This is a stink bug

[84superchamp]

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.

***

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.

I'll do the metric conversions and get back with you.

 

[Thumbpicker]

Many old people do practically nothing at all...

Except go on rig-talk and talk shit

 

[japetus]

Except go on rig-talk and talk shit

You going for a ride today?

 

[Thumbpicker]

You going for a ride today?

The weather isn't real nice today.

 

[JDs Couch]

It's a bug. WTF? Any sympathy for wasps? How about termites? Mosquitoes?

BTW small hole in the top and a bit of isopropyl ended its worthless life.

Typical right winger: a psychopathic sadist.

 

[Robostyle]

Typical right winger: a psychopathic sadist.

So much love

 

[JDs Couch]

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.

Well said mate. Empathy is our true gift.

 

[Robostyle]

Well said mate. Empathy is our true gift.

Except when they are right wing sadist psychopaths tho, amirite?

 

[Monkey Man]

Obviously wasp / ant nests in our homes is a fair point to draw the line IMHO.

Too late to fuck around at that point.

I will say this 'though:
Every animal has its place in nature. Just because one doesn't have obvious utility to person X doesn't mean its life is any-less valid.

It may take a bunch of rabbit-hole diving in order to realise an animal's true worth. When viewed from an unbiased, non-anthropomorphic angle, it turns out they're all on-par. Some have obvious direct benefits to mankind whilst others benefit creatures and plants that're, you know, not us.

Even the largest creature on earth would cease to exist were it not for the humble little shrimp called krill, which averages 0.4–0.8 in.

 

[JDs Couch]

Obviously wasp / ant nests in our homes is a fair point to draw the line IMHO.

Too late to fuck around at that point.

I will say this 'though:
Every animal has its place in nature. Just because one doesn't have obvious utility to person X doesn't mean its life is any-less valid.

It may take a bunch of rabbit-hole diving in order to realise an animal's true worth. When viewed from an unbiased, non-anthropomorphic angle, it turns out they're all on-par. Some have obvious direct benefits to mankind whilst others benefit creatures and plants that're, you know, not us.

Even the largest creature on earth would cease to exist were it not for the humble little shrimp called krill, which averages 0.4–0.8 in.

Solid perspective on the web of life mate..it ain't a pyramid. We all need each other.

 

[Monkey Man]

Correct weight.

Bacteria gets the worst deal IMHO, especially the aerobic varieties.

They process all our shit and dead animals and we'd all die without 'em but nobody wants to know about it.

 

[JDs Couch]

Correct weight.

Bacteria gets the worst deal IMHO, especially the aerobic varieties.

They process all our shit and dead animals and we'd all die without 'em but nobody wants to know about it.

Exactly bro, although you may mean the anaerobic bacteria. They're the stinky ones but yup, we'd be up shit's creek without em.

 

[Stripped Rights]

I'm open. What do they do?

Stink

 

[311boogieman]

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

Ditto. They love the western facing side of my cedar cabin. I scooped up a dead one once into my hand to throw away and fucker stung me

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

I don't think that is intelligence. Intelligence would assume the spider recognizes something big is on his web, processes the threat, and then makes a conscious decision to leave vs fight.

I think it is just instinct and the spider leaves.

 

[Monkey Man]

I don't think that is intelligence. Intelligence would assume the spider recognizes something big is on his web, processes the threat, and then make a conscious decision to leave vs fight.

The size of the trapped insect matters little if it's trapped and dies; it'll still provide food.

Exactly bro, although you may mean the anaerobic bacteria. They're the stinky ones but yup, we'd be up shit's creek without em.

No, I mean aerobic.

Some aerobics process the ammonia generated by rotting things and turn that into nitrites, which'er still-poisonous, but less-so. Then other types of aerobics process the nitrites and turn them into nitrates, which are basically-nitrogen (plant food).

In the absence of plants and also where there's no oxygen (obviously), anaerobics can break the nitrates down into nitrogen and oxygen.

Point being that even if the anaerobes didn't exist, all that'd happen is that there'd be a steady build up of "plant food" where there are none to use it.

What can I say, you learn this stuff after 55 years of fish-keeping.

 

[IndyWS6]

You actually should learn the ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate process week 1 of fish keeping, assuming a person is serious about understanding when a tank safe for living creatures. Buy you know that

 

[311boogieman]

The size of the trapped insect matters little if it's trapped and dies; it'll still provide food.

For sure. Didn't say it wouldn't provide food. Just saying all prey/predators have their limits and I doubt they are going through some kind of decision tree on how to react. Their instinct takes over. That's all. For example, if a bird gets in a web, there is a good chance it can get out and also eat the spider if the spider were to instinctually stay and fight. Survival of the fittest.

 

[84superchamp]

For sure. Didn't say it wouldn't provide food. Just saying all prey/predators have their limits and I doubt they are going through some kind of decision tree on how to react. Their instinct takes over. That's all. For example, if a bird gets in a web, there is a good chance it can get out and also eat the spider if the spider were to instinctually stay and fight. Survival of the fittest.

Reminds me; their is some type of giant spider somewhere that traps and eats birds.

 

[311boogieman]

Reminds me; their is some type of giant spider somewhere that traps and eats birds.

Hmmm. Sweet. Please find. Australian I am assuming

 

[311boogieman]

Hmmm. Sweet. Please find. Australian I am assuming

South America

"Yes, some large tarantula species can and occasionally do eat small birds, although this is a rare event. Their primary diet consists of large insects and other invertebrates.
The most famous example is the Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi), the largest spider in the world by mass, which is certainly capable of preying on small vertebrates, including birds, rodents, frogs, toads, lizards, and even small snakes"