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.
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I Am Being Threatened For Protecting Children...
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NEW: Show host Shawn Ryan absolutely torches children's camp 'Camp Kanakuk' after they demanded he take down a portion of his show where he alleged they m*lested thousands of kids.
"No, I don't negotiate with ped*philes or the people who defend them."
"I'm not taking anything down. I'm not apologizing, and I'm damn sure not going to stop talking about child s*xual abuse at a Christian camp that continues to operate on the same grounds where horrific abuse took place."
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@AdrianneCurry Technically I'm a Boomer..but like you, I identify as Gen X...I mean seriously I may have been born in the '60s BUT I grew up in the '70s...I DID ALL the Gen X sh*t!