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Originally Posted by Two Bills
I remember the DDT "everywhere" period in UK. We had strips in the house, 'Flit Guns' for spraying any flying bug venturing within range, and the garden looked like white flour grading festival gone mad!
My wife and I have drastically altered our pest and disease control in our garden over the years.
Butterflies and bees are rapidly in decline here from pesticides etc. Nothing like the numbers from my formative years.
We have turned to hand weeding, companion planting, and most plants are bee and butterfly friendly. Most aphids, black and green flies etc can be removed by hand.
Hard work at times, but just a little payback from us for the damage we caused in ignorance years ago.
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I remember in the Summers as a kid in Boston when the DDT truck would come down the street and we used to run in and out of the spray cloud and with no front yards it just lofted up through the open windows of are homes . I sometimes wonder how many people must have there lifespan shortened because of it