Grass monoculture lawns are basically deserts. You are not hurting anything by ripping it all out and letting native plants take over
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Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bugs don’t care what type of green you have in your lawn. You can even mow.
Just don’t spray insecticide on your lawn.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Madison420@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s just simply vastly and easily proved to be untrue.
Insecticide is a lot of it but lack of variety, lack of height, lack of pollinators, lack of pollinating plants and light pollution are all compound factors.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ve seen a lot of opinion pieces about the matter, but they never cite any research that definitely pins substantive loss of biodiversity on lawns. It’s an issue globally, but as usual the individual is the scape goat instead of the exponentially greater impact of corporations.
Madison420@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because there doesn’t need to be a study. We know reduction of habitat has a direct relation to population, it would be exceptionally weird if it weren’t.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We knew dinosaurs were scaly, too. Everything deserves further study, and it’s foolhardy to advise everyone to rip up their lawns and plant…what, exactly? White clover, another invasive species.