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Index of Subjects Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>: > This > rapid decline has been under way for 70 years at the very least but > anyone who owns a house with more than a tiny lawn can, if they so > chose, act to > provide/enhance insect habitat on the land area over which they have > control; mainly by not destroying potential habitat. Examples include; mow > narrow paths with a bush scythe, let the rest flower and go the seed before > scythe mowing, encourage a diversity of broad-leaved weeds, use a rotary > mower mostly to grind leaves so they don't blow away and reduce brush to > chips, compost most or all food waste and all 'yard waste', turning compost > piles can become a chore so don't worry because invertebrates, > molds, slime molds and fleshy fungi will take care of that in their > own good time, use no herbicides and no insecticides other than > carefully directed materials such as soapy water or Rotenone on > diatomaceous earth. * we do all this, and we also monitor invertebrates alive-on-road and dead-on-road on the streets in our village - and it's very striking how our yards produce the most invertebrates, and how the production by other yards decreases in years when particular lawns are mowed more tightly - we preach this sermon in the Lawn Care Manual in our landscape book - http://www.pinicola.ca/books/landscape.htm > End of sermon, fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjecture and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate, it is surely not Darwin [, whose] works manifest the activity of a mind seeking for wisdom, a value which conventional philosophy has largely abandoned." Ghiselen, 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method, p 237. ------------------------------------------------------------
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