• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Stop spaying trees for pests. Stop using crop dusters. Start using modern non chemical methods. During the pandemic they stopped spraying the pine trees around here and the fireflies were nearly as abundant as they were when I was a kid. Now they are back to poisonings us all to save a few trees for profit. As a result they are back to nearly being gone.

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      2 months ago

      Start using modern non chemical methods.

      Yes! Let’s start with targeting human biting species of mosquitos and make them extinct!

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        2 months ago

        Nah, that wont do anything to help the fireflies recover. Using non chemical machinery in fields will reduce the use of pesticides that are killing the fireflies. I don’t care if a few pine trees get beetles. Especially since they can go back to eliminating the trees mechanically and spot spraying instead of dousing it throughout the environment with a helicopter. Lets finish with mosquitos and start saving all the beneficial insects first.