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Well you could plant more flowers in your garden, or any other place like that you have access to. Its not much but if enough people do it, it can get people aw
by seer 8y ago
Well you could plant more flowers in your garden, or any other place like that you have access to. Its not much but if enough people do it, it can get people aware of this issue and help build political will. You know “grass roots” movement.
I just heard this in a recent TED podcast that this is what some people were doing :)
- jeena 8y agoMy mom did that a coupple of years ago, she took a big chunk of where formally only was gras which my dad cut often and has sown flowers there. Tons of insects came by, I have a coupple of pictures from back then on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157634192672920 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157634192672920
- DelightOne 8y agoThe sentiment is appreciated and I doubt its impact on anything is measurable at all.
- MattBlissett 8y agoDon't just speculate! http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature21709 http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature21709 It had a measurable impact when planting "wild"flowers on 2% of the land alongside English fields, with a little more searching there's probably a study on gardens. (From the paper: "Here we show that the survival of family lineages from the summer worker to the spring queen stage in the following year increases significantly with the proportion of high-value foraging habitat, including spring floral resources, within 250–1,000 m of the natal colony.") However, the jury's out on "insect hotels": http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122126 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....