Wow. I'd be afraid to knowingly allow any reptile (wild or otherwise) to eat a bug that had been sprayed with pesticides. Those skinks around your place must be tough indeed.
<<<< I don't if I see the dead or dying bug first (it goes into the toilet and gets flushed....
We don't use any pesticides or herbicides in our yard, but I'm not sure about the neighbors or the city. We're next door to a bike trail on one side, with lots of nice trees and grass that the city maintains. Once we got a notice that they were going to spray some kind of pesticide in the area but then we got a second notice that they were going to use something organic and non toxic, so I'm not sure if the first notice was an error, or if some environmental activist group got after them and actually got results.
<<<< I haven't used insectocides (sprays, surface sprays, baits) since we had Lucky.
I have no control over what my neighbours use though and bugs do travel
Meanwhile, the cottonwood leaf beetles have been having a field day with the trees in our yard, but the trees seem to be large enough and healthy enough not to mind losing a few leaves, so we just let nature take its course...
Our yard will be full of dandelions in a few more weeks. My husband loves to be outside on a nice summer day, so I give him a big gallon ziploc bag and a little sandwich sized ziploc bag and send him out in the yard to pick dandelion greens -- big ones for himself and little ones for the beardie. :mrgreen: (I wish the beardie and I liked them as much as my husband does because I know they're good for us. :roll: ) We've even developed a mowing strategy that enables us to have at least one patch of nice fresh young dandelion greens somewhere in the yard throughout the summer.
<<< my lawn is very weedy too - lots of dandelions and even some thisles
We had a old couple as neighbours at one stage who were fastidious to the point of obsessive about getting rid of weeds , suddenly one summer I noticed all the grass along our boundary fence and about 6 ft into yard was dying, the old bugger had been spraying herbicides and other nasty toxic **** over the fence because we had weeds .... we had frequent visits of neighbourhood kids to play with our boy and I saw red, was at his front door and told him in no uncertain terms to keep his toxic and poisonous **** on his side of the fence or there would be consequences .... my boss when I told him about this reckoned I'd scared the living daylights out of the old fool.... he and his wife never spoke to my wife and I again after that , and never repeated the offence either.
