@[email protected] to solarpunk [email protected] • edit-21 month ago"but they sting/bite/are toxic/are icky" blah blah. nature does not owe you safetyslrpnk.netimagemessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up1737arrow-down171
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 month agoNo, wasps are fine and help deal with invasive species, you just have to not bother them. Ticks on the other hand are bad for everyone involved and deserve to be dropped into a tornado of bleach. If that seems weirdly specific, it’s because some scientists did that, then wrote a paper encouraging others to drop ticks into bleach tornadoes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoThat was just so they could study the microbiome in the tick’s gut without the bacteria on it’s surface contaminating the sample.
What about ticks?
Yeah, fuck ticks and wasps
No, wasps are fine and help deal with invasive species, you just have to not bother them. Ticks on the other hand are bad for everyone involved and deserve to be dropped into a tornado of bleach. If that seems weirdly specific, it’s because some scientists did that, then wrote a paper encouraging others to drop ticks into bleach tornadoes.
That was just so they could study the microbiome in the tick’s gut without the bacteria on it’s surface contaminating the sample.