Comment by throwaway892238
3 years ago
....and more efficient at eating my expensive clothes and my brassicas, so fuck moths and bring on the native bee, wasp and butterfly populations
3 years ago
....and more efficient at eating my expensive clothes and my brassicas, so fuck moths and bring on the native bee, wasp and butterfly populations
There are many different species of moths and only a few eat clothing...
indeed, and i would not like to exterminate any of them. but it is bit irritating when the wool pullover you put away in spring is completely buggered come autumn. they are difficult to get rid of.
Naphtalene is supposed to deter them. It doesn't smell pleasant but at least it sublimates, leaving no stains.
Been there. Moth balls really work.
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honey bees are not native to north america. Native Americans called them "white man's flies" (or should I not be learning history by watching westerns?)
Honey bees, sure, but there are plenty of native bee species to North America.
That list of native bees includes bumblebees, in case anybody was conflating them with honeybees.
Thee native bees are also about 100x better at pollinating than honeybees.
So that is why corn syrup is popular in US?
Corn syrup is/was more used as a cheaper alternative for maple syrup and sugar. The relative unpopularity of honey probably has more to do with sugar plantations making sugar somewhat affordable.
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> fuck moths and bring on […] butterfly populations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae