Article on the decline of the world’s insect population

[Minty]

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/...ations-are-plummeting-everywhere-we-look.html

It’s making me want to go and plant some flowers etc in my garden.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

It’s making me want to go and plant some flowers etc in my garden.

You should do that, no matter: how's a garden without plants and flowers?

 

[Minty]

You should do that, no matter: how's a garden without plants and flowers?

Grass and a tree. Lol

 

[pannaking22]

It's a good thing to do a long as they're native plants

 

[schmiggle]

It's a good thing to do a long as they're native plants

Or non-native but not invasive. Often won't help for larvae, but nectar of non-native plants is often good eating for pollinators (as far as I have read re: bumblebees).

 

[pannaking22]

Or non-native but not invasive. Often won't help for larvae, but nectar of non-native plants is often good eating for pollinators (as far as I have read re: bumblebees).

Anymore it seems to be a tough call on many of the non-natives. Who's going to be invasive and who isn't? There are so many different plants people can get in stores nowadays that it's hard to tell sometimes, especially when they only put a generic common name on the plant. Many "wildflower" seed packets are guilty of that.

I agree that the more the merrier for nectar resources though. Things could certainly be worse in that regard.

 

[BoyFromLA]

Different link, but basically same thing.

http://arachnoboards.com/threads/interesting-article-about-insects-numbers-declining.316451/

But yeah, it is both very interesting, and alarming.

 

[schmiggle]

Anymore it seems to be a tough call on many of the non-natives. Who's going to be invasive and who isn't? There are so many different plants people can get in stores nowadays that it's hard to tell sometimes, especially when they only put a generic common name on the plant. Many "wildflower" seed packets are guilty of that.

I agree. Especially with climate change it can be hard to predict. However, I feel pretty confident that, say, the overly showy lily and tulip hybrids aren't going to become invasive in my home town, since they've been there and down the coast for a long time.