moogleface:

mossworm:

reggiemess:

reggiemess:

People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake.

Here’s the thing about the post. You don’t have to love or even like every animal. You can dislike things! Humane, intelligent pest control is fine and necessary.  This isn’t the issue and never has been.

It’s violent, blind hatred and hypocrisy that’s the problem. People who gush over foxes and owls and hawks but want coyotes and snakes dead in the next breath. People who will rescue prey from predators because predation is mean. People who find it appropriate to leave sadistic comments on pictures of spiders or snakes someone is appreciating or owns. People who insist on labeling species as ‘good’ or ‘evil’.  This is the sort of behavior that bothers me.

People who only appreciate nature when it’s aesthetically pleasing to them and want to destroy the parts they find ugly and unpleasant don’t truly understand or love it. They love an ideal that isn’t actually representative of reality.

I’m going to throw 99.9% of all insects and relatives into this mix because I’ve been bummed out by some posts lately.

It’s totally okay to not want mosquitos or ticks on or around you! They spread human disease! I swat them too! And if you’re sensitive or allergic or similar you should always be wary of stinging animals and try to control them! But the vast vast vast VAST majority of the bugs in your space are confused and innocent things with poor vision that don’t understand why there is a second moon in your porchlight.

Bugs don’t have the capacity to actively try to bother you and would much prefer to go back outside to find their (often extremely specific) habitat or food. Please give them a break if they accidentally enter a human zone.

Culturally revving up people to talk about mutilating spiders is fucked up. Do not talk enthusiastically about killing things because they are aesthetically unpleasing.