• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You if bugs didn’t exist:

    (Grasses are angiosperms and rely on bugs to reproduce.)

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      1 day ago

      Grasses are angiosperms and rely on bugs to reproduce

      Even mosquitoes? Please tell me we can live without them.

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        19 hours ago

        You dislike mosquitos all you want. Some species rely on them. There’s always something. They exist for a reason.

        Alternatively you can just install screen doors, wear long sleeves, and use mosquito repellent.

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          5 hours ago

          They exist because they reproduce faster than they die. The fact that they are necessary for some other species is irrelavant to their existance. Such a claim only really makes sense for plants and animals that people farm.

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        22 hours ago

        Some male mosquitoes pollinate flowering plants, but most grasses don’t make flowers so grasses atleast probably don’t rely on mosquitoes. But who knows, I’m not a grass-ologist.