• @electricyarn
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    246 hours ago

    The bees are dying because of neonicatinoids in RoundUp presticides.

    • @[email protected]
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      256 hours ago

      Yes, neonicotonoids probably kill bees.

      But if we want to be taken seriously, we need to be knowledgeable about the subject. Neonicotonoids are a class of insecticides. Roundup is a herbicide (glyphosate). They can both be bad, but they are bad in different ways.

        • @[email protected]
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          96 hours ago

          We’ve stopped mulching at the end of the year. We let the leaves fall and stay. In the spring we wait a long time until the grass is quite long.

          Loose the bees and things will get bad, quickly.

          We replaced our grass with clover as the bees like the flowers.

          • kurikai
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            44 hours ago

            Chuck some creeping thyme into it also and some creeping camomile.

    • BigFig
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      45 hours ago

      Both are factors