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Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by vidarh »

nemo44x wrote: post #6
crossingTime wrote: post #3

"I can't mow this week wife, think of the bees." Thanks science.

Bad approach to life. My advice is to either learn to love things that have to be done (and frequently like mowing) or pay someone to do it. Life’s too short. Lawn is really fascinating when you get into it.

Or affect change to not need it. My advice is to not have a lawn, and instead culture semi-wild patches of flowers by only weeding what is unattractive. No mowing for me, and no high maintenance manicured flower beds, and lots of bees.

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by devmunchies »

nsxwolf wrote: post #34
popol12 wrote: post #28

Lawn mowing is among the top most useless energy wasting human activities. It's noisy (of course nobody syncs with neighbours to mow so you can be sure to hear mowing noise every day), polluting, and so fucking useless.

It looks really nice, which is the point.

then people take it too far and get turf lawns which look terrible IMO. its the uncanny too-much-plastic-surgery of lawns.

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Post by ironmagma »

popol12 wrote: post #28

Lawn mowing is among the top most useless energy wasting human activities. It's noisy (of course nobody syncs with neighbours to mow so you can be sure to hear mowing noise every day), polluting, and so fucking useless.

Not noisy or polluting if you use an electric mower. Useless, kind of, although I appreciate not having a literal million insects floating into my house when I open the door (I live in FL) so it keeps those populations in check. Most of the macro bugs know the mower is coming and hop out of the way.

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by rascul »

popol12 wrote: post #28

Lawn mowing is among the top most useless energy wasting human activities. It's noisy (of course nobody syncs with neighbours to mow so you can be sure to hear mowing noise every day), polluting, and so fucking useless.

It's not pointless. It's nice for myself and my dog to be able to use my yard without catching ticks. Seeing where I step when I walk is a nice perk. Also I like to minimize the places that rodents and other animals can live around my house, to minimize on the damage they cause to my house. My mower was down for the better part of the year last year and it was not pleasant for me or my dog.

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

lazide wrote: post #31

It also increases angry letters from the HOA by 200%

I’ve tried to imagine buying a house with an attached HOA. I already have three layers of government, what does adding a fourth layer get me beside more busybodies telling me what (not) to do?

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by hanniabu »

rascul wrote: post #45
popol12 wrote: post #28

Lawn mowing is among the top most useless energy wasting human activities. It's noisy (of course nobody syncs with neighbours to mow so you can be sure to hear mowing noise every day), polluting, and so fucking useless.

It's not pointless. It's nice for myself and my dog to be able to use my yard without catching ticks. Seeing where I step when I walk is a nice perk. Also I like to minimize the places that rodents and other animals can live around my house, to minimize on the damage they cause to my house. My mower was down for the better part of the year last year and it was not pleasant for me or my dog.

Plants clover instead of grass and you can still use your yard perfectly fine

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by ironmagma »

cinntaile wrote: post #11

I don't understand why a lot of people have a lawn in the first place, most don't even use the lawn (besides mowing it on a regular basis hahaha)!

Often times it is required by law or HOA. For example the FL fire code has a mandate that buildings be set back from the road a certain (insane) distance, ostensibly for fire safety reasons, and then people don’t really want to see huge dirt fields everywhere, so the HOAs require lawns.

Re: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

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Post by masklinn »

jeromegv wrote: post #32
chockchocschoir wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't live in the US nor speak English natively, but are you referring to neighbors around you as "the city"? And what does "blue law" mean in this context, as it seems to mean "Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws and Sunday closing laws, are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world." but that doesn't fit the context. It can't actuall…

Many cities in canada and US have laws that force you to cut your lawn. It is pure insanity but America has a weird fixation with lawn. Good article / podcast on it https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/lawn-order/

> It is pure insanity but America has a weird fixation with lawn.

It's classism. The entire point of requiring large setbacks with front lawns is to discriminate for homeowners who can afford to maintain a large completely useless surface.

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