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Politics should act to ban some classes of insecticides. And people need to be educated so they don’t hire pesticide companies to bomb their entire yard every
by 300bps 4y ago
Politics should act to ban some classes of insecticides.
And people need to be educated so they don’t hire pesticide companies to bomb their entire yard every year with insecticide because they want fewer mosquitos and other bugs outside.
- huuhee3 4y agoThis. I can't understand people who want their plot of land to be without natural life. Might as well sell the house and move to a flat instead.
- zamadatix 4y agoIf that were the only difference between a house and a flat then there would be reason to be confused. Few chose a flat vs a house mainly based on how much they love nature itself.
- ninkendo 4y agoI don’t think anyone wants their plot of land to be without natural life. Maybe without mosquitos though.
- mikrotikker 4y agoYea but like, there's topical applications instead of bombing the backyard. Or plant lots of citrus in the yard. Rip a small branch off and scrunch up the leaves and keep it near. The citrus fumes from the leaves can keep them at bay.
- ninkendo 4y agoI don’t think citrus grows in the Midwest. Or in most places, really.
- mikrotikker 4y agoOh shit really? That's crazy. Y'all don't have have a sneaky lemon tree that you dash out to when u need a lemon for something?
- ninkendo 4y agoIt would die in the winter. You can grow one indoors though.
- is_true 4y agoIt's mostly mosquitoes. I don't like them but all the plants I have are from the local environment to help insects and birds.
- zbrozek 4y agoDunno. I'm one of the people who don't want mosquitos, though I don't care about bugs which don't suck my blood. I have a fan-powered mosquito trap which seems to work well enough. No chemistry.
- giantg2 4y agoThere's always BTI, which so far is specific just to mosquitoes (biological, not chemical).
- christophilus 4y agoWe put up mosquito traps. They emit a bit of CO2 or something like that to attract the little pests. Seems to work pretty well for us, and we still have a really healthy insect population in our yard more generally. It helps that we leave our leafs around the trees and we always cordon of a section of the lawn to leave unmowed all spring and summer.
- giantg2 4y agoThis is the biggest factor I've personally seen. My house and neighbor don't spray. I chave a corn field behind me, which I think is BT because I don't see them spray. We have plenty of bumble bees, beetles, and other insects. Although I will say there are fewer butterflies than I remeber as a kid. My in-laws live in a development where they and almost everyone else sprays. There are very few insects. Still plenty of annoying yellow jackets though.