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A double edged sword

The move to protect the environment is a double edged sword – there is a great deal of stress on health and hygiene but in the process wiping out many living things who benefit us.The aerial spraying of cities –for the purpose of hygiene would wipe out insects and flies indiscriminately, because these pesticides are not specific to particulars insects – it would also kill those insects which do not harm us in any way many of them benefit us. The result is that all the birds and bats might die of starvation in absence of insects or would have to go beyond city limits to have their meal. So the modern concept of hygiene and sanitation – may well doing more harm than good.
During fumigation, every single insect is exterminated indiscriminately, even the beautiful butterfly gets caught in the crossfire. What is worse the creature most women hate and fear for no reason at all - the lizard also gets killed. Lizards eat insects on a massive scale. If they are left alone, apart from devouring flies and mosquitoes, they can rid the house of cockroaches – but no one seems to care about extremely important fact. They would rather resort to fumigation which results in killing a very useful animal.
Every night I hear a sharp short squeaking sound - of a bat locating and whatever garbage they can find, wherever they see it, this is a very good thing, these creatures are ridding entire areas where all sorts of decomposing junk. Kites in particular can spot a dead rat from very high, they swoop down and snatch it away in not time at all.
The variety of birds we have in the city most of them eat insects, their sound which is like a wonderful symphony , when they get up early in the morning, it is pure joy – because they are all ‘off to work’ eating all kinds of insects in particular. Some birds help in increasing vegetation When the sunsets, they are huddling on branches and making a lot of chirping and trying huddle together in safety in between each other. Most of the times they are all trying to sit together on a single branch pushing and shoving, till they have finally squeezed in and settled down as soon it has become dark.
. Consider one particular bird its has in particular been badly affected by human activity – the vulture. The vulture is the most reviled creatures of all because it eats carcasses. What it is actually doing is cleaning up the place where there are remains of animals which if left alone would rot would make place unliveable because of the unbearable stench. Once the vulture has done its job, that body has vanished, stench goes away and the place has been cleaned up. In contrast human beings are a thousand times more efficient in making use of any dead animal in comparison to vultures. For people a dead animals is an industrial resource – human ingenuity have left nothing go to waste . Each everything of it is utilised , skin, bones and the entrails.
The skin is used for making shoes, the bones and hoof is being used for making glue and other things. There is no end to human ingenuity. The result is the poor vulture may well become extinct. In our attempt to keep the environment clean we are rendering certain animal extinct. The animals which nature has provided to clean up after us.. The lowly mouse and even the rat will eats up all the stuff it can find on the ground, particularly food which has spilled on the floor.
The cobwebs which are so ugly see but they really helpful as dust collectors, the seemingly invisible dust in the floating around in our homes is caught by them. So it is always useful to have lots of spiders in ones house gets trapped into it. Spiders efficiently capture flies and mosquitoes in their webs. When the spider abandons a web, or when it has died, the web serves as an excellent dust trap. It may look ugly, but consider this, it has captured all the unseen dust – this dust if is allowed to remain floating around would have harm us – particularly who are allergic to it.
When rats and mice are poisoned this results in a unending cycle of poisoning. These animals are consumed by others, which themselves also end up being hunted down, by some other creatures who also inadvertently consume that poison. All the animals begin to die or become extremely weak and turn into easy prey for other animals who also devour that poison and so on so forth. At this rate all animals will become extinct
So at times it is better not to be so fanatical about hygiene and sanitation . A large variety of animal depend on everything we throw out of our houses. If mosquitoes and flies bother us, one should feel secure that there are other creatures waiting to consume them.
Milk shops are portrayed as unhygienic, with flies hovering over open milk and yoghurt. What everyone fails to realise such places are ideal for lizards and spiders because there they can consume a large number of their prey – so the milk shop is not as dirty have been led to believe. spiders and lizards are natural pesticides, so the flies before than can prove to be a danger to us are eliminated by their own worst enemies, no spraying is required.



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