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Lieutenant_Joe t1_isc6r0z wrote

Reply to comment by FragilousSpectunkery in Alaska's cancellation of the snow crab season offers a grave, potential prediction for Maine's lobster industry. by combatbydesign

Lobsters are crustaceans, not insects. Also, many insects do migrate (monarch butterflies, as a famous example).

These facts don’t endanger your point, as regardless of semantics, what you say is true of lobsters, but I just couldn’t resist being an asshole at least once today.

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combatbydesign OP t1_isc8877 wrote

Crabs, lobsters, cockroaches, and dust mites are all of the phylum arthropoda and it's suspected that that connection is why, seemingly, people who have an allergic reaction to dust mites are more likely to have an allergic reaction to crustaceans, as well. (I'm sorry. I don't have a source other than "my wife has 14 known food allergies" or "trust me, bro", and I really don't want to look one up lol)

So, if you want to get technical/assholish: all that would have to be switched would be changed in order to clear up any semantic issues is arthropods/insects.

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Seppdizzle t1_iscbtn2 wrote

Monarch butterfly is endangered too...

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Lieutenant_Joe t1_iscby68 wrote

Yup

Planning on planting milkweed next year in our garden

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combatbydesign OP t1_iscgfip wrote

Have an up vote.

(P.S.: I upvoted your other comment too, but people are dumb.)

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jellyrollo t1_iscw13z wrote

Monarch butterflies are endangered in large part because they lay their eggs on the only plants their larvae can eat, milkweeds. Habitat loss due to development of "wasteland" meadows and "weed" eradication efforts in general is the cause. Those of us who live in monarch migration paths are attempting to plant milkweed in our yards in hopes of helping to offset those losses.

But don't forget that the "charismatic" insects aren't the only ones vital to the food chain.

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Seppdizzle t1_iscwzbg wrote

That's wonderful! I've planted milkweed as well, neat to see them grow and finding the cocoons :)

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K8nK9s t1_ise5i84 wrote

Sad but true. Their winter habitat is endangered by illegal logging. The monarchs we see up here in Maine are the 4th step in their migration process, the largest iteration, the ones that fly all the way back to Mexico to overwinter. Some day soon the ones hatching out in the northern milkweed patches will be the last.

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