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?
If you were able to target it properly to the right species, depending on where you are in the world, there's a good chance that the rats and sparrows you're thinking of are invasive.
I know around me in the US I see a whole lot more house sparrows (native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North Africa) than I do any native Sparrows.
And the two most known rat species- the black and brown rats, originated in different parts of Asia and more-or-less spread around the world with human trade and migration.
So getting rid of those would probably be a good thing to reduce competition for native animals.
also worth noting that i don't think anyone who has seen people suffering from malaria would be able to defend mosquitoes, that shit fucking sucks and eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes is 500% worth the consequences
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
clover grows easily, so it doesn't indicate that you're spending time and effort maintaining it, and it doesn't let you appear rich and Proper
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.
Here much of the beeocide is heat related colony collapse
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