Every use of a leaf blower is a massacre.
A typical blower pushes air out at 150 to 200 mph. That's faster than a Category 5 hurricane, aimed straight at the layer of leaves where next year's butterflies, moths, and fireflies are hoping to spend the winter.
Woolly bear caterpillars curl up under those leaves. Luna moths hide their cocoons in them, disguised as dead leaves. Fireflies lay their eggs in them. Bumblebee queens sleep an inch or two below. Blast the beds down to bare dirt and all of it gets scattered, exposed or bagged for the landfill.
Flip it to vacuum mode and it's even worse. It sucks up whatever's in the leaves, insects and spiders included, and chops it up.
In 2019, Germany's environment ministry told people not to use leaf blowers unless they're indispensable, because small animals get sucked in or blown around and damaged.
Get a rake. Move the leaves off the lawn and driveway, pile them whole in your garden beds and under your trees, and leave them there until spring.
Next year's bumblebees and fireflies will thank you.
me trying to get a college degree at 26 and turn my life around while the U.N. just released a report that the planet has lost the chance to prevent the worst of global warming harms
My mum used to tell me when she was young you could walk into a factory in Manchester and get a job. If you didn’t like it you could walk out and into another one the same day.
When I was a teenager there was at least always work at pubs, seems they don’t even have that now
This blueberry I just ate deadass tasted like uncle pussy and it had loose skin too like an old man neck. I shouldnt have been so naive eating every berry. Damn it! I'm so stupid! I should just die this fucking uncle pussy berry damn irt
@montsant_anton@giveashitnature You can tissue culture them and they do grow readily from seed but require some tricky procedures that are difficult to scale to commercial production
We live next to a miraculous fresh water sea that naturally gives up a bounty of foods for us to eat, but we filled it poison to make washing up dishes take 3 minutes less
"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes."
Green MP Hannah Spencer tells us what Westminster is REALLY like.
The full interview is live on YouTube, and as a podcast here: https://t.co/s4mKAc0xku