You can eat dandelion greens, but be careful where you pick them. Some people use pesticides for spiders and ticks around their homes, or weed-killers. You can also boil the greens and flowers to make tea.
The spiders are optional. Honestly, you’re more likely to encounter their egg sack under a dandelion than the actual mother spider, unless you pluck them early in the morning dew when momma spider might be at home…
Not (frequently) mowing your lawn is one of the best things you can do for your local bee population. Dandelions and other meadow flowers are great sources of nutrition for them. Obviously, don’t use pesticides either.
People can eat dandelions. So, free food? Where?
You can eat dandelion greens, but be careful where you pick them. Some people use pesticides for spiders and ticks around their homes, or weed-killers. You can also boil the greens and flowers to make tea.
So maybe I get a yummy meal, maybe I just fucking die?
I’ll roll those dice.
I’m not in Australia. The only spiders I know of that might nest under a dandelion are small American jumping spiders.
They’re effectively harmless, and honestly I wouldn’t eat them, as they are our cute 8 legged kittens that eat the other bugs out there.
Look first, if no bugs or spiders, then free dandelion food yo! 👍
Eating the spiders is not an issue. Eating pesticides that people use against spiders is.
In my area, when people don’t cut their lawns, they damn sure ain’t paying for pesticides.
I might even get a little protein too?
The spiders are optional. Honestly, you’re more likely to encounter their egg sack under a dandelion than the actual mother spider, unless you pluck them early in the morning dew when momma spider might be at home…
Almost all of our spiders are completely harmless. Even the black widow and brown recluse are not as dangerous as people think.
We spray for bugs because people don’t want house spiders in their house.
People that are too lazy or can’t afford to cut their lawn typically also can’t or don’t care to afford pesticides.
Edit: I’ll eat the spiders too.
Not (frequently) mowing your lawn is one of the best things you can do for your local bee population. Dandelions and other meadow flowers are great sources of nutrition for them. Obviously, don’t use pesticides either.
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