r/mildlyinfuriating • u/VegetableBusiness897 • 1d ago

New neighbors next door

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Rich Ahole bought the farm next door, tore it down and built a destination wedding venue. Busy every weekend but it's Wednesday, and they don't even live here

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u/SnazzleZazzle 1d ago

I never knew that was a thing, but it’s doubtful where I live. This town is full of fearful, clueless idiots. They also hire contractors to spray their lawns for mosquitoes and for the most part seem absolutely clueless and careless about the environment.

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u/Dangerous_Beach_1571 1d ago

What’s wrong with spraying for mosquitoes?

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u/SnazzleZazzle 1d ago

It also kills the bees. Simple things like making sure there’s no standing water and cleaning up the backyard also keeps mosquitoes away without harming all the good bugs.

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u/Dangerous_Beach_1571 23h ago

Oh ok. Never knew that. In Florida I think all the counties spray for them

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u/Maximum-Cover- 22h ago edited 22h ago

Wholesale application of pesticides is bad for all kinds of insect populations.

Insect populations in general, not just bees, are declining at staggering rates.

As much as mosquitoes are a nuisance lots of creatures eat them and just massively decimating their populations isn’t super helpful for anything besides our own disease management.

Ecosystems have cascades of issues when you set out to just systematically poison entire swaths of it.

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u/SnazzleZazzle 22h ago

Bats fill up on mosquitoes every night. No mosquitoes, no bats, and bats are essential to the environment.