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We get it. Don't have 100% of farmland as monocultural industrial ag megafarms. Leave strips of fallow land here and there. I tried reducing the insect populat
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
We get it. Don't have 100% of farmland as monocultural industrial ag megafarms. Leave strips of fallow land here and there.
I tried reducing the insect population around my moms home situated in a plot of formerly fallow land adjacent to farmland. The bug zapper killed piles of flying insects every night until she didn't want to keep cleaning it anymore and gave up on an un-enclosed porch. I suggested she ought to do what most Texans do and have an enclosed porch.
Just leaving the land alone does wonders for the food chain of critters. Although, when paper wasps pitch their tents on the eaves of your place, you have to convince them to move along.