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They're called leaves for a reason. (mander.xyz)

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[-] dumples@midwest.social 18 points 1 day ago

Just remember that month suggestions online are for certain geographic areas. You might need to move them earlier or later. (The best rules I have seen is when nights are above 50 F in North America)

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

In other words, leave nature alone and let it do the thing it designed itself to do

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And now I'm even more glad that where I live they leave the leaves under the tree. Didn't know that bumblebees live under that leaves left under the tree. Now I wanna leave a commest about the cute bumblebees that live under the leaves that someone left under the tree.

P.S. sorry, couldn't hold myself, sorry:)

[+] madthumbs@lemmy.world -35 points 1 day ago

Colony collapse was due to fungicides being sprayed in the day. -Bees don't need extra pollen (they have plenty of food to spare which is why we have honey as a product), and they don't need people's lawns (pick the leaves up before winter).

Leaving leaves is just being an asshole neighbor making safe paths for vermin to get into houses, and reduce the value of neighboring properties.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since HOAs were mentioned, I assume the previous comment was about the US (unless there are countries in the Old World where they are as prevalent, but I know of none). Domestic honey bees aren't native to the US, and many native bees are endangered for many different reasons. In the rest of the world as well, honey bees aren't the only bees, or the only pollinating insects, and each pollinator has their plants of predilections, some species of plants depend entirely on some species of insect, so insect biodiversity is very important. Protecting native bees in the Americas has particular stakes, because they're the most adept at pollinating the native plants which are the cornerstones of several ecosystems.

[-] fern@lemmy.autism.place 23 points 1 day ago

Please cite your sources.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

Does his ass count as a source?

[-] fern@lemmy.autism.place 11 points 1 day ago

I think that counts as a secondary/#2 source?

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee -4 points 1 day ago

You're not OP

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Lmfao

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago

Leaving leaves also kills the grass under them.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

oh no! Anyways...

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It most certainly does not. Source: have a tree, a lawn, and no interest in spending time raking leaves.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

It really depends on how many leaves we're talking; a thin, evenly distributed layer? Yeah that's just mulch and is great. A thicker layer that turns slimy and dense? That grass is a goner. Area and species of leaves probably pays a big part I imagine. I have an area near a fence where the leaves piled up and were left a year and now there's no grass there, even a couple years later (there's a super embedded layer of decomposing leaves that's blocking everything else out even after removing the bulk of the leaves)

Of course, there's never room for nuance in these conversations.

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