I like to mix mowed and unmowed parts of my garden.
It keeps the biodiversity but does not look abandoned.
Something like that :
And yet, somehow, someone in your HOA will find a way to say "it looks abandoned" despite the clearly well-cared-for pathways.
You're forgiven. When I was young, I genuinely thought "fiscally conservative" was a logical position until all the would-be fascists starting going mask-off.
I'm a fiscal conservative. I think the government should guarantee free healthcare for all in order to reduce federal healthcare expenses. And the government should give everyone who needs it free housing, because otherwise unemployment and disability pay for tenants is just going to be funding landlords on our tax dollar. And it's definitely not fiscally responsible to let the bourgeois own the means of production and exploit the workers, so we should seize them to save money.
Wow, I love conserving human rights.
Given the image was uploaded to a .fr domain it might not be super accurate to assume they’re in the USA. Fun fact: there are almost 200 countries that aren’t the USA!
They do it at a local park now. There weren't even any signs explaining why, I just saw it and knew. Felt great.
If we could engineer and exterminate all ticks and mosquitos we'd all be so happy.
And dead cuz the food chain would collapse.
Had to ask ChatGPT what relies on ticks and mosquitoes to survive
Species that Rely on Ticks:
Borrelia burgdorferi: The bacterium that causes Lyme disease, which relies on Ixodes ticks (deer ticks) for transmission.
Rickettsia rickettsii: The causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, transmitted by various tick species.
Babesia: Various species of Babesia rely on ticks for transmission to vertebrate hosts, causing babesiosis.
Species that Rely on Mosquitoes:
Dengue virus: Relies on Aedes mosquitoes (especially Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for transmission.
Zika virus: Also transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes.
West Nile virus: Transmitted by several species of Culex mosquitoes.
Malaria parasite(Plasmodium spp.): The Plasmodium parasites, such as Plasmodium falciparum, rely on Anopheles mosquitoes for part of their life cycle.
Wuchereria bancrofti: The causative agent of lymphatic filariasis, transmitted by Culex, Anopheles, and Aedes mosquitoes.
Brugia malayi: Another filarial nematode causing lymphatic filariasis, primarily transmitted by Mansonia and Anopheles mosquitoes.
Someone is asking the real questions. The AI answer may be garbage but appreciate the initiative.
My republican friend would suggest that you should have trans folk read to them and then they’ll turn gay. No way to reproduce then.
Why would you be friends with such an individual
I’m in my early 40s and politics wasn’t a thing we really talked about much until Trump came around. Now it’s a shit show. I’ve even voted Republican several times before although not for a decade at this point now.
Sounds like they have some nasty views irrespective of politics. Treating gay and trans people like people has nothing to do with politics.
We're a similar age. I've let go of people who voiced these views a long time ago. It's not that our politics don't align, it's the fact that they're an ignorant, offensive piece of shit... And I'm not.
Mosquitos are pollinators.
Not every species are beneficial. There are only a handful that bite us and don't really contribute to the ecosystem. Those are the ones we need to get rid of.
I think you'd have to define beneficial..... Any species with sufficient biomass will become part of the surrounding ecology, with several other species adapting over time to predate upon that biomass.
Both tics and mosquitoes are huge sources of food for animals like birds, bats, fish, amphibians, and especially other insects. Completely destroying them would likely lead to an ecological disaster, just as it does when humans attempt to sanitize any aspect of nature.
The sanitizing process of urbanization is one of the largest reasons mosquito populations have exploded in North America in the last hundred years in the first place. Instead of mosquitoes laying eggs in ponds and waterways that are filled with frogs and fish that normally control their population. They are laying their eggs in urban environments that the animals who normally govern their population cannot thrive.
Idk man, I've lived in a tiny remote village of only a couple hundred people with no water, electricity, plumbing or roads and mosquitos would go insanely hard during the summer. It was the village my mother and grandmother grew up in and I had the privilege to experience it for a couple years. It sucked.
I've seen those nat geo docs in Africa as well of remote villages where they trap mosquitos yearly during the swarm and make parties out of them to eat.
Small sample size but I don't think urbanizing is helping them explode in numbers. It is killing their predators though, you're right but it's also killing them.
We don't understand the intricacies of any ecosystem nearly enough to start engineering it. Pull one thread, and you might unravel the tapestry.
Not all mosquitoes bite humans. If you exterminated the biting ones, the non-biting ones would just fill that same ecological niche.
Mosquitoes are the only natural predators of humans. If you mess with the delicate ecosystem, humans will procreate uninhibited and exhaust their resources, leading to a far worse fate. It's kinder to just leave the mosquitoes be, and let nature run its course.
or maybe just don’t have stupid grass and plant some natural shit….
grass is unnatural?
Many grasses are invasive species in North America, including most popular lawn grasses, so I guess it is in a way? Not sure that that's what the OP was going for.
most of the time
If you cut your lawn to ultra short levels and put fuckloads of pesticides on it, then chances are you arent actually USING your lawn anyways. If you actually use your lawn you know its way nicer to have a little wild growth with flowers and shit going on.
If only it would grow like that. My lawn's natural state is crabgrass and violence
A lot of the US is trying to grow grass that isn't suited for it's climate. It's why it takes so much maintenance. Florida has that problem a lot. Maryland lawns don't even need watering and the grass is great with little encroachment or weed problems. It's a bit more varied with dandelions and wild aliums but mostly grass.
It's a bit more varied with dandelions and wild aliums but mostly grass.
Oh, you mean the biodiversity that nature and birds and turtles and squirrels need? Wish more places didn't consider a boring green landscape the norm...
Get your vaccines, check for ticks after enjoying nature, and immediately visit a doctor if you still get sick.
What vaccines can you get for tick diseases?
None right now, but a new vaccine for Lyme disease is looking promising.
From my stint working in a rural health department... there's a lot of motherfuckers with backyards like this.
Only thing missing is a firepit with metal and plastic debris in it.
The car seat in the grass just brings it together.
Guy brought a whole car seat but didn't bring a door? He can't roll the window down when he gets hot...
I'm up to 5 ticks already this year
I had a friend with a backyard like this. You could see the fleas jumping around.
That is either a miniature keyboard or a massive bug
Neither, it's a tick
So glad I live in a place without many ticks and with no chiggers or other pests in the grass.
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