Rewilding Our Dream Homestead

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.

Just because you don’t know something’s role in the ecosystem does not mean it exists just to annoy or scare you. You are not the center of the universe. Evolution does not exist for your benefit or detriment. That’s not how this fucking works.

Just because you think flies are useless because you can’t be bothered to learn about them does not mean they shouldn’t exist. Just because you think wasps don’t do anything because you can’t be bothered to learn about them does not mean they don’t play an vital role in the ecosystem.

Flies are scavengers and pollinators. Wasps are predators and parasites and pollinators. There is no such thing as a “useless” or “pointless” species, it’s just that you’re ignorant. Your lack of knowledge is not the fault of the species you’ve decided to hate.

Learn about the species near you, research the ones you think are useless, and learn that your fucking perception of the world does not equal how the world actually works.

Deer are an excellent example. Deer are a native species in the US, but when we removed wolves from the environment (because of that whole aforementioned blind hatred thing, I might add) the deer population exploded uncontrollably - yes, even with human hunters trying to keep the numbers culled - and has absolutely devastated the ecosystem as a result

Cloud Ear Fungus (Auricularia Polytricha)