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The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture
#solarpunk #nolawns
@brockpenner I recently posted a photo of my bug hotel on masto. They should be a part of any garden, even if only a small piece of a log with holes drilled in it.
@stoicmike nice. Do you have a link?
@stoicmike Sweet. I'd stay if I had an exoskeleton
@brockpenner If we are reincarnated as bugs we'll be grateful for these luxury hotels.
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I wish the home improvement shows would bring some attention to this. Right now they cut back any mature plants until every yard looks like a 6-mo old subdivision. Normalize a high-diversity landscape.
@MHowell A solarpunk home improvement show might be a really good pitch to Netflix
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I think there's a lot of mileage to be won by getting more environmentally friendly practices slipped into mainstream shows such as the HGTV suite. They have high viewership and they set design norms. If they start showing houses with mature landscapes and/or diverse landscaping, it will help change perceptions about what yards should look like. I know people who want to delve in but worry about their property value being affected b/c people still have 1950s expectations.
@brockpenner @harshad While I strongly prefer the landscape & insect diversity at top, shout-out the Easter Island guy at bottom with a bush apparently growing out of his head.
@gorfram @brockpenner @harshad A symbol of a collapsed ecosystem?
@brockpenner Shame to lose the tiki head, though
@brockpenner kijk nu @onderhoudsarmoe , met zo'n onderhoudsarme tuin ben je nog van die vervelende insecten verlost ook.
@brockpenner I really don't understand who would _want_ that kind of a homogenous lawn. I thought it's mostly just an artifact of those "homeowner associations" that are only concerned with keeping real estate prices high to the detriment of the well-being of their forced "members".
@dmbaturin Here's a video on the subject. Basically, lawns are expressions of ruling class power.
@brockpenner @Raffnsoe The crookedness of your front path directly correlates with insect activity
@brockpenner @Raffnsoe They should also reeeeeally cut that ivy back
@jepyang @brockpenner the meticulously moved lawn is a green desert and a plague of the land.
@brockpenner I haven't had to clean my windshield in a while...
@brockpenner Embrace wild meadows. Who the fuck decided that all these beautiful wild grasses and flowers and bushes are "weeds"?
#FuckLawns #NoLawns
@brockpenner the last pic literally just said 
@brockpenner The Rapa Nui head statue is a very nice touch.
this is really cool and lovely except that letting vines grow on your house will probably cause problems for you.
@brockpenner fuck yeah fuck lawns
@brockpenner makes me feel a lot better about the state of my “garden”
@brockpenner This summer I'm 100% getting my front lawn wilded. Got about half of it gardened last year, now wild flowering the rest.
@markush at what stage are you there yet 
@brockpenner That is somehow really pretty.
@brockpenner the lawn of the flies
@brockpenner wait so a meadow is not a type of lawn? English is weird...
@wolf480pl Not so weird. A meadow is wild. A lawn is manicured.
@brockpenner Funny thing is, that’s exactly the argument lawn-care companies use to promote the bottom one.
@brockpenner I think some people are scared to get ticks. Lyme disease is a bit scary!