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Those gardens with pretty flowers and bushes are not the natural habitat of the insects. They look diverse but are in fact as sterile as a monoculture field. In
by fvdessen 6y ago
Those gardens with pretty flowers and bushes are not the natural habitat of the insects. They look diverse but are in fact as sterile as a monoculture field. Insects thrive in the unkempt parcels between fields where man never goes, and those are disappearing, replaced by well kept gardens.
- hutzlibu 6y agoIt depends. There exist the diverse looking, but sterile garden type (who do use pesticides and insectizides of all sorts to keep it sterile). But this is increasingly changing. All the garden magazines are full of it, how to make your garden more insect friendly, insect hotels, leave patches of grass uncut, flowers that have nectar for insects and not just pretty flowers. And people follow it, since years, as far as I experienced. But even the most sterile looking garden with bushes and trees is far more insect friendly, than a dead field. Because tons of insects are living in the bushes and trees alone. A big tree can feed colonies of bees, when blooming, etc. But I am of course also with you, that the fields need to get more small, with bushes between them and if possible, organic.