JimmyB (he/him)@JimmyB@mas.to
@lionelb@expressional.social I’ve got it!!! Exactly that. I left the uneaten spring greens and the garden us full of cabbage whites! So simple a way to add butterflies - should have thought of it years ago
LionelB@lionelb@expressional.social
@JimmyB@mas.to
It is the cicada principle. So many emerge at once that predators can't possibly eat them all.
I suppose the weak point is if you attract vastly more birds than would have been there normally.