3 minute lesson
Replacing DEET with Ducks
Have you ever considered using ducks as a form of pest control? At first thought, it seems like a strange idea, but these ducks are great at their job!
Hundreds of Indian Runner Ducks are being utilized at a vineyard with a snail problem. Take a peek at some of the happiest workers you’ll ever see at the Vergenoegd Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, thanks to this video below from Great Big Story…
Why It Matters
Pesticides can be especially harmful to the environment and often have unintended or unknown consequences. Implementing environmentally friendly alternatives to potentially harmful practices is very important when we think about where we want our planet to be in the future.
Nature has many solutions to these problems already, we just need to look to nature instead of to chemicals.
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