My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

  • Foreigner@lemmy.world
    52·
    29 days ago

    The only animal I think is truly worth eradicating is the bedbug.

    Every other insect from the mosquito, to the tick is an incredibly important source of food (especially protein) for other animals, especially in places with very harsh conditions where other insects struggle to survive. I used to hate and fear insects but now I know they all have their place.

    All, except the bedbug. These things are specifically designed to hunt us and pretty much only us. They have precious few predators, much less predators that rely on their existence. They deserve obliteration.

    • BryyM@lemmy.world
      7·
      29 days ago

      I like your answer as its way more thought through than what most people tend to answer when questions like this is asked, like I wish seagulls would just die out as the niche they have is doing what other species are doing in an obnoxious way. I do recognise that this would likely have ramifications that I don’t know about though, so I wouldn’t want resources used to actively eradicate them.

  • oortjunk@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    29 days ago

    Sorry that’s fucking gross. OP wants to walk through a world of rotting meat and unscavenged carcasses. Seriously. Read up on what happened to vultures in India when they gave all their cattle Diclofenac.

    Cultures might not be pretty but they are fucking awesome and entirely necessary. Why peeps gotta hate on the cleaning staff I don’t know.

  • gasgiant@lemmy.ml
    15·
    29 days ago

    Don’t want to get rid of a good scavenger like the buzzard. They really help the ecosystem. Particularly with population and disease control.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      Here’s the answer I was looking for! I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to reach it. We are the source of most of what’s wrong with the world so I’m pretty sure the rest of the animals would vote us off the island too.

    • SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      29 days ago

      We’re practically descendants from the simians so I think it’s time to devolve back to where we were moulded from.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    29 days ago

    Carrion birds are extremely important to our ecosystems.

    Edit: apparently “buzzard” in the US usually refers to vultures, which is what I was thinking of.

    • jdr@lemmy.ml
      21·
      29 days ago

      Not as dangerous as mosquitos! Similarly dangerous to freshwater snails.

      • Starya67@lemmy.world
        1·
        28 days ago

        I said one of the. Anyhoo, Lyme Borreliose is untreatable and there is no vaccine because the company that made it couldn’t make enough profits on it. TBE is also untreatable. As is Alpha Gal.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    6·
    29 days ago

    I love vultures so much! Nature’s garbage crew.

    I will have to go with palmetto bugs, sorry guys you freak me out so bad and I think there are other bugs that turn leaves into dirt without being nightmare fuel.