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it's so chilling to walk through an area where the houses are surrounded by blank sterile lawns and see a big lilac bush in full bloom without a single bug on it. No bees, no butterflies, not a stir of activity.

kylaralynn

The neighborhood association where I work hires a truck to spray the whole subdivision. It trundles up every driveway and sprays every yard with pesticides. The children excitedly tell me about "the bug man" and know which days he comes on. I know when he's been there, because in the following days I see the beetles, butterflies, bees, and more, all struggling on the pavement, slowly dying. The children do not realize why they are there. They poke at the bugs in fascination. I hate it.

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That's. Horrible. I have no words

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Those insecticides are toxic to humans as well, many are proven carcinogens, and their residues stick around for years inside homes

But even if that wasn't so, insect populations worldwide are plummeting, and the entire food chain depends on them. Most plants and animals could not exist without insects, period

Keeping the insect ecosystem in balance is important for human health and long term flourishing. Not all species are impacted equally by these toxic chemicals, and the elimination of one species can cause an explosion in another.

For example, some of the major predators of ticks are ants, spiders, and beetles

If you kill all your ants, spiders, and beetles, it'll take a long time for them to re-establish, but ticks can return because of a feral cat walking across your grass

What's more, scientists have found that excluding animals from an area makes the amount of ticks that can be collected in that area to explode. We're talking 2-3 times the amount of ticks actively foraging for things to latch onto. It seems like hungrier ticks seek food sources more and bite people more. This leads to the hypothesis that global defaunation is one of the causes of the explosion in tick borne diseases in recent years

Many birds depend on insects for food, bluebirds specifically eat a ton of mosquitoes

If you wipe out most arthropods, the the small mammals and birds that eat the bugs will visit your yard much less. Guess what that means

Current projections predict that the insect declines will be heavily impactful upon bees, butterflies, and moths, but could increase the populations of...flies and cockroaches.

Not to mention that as all the natural predators of agricultural pest insects suffer, more and more pesticides will be needed to get enough crop yields and it becomes a vicious cycle of poisoning the planet and farm laborers more and more severely to avoid collapse of food systems

Your neighborhood association is creating a bleak, sick, hungry future for those kids and everyone else.

headspace-hotel

Like, think about it:

If you kill and destroy everything in your surroundings that doesn't benefit you directly, soon the only critters that can live there are the creatures that are parasites on you directly or that compete with you for resources.

And now they don't have any predators to keep them at bay.

headspace-hotel

reblogging this again because researching ticks changed my brain around

like I thought "Yeah re-wilding will probably increase the risk of ticks but we just need to make tick safety widespread and common knowledge"

but then I RESEARCHED it

and the research was like "Actually tick diseases have increased DRAMATICALLY over the past 40 years, and tick ranges are expanding hugely and it's mostly unrelated to climate change so far. And we did experiments and in areas where there aren't any animals, the number of ticks that catch onto things passing through the area explodes, it's like 2-3 times the number of ticks. Which is like, wait, weird, I thought animals spread ticks. But we think what's happening is that when there's no animals, the ticks engage in more questing behavior to find food."

and I was like "Wait, but if the decline of animals is making the ticks look for food more, wouldn't they...wait. Oh no. OH NO. We're the food!"

and I looked at more research

and the research said "so the main things that kill ticks seems to be spiders, ants, and beetles."

and I was like "spiders, ants, and beetles? the things that people see as pests and try to kill with chemicals that contaminate the whole ecosystem?—OH FUCK"

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Basically it's like

Expectation: destroying nature= fewer ticks, which means less disease

Reality: destroying nature= hungrier ticks that want to suck your blood way more and less spiders ants and beetles to eat them for you

forphysicsandimagination

When my parents did the landscaping on their house a few years ago, my dad planted a bunch of native plants. When my neighbor asked my dad why his lawn was so vibrant and pretty, his instinctive response was “because I don’t poison it.” Every summer, the lawn is filled with bumblebees and birds and monarch butterflies and spiders and just tons of native arthropods. My dad calls his lawn an oasis for native species. Seeing the bugs there make me happy. Knowing that most of the neighborhood has almost none makes me sad.

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gotta-whump-them-all

Whumper who let's Whumpee having one hobby while with them is so good. Like Whumpee chooses something from the list below.

  • reading/writing
  • drawing/coloring/painting
  • games (specifically one)
  • crafting
  • baking/cooking
  • knitting/crocheting

Whumper then only let's them have their hobby if they're'behaving' themselves.

What I mean by behaving, I mean if Whumpee is told to do something and they don't do it to Whumper's liking they'll take that privilege away from them.

Even if it's something impossible for Whumpee to do, Whumper doesn't care all that much.

Bonus: Whumpee gets away from Whumper and is now with Caretaker. They constantly feel on edge to do everything and anything right, as to not have what is left to be taken away.

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@idoodlestuffsometimes Brother’s Keeper AU

soberwho
soberwho

Things I learned about periods in last 10 years

Want to delay periods - Norethisterone tablets or taking jeera with sugar before a week you about to start your periods

Want to get periods early - boil water add gud(jaggery) and long(cloves) and ginger and have it , another one I know is to eat gud haldi (jaggery and Turmeric) and drink boiled milk after it

Never use hot water to remove blood stains, Cold water and salt helps removing them.

Eating cheese before 1-2 days you about to get your periods can worsen up period cramps

Ibuprofen helps relieving period cramps, it takes like 15-20 min to work (ik we are strong asf but sometimes cramps act as hurdle when we have other important things to concentrate so taking painkiller sometimes do no harm) ,you can also take ajwain with hot water to relieve pain

to remember
soberwho
soberwho

Things I learned about periods in last 10 years

Want to delay periods - Norethisterone tablets or taking jeera with sugar before a week you about to start your periods

Want to get periods early - boil water add gud(jaggery) and long(cloves) and ginger and have it , another one I know is to eat gud haldi (jaggery and Turmeric) and drink boiled milk after it

Never use hot water to remove blood stains, Cold water and salt helps removing them.

Eating cheese before 1-2 days you about to get your periods can worsen up period cramps

Ibuprofen helps relieving period cramps, it takes like 15-20 min to work (ik we are strong asf but sometimes cramps act as hurdle when we have other important things to concentrate so taking painkiller sometimes do no harm) ,you can also take ajwain with hot water to relieve pain