• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      12 days ago

      Yeah this is drinking straws vs private jets.

      Growing up in the suburbs we raked all the leaves and packed them in plastic bags which were then picked up as trash (no recycling back then). We had hundreds of fireflies everywhere.

      Today I’m on 3.5 acres, half of which I don’t mow at all and the other half I don’t rake the leaves. But there are still fewer fireflies than 40 years ago.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        12 days ago

        There are fewer everything. I’ve commented on the ecosystem collapse many time, don’t have the energy any longer.

        At least my yard is coming back. Our house is the reason the block has frogs, dragonflies, etc.

        • Kenny2999@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          12 days ago

          Same here. Used to get whole families of deer, rabbits, hedgehogs, squirrels etc eating our gardens goodies. Nowadays its lucky to catch a single magpie nibbling on an apple. Animals today are so damn picky. /s

      • RandAlThor@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        It’s all the pesticides we use in gardens and agriculture. It’s in our air water everywhere decimating all kinds of insects.

  • Aeao@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    12 days ago

    I’ve got bad news. From my very limited knowledge of fire fires they don’t bread all that fast and colonies don’t travel very far.

    So you might increase the fireflies you currently have you shouldn’t expect new fireflies.

      • Aeao@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        12 days ago

        Thanks for pointing out the one and only typo I made. Just the one typo. No need for anyone to re-read my comment. There was just that one typo and we all had a Good laugh about it.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      It still helps. And they might not travel far but they do travel so it’s good to have a destination.

      The best part is that even if it doesn’t work the entire point is that you aren’t doing extra work. Literally just do nothing and at worst nothing will happen but at best you’ll start seeing more and more improvement, if slowly at first.