[NatureNS] Insect decline

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:48:56 -0500
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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.
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