irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to No Lawns@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 hours agoJust grass. Nothing but grass. Soley grass.lemm.eeimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageJust grass. Nothing but grass. Soley grass.lemm.eeirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to No Lawns@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 hours agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareelectricyarn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoThe bees are dying because of neonicatinoids in RoundUp presticides.
minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoYes, neonicotonoids probably kill bees. But if we want to be taken seriously, we need to be knowledgeable about the subject. Neonicotonoids are a class of insecticides. Roundup is a herbicide (glyphosate). They can both be bad, but they are bad in different ways.
minus-squareyunxiaoli@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoAnd the lack of dead leaf cover over winter.
minus-squarewirebeads@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 hours agoWe’ve stopped mulching at the end of the year. We let the leaves fall and stay. In the spring we wait a long time until the grass is quite long. Loose the bees and things will get bad, quickly. We replaced our grass with clover as the bees like the flowers.
minus-squarekurikai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 hours agoChuck some creeping thyme into it also and some creeping camomile.
The bees are dying because of neonicatinoids in RoundUp presticides.
Both are factors
Yes, neonicotonoids probably kill bees.
But if we want to be taken seriously, we need to be knowledgeable about the subject. Neonicotonoids are a class of insecticides. Roundup is a herbicide (glyphosate). They can both be bad, but they are bad in different ways.
And parasitic mites
And the lack of dead leaf cover over winter.
We’ve stopped mulching at the end of the year. We let the leaves fall and stay. In the spring we wait a long time until the grass is quite long.
Loose the bees and things will get bad, quickly.
We replaced our grass with clover as the bees like the flowers.
Chuck some creeping thyme into it also and some creeping camomile.