It seems that as a species develops more emphasis on brains, it also produces more assholes.

[rosaaeterna@transfem.social]

@alice@lgbtqia.space Well for one, they're both maaaajor invasive agricultural pests. They have no natural predators in the US, and they both love eating up trees and crops. Spotted lanternflies are estimated to be causing hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural and forestry damages in Pennsylvania alone. Marmorated stink bugs cause even more agricultural damage, although they don't tend to hurt the trees themselves so much compared to the lanternflies.

Lanternflies are also annoying as hell to deal with because they can jump pretty far distances, making them hard to quickly kill. Marmorated stink bugs breed like mad, love to invade homes, and as their names would suggest they have a potent odor as a self-defense mechanism that they love to use on you if they feel like it.

[koushiniku@hachyderm.io]

@alice The male of any species for which people use the the word “rut”?

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@alice does it count if the assholery is embedded into the lifecycle? If so I'll raise you the parasitoid wasps, any one of them really.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@alice Slander! Cats aren't jerks, they're just better than everything else (including other cats)

[jqmcd@sfba.social]

@alice Spiders ️️

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze @alice Can confirm!

[eedly@mindly.social]

@alice Turkeys. Dumb and mean.

In the spring, the males travel in packs and try to corner individual females. Their usual downfall is that their aggressive mating behavior is also aggressive fighting behavior, and nine times out of ten the pack members will completely forget who they were chasing and attack each other.

[kishi@meow.social]

@roknrol @alice

crows don't poop while flying!

[kishi@meow.social]

@MrInappropriate @joshsusser @alice

I'm so glad someone else can learn this. Actually came to say this about hermit crabs. They truly are extremely helpful to each other like this. Conga line shell swap as they grow.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@renardboy I think it has to be an individual choice for it to count.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@jqmcd aww, I like spiders (mostly).

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@Kishi I wouldn't either if I could fly.

@roknrol

[mrbirch@beige.party]

@alice Hummingbirds are notorious assholes.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@alice Canadian geeseholes have to be top 5.

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[apontious@dice.camp]

@MrBirch @alice I-is that true? I want it to be true.

[jhooper@techhub.social]

@alice When humans develop on utero, the first thing that develops is the digestive system and the anus.

So we all start out as little assholes. For some, little has changed aside from size.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@alice You're so 🫦, even hornets want a piece of you!

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@alice
I've been stung by wasps twice in the last couple weeks, for no fault of my own.

Bastard assholes. Hate them, and they me.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@apontious totally true.

@MrBirch

[mrbirch@beige.party]

@apontious @alice Oh yeah. We’ve had hummingbird feeder for a long time. There’s plenty of nectar to go around but the birds are super territorial and will chase others off. Real aerial combat.