Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoThe White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldimagemessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up11.03Kfile-text
arrow-up11.03KimageThe White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square182fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months agoBecause ants can live on grass but not pavement? Lawn is bad for biodiversity but concrete is much worse.
minus-squaretheunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 months ago Ants can and do live in paved spaces. There is a layer of sand under the slabs that is easy for them to excavate tunnels from, with the entrance between two slabs. It’s the white house. It gets sprayed for insects anyway.
minus-squareCeruleum@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThey should spray a lot more, plenty of bugs there.
minus-squareNoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoYou need to get the 12 gauge spray for the kind of bug you’re thinking of.
Because ants can live on grass but not pavement? Lawn is bad for biodiversity but concrete is much worse.
Ants can and do live in paved spaces. There is a layer of sand under the slabs that is easy for them to excavate tunnels from, with the entrance between two slabs.
It’s the white house. It gets sprayed for insects anyway.
They should spray a lot more, plenty of bugs there.
You need to get the 12 gauge spray for the kind of bug you’re thinking of.