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Modern_medicine_isnt ,

I will admit there is something very pleasing about looking at a well trimmed yard. That said, the percent of the earth’s land surface covered by manicured lawns is tiny. The ag industry would love for you to believe your lawn is the problem. It isn’t. The problem is the monoculture farm land. Acres of fields with only one type of crop. And probably other things like pollution and such. But industries love to play the “you are the problem” card to divert from themsleves.

HaiZhung ,

This is the correct answer, this shit is „your carbon footprint“ all over again

IDontHavePantsOn ,

“Walk to work, ignore corporate consumption, and use only the highest quality refined petroleum products, and go easy on the avocados.”

miss_brainfart ,
@miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes, but also: Every little bit of help, well… helps.

Don’t let those industries playing the blame game discourage you from dedicating a part of your yard to a bunch of flowers, because then the problem would get ever so slightly worse.

TWeaK ,

Yeah but you could easily have a patch of lush green grass the size of this one in your lawn and also some nice flower beds, bushes, trees and whatever else. Most people want some of that, not just a plain garden with no features. The problem isn’t peoples’ yards, it’s pesticides.

Amends1782 ,

This + a massive over usage of pesticides

TheAnonymouseJoker , (edited )
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

I had to kill 6 stingy bees today because they invaded my home. Nobody asked them to make a nest here.

Edit: killed another one

cyberpunk007 ,

I have an abundance of bees and other insects, and I mow my lawn. But I have gardens.

Rozauhtuno ,
@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

!nolawns

Case ,

We keep the front mowed for the HOA.

The backyard can grow until we worry about snakes affecting our pups.

We have a front garden that gets no care outside HOA recommendations. It came with the house.

Can’t wait until I can OWN a house, but the market (with all the influences upon it) isn’t there.

I’m saving, and considering moving to another state, if that helps all the pedantic monsters our there.

BartsBigBugBag ,

Just quit watering the grass except for in small walkways and start a food forest.

jaybone ,

Is this the Windows 98 background?

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Windows XP was the grassy hill. Windows 98 was just a random shot of some clouds.

jaybone ,

Lol it’s been so long I can’t remember.

What was the Windows 95 background?

Was it that flying pixelated window with the pixelated acid trails?

S_204 ,

This just isn’t accurate. Your lawn isn’t responsible for the death of bees. You also don’t need pesticides for a healthy nice looking lawn.

Coreidan ,

……Because of insecticides from agriculture.

It has literally nothing to do with people mowing their lawns.

If you got rid of all of the lawns you’d still see mass extinction of honey bees.

MayvisDelacour ,

Sure but why add to the problem? Why not carve out your own little slice and help the situation? Probably not going to hurt anything if you stop using pesticides and feed the bees where you can.

Coreidan ,

It’s not adding to the problem. As long as farmers are using fuck tons of pesticides and insecticides every day it doesn’t matter what you do to your lawn.

Either way insects are going to die.

You guys love slinging shit but you have no clue where to sling it.

Pipoca ,

No.

Honey bees are dying because of parasites and pests, pathogens, poor nutrition, and sublethal exposure to pesticides.

It’s not just one thing. Most of those things on their own won’t even kill them. For example, Varroa mites will kill an already weakened hive, but not a healthy one.

Lawns absolutely contribute to poor nutrition, due to habitat loss. Same with all the mowed grass we have everywhere in suburbia. Monocropped agriculture does as well, because bees do best with a variety of flowers.

I’ve let the back part of my property grow wild the past couple years, and it’s currently filled with a ton of goldenrod, chicory, and a bunch of other random flowers. You would not beleive the number of honeybees I’ve seen back there at once, or how loud the buzz was.

Similarly, there’s a reason I see a ton of fireflys in my yard, but I see almost none in my neighbors yards. It’s because they’re well- manicured green wastelands

Jubei_K_08 ,

In those moments I’m as high as fuck and imagine I could own a home, I’d just desert-ify the yard. It’s going that way anyway, let’s beat the rush. Just sand and rocks and some desert plants. Like us, most yards will die in the water wars.

MayvisDelacour ,

I only mow at the last possible second to not get a fine, has been working really well for my yard. I have seen flowers, corn, and a beautiful assortment of creepers and clovers start taking over the sterile grass. My neighbors neighbor seems to get butthurt. They take care of my direct neighbors yard whom I share a chain link fence with, she loves my vines with the flowers and strange gourds that wind around the fence. Neither of us planted it but the people who tend her yard destroy it 😭if we just let everything happen naturally some very cool things start to crop up. I’ve seen some absolutely massive grasshoppers and a bunch of praying mantis as well. My bee hotel never attracts anything but I’ve seen plenty of bees about which makes me happy.

Resonosity ,

Remember it’s not just about saving honey bees! Honey bees are domesticated, which means that humans will make sure that they have food and shelter and appropriate medicine and care throughout the year to ensure they make honey.

Saving “the bees” moreso means saving wild, native, often times solitary bees like bumblebees or carpenter bees that don’t produce honey but that also aren’t domesticated - they have no safety net that humans give them.

Those bees along with all other pollinators like bats, birds, and other insects are the ones at risk!

Still, we should all consider growing native yards to return habitat back to these dying species!

Titan ,

Individual yards are such a wasteful and environmentally destructive concept

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Masimatutu OP ,

Good bot!

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great bot

flan ,
@flan@hexbear.net avatar

i dont have a yard

oldfart ,

See? You’re a part of the problem.

MedicPigBabySaver ,

Weak

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