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If I look at the crop that isn't useful for pollinators, and occupies the largest amount of land area in the US, the result is not corn which is sprayed with in
by ta_1138 2y ago
If I look at the crop that isn't useful for pollinators, and occupies the largest amount of land area in the US, the result is not corn which is sprayed with insecticides: It's lawns. The Kentucky bluegrass or fescue that is cut so short it never seeds? Might as well be concrete as far as insects are concerned.
But we not only allow, but often mandate that acres upon acres of land are kept that way, or the owner gets a fine. American suburbs make more space ecologically dead per inhabitant than anything else we do: The greyest of cities at least take less space.
- keybored 2y agoThat’s hard to believe. Lawns take up such a small space. It had to until recently (robots) be mowed manually, at least for residental lawns. The American West is so devoid of lawns clusters (metro areas) that all of it except the West Coast should have excellent insect conditions, if lawns have such a large impact. This feels like explaining pollution by studying how many bottles are thrown into bodies of water in Orange County.