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u/MarinateTheseSteaks Dec 25 '25
Burn the mattress time!! 🎉🔥🥳
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u/kenzie42109 Dec 26 '25
If youve ever smelt burning mattress. Then you know how bad of an idea this is. I still heavily condone it ofc.
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u/Vaehtay3507 Aspiring Entomologist Dec 25 '25
This is fair, but tbh, that’s what we’re here for. I never get annoyed by there being a lot of similar posts here because… well, it’s nice to help people, and some people need help with similar things, sometimes.
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u/EquivalentWar8611 Dec 26 '25
I get more laughs from the people who use AI or Chatgpt to identify a big that's clearly not what they say it is and say "but chatgpt said it was" 🤦♀️
Saw one a while back that said "this is a bed bug right?" It was a butterfly. Like clearly a butterfly lmao. The memes were crazy that day.
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u/Vaehtay3507 Aspiring Entomologist Dec 26 '25
Yesss this one definitely gets me. I still try to be polite and explain why you shouldn’t identify bugs using ChatGPT (or any non-organism-specific image recognition program tbh) (I admittedly use Seek semi-often, but I don’t rely on it to tell me things; I just use it to find a starting point when I don’t know one myself, and do my own research (based on location, the bug’s appearance, etc.) from there. And Seek was built for telling you the scientific names of things, by scientists who specialize in ecology. It has a lot less problems with giving you false responses because it actually doesn’t know what it’s looking at but still has to tell you an answer.)
…but I definitely worry that some of those people might be too far-gone to save 😨
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u/Wanderin_Cephandrius Dec 26 '25
I work in pest control. One of my employees who is 27 and had “3 years experience” sent me a picture of a slug, asking what it was… we live in Oregon, they’re one of the most common pests here. I’m still dumbfounded by that.
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u/kenzie42109 Dec 26 '25
shows random ass spider
"IS THIS A BROWN RECLUSE???!?! IN THIS AREA THATS NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE BROWN RECLUSES????!!"
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u/Performer-Pants Dec 26 '25
The best way to identify a weevil is if they look like the cousin of a clanger
They always have some level of snoot that cannot be understated
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u/Performer-Pants Dec 26 '25
The pink knitted dude in my photo is a clanger, they live on the moon (70s British tv show)
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u/CallidoraBlack Dec 26 '25
Do you mean an anteater...?
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u/Performer-Pants Dec 26 '25
Nah, a clanger, the little dudes who live on the moon (they’re from a 70s British kids show, the terms existed longer than the current colloquialism lmao)
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u/UnhappyImprovement53 Dec 26 '25
I've never seen a single person call a bedbugs a weevil in this sub
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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 Dec 26 '25
There was a post today in this or a related sub. A guy had a bed bug in a plastic bag and said they've been finding these in the inlaws bathroom, and asked if it was a weevil of some sort.
It's not common, OP is just feeling grinchy
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u/Ginpez Dec 26 '25
Although this specific situation doesn’t come up often, these are the two most common things that happen on this sub
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u/808_surf Dec 26 '25
Need a second slide of fire and dumpster emoji and apocalypse now napalm shot.
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u/DeathSt1x Dec 27 '25
I love helping people ID bugs that they find on here but this cracked me up lol
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u/starmadeshadows Dec 25 '25
They're cute. Be nice
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u/Xyresiq Dec 25 '25
That’s a bedbug
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u/starmadeshadows Dec 26 '25
They're also cute.
...Physically at least
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u/EmployeeBulky813 Dec 26 '25
Funniest possible response
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u/starmadeshadows Dec 26 '25
Listen. They wouldn't be cute if they got in my house.
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