I think corvids are poised to become a fine replacement
Dabundis
joined 2 years ago
I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.
Ominous
Lore that was scrapped decades ago but is still being treated as canon by some especially loud fans. The whole situation is very strange
"It's not an RV, it's a motorcoach"
a sentence that sounds best when shouted from a prison cell
The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.
If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we'd better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly
Known in Australia as Billabongs
I understand what you're saying here, but the set of people killed by "every disease ever" includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can't have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes' kill count is part of every disease ever.
"I don't have to change my behavior" is the most trivially easy thing for anyone to convince themself.
Maillard browning is not caramelization. Maillard is an insanely complex mess of different chemical reactions involving proteins, while caramelization is just sugar and heat.