Tag: plants

Stripes of wildflowers across farm fields could cut pesticide spraying

lierdumoa:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

Long strips of bright wildflowers are being planted through crop fields to boost the natural predators of pests and potentially cut pesticide spraying.

The strips were planted on 15 large arable farms in central and eastern England last autumn and will be monitored for five years, as part of a trial run by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).

Concern over the environmental damage caused by pesticides has grown rapidly in recent years. Using wildflower margins to support insects including hoverflies, parasitic wasps and ground beetles has been shown to slash pest numbers in crops and even increase yields.

To quote another farming post that crossed my dash earlier today – “It’s almost like nature knows what it’s doing.”

Stripes of wildflowers across farm fields could cut pesticide spraying

plasmalogical:

botanyshitposts:

honeybottledrip:

3blush:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl7-9QZgea_/

this is so magical, it looks like little plants begin to grow and thrive at the bottom

this is a very common thing for mosses!! they’ve made themselves so resistant to water loss that they can squeeze out all intercellular water in the dry season, hang out like that for months or however long it takes for water to come back to their environment, and then ‘wake up’ when they can replenish their cells and resume photosynthesis!! a fun thing to try is to dry out a moss and then drip water on it and watch it come back to life!!

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