No.1194720
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Do you support completely eradicating disease-carrying ticks, rendering them extinct?
No.1194721
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No.
Cause I'm not going to be arrogant and assume that ticks don't play a vital role in their ecosystem just cause I don't know of it. Don't want to risk an ecological disaster following an argument from ignorance, better safe than sorry.
No.1194722
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In fact, maybe like how sharks are nature's way of saying 'stay the fuck out of the water' maybe disease carrying insects are nature's way of saying 'stay out of the forest, bipedal scum'
No.1194724
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I believe ticks are a main food source for many animals. I support a bedbug genocide.
They were almost extinct once before and nothing happened. They're just Satan's night vampires.
No.1194725
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>>1194721I'm willing to take that risk to eradicate horrible diseases like Lyme and Alpha-Gal.
>>1194723Well, I suppose that a small population might be kept at high-biosecurity-level labs, like how we still have a few samples of smallpox.
>>1194724>I believe ticks are a main food source for many animals.Acceptable collateral damage IMHO.
No.1194733
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>>1194720Ticks are more spread out across the Earth's various continents than probably is known by most people, even experts in disease, so whether or not large scale efforts against them can even be attempted is an open question.
For instance, ticks live in subarctic areas. Such as where this photograph was taken. Which aren't that easily accessed by, say, human beings. One article has put it well that ticks have grown "well adapted to living in harsh, diversified habitats".
Quotes there are from:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196439909000087?via%3Dihub No.1194741
>>1194720No.
As a general rule, unless they're inside human structures, I'm inclined to let them be.
Also I've literally never had issues with ticks.
People just need wear actual pants.
No.1194748
>>1194741I'd rather exterminate the ticks than require everyone to wear long pants in 90+°F weather.
>Also I've literally never had issues with ticks.I guess you don't live in the northeast US?
No.1194751
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>>1194748Yeah, unfortunately it does seem like the Alaskan climate might be too much for these drones. But fortunately, it seems like the ticks in the extreme parts of Alaska are different species than the ticks that carry diseases like Lyme and Alpha Gal.
No.1194757
>>1194748>I guess you don't live in the northeast US?Southeast mostly, but still they're around. Pull 'em from the cats fairly often. You just have to wear pants, and suddenly, they're no issue.
>b-buh muh 90+ weather!I cannot save a weak heart.
No.1194759
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>>1194726No. If you took out mosquitos a lot of plants would have a very hard time reproducing.
The male mosquito pollinates a lot of flowers. Granted they make up like 1% of pollinators, we need as many bugs pollinating as possible. Male mosquitos also tend to pollinate in areas where other pollinators are scarce.
>>1194725Yeah, I wonder sometimes how accurate that is. There's a lot of other insects out there after all.
No.1194762
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>>1194759No, everyone knows male mosquitoes ride bikes.
No.1194768
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>>1194757Nah fuck no. Those little bastards ruin hiking trips, frolicking through the flowers, and spread insane amounts of disease. Hard ticks spread Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis. And 60% of ticks in the east carry Lyme's disease alone.
Soft ticks carry Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF) as well as Soft tick relapsing fever (STRF) as well as other diseases. Ticks are like the Plague Bearers of the insect world. They're only outclassed by things like mosquitos.
Just because you don't have a problem with them doesn't mean they aren't an issue for other people. I've heard of them not only "Questing" in the wild, but they can also straight up invade your homes.
>>b-buh muh 90+ weather!>I cannot save a weak heart.>My heart
No.1194773
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>>1194745Please hire me to fly one of these things around and eradicate ticks one by one.
No.1194782
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Pulling my trip code back out for this one.
Yes.
No.1194783
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Considering how many times humans have gotten rid of a pest, only to either introduce an even worse pest or enable an even worse pest that we didn't realize was being kept at bay by the old pest, or cause some other ecological issues, I'm inclined to say no.
No.1194796
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>>1194762What if they tried these, though?
No.1194823
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>Be Tick
>Bites onto person gorging itself with blood
>Vomits multiple diseases into host
>Refuses to elaborate
>Falls off
>Leaves
Ticks confirmed for chad
No.1194848
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It's best for all of us that we never go outside.
No.1194934
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>>1194848The great outdoors are fine if you just bundle up and never risk direct flesh contact.
Maybe if we had scales... I don't think lizards can get ticks
