for future fireflies
for future fireflies
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Save the environment by NOT doing a bullshit chore? Sounds like a fuckin win to me. I already wasn't going to, but now I can feel smug about it.
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"why are all these centipedes and beetles in the house all of a sudden? Why are we getting so many mice?"
(Leaf litter is cover for lots of things)
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Oh well in that case we may as well continue contributing to environmental collapse.
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Yes. We want more bugs. They are very important for many ecosystems.
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Ok? Yea dude, bugs exist. You’re gunna be ok. We survived just fine without windows or doors for how long but a single house centipede or spider shows and we’re like “not in MY house” like, brother chill.
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Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
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I’ve got bad news. From my very limited knowledge of fire fires they don’t bread all that fast and colonies don’t travel very far.
So you might increase the fireflies you currently have you shouldn’t expect new fireflies.
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they don’t bread all that fast
Well they're toast, then.
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Thanks for pointing out the one and only typo I made. Just the one typo. No need for anyone to re-read my comment. There was just that one typo and we all had a Good laugh about it.
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It still helps. And they might not travel far but they do travel so it’s good to have a destination.
The best part is that even if it doesn’t work the entire point is that you aren’t doing extra work. Literally just do nothing and at worst nothing will happen but at best you’ll start seeing more and more improvement, if slowly at first.
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Hmm "next summer" "spend two years on and underground" doesn't quite fit together.
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sure it does.
the fireflies that are already alive have a better chance to make it to next year if they have appropriate conditions to live in
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How so? They need that habitat during the whole period - not just the first year.
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It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely
*math vocabulary may be approximative
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So...should we rake the woods to prevent forest fireflies?
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The last time I saw them was around 30 years ago. What should I do then?
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pile up 30 yrs of leaves and leave them bee
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The leaves will help, but also, reduce light pollution (if at all possible)
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But how will all the people making their rounds twice a day in parks with leafblowers at this time of year earn their living, then? Doing something meaningful? I don't think so!
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I don't know about the insect population in my backyard but I do know that it is a safe haven for wall lizards, they don't even hide anymore when I'm there.
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But I don't have any trees in my garden and it's a bit small to get one really. Also we don't have fireflies here.
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I thought Joel already took care of those losers...
I did this last year and saw twice as many fireflies.
Which means I saw six total all summer.
The suburbs suck.
Yeah this is drinking straws vs private jets.
Growing up in the suburbs we raked all the leaves and packed them in plastic bags which were then picked up as trash (no recycling back then). We had hundreds of fireflies everywhere.
Today I'm on 3.5 acres, half of which I don't mow at all and the other half I don't rake the leaves. But there are still fewer fireflies than 40 years ago.
There are fewer everything. I've commented on the ecosystem collapse many time, don't have the energy any longer.
At least my yard is coming back. Our house is the reason the block has frogs, dragonflies, etc.
The decline in insect populations is so bad even Jeremy Clarkson is trying to fight it.
It's all the pesticides we use in gardens and agriculture. It's in our air water everywhere decimating all kinds of insects.
Ok but part of this is because of what we were doing back then, so it isn’t quite the same. Yes there are larger things at play BUT these things you do locally on your 3.5 acres can have a huge impact.
A doubling is still a big deal, though. You made a difference! Imagine if that were to keep up throughout the neighborhood.
It’s a far cry from when I lived in the woods and could walk around on a dark night just from the light of fireflies.
That could very well just be early stages. Very few fireflies means not many to reproduce
conversely, I saw tons last year in the suburbs!
this year was wasps, though