Get your vaccines, check for ticks after enjoying nature, and immediately visit a doctor if you still get sick.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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There are unlucky people who are asymptomatic but still get chronic Lyme 😑
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We have some fescue mixed with invasive Bermuda grass. You can't stop the Bermuda grass. It gets into everything. I fought it for years but finally just gave up.
If we could engineer and exterminate all ticks and mosquitos we'd all be so happy.
Mosquitos are pollinators.
Not every species are beneficial. There are only a handful that bite us and don't really contribute to the ecosystem. Those are the ones we need to get rid of.
I think you'd have to define beneficial..... Any species with sufficient biomass will become part of the surrounding ecology, with several other species adapting over time to predate upon that biomass.
Both tics and mosquitoes are huge sources of food for animals like birds, bats, fish, amphibians, and especially other insects. Completely destroying them would likely lead to an ecological disaster, just as it does when humans attempt to sanitize any aspect of nature.
The sanitizing process of urbanization is one of the largest reasons mosquito populations have exploded in North America in the last hundred years in the first place. Instead of mosquitoes laying eggs in ponds and waterways that are filled with frogs and fish that normally control their population. They are laying their eggs in urban environments that the animals who normally govern their population cannot thrive.
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If you cut your lawn to ultra short levels and put fuckloads of pesticides on it, then chances are you arent actually USING your lawn anyways. If you actually use your lawn you know its way nicer to have a little wild growth with flowers and shit going on.
I'm very pro natural lawn. But this makes no sense
Tons of families use their textbook lawns for sports, playtime, etc
Maybe thats regional but in my experience living in a couple german cities, "textbook lawn" equals "unused lawn" that purely exist as wealth symbol. Not saying it cant be well kept but there are variying degrees of that.
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If only it would grow like that. My lawn's natural state is crabgrass and violence
A lot of the US is trying to grow grass that isn't suited for it's climate. It's why it takes so much maintenance. Florida has that problem a lot. Maryland lawns don't even need watering and the grass is great with little encroachment or weed problems. It's a bit more varied with dandelions and wild aliums but mostly grass.
It's a bit more varied with dandelions and wild aliums but mostly grass.
Oh, you mean the biodiversity that nature and birds and turtles and squirrels need? Wish more places didn't consider a boring green landscape the norm...
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From my stint working in a rural health department... there's a lot of motherfuckers with backyards like this.
Only thing missing is a firepit with metal and plastic debris in it.
The car seat in the grass just brings it together.
That is either a miniature keyboard or a massive bug
Neither, it's a tick
You graze cattle on your yard? Give the insects a break and do a No Mow May.
Buddy has to bolt his chair back in to drive home too.
I had a friend with a backyard like this. You could see the fleas jumping around.
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