New residential developments, monoculture farm consolidation, and not a native plant in site. Trying to get people to abandon zero utility lawns that require constant mowing and fertilizer is an uphill battle. I don’t want to think about all the lesser known butterflies and moths suffering even worse, like Papaipema eryngii.
Trying to get people to abandon zero utility lawns that require constant mowing and fertilizer is an uphill battle
its weird too, you’d think “stop doing that activity universally seen as annoying and boring and nature will be better because of it” would be a seller
(ofc there’s more to it than just stop mowing a lawn, a carefully planned garden takes a lot of effort, but an unmowed lawn is still better than a mowed lawn)
We were just in Vermont and Burlington had a lot of no-mow zones and lots of butterfly gardens in the areas we biked.
We saw a lot of monarchs earlier (seemed more than previous years) in the summer too, but it got super dry and we haven’t seen as many lately. And also our observations are purely anecdotal and unscientific.
New residential developments, monoculture farm consolidation, and not a native plant in site. Trying to get people to abandon zero utility lawns that require constant mowing and fertilizer is an uphill battle. I don’t want to think about all the lesser known butterflies and moths suffering even worse, like Papaipema eryngii.
its weird too, you’d think “stop doing that activity universally seen as annoying and boring and nature will be better because of it” would be a seller
(ofc there’s more to it than just stop mowing a lawn, a carefully planned garden takes a lot of effort, but an unmowed lawn is still better than a mowed lawn)
We were just in Vermont and Burlington had a lot of no-mow zones and lots of butterfly gardens in the areas we biked.
We saw a lot of monarchs earlier (seemed more than previous years) in the summer too, but it got super dry and we haven’t seen as many lately. And also our observations are purely anecdotal and unscientific.