If people really want to save the bees, they need to replace lawns with fields of wildflowers.
If people really want to save the bees, they need to replace lawns with fields of wildflowers.
Back in 2014, “he” was still considered by many to double up as a gender neutral singular pronoun (which was the standard in English for at least a century). The rehabilitation of “they” as a gender neutral singular is very, very recent. I had to be actively taught not to use it that way back in the late '80s.
This, of course, was the proscriptivist position. Kids who “don’t know any better” have always used a gender neutral singular “they” until their teachers told them not to.
Fungus gnats are generally the result of overwatering your plants. Let the soil surface dry out between waterings, and they’ll disappear.
Ultrasonic repellers don’t even work on what they’re designed to affect. I don’t imagine they particularly like living near one, but we don’t like living near railroad tracks, and yet do when we have no other choice.
I don’t think it’s any more reasonable to expect honey bees to be restricted to their “native lands” any more than cows, or wheat. But flowers will feed whatever happens along, and wildflowers will feed what tends to live in that area.