After the 2nd year of cutting our farm, we stopped, our vets told us it's actually better for our rescues to have roughage than just straight grass. A good number of ours are metabolic and aren't supposed to eat super sugary grass. After the 1st year of not cutting, all the animals look great and tons of insects came back, now we have fireflies in the summer by the thousands, I haven't seen them since I was a kid. It's been amazing. Some of the fields in the morning during the summer I'll go out and just listen, as the noise from all the bugs is incredible.

O and the few small caves we have....the bats are back in large numbers as well...love me some bats.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My place has a pile of bats, in a large part I suspect because of the wrap-around style gutters they like to hang out in. Had a bunch decide to move into the fireplace for a bit though which wasn't ideal. Brought a pup that got lost into a rehab shelter. Made for a nice chance for the my kid to see something a lot don't get to up close.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Nicely done, thanks for saving the little guy and not killing them.