Where is everyone?

[Marigold]

Hi Diane, that sometimes happens when somebody else has coincidentally been online at the same time as you and had posted something in the time it’s taken you to write your reply. It’s supposed to give you a chance to read the new post before replying, in case you then want to change anything. If you then click the wrong button it does disappear (I can’t remember which option it is but I’ve been caught out like that and it’s maddening.)
Best thing to do is to just click Submit anyway. Then your post will go ahead and you can edit it in the usual way once it’s safely submitted, if you want to.

 

[Marigold]

Seething today. A beautiful verge of poppies and other wild flowers in full bloom next to a local cycle path, teeming with bumblebees as the strip was the only rich source of food in a monocultural area of cereal crops and football fields, was being cut by a huge motor mower this morning, mincing up the bumblebees as it went along. The operators were very reluctant to do the job as they understood the implications, but said they had to do as the boss told them or lose their jobs.
I posted photos on our local Facebook wildlife group and there has been much indignation. But that doesn’t bring back the poppies and the precious bumblebees, or anything else in the grass such as hedgehogs and slow worms.

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[LadyA]

Awful! Our Council has just mowed paths through most of their green areas in housing developments etc. Even the bypass, they're only starting to mow bits now, when things have finished flowering.

 

[bigyetiman]

There has been a lot about this on Twitter, councils mowing verges, and especially Veolia mowing a wildlife area which they had been told not to do because of the nesting Skylarks, Corn Buntings, as it is next to a nature reserve there were many people taking pictures and pics of dead chicks. They are now being prosecuted.
The other side to councils/landowners mowing everything is they never go along and pick the litter up and you end up with plastic etc in small pieces everywhere .

Our council did adopt the "no mow May" policy and only strimmed back at dangerous road junctions, so we have been lucky enough to enjoy a riot of flowers locally, sadly they are in the minority

 

[dianefairhall]

That's nothing short of vandalism. The Council doesn't do it here. If we want our verges trimmed we do it ourselves so we can leave the stuff we like.