What purpose do mosquitoes and bed bugs serve?

[Hazard]

As far as I know their whole purpose is to travel organism to organism and suck blood while spreading diseases such as malaria and aids (bed bugs). They're basically a flying used needle. With the climate change and the fact that we pretty much had no winter we can only expect the mosquito population to thrive, and bring us endless hell this summer.

I think its up to us as humans to understand and preserve the natural order of things. Seeing as how those pests serve no real purpose whatsoever, I wouldn't be against a concentrated effort to completely wipe them off the face of the earth. Along with a concentrated effort to preserve the animal and insect population that we put in jeopardy due to our harmful, unnatural lifestyle. Even if a certain creature serves no real purpose, but its existence is not harmful to anyone it should be preserved. Flying needles and aids infested bugs are a different story.

[Nanners]

i dont know about bed bugs, but mosquitos definitely serve a purpose. the mosquitos are gonna be feasting on you this summer, meanwhile amphibians, spiders and other insects are gonna be feasting on the mosquitos. if we wiped out all mosquitos, food webs for entire ecosystems could collapse. it would be bad.

[Hazard]

i dont know about bed bugs, but mosquitos definitely serve a purpose. the mosquitos are gonna be feasting on you this summer, meanwhile amphibians, spiders and other insects are gonna be feasting on the mosquitos.
They can also feast on flies and many other forms of insects. Mosquitoes are not essential to amphibians, simply an option.

[Nanners]

They can also feast on flies and many other forms of insects. Mosquitoes are not essential to amphibians, simply an option.

thats not really how nature works bro. i would bet that there are tons of species that have adapted specifically to eat mosquitos.

[iamgine]

So how are we going to wipe them out without harming anything else?

[Scoooter]

Mosquitos are among the most effect human population control out there. Over a million malaria deaths a year.

[MMM]

so your solution to our harmful/unnatural life style is to wipe out mosquitoes and bed bugs???

[Legend of Josh]

I hope one of those 'flying needles' fly'z straight up your pooper and somehow finds it's way into the inside of your ******** and chompz down on some nut.

:biggums:

"wha'd that e-ga just say?!"

[Hazard]

so your solution to our harmful/unnatural life style is to wipe out mosquitoes and bed bugs???
Did I say it was a solution? I think us being the most dominant and intelligent species on this planet, we have a responsibility to understand what impact certain species have on the natural order of life. I am obviously not serious when I say wipe them out especially considering I don't know the repercussions of doing so. Our lifestyle is completely out of control and irrational. I just don't see how wiping out mosquitoes and bed bugs could bring more harm than good. They're pests to the highest degree.

[Nanners]

Did I say it was a solution? I think us being the most dominant and intelligent species on this planet, we have a responsibility to understand what impact certain species have on the natural order of life. I am obviously not serious when I say wipe them out especially considering I don't know the repercussions of doing so. Our lifestyle is completely out of control and irrational. I just don't see how wiping out mosquitoes and bed bugs could bring more harm than good. They're pests to the highest degree.

i think we intelligent and dominant humans do understand the impact that mosquitos have on the natural order of life. people have studied the shit out of mosquitos for a long time.

[Hazard]

i dont know about bed bugs, but mosquitos definitely serve a purpose. the mosquitos are gonna be feasting on you this summer, meanwhile amphibians, spiders and other insects are gonna be feasting on the mosquitos. if we wiped out all mosquitos, food webs for entire ecosystems could collapse. it would be bad.
Maybe you're right. I'm not as informed about mosquitoes as I should be, they just piss me off and I know they're coming in even higher numbers than before.

[Legend of Josh]

Maybe you're right. I'm not as informed about mosquitoes as I should be, they just piss me off and I know they're coming in even higher numbers than before.

The only thing coming in even higher numbers if James Akena on the streets of San Diego.

[GOBB]

Not like we live in the amazon jungle. I do think folks could do a better job controlling the population though. Whoever is responsible, just go out to where they breed and kill some off. That said how often do mosquitos affect you in a given year? 12 months.

Bed bugs however are disgusting, and I have no idea what purpose those serve.

[Hazard]

The only thing coming in even higher numbers if James Akena on the streets of San Diego.
:oldlol: I think you might mean Jason Russell.

[miller-time]

they're probably food for other animals.

[Rockets(T-mac)]

Did I say it was a solution? I think us being the most dominant and intelligent species on this planet, we have a responsibility to understand what impact certain species have on the natural order of life. I am obviously not serious when I say wipe them out especially considering I don't know the repercussions of doing so. Our lifestyle is completely out of control and irrational. I just don't see how wiping out mosquitoes and bed bugs could bring more harm than good. They're pests to the highest degree.Pests to humans maybe, but not to every animal on earth.

[GOBB]

they're probably food for other animals.

Probably? Ya think? :hammerhead:

[DaHeezy]

Bed bugs are just plain nasty. Living in the crevaces of your mattress, eating your fallen dead skin, leaching for blood. Those little bastards only fukk with you while you sleep. They are the assh0les of the insect community.

[Legend of Josh]

Bed bugs are just plain nasty. Living in the crevaces of your mattress, eating your fallen dead skin, leaching for blood. Those little bastards only fukk with you while you sleep. They are the assh0les of the insect community.

So if we were all insects, then you'd be a bedbug? Anyone who gets pissed at their son for throwing too much TP in the crap'r and then stepping in front of the TV is an a-hole, not to mention when they jump on ISH to tell everyone about it; that makes you a double a-hole.

:lol

[gigantes]

I think its up to us as humans to understand and preserve the natural order of things.
i used to think that was a viable option. not so much, anymore. the one confidence that i have left, and that is a rock-solid confidence, is that nature will balance things out. the way that it always does.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

While we're on this topic, anyone feel liek there's an overabudnance of squirrels?

Do these f*ckers sh!t seeds through their sh!t? Or is that just deer?

Any dudes who know a lot about ecology (LOOKING AT MR DW HERE) lemem know the most valuable creatures and the least.

It's time for Planet Earth to return to its former beauty and glory. God Bless Her.

[timlush]

What is the purpose of humans?

[-p.tiddy-]

What is the purpose of humans?
to live, love, and enjoy life

[FatComputerNerd]

What is the purpose of humans?

Good question. We are also parasites.

[DaHeezy]

So if we were all insects, then you'd be a bedbug? Anyone who gets pissed at their son for throwing too much TP in the crap'r and then stepping in front of the TV is an a-hole, not to mention when they jump on ISH to tell everyone about it; that makes you a double a-hole.

:lol

Good one Costanza! Hairy dee hair hair!
So if I'm bedbugs, would that make you headline? Nuisances that thrive in between hair follicles. Wait, you can't grow hair so you couldn't experience it.

Praise the lord!

[Godzuki]

man you could get rid of a lot of stuff without much adverse effects, don't let all of those nature/environmental people scare you that much. they don't know either, they're just guessing and being protective. theres obvious stuff that affects the food chains but all life is adaptive as well. if there were no more mosquitos then they'd prey more on moths or flies, or some crap. annhilating bed bugs couldn't possibly effect anything we care about either....do it! :pimp:

[burnsy87]

man you could get rid of a lot of stuff without much adverse effects, don't let all of those nature/environmental people scare you that much. they don't know either, they're just guessing and being protective. theres obvious stuff that affects the food chains but all life is adaptive as well. if there were no more mosquitos then they'd prey more on moths or flies, or some crap. annhilating bed bugs couldn't possibly effect anything we care about either....do it! :pimp:

There is no effort to preserve bed bugs. They are just simply everywhere and rather impossible to control.

That's like saying we should eradicate cancer right now!

[Godzuki]

There is no effort to preserve bed bugs. They are just simply everywhere and rather impossible to control.

That's like saying we should eradicate cancer right now!


i don't think they've taken it seriously enough to find a solution to them. most scientists, CDC, or whomever probably thinks of Bed Bugs as a annoyance, but not a major issue to push research on exterminating. i'm sure if it became as worrisome as SARS or Bird Flu, there would be a solution made.

[ihatetimthomas]

i don't think they've taken it seriously enough to find a solution to them. most scientists, CDC, or whomever probably thinks of Bed Bugs as a annoyance, but not a major issue to push research on exterminating. i'm sure if it became as worrisome as SARS or Bird Flu, there would be a solution made.

Yeah I hardly think its worth it to spend millions upon millions to figure out how to kill off bed bugs just bc they are annoying:oldlol:

[nightprowler10]

Mosquitos are among the most effect human population control out there. Over a million malaria deaths a year.
This.

[Hazard]

What is the purpose of humans?
Since we're the only organism on this planet that's capable of thinking ahead and learning from the past, I think it should be our purpose to use those gifts to better the future. If you're asking what our purpose is now... I would say overgrown bed bug with a death wish.

When I said we're the most dominant species on the planet I wasn't kidding. When animals fight, people are kind of like oh look they're fighting, when we fight we blow off a chunk of the Earth. So we can either say, hey this shit ain't working or we can continue to march towards our own destruction.

[KingBeasley08]

I hope one of those 'flying needles' fly'z straight up your pooper and somehow finds it's way into the inside of your ******** and chompz down on some nut.

:biggums:

"wha'd that e-ga just say?!"
:roll:

[nathanjizzle]

humans are the most worthless creatures on this earth, misquitos are doing the planet earth the most favor. Look at us, we use up all the natural resources, only to burn it and pollute the planet, we slaughter billions of animals just to eat and destroy the natural ecosystem.

This thread is sorry and narcissistic.

[nathanjizzle]

and as your sitting there, a fuel generator is turning and putting pollutants in the air just so you could have electricity to post something so stupid online with your computer.

******.

[KingBeasley08]

humans are the most worthless creatures on this earth, misquitos are doing the planet earth the most favor. Look at us, we use up all the natural resources, only to burn it and pollute the planet, we slaughter billions of animals just to eat and destroy the natural ecosystem.

This thread is sorry and narcissistic.
kill yourself ph*ggot

[Hazard]

and as your sitting there, a fuel generator is turning and putting pollutants in the air just so you could have electricity to post something so stupid online with your computer.

******.
Yeah, and what are you gonna do about it?

[Cangri]

humans are the most worthless creatures on this earth, misquitos are doing the planet earth the most favor. Look at us, we use up all the natural resources, only to burn it and pollute the planet, we slaughter billions of animals just to eat and destroy the natural ecosystem.

This thread is sorry and narcissistic.
The Earth is doomed anyway, one day it will get impacted by an asteroid or the Sun will blow up and destroy everything, so why not let us have our way with it?

[miller-time]

The Earth is doomed anyway, one day it will get impacted by an asteroid or the Sun will blow up and destroy everything, so why not let us have our way with it?

extending that, we are the only species that are capable of saving it from an asteroid, or (maybe) eventually moving us and a few other species (ala noah) to a new planet before the sun blows up.

[-p.tiddy-]

extending that, we are the only species that are capable of saving it from an asteroid, or (maybe) eventually moving us and a few other species (ala noah) to a new planet before the sun blows up.
Extending that, a "parasite" like mankind using up a planet's natural resources may be the natural process all planets that harbor life goes through.

[Legend of Josh]

Extending that, a "parasite" like mankind using up a planet's natural resources may be the natural process all planets that harbor life goes through.

Hopefully, there'll be other intelligent life on whatever planet we attempt to travel to and attempt to save our species. Kind of like one of those 'you made your bed, now lay in it' type ordeals. Maybe said new planet we attempt to land Captain Kurk's Starship on will pull a Dikembe Mutombo on some "get that shit outta here!"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iEUxKIdIjYs/TUJF1DJEMJI/AAAAAAAAChs/YfpOCt_T-p0/s1600/Mutombo+finger.jpg

[Godzuki]

and as your sitting there, a fuel generator is turning and putting pollutants in the air just so you could have electricity to post something so stupid online with your computer.

******.


you're just trollin, right? :confusedshrug: