Go Go Dandelions!

It's time for my annual exhortation to not spray pesticides on your dandelions, but let them be to feed the bees. Here's how it works: leave the dandelions alone to provide food for the bees, and later on the bees will pollinate crops to provide food for you. A lawn is an ecological wasteland, a bunch of monocultured, non-native-populated space where there is nothing for bees to eat. If you let your lawn stop being a lawn, and go back to what it was before people decided that every house needs to be surrounded by unbroken green, there would be wildflowers there for the bees to feed on in the early spring. Best case scenario, everyone would do that. At the very least you could let the wildflowers grow among the grass, so that the pollinators survive to pollinate the food crops that feed us. We need them. Support them. Don't poison them.

Backyard Co-Bug of the Day #1:

 Speaking of letting the wildflowers grow, I have a lot of wildflowers growing in my driveway because it is gravel and waffle block instead of blacktop. So I get lovely pollinators like this bee.

Backyard Co-Bug of the Day #2:

 Beetle

Meanwhile, back on the driveway:

 A bee fly

 I found another bee fly somewhere else in the backyard.

A couple of click beetles:

 Crane flies

 Wasp

 Butterfly and bee on (and flying past) pussywillow

Arachnid Appreciation:
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