@profstonge Remember the don’t waste water by let it run while brushing your teeth? Need to start don’t waste AI computing power by making videos of yourself in armor riding unicorns.
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
@PhillipAKennedy No one was dying in their homes: ya’ll should have known it was not lethal. Only lethal if they forced a breathing tube and / or gave Redemsevir.
@DisrespectedThe People don’t want their choices recorded. Everyone is scared some odd little thing will but you on the wrong side of some future dystopian culling. Just stay off their list.
@goddek@DisrespectedThe@nikitabier Exactly. Now, I habe to sekect my profile, select following, scroll down to the person, click individually. The “feed” is useless.