Druh Farrell

Bug zappers are s**t at killing mosquitoes and excellent at killing beneficial bugs. If you have one running, unplug it.

In 1994, two entomologists at the University of Delaware put six residential zappers in suburban backyards and ran them for ten weeks. Then they counted and identified every single thing that died in them.

13,789 insects total. Only 31 of them were biting insects, like gnats and mosquitoes. Not 31%, 31 total. .2% of the total.

Almost half were non-biting aquatic insects, caddisflies and midges blown in off nearby creeks, which are the base of the food web for fish, bats, swallows and dragonflies.

Another chunk were moths, which pollinate at night and feed the birds and bats in your yard. Roughly 14% were predators that eat pests: ground beetles, parasitic wasps, ladybugs.

The zapper averaged 445 kills per trap per night.

Bug zappers suck at targeting mosquitoes for a simple reason: the female mosquito isn't looking for light. She's tracking the carbon dioxide you exhale, your body heat, the lactic acid on your skin.

She flies past the zapper without it even registering. Every moth in the neighborhood navigates by light, so the device pulls them in from across the yard and kills them.

Notre Dame ran the other half of the test: yards with zappers and yards without had no significant difference in mosquitoes present.

Unplug it. It's doing terrible things for the local environment and nothing beneficial for you.

The UCP’s Referendum Is Heading to a Disastrous Outcome Whatever happens on Oct. 19, Alberta will be a worse place.

The UCP is punching down again, scapegoating immigrants to hide their own failures. Smith is proposing a discriminatory "head tax" fee system for non-permanent residents. The people she is targeting are some of the lowest-paid workers in the province. By very definition, they are filling the essential jobs that Alberta businesses are unable to fill locally.

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Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.

While we're all celebrating migration this season, it's important to remember that artificial lights and skyglow can be fatal to migrating birds. Pledge to stand with Audubon as we call on building owners, managers, and homeowners to turn off excess lighting during the months of bird migration to help ensure birds have a safe passage.

As we celebrate birds this migration season, it’s critical to remember how fatal artificial lights and skyglow can be to migrating birds. Pledge to stand with us as we call on excess lighting to be turned off to help ensure birds have a safe passage: bit.ly/4cWaQm0

This is Us Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

Meanwhile, our sociopathic premier sheds a tear, not for the Albertans' suffering from lack of health care, or struggling with disabilities, or the Trans kids stripped of dignity, or of the growing racism against newcomers, but because she's done all the separatists have asked of her, amplified all their hate and division, and they still don't love her.

Charles Adler nails it. The problems in Alberta's health care system, schools, and social services networks are NOT the fault of immigrants, nor Ottawa. Our own government did this to us, and they are still doing it: they cancelled the planned and much needed new hospital for Edmonton upon taking office and haven't lifted a finger to correct that error since. With regards to schools, the Minister of Education's motto might as well be "you can announce a new school many times but you can only build it once," and he really leans heavily on the announcing part.

Remember this on October 19th: choose CANADA and say NO to the nine! Send these people a message! Hat tip to Katy E on twitter for the image.