anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>A caveat to this study: the researchers were primarily looking at insect <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pollinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollinator</span></a> biodiversity. Planting a few native wildflowers in your garden will not suddenly cause unusual megafauna from the surrounding hinterlands to crowd onto your porch. </p><p>That being said, this study backs up <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DouglasTallamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasTallamy</span></a> 's optimistic vision of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HomegrownNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomegrownNationalPark</span></a>, which calls for people in communities of all sizes to dedicate some of their yard (or porch or balcony) to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NativePlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativePlants</span></a>.</p><p>3/6</p>