To the Editor:
Did you know that there can’t be birds without bugs, the little things that run the world? These are precarious weeks when our land birds are raising babies in their nests, and we can ease their efforts to find food.
Little known, but more than 90% of these bird species feed insects to their young, who desperately need the protein and fat to survive. That even includes nectar-loving hummingbirds.
Flies, beetles, crickets are on the menu, but caterpillars are the best! It takes more than 5,000 caterpillars to fledge a nestful of Carolina chickadees. What can we do insure survival?
We can stop spraying pesticides randomly on our plants and ground, killing the insects the birds need to survive, also ground-nesting native bees, our champion pollinators.
Think of joining “No Mow May,” a national initiative supported by many U.S. community governments and private landowners, a project to increase awareness of the vast importance of bugs – yes, bugs! – on this earth.
Debby Boots
Hilton Head Island
To the Editor:
Once again, I am writing to thank you for the wonderful article about another Jewish holiday (April 5 Hilton Head Sun). It was a pleasure seeing the information from Rabbi Mendel about the upcoming Passover and his yearly blessing of distributing Matzah to the Jews of Beaufort County.
Thank you for including us in the local news.
Greg Lula
Moss Creek
