4d ago

we must protect them from exotics

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People: Why are bees and fireflies dying in droves?
Also People: Better hose my yard with chemicals and mount floodlights until it looks like a baseball stadium
- I love spending time in my garden watching the butterflies and bees, but gosh the mosquitoes are terrible, better spray them with a residual effect insecticide.
  what happened to the birds and butterflies and bees?
  
  What's the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
  
  The worst part of that is that it’s super easy to deal with mosquitos with a dunk that doesn’t hurt anything but mosquito larvae.
- Ugh. We have spent so much on blackout curtains because of our neighbor’s insistence on having outdoor lights on all night. Same neighbor who once said to me “I just hate clover, don’t you?”…
  
  Motherfucker, how do they manage to hate clover? Its a nitrogen fixing ground cover that looks and smells good and is good for pollinators
- Also paving over every square inch of the world.
- End of last year I moved back to Ohio. Bought a rural home on 5 acres of land and 3.5 acres of it is woodland that we intend to keep wild.
  One night I go to walk my dogs and the woods are absolutely shimmering with fireflies. Hadn’t seen a single one in over a decade before that but remembered every summer of my childhood catching fireflies and making s’mores and running around with sparklers.
  It was beautiful. It still is, they are still out every night lighting up the dark.
  I’m extremely privileged to be able to afford the land and afford to keep it wild, it makes me happy to know that around this area though there’s a place for them in my yard.
  
  It’s awesome to see someone use their privilege to give the land (and the bugs) a break!
- Also People:
  Let me install bee boxes with hundreds of thousands of invasive bees to harvest honey.
  (which will obviously end up outcompeting the native ones)
  and then suprised pickachu face when the natives do indeed decline after you add hundreds of thousands of invasives.

Have u noticed u don't get flies and insects smashing into ur windshield anymore? It used to happen all the time but its really really rare now.
Perhaps its all these chemicals used in monocrop agriculture raping the land that's killing everything.
- Global warming isn't helping either.
  
  I believe warmer climates are actually beneficial for some if not most bugs. As it extends the amount if time that's warmer where they remain viable.
- I read this comment years ago on reddit, and since then here in Europe it feels like the amount of bugs on my car is increasing.
  
  In the UK my windscreen was squeaky clean, in Brandenburg it was full of bugs in no time, here in Baden-Württemberg it's clean again. I see vinyards spraying far too often. The normal farms are excellent here, with small fields, crop rotation and few pesticides, but screw the vinyards.
  
  here in sweden i keep fucking getting insects blatting me in the face while cycling, and my body is absolutely covered in tiny flies/gnats after a ride
  
  Le Mans was pretty extreme for midges this year. The drivers had frequent visibility problems.
- I wonder if that has anything to do with the changing of vehicle shapes over the years.

Here much of the beeocide is heat related colony collapse

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