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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What about the non bee insects?

[–] IMALlama 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not many realize this, but sticking with the non-bee pollination theme you have things like beetles, butterflies, moths, some species of flies, ants, wasps... the list goes on.

Non-inscect options include some speciea of bats and birds.

That's not even getting into the tons of other useful things insects do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

1/4th of all known organisms are a beatle

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Statistically speaking one of them must be a beatle 🧐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always said that if I wasn't a human, I would be a rhinoceros beetle (kabutomushi).

Apparently I may have been right!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is a very strange thing to say but I vibe with it

[–] Treatyoself 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I once heard someone smarter than me say that if all insects were to vanish the earth’s ecosystems would fully collapse in 10 years.

Considering what insects do for our planet, I believe it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also insects are dying but so are other species

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, won't anybody think of the fleas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TrousersMcPants 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You do know that this world is basically populated primarily by insects right? They're arguably the most important type of animal on earth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a joke. Lighten up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're technically correct, but you missed the joke, which was kind of funny.