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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Honey bees are dying but you can help native bees in your area. Find out what they like and plant that shit. Also just letting weeds grow helps a lot of species.

I get leafcutter bees at my place as well as a few other solitary species

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Making bee hotels for solitary bees is child's play. Take a chunk of wood, drill holes, hang in a tree.

Technical aspects:

  • Don't use pressure treated lumber, anything else is fine.
  • Look up "solitary bee hotel" for your area to see what size holes to make for the locals. In any case, it's going to be a variety of different sizes to cover all your bases. Doesn't have to bee (heh) perfect.
  • Make the holes, especially the edges, nice and smooth. They're not dumb enough to nest their if the hole is raggedy and might jack up their wings.

That's mostly it. You can research easily enough in an hour or less There's a woman on YouTube that sells bee hotels and has solid advice for making your own. Wish I remembered her name. Anyone?

Damned satisfying when you find the holes plugged with wax! You have new tenants! Stupid easy and basically free.

CAVEAT: These things are single use. Chunk 'em out every season, or better, burn them. Keeps the mites out. Make another for free.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I can't do that! What about my nice green grass lawn? /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My city will put a letter in my mailbox telling me to get rid of weeds and fine me $150 if I don't. Rip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ouch. I have been trying to plant native plants in our garden. Luckily I don't have anything like that in my city.

How do they enforce that? HOA?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The actual city sends a fine. If you don't clean it, they send a crew. If you don't pay for the crew, they lien the property.

Source: got letter from the city a week ago.

In fairness, I've been dealing with a lot and there were some areas that looked like we were abandoned. I've been meaning to clean out the unwanted stuff so the flowers can grow. My lawn is mostly moss and clover and that's not what they cared about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No, the city rolls around and if there are things sticking up out of the ground high enough outside of a flower bed they take pictures and send you a letter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cities have a lot of soft power in that regard. Mine, just as an example, bans parking on grass. Even if you're not in a fancy neighborhood, and have been parking on your lawn underneath the spreading oak tree for the last 50 years, they can ticket you for it (and tow) if they feel like being ornery.

I think the usual wording for grass/plants goes along the lines of property values and nuisances to bring it within legal frameworks for what they can regulate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Send them a letter back with the definition of a weed.

a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

If you want them there, they aren't weeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Weeds? I thought they were pests

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Weeds aren't really a thing. A weed is just a plant we don't like.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As long as you mow them it’s all good. Just having a yard with anything than just a monoculture grass is better.