LEAF PICK UP: Leave some for the bugs and bees
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November 10, 2023 1:00 AM
Well soon begins the leaf pickup in Coeur d’Alene and I would ask that some of you leave a few piles in your yards. Overwintering butterflies and beneficial insects need leaf litter to survive.
Our insect population is in trouble from the over use of pesticides and herbicides. I asked a local yard service if the pesticides he was spraying killed honey bees his answer was yes. When I asked him why, if that was the case, why he used it he said, “It is so effective.”
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