• protist@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    People aren’t spraying herbicides for mosquitoes though, they’re spraying pesticides that also kill bees, grasshoppers, and beetles. I’m not defending herbicide use, but as far as insect populations are concerned, pesticides are a serious direct threat

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      7 months ago

      I was not implying that people were spraying herbicides for mosquitoes, but merely mentioned them as a sympathetic exception.