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.
🚨I’m still trying to process what just happened.
The highest ranking US intelligence official, just released smoking gun docs proving that Obama and his underlings committed treason/sedition.
Meaning Trump was right about everything, the news is fake, and the Deep State is real.
Meaning that all of us “conspiracy theorists” were right about the conspiracy against Trump… it wasn’t a theory.
Meaning the shadow war is real, and all our efforts over the last 10 years were not part of a “LARP”.
Meaning that we are not crazy. We were right.
It was all real.
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@photon010 Accidentally ate about a 100 sugar ants a couple days ago that were all over my Milk Duds because it was dark. The box was full of them. Still not okay 🤣