I leave the leaves and pine needles in my backyard because it beats having a giant dirt patch.

I don't really want grass back there, but what else is comfortable to walk barefoot on and can hold up to large dogs, growing kids, and a small flock of miniature dinosaurs running allover it every day?

And I've spent an obscene amount of money on grass seed the past couple of years only to be told that I can't water it, between droughts and water bans from the city trying to balance water between the high-PFAS reservoir and the low-PFAS resevoir. Ugh. Can't win even if I try.

and with different credits for some reason

And a common folk lore about their appearance predicting the severity of the coming winter.

Correct!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrharctia_isabella

Kill the grass and replace it with clover

The grass is tough as fuck and doesn't need us saving their asses

Heck the grass it serves no purpose and is the worst monoculture we have

Grass will grow again in the spring, it's root system is fine for several months without sunlight... Assuming you have a local grass yard. Your yard is full of multiple species of local grasses and not just a desert of st Augustine right?

Grass like that is not much better than concrete anyway. Let nature do it's thing! ✨

In NA folklore, wooly bears predict the winter weather

In the 3rd panel read all the bugs then all the humans.

Rake leaves onto the pathway because the handicap get all the cool parking spaces.