#people really dont realize how MUCH nectar and pollen bees need!!!! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

weedlovingweed · 1 year ago

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i will kill all idiots who think wildflower patches are like. Every Wild Beast Who I Hate Habitat. there are fleas and ticks in your lawn too. there are MORE TICKS in places with less mammals coming through (deer, squirrels, etc that the ticks can feed on instead of u) and insecticides/herbicides kill off beneficial insects so there’s more habitat for ticks to hang around. and if you aren’t attracting birds with seed or WILDFLOWERS THAT NATURALLY MAKE SEED FOR BIRDS then you will have MORE pests.

people are just so stupid instead of planting things to attract bugs and birds they WANT that will do bad insect management they just keep going down the line of killing everything and making uninhabitable space. but ig its “safer for kids” (your kids will just get sick from playing in roundup!!!) or you wont have to see a fucking garter snake. oh the horror. kids should be exposed to plants and animals and clearly ppl who think that a wilder lawn will just be fucking pest central didn’t play enough outside. and tbh im blaming YOU for my neighbor who removed the blackberry bush as soon as he moved in that neighborhood kids had been eating for years…

#also lawns ARE ugly. they are #nothing is more hideous to me than a lawn that has been so chemically enhanced that it has NO other plants among it #our front lawn has three grasses and many clover and some sainfoin and chickweed and dandelion #we let it bloom before each time we cht it back to keep it from becoming 2 fr tall #dandelion loosens and aerates soil so you dont have to have those lawn dudes poke at it #clover fixes nitrogen into the soil for healthier plant growth all around!#and letting them flower so bees and butterflies can feed is beneficial in that we need them for the majority of plants #people really dont realize how MUCH nectar and pollen bees need!!!!#where i work they have 2 honeybee hives that are struggling #even though every house has gardens! and they have a butterfly garden! and many flowering plants near!#the lawns are absolutely destroyed and lifeless #so these bees are traveling so far to meet their needs

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