Summer Bugs & Ideal Summer

Like bugs in the summer? Depends what they are, Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says we love butterflies but hate mosquitos. Plus, what makes up the ideal summer? Time with family and being in the water make the list.

Episode Transcript

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This stuber in the din with dangerousday. You know, back in winter,
if you made a list of thetop one hundred things you look forward
to about the summer, insects,bugs probably would not have made the cut.
But I guess it depends upon whichbugs. A new poll asked people
about twenty different insects and asked themwhether they have a positive or negative or
neutral reaction to them. In theend, butterflies came out on top.

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Eighty percent of people had a positiveview of them, fifteen percent were neutral,
only four percent were negative. Fireflieswere second, followed by lady bugs,
honey bees, dragonflies, caterpillars,bumblebees, praying manthiss, earthworms,
and grasshoppers. Shockingly, mosquitoes notpopular at all. They came in in
dead last, with eighty six percentof people saying they had a negative view

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of them, eight percent were neutral, five percent hardcore nature lovers said they
actually like mosquitoes. Cockroaches, bythe way, you, were the second
most hated bug, followed by waspants, cicadas, spiders, spotted lantern
flies, june bugs, moss androly polleys. Had no idea. I
was an insect deeper in the doyou know there are people that live in

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the water during the summer, orsome people who avoid it like the plague,
but overall most of us enjoy takinga dip per doing other things during
the summer. A survey asked thepeople ideals summer found out the average person
will get into the water eleven timesduring the summer. That includes pools,
oceans, and lakes. Some statsfor the perfect summer fourteen days with your

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loved ones, thirteen burgers, elevenhot dogs, eleven scoops of ice cream,
eleven sunsets, eight sunrises, sevendays on the water like boating,
tubing, or kayaking. Five newexperiences, three different adventures or short trips,
two trips across date lines, twoentire bottles of sunscreen, and a
partridge in a pear tree. Ohsorry, just had a little Christmas in

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July. There for you to meagain for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous daved like year