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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by pengaru on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:36PM (#23208382)
> instead of letting them grown removes one of the last remaining habitats for animals living close to humans

Clearly you've never owned a home with pest problems nor dealt with animals chewing the wiring harness on your vehicle or inhabiting its air intake circuit.

I'm all for conservation and limiting human population size but there's no sense in encouraging pests to live in/around your house and possessions.

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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by throwaway-87398 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:56PM (#23208460)
What? That's just absurd. I live in a house with tall grass that gets mowed only once, in fall, and there is a absolutely no pest problem. Jest a sea of colorful flowers ans beautiful insects doing their thing minding their own business.
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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by pengaru on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:19PM (#23208617)
> What? That's just absurd. I live in a house with tall grass that gets mowed only once, in fall, and there is a absolutely no pest problem. Jest a sea of colorful flowers ans beautiful insects doing their thing minding their own business.

You're right, your sample of one clearly proves the absurdity of it.

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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by morsch on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:25AM (#23211809)
At this point that is more data than you have provided.
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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by chrisweekly on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:36PM (#23209034)
I'd bet you don't live in the northeast, where deer ticks about this size: . carry Lyme and other dangerous diseases. Untamed wilderness is a beautiful and precious thing -- one which bears little relation to your back yard (let alone an urban lot in Detroit).
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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by klyrs on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:49PM (#23209092)
As somebody who abhors yard maintenance and considers that a real perk of renting, I gotta ask... why once a year and not less?

(But also I'm with the sibling comments here -- lyme's is no joke and I'm terrified to know that it's been migrating west)

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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by throwaway-87398 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:14AM (#23210530)
its moved once a year to prevent bushes and trees from appearing. Maybe to simulate the wild fire that would briefly sweep over the meadow and clear the small dry plants in fall.
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Re:Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playgrou... by rhinoceraptor on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:25AM (#23211472)
The house I lived at previously, if I didn't mow regularly, the dog would come in covered in ticks.
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