"No Mow May" won't fix our biodiversity problems

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• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nowhere in the article was there a link for an actual multi year study.

  We stopped mowing when we moved two years ago. I’m currently outside in my hammock, surrounded by butterflies and birds everywhere, which weren’t here when we moved. Fuck lawns.

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  • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We grow a lot of plants and live in an area that has an excessive volume of invasive species. No mow may is wonderful but please be aware of invasives and act to control them. No now may is leading to invasives getting very out of control here and impacting local biodiversity a lot.

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    • rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can do both. You can keep the yard under control and still have butterflies, bees, birds, etc. I don’t fertilizer, bug spray, etc and not only is my yard a bitch and a half to mow if I let it go or can’t get to it, the wildlife that is making the yard home is awesome.

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    • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Invasive species you say? Like the lawn?

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  • rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a huge yard and do my best to keep it under control, I still have a ton of birds, butterflies, fireflies, etc in my yard all the time. I even saw a groundhog or similar the other day.

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  • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you just stop entirely and do nothing else? Or did you do some sort of zeriscaping or something?

    I hate our lawn, but I don’t know how to transition it to something else. I don’t really have time to figure it all out myself and do all the physical labor of changing the lawn to something more manageable. So I just kinda mow here and there.

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