Overheard someone at the hardware store say they stop mowing their lawn in May for pollinators

Last Saturday at the Ace in Oak Park, a woman was telling the clerk she lets her grass grow wild from May through September to help bees and butterflies. That got me thinking about my own yard, which I keep short and tidy. Has anyone here tried a 'no mow' season and noticed a real difference in local bug life?

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julia_hayes24d ago

Don't get me wrong, my lawn looks like a bad toupee already and I'm the one who mows it, so maybe letting it go wild would actually be an improvement.

oliver_torres424d ago

Real talk, letting your yard turn into a jungle for a whole season sounds good on paper but I'm not totally sold it's that big of a deal. Most pollinators are pretty resilient and do fine with a standard mow schedule as long as there's some other flowers around. Plus the neighbors probably won't love a foot-high weed patch in the middle of suburbia, you know? Seems like a lot of effort for something that might not move the needle much.