for future fireflies

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I did this last year and saw twice as many fireflies.

  Which means I saw six total all summer.

  The suburbs suck.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah this is drinking straws vs private jets.

    Growing up in suburbs we raked all the leaves packed them in plastic bags which were then picked up as trash (no recycling back then). We had hundreds of fireflies everywhere.

    Today I’m on 3.5 acres, half of which I don’t mow at all and the other half I don’t rake the leaves. But there are fewer fireflies than 40 years ago.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are fewer everything. I’ve commented on the ecosystem collapse many time, don’t have the energy any longer.

      At least my yard is coming back. Our house is the reason the block has frogs, dragonflies, etc.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The decline in insect populations is so bad even Jeremy Clarkson is trying to fight it.

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok but part of this is because of what we were doing back then, so it isn’t quite the same. Yes there are larger things at play BUT these things you do locally on your 3.5 acres can have a huge impact.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    conversely, I saw tons last year in the suburbs!

    this year was wasps, though

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• RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Save the environment by NOT doing a bullshit chore? Sounds like a fuckin win to me. I already wasn’t going to, but now I can feel smug about it.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “why are all these centipedes and beetles in the house all of a sudden? Why are we getting so many mice?”

    (Leaf litter is cover for lots of things)

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes. We want more bugs. They are very important for many ecosystems.

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    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh well in that case we may as well continue contributing to environmental collapse.

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• Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve got bad news. From my very limited knowledge of fire fires they don’t bread all that fast and colonies don’t travel very far.

  So you might increase the fireflies you currently have you shouldn’t expect new fireflies.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they don’t bread all that fast

    Well they’re toast, then.

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for pointing out the one and only typo I made. Just the one typo. No need for anyone to re-read my comment. There was just that one typo and we all had a Good laugh about it.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So…should we take the woods to prevent forest fireflies?

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hmm “next summer” “spend two years on and underground” doesn’t quite fit together.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sure it does.

    the fireflies that are already alive have a better chance to make it to next year if they have appropriate conditions to live in

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  • 7eter@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How so? They need that habitat during the whole period - not just the first year.

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  • Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely

    *math vocabulary may be approximative

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• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought Joel already took care of those losers…

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• quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know about the insect population in my backyard but I do know that it is a safe haven for wall lizards, they don’t even hide anymore when I’m there.

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