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[–] krellor@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lightning bugs have a multi-year lifecycle that includes living in fallen leaf matter, hunting for other bugs, before emerging in like 2-3 years. So they need places that don't haul away all of the fallen leaves/plant matter or use broad spectrum pesticides.

I've always kept all the leaves in rows along our fences for the lightning bugs to live in, which is also popular with the song birds hunting for bugs. That and don't do the broad pesticide treatments.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems insane to me that Americans use pesticides on their own garden and lawn. Do you not walk on there? have your kids and pets play outside? What are you even trying to kill with the poison?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you make your lawn a color of green that doesn't exist in nature? Checkmate, Eurotrash.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's called "plants other than grass" and works really well, most swedish lawns remain green for most of the year and require jackshit care other than mowing every now and then.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

How are these "plants other than grass" supposed to make TruGreen rich and cause algae blooms in the local waterways? You guys are so behind.