No mow May - is it just me?

[Maggiethecat]

there’s one foot high grass growing and daisies aplenty and bees flitting around

however can barely see a bee in the border despite it having flowering broad beans, scabiosa, strawberries.

could it be that the bees have been distracted?

Nice. 🙄

Well it's a thing.

A completely pointless virtue signalling and dangerous thing but a thing nonetheless as seen here

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-65755393

Nobody is going to rewild Britain by having motorists crash into each other on roads that already exist, or by having some suburban fanny make their neighbours' lives a misery with ticks and hay fever throughout the summer.

I get the impetus behind it, I really do, but if people want to tackle the root cause of habitat destruction they need to be protesting against the massive agri-business landowners, not fannying on with postage stamp sized gardens in areas already given over to urban planning.

Well it's a thing. Fears about it are a thing. It’s the excuse always trotted out by the “neat and tidy” brigade. But what are the stats?

Road verges cover an area the size of Dorset (Plantlife). So not trivial. And they already make up a connected web. No-one’s saying “if we don’t mow our lawns or verges, we don’t need to worry about agri-business”.