Catmint20906 said:I stopped mowing my lawn after I realized earlier in the season that it had an impact on my skipper population. At first I expected hip-high overgreen weeds, but instead the grass stopped growing and laid down flat, and it's actually easy to walk on. Clover has sprouted up everywhere. The bees and skippers love it. Also, I hear crickets now everytime I go outside, and I used to rarely hear crickets in my suburban yard.
I am also planning to mulch less, and throw out fewer plant trimmings, since I realized I was probably throwing away butterfly eggs, larvae, and cocoons by over-mulching and over-cleaning. Now I am more careful.
flaflwrgrl said:...the majority of people do not even think about what they're using as poison anymore. It's all become, "Oh, but that's okay. It won't harm humans." "I saw a bug, quick, go get the bug spray!"
crittergarden said:That made me sound really lame, didn't it?
It's beyond my skills and mental health problems to do something that public.
Instigating from online is all I have.
That and the fact I do speak up wherever I see "poor environmental practices".
Catmint20906 said: nurseries drenching their plants in pesticides before putting them out to sell. Now, I prefer going to the nurseries that feature native plants and have bees and butterflies flying among their stock. :-)
flaflwrgrl said:
And not to get OT here, but I think it is on topic to a degree.......
These chemicals we are putting on our pets & chemical pills we are giving them. Do we really believe it's not going to hurt our pets? Do we really believe when we put the topical junk on our dogs skin for fleas (you know the oily stuff you put on once a moth between their shoulder blades) that it is magic & won't get on us or that it won't hurt the pets? Seriously folks, this stuff is poison, plain & simple. Now they have the heart worm meds which contain flea & tick preventative PLUS worm preventative AND NOW they've added tape worm killer to that. Oh sure, let's give them this poison every month when they don't have tapeworms just so we make sure they don't ever get tapeworms. Huh???? Not only that, but tapeworms come from pets chewing fleas. If we are giving them stuff to keep them from having fleas then WHY do we need to poison them every month for tapeworms????????