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The original was posted on /r/coolguides by /u/FayeFawns on 2024-05-04 15:23:31.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The moai scared all the bugs away :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Bug is dum dum.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man, I really hate the bottom kind of garden, on like a personal level.

My uncle has one of those gardens, so whenever we visited there and wanted to play with our cousins, there was just fucking nothing to do there. Like, you could play football excellently. And they had frisbees and all kinds of toys.

But no sticks. No plants to hide behind. No critters to poke at. No dirt to dig into. No trees to try to climb. Not even goddamn rocks to bang together. Everything is just sterile and dead. Like, why even have a garden, if all you can do in it, is to mow the goddamn grass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

If I caught some fucking kids "playing" all over my flowers they'd wish they had access to the bottom kind of garden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do I get only bees like the one on the bottom has only flies?

I'm willing to allow other insects like butterflies and mantises, but flies and gnats are non-starters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Many non-honey bees like to burrow in small tunnels. Preparing such tunnels for them can help them set up camp in your garden. You can do so, by e.g. drilling a few holes into a piece of wood and putting it somewhere where it doesn't get rained on too much.

Edit: I just saw that the uppermost picture has in fact one of those hanging on the tree to the right.

These are referred to as insect/bee hotel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was mostly joking on the assumption that it would be impossible, but now I'm fascinated by the idea that I can actually influence butterflies and bees so they're more abundant in my area. I was aware of the bee hotels, but didn't know they were anything more than a weird hobby. Do they exist for preying mantises? We sometimes find them in our yard, but they're endangered and I'd love to have a way to help them propagate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ah, yeah, it certainly is impossible to get only bees. 😅

I'm not actually a biologist or insect hotel expert myself. You'll probably get much better advice, if you ask in e.g. [email protected].

Given their camouflage, though, I imagine, they mostly want bushes to hide/hunt in. Maybe also don't rake the leaves in autumn right away.
Well, and you would probably actually want many other insects in your garden, for them as prey.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's one of those self-perpetuating behaviours. The more you spend time in the garden improving plantlife, the more animals you see especially on the microscopic level, the greater your interest. Good fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Our gnat population went down when we put up a hummingbird feeder and planted stuff that they like. It went up when we started composting though.

We have a few bushes that the bees really like, and it's cool to walk by them and hear such loud buzzing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really wish I could have the top garden but my yard is littered with deer(rural canada). If I don't mow once a week my family is going to have deer ticks:X

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Interesting I'm wondering if you creating a juicy yard of the snackiest grass isn't redrawing in the dear and a more diverse garden would reduce that? No idea.

Also if you're not fenced in, it's the deers yard really and you just get to enjoy it with them 😉

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You don't need such regimented rows, don't let ivy grow on your house (that's asking for brickwork issues(and bugs in the house)), have a trellise a metre away if you want. The wood pile isn't obvious enough. Compost bin?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Seriously top photo is madness

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

Is this account just a bot that just reposts/cross posts the reposts that another bot makes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am, in fact, human! Response sent via DM.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There will most certainly still be wasps and mosquitoes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not to mention the not-pictured centipedes, roaches, and spiders.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

HOA says no

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate how this implies Moai are incompatible with a lush garden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They cut all the trees to erect the Moaï

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I certainly don't need anything cut down to get erected.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you can absolutely have a grass-haired Moai, just make sure it's a native grass!