https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/insects-are-vanishing-worldwide-now-its-making-it-harder-to-grow-food/ Farm. Food. Life. Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:10:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/insects-are-vanishing-worldwide-now-its-making-it-harder-to-grow-food/#comment-53882 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:56:39 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=148296#comment-53882 Couldn’t agree more! It’s not as difficult as it might seem. The effort to repopulate the Monarch butterfly population, for example, involves planting milkweed (the sole source of nutrition for Monarch caterpillars) in highway medians, along roadsides, and next to crop fields, and leaving greater parts of the landscape as meadow, not lawn.
Reducing the use of pesticides, including herbicides, and other changes to agriculture will probably also be needed, but the process can start as described above. If we plant a wide variety of native flowers instead of grass in our yards, we could increase habitat for insects exponentially.

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