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Farmer-Rick

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4. I have insects everywhere

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:27 PM

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But then, I didn't mow my farm's fields this year. I let them grow wild with no pasturing animals. I mow just around my house which is about an acre or two.

I'm trying to make it comfortable for the swarm of monarch butterflies to come by again this year.

But the birds are much less. Though for the first time in 5 years, I saw a flock of Canadian geese bigger than 10 ducks. There use to be huge flocks when I was a kid.

Some places that have more wild lands have more insects and birds. But eventually we will all lose our diversity of life.

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