders myself. Completely-harmless.

They sit there looking around and seem very-intelligent. I love how they cock / move their heads as they follow you around.

I think there are many animals/creatures that are much more intelligent than humans give them credit for. They just have more pressing things to deal with than inventing their own interwebs to have dumb arguments on.

Seriously though...
Yeah, a good bit of what animals do is instinctual. But if you ever really observe them; even lowly arachnids, you can notice some level of intellectual processing. Not contemplating mysteries of the universe level, but at least basic level observation of surroundings and problem solving within their abilities.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I love jumping spiders myself. Completely-harmless.

They sit there looking around and seem very-intelligent. I love how they cock / move their heads as they follow you around.

Also, they don't leave webs around the joint and of course I know that if I see any in the house, it's 'cause I've inadvertently allowed food to attract insects that they feed on.

I don’t begrudge many living things outside human. Red wasps. That’s about it.

 

[84superchamp]

I think there are many animals/creatures that are much more intelligent than humans give them credit for. They just have more pressing things to deal with than inventing their own interwebs to have dumb arguments on.

Seriously though...
Yeah, a good bit of what animals do is instinctual. But if you ever really observe them; even lowly arachnids, you can notice some level of intellectual processing. Not contemplating mysteries of the universe level, but at least basic level observation of surroundings and problem solving within their abilities.

A spider immediately knows when something bigger than their average prey gets into their web (humans for example) and GTFO. That takes some intelligence.

 

[84superchamp]

I understand bro'.

So many peeps embrace the "it's them or me" mentality but I put it to you that it in no way threatened your life.

Also, it had no conception of the fact that it "invaded" your house. Insects seek out food sources, such as fruit flies around a food-waste bin, then spiders appear "out of nowhere" to eat them and so on.

Anywho, just executing my "duty" to remind one and all that one of the things that separates us from animals is the ability to place ourselves in others' shoes. With greater ability comes greater responsibility IMHO.

Thank you for listening. Moralising rant over.

I don't think stink bugs are after food, they just want to get in where its warm....and multiply.
I wanted to put myself in its shoes but it wasn't wearing any. (Sorry MM, it had to be said).

 

[Stripped Rights]

its worthless life.

False

 

[84superchamp]

False

I'm open. What do they do?

 

[Robostyle]

I'm open. What do they do?

I'm not taking sides here, but all insects do serve some type of purpose.
Even mosquitos- they are simply food for other animals.
IDK what purpose stinkbugs serve, but i'm sure one exists.
Again i'm not judging anyone.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I'm not taking sides here, but all insects do serve some type of purpose.
Even mosquitos- they are simply food for other animals.
IDK what purpose stinkbugs serve, but i'm sure one exists.
Again i'm not judging anyone.

Agreed. In the case of red wasps I willingly suspend my natural inclination to refrain from killing bugs or "dumb" animals. Fuck a red wasp. Little fucking pricks.

 

[Thumbpicker]

I meant to say that in Africa it was geckos that hung around to eat the insects.

Some spent their entire lives indoors and thus became translucent.

Funny little buggers and they did their jobs well. In Australia the equivalent might be Huntsman spiders, which of course are not cute ( big-and-hairy) and scary to many.

We have plenty of geckos in Australia that live in houses but you have to live far enough north. Melbourne where you are is too cold.

They bark too. Funny things.

 

[Monkey Man]

I'm open. What do they do?

They don't need to "do" anything in order to deserve to live brother.

If a severely-handicapped person sits in a wheelchair and does nothing other than eat, breathe and shit, does he or she deserve to die, or even-worse, cop the punishment you dished out to the bug?

 

[Robostyle]

They don't need to "do" anything in order to deserve to live brother.

If a severely-handicapped person sits in a wheelchair and does nothing other than eat, breathe and shit, does he or she deserve to die, or even-worse, cop the punishment you dished out to the bug?

Well stinkbugs aren't people, but i see your point.

 

[Thumbpicker]

Well stinkbugs aren't people,

Are you sure? I've known a few people that qualify I think.

 

[84superchamp]

They don't need to "do" anything in order to deserve to live brother.

If a severely-handicapped person sits in a wheelchair and does nothing other than eat, breathe and shit, does he or she deserve to die, or even-worse, cop the punishment you dished out to the bug?

I find a huge difference in humans and bugs, that's a ridiculous comparison. All I can guess is some of you guys have never had a bad experience with insects. Destroying your garden, your house. Passing diseases, deadly diseases. Killing children, putting farmers out of business and the list goes on.
I regret starting this thread but had no idea there were actually bug lovers in this world. Fireflies, honey bees, praying mantis, no problem because they are harmless or useful. But insects were released from Pandora's Box, along with other curses to humanity, that means something.

 

[Thumbpicker]

I find a huge difference in humans and bugs, that's a ridiculous comparison. All I can guess is some of you guys have never had a bad experience with insects. Destroying your garden, your house. Passing diseases, deadly diseases. Killing children, putting farmers out of business and the list goes on.
I regret starting this thread but had no idea there were actually bug lovers in this world. Fireflies, honey bees, praying mantis, no problem because they are harmless or useful. But insects were released from Pandora's Box, along with other curses to humanity, that means something.

Bugs are superior to us. The insect ones have two extra limbs - so that makes them 50% better right?

Also the stinky ones are just as stinky as our butts but they only have 0.0003% of our weight - so they are superior stinkers***

Some of them can even fly! Can you fly if you flap your arms really hard!!! - well no - so they are better than us there too!

Also a lot of them shut up and don't get into arguments on Rig-talk... so I think they are better than us in that respect too.

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Stink Bug Weight​

• A typical brown marmorated stink bug weighs about 0.1 to 0.2 grams.

Average Human Weight​

• Globally, the average adult human weighs around 62 kg (62,000 grams).

Percentage Calculation​

Using the higher estimate (0.2 g

0.262,000×100≈0.00032%\frac{0.2}{62,000} \times 100 \approx 0.00032\%
So a stink bug is roughly 0.0003% of an average human’s weight.

 

[Monkey Man]

@84superchamp you've misunderstood me bro'.

I was responding specifically, and I made it clear, to the implication that something must "do something" in order to "deserve" to live / not deserve to be punished and killed.

It's a dangerous metric to use as justification to kill is all. Unborn babies don't do much either. Many old people do practically nothing at all... and so on.