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NATURE

FEEDING OUR DUCKS KEEP BUGS AWAY

WITH THESE PLANTS

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BASIL Mosquito Housefly Zero to 100km/h
FEED THE DUCKS BREAD
• Bread makes our tummies hurt and
makes us ill.
• Bread does not contain the right faster than you can say “understated
nutrition or calories that we need LAVENDER Moth Flea
to survive.
• Bread makes us think we are full premium Swedish hybrid SUV”
and then we don’t eat the food we
need.
• It also pollutes our water and CATNIP Housefly Mosquito
causes nasty surface algae, which
kills our fish friends and gives us
diseases.

ENJOY FEEDING DUCKS AT Mosquito Aphid
THE PARK? MARIGOLD
SKIP THE BREAD - FEED THIS INSTEAD!
• Leafy Greens
• Peas
• Corn Kernels
• Rolled Oats ROSEMARY Flea Tick
• Halved Grapes
• Chopped Carrots, Cucumber or
Zucchini
• Duck Feed Pellets

BUZZING STRIPEY THINGS GUIDE

HONEYBEE BUMBLEBEE CARPENTER BEE HOVERFLY PAPER WASP
• Excellent pollinator • Excellent pollinator • Lives in your fence/wood • Wears striped uniform to • Looks scary, but won’t
• Makes honey • Very friendly unless • Males can’t sting, but are scare you attack unless threatened
• Friendly unless provoked provoked the aggressive ones • Can’t sting • Build small nests that
• Needs our help the most • Can sting multiple times • Important pollinators • Follows you around if it look like crumpled paper
• Can only sting once • Basically a flying fat • More of a nuisance than likes you • Resemble yellow jacket
panda a threat • Pollinators

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• Looks scary, but not • Aggressive • Big and scary • More interested in • Looks like Satan’s
much of a threat unless • Wants your food and will • Mostly nest above spiders nightmares
provoked fight for it ground in big ball shaped • Nests look like mud • Only eats cicadas
• Build small nests that • Minimal pollination nests “organ popes” • Don’t care about
look like crumpled paper • Typically lives in the • Not aggressive unless • Can sting, but extremely you, but will sting if
in corners ground provoked rare provoked
• Can sting multiple times • Can sting multiple times • Eats bees and other • Abandoned nests can
• Pollinators • Primary focus is insects insects become homes for other
• No sense of personal for food • Can sting multiple times, insects/wasps
space can be fatal

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