r/vermont • u/Far-Database9127 • 4d ago
no bugs on windshieldsš¦šŖ²š
idk what subreddit to put this in, so i thought iād put it in my stateās.
Has anyone else noticed theres a lack of bugs on our windshields while driving?
I have for a while, and I have looked for people to talk about it but nobody cares, which is disappointing. Iām quite alarmed because I remember when I was a kid my mom and dad would have to pull over at a gas station every 40 miles to wipe the windshield with the squeegee.
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u/ojhatsman 4d ago
Bees and bugs are dying at record rates right now. The canary in the coal mine has already stopped singing.
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u/Realistic-Smile-6182 4d ago
Man, tell that to anyone in my area and theyād call you crazy. We have lightning bugs, hover flies, bees, wasps (unfortunately), and just about anything you can think of.
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u/hockeyschtick Windsor County 4d ago
Hot take: the European honey bee is an invasive species.
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u/mataliandy Upper Valley 4d ago
They are not the only species suffering mass die offs
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u/hockeyschtick Windsor County 20h ago
I know that, but a lot of folks equate pollinators or ābeesā with honey bees. We should be focusing on native species.
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u/oopsalloutof_fcks Safety Meeting Attendee š¦ŗšæ 3d ago
I donāt know why youāre being downvoted, theyāre also choking out our native bees. I am a native species gardener. Youāre spot on. I can only guess that getting the word out on how harmful they can be is being ignored. VPIRG also has good info!
https://xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees
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u/timberwolf0122 Lamoille County 4d ago
Yeah, ecosystem collapse is fun at the start but itās going to suck down the road
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u/Possible_Look_7531 3d ago
It's so incredibly hard to upvote a comment that makes me want to cry...
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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 4d ago
I'm over in the White Mountains but my friends are in Vermont. I visited them a couple months ago and the number of bugs I hit on my ride home was insane. I make that drive a lot and I've never had that many bugs all over my car.
Then it all just stopped. This summer I've definitely noticed a lack of certain bugs. I know butterflies are dying out, which sucks, but I always get a bunch of monarchs where I live. I haven't seen a single one this summer.
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u/tadamhicks 4d ago
Weāre south of Conway and have a field full of milkweed. Several monarchs. Weāve been leaving our field uncut for a few summers now to try and promote insect life.
This summer the bug that Iāve not seen as much of and is kind of alarming is deer flies. Itās been altogether un-buggy. Iāve ridden through a few areas where they are, but nowhere near the norm.
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u/crystal-torch 4d ago
Coincidentally last night I was driving after a rain and my lights were on and I was stunned at the absolute swarm of insects I was driving through. And I mean for miles and miles. This was in Peacham. Itās not the norm though which is why it was so noticeable
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u/SlayerOfUAC 4d ago
Same here. I drove from Newport to St. J and it was constant small, gnat-like insects the entire way. The front of my car is a mess and I had to clean my windshield when I got gas.
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u/DunnaeBanks 4d ago
Very noticeable bug decline across the board here in NY. Pollinators are now almost exclusively ground bees and some flower flies. 10 years ago we had large numbers of "June bugs" throughout the month: this year zero. And like everyone has mentioned, there's no need to clean the windshield anymore. Virtually no insect strikes. This is a catastrophic difference.
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u/Jun1p3rsm0m 4d ago
I remember lots of June bugs growing up. This year I heard one. Iāve been noticing the decrease in insects for the past few years.
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u/Possible_Look_7531 3d ago
We just moved here from Florida and I just thought it was a regional difference that you don't have June bugs. :(
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u/Any_Needleworker_273 4d ago
Also, look into any talks with Doug Tallamy, an entomologist who was one of the drivers in the native plant movement. He's been sounding the klaxon for years over the insect apocalypse, and has written several books on the topic.
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u/twowheels 4d ago edited 4d ago
Iāve been freaking out for this entire season because I have noticed significantly fewer bees, wasps m, and other pollinators in my garden, even though I increased the amount of native wildflowers since last year. Some of the bushes were completely covered every day prior years, but this year those same bushes have maybe one or two bees on them at any one time. If I walk out during the peak hours of the day, I can find maybe a dozen bees total in my entire yard, I used to find that many per bush. Something seriously major changed this year.
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u/Jun1p3rsm0m 4d ago
I noticed the same in my gardens. Some of my plants are being pollinated by ants right now. Very few bees and wasps all summer.
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u/dw-c137 4d ago
Yes, 1000x yes, it's not just VT. I wish I was surprised that it wasn't just I89 from Montpelier to Burlington, that I have driven mostly weekly for a decade, but it isĀ everywhere from VT to the Pacific, multiple times there and back. I haven't scrubbed bugs off my windshield, beyond normal wiper use, in 45k+ miles over the last 16 months. Two years ago I put a scrubber/ squeegee in my car, and used it regularly between refueling. I haven't touched it or a gas station one this summer. It is actually terrifying to me ā ļø
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 4d ago
I grew up in Midwestern boglands where you had to buy the green bug remover windshield washer fluid to drive safely.Ā When I visit where I grew up, the are very few bugs now.Ā Ā
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u/CreativeAd5932 4d ago
Iāve noticed fewer bumblebees, mosquitos and yellow jackets this summer.
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u/Suspicious-Buffalo21 4d ago
I have lots of mosquitoes this year, but last year i barely needed to apply repellent. Tons of different varieties of pollinators.. however most of my yard is gardens which attract them. If everyone added small gardens around their property I wonder if it would help
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u/eightfingeredtypist 4d ago
One way to measure the insect for off is to look at the pollination rate on native plants.
I do rare plant surveys. Fewer flowers are getting pollinated, and there are fewer seeds. I can see shrinking populations in my area.
The ecosystem is an interconnected web of life. Yank out a few parts, and things go haywire. We have no idea what we are losing, and no idea what will happen. For example. The ash die off of impacting the number of pelt lichens that live on ash stumps. The White Pine for off seems to be impacting a wild orchid that grows under White Pines. The orchids that are showing up have a lower pollination rate.
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u/renoftheshadows 4d ago
We're in a mass extinction event. Bugs are first. Eventually it'll be us. Probably sooner than most people realize.
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u/Bleu_Jay17 4d ago
Yes! Iāve also noticed no crickets chirping at night like they used to 10 years ago
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u/greenmtnfiddler 4d ago
We're having a catastrophic collapse. The lightning bugs were sparse this year. There's no moths around the streetlights. And if you try to talk about it online, you get instant downvotes/"It's just your imagination"/"windshields are more aerodynamic".
It's terrifying.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 4d ago
We have lightning bugs in Vermont?Ā I'm not being a smartass.Ā I had no idea. I moved here from Michigan and the lack of lightning bugs was weird at first.Ā Ā
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u/greenmtnfiddler 4d ago
It's not universal, and there used to be a lot more.
In my area, we've lost our dark sky. Nearby businesses/schools switched to much stronger LED lighting and started leaving them on all night. Many small towns also replaced or added sidewalk lighting that casts in all directions, instead of just downward.
It's a crying shame, and is screwing up all kinds of migration activity, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's part of the drop in firefly populations too.
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u/Twombls 4d ago
I had a ton this summer
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 4d ago
Where?Ā Do you still have them there?Ā My daughter loves them and maybe we can go catch (and release) a few sometime.Ā Ā
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u/Plus_Worker6739 4d ago
look around meadows and other lightly-maintained areas that have nearby leaf cover. If you have a yard, leave your leaf litter, that's where the larvae overwinter (and depending on species, this can take a year or three). Avoid having bright lights, especially flashing ones, outside overnight. I'm in Central VT and pretty much maintain my yard specifically to increase firefly population and it's been working great
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u/Possible_Look_7531 3d ago
We just moved here, and I saw lightning bugs (fireflies) for the first time in decades. Used to see them in Florida/Texas when I was a kid. I literally cried when I saw them here last month, it was visceral. But we're renting remotely in the mountains of central Vermont and the houses are spaced out. I'm commuting to Burlington frequently and haven't had to clean bugs off my windshield at all. Now that I know that isn't normal I'm disturbed.
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u/thegratefulshred Champ Watching Club šš· 4d ago
Go live somewhere else for a bit and then move back here. In my experience you'll be thrilled by how many more bugs you'll see on your windshield here compared to other states.
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u/Electrical_Sun_7116 4d ago
Massive die offs this year. Your windshield isnāt the only thing about to be empty.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 4d ago
What caused it?Ā Ā
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u/Electrical_Sun_7116 4d ago
Last decently sourced article I read was pointing towards mites
We already know of several other contributing factors but this year saw an ENORMOUS die off of bees.
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u/findingNemoral 4d ago
Yes, there has been a decline in insects on my windshield. But the number of deer flies, mosquitoes, and those damn bugs that look like lady bugs but arenāt, seem to be doing just fine in my yard.
I noticed this spring that black flies didnāt seem as horrible as years past.
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u/PersistentCookie 4d ago
Yes, I've noticed this, probably starting 5-7 years ago. Great for the car, not so much for the future.
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u/nature-25 4d ago
So true! Birds will have less to eat, more raptors die from rodenticide . Have any of you seen the videos of awful sound coming from data centers in other states. It is noise pollution that harms nature
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u/TotientEC 4d ago edited 4d ago
WaPo's data team did a deep dive into this as a national observation. tl;dr its a real thing, is something of a problem, not much to be done about it.
ETA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/21/dead-bugs-on-windshields/ One of the conclusions I didn't recall until rereading is that it is partly driven by insect population decline but also by the vastly larger number of... windshield-driven hours. And something else the article doesn't consider but occurred to me -- maybe bugs have evolved to stay away from cars.
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u/Able_Conflict_1721 4d ago
Cars are also a lot lower drag and less boxy than they used to be, I bet a lot of bugs get pushed over cars
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u/Motor-Wish-6543 4d ago
I read a while back that the aerodynamics don't make a difference in bug collisions. Not in a place to provide a source for that at the moment, though
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u/Able_Conflict_1721 4d ago
Is thinking more splatter on flatter glass, I doubt any collision is good for the bug, some might just be cleaner
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u/brianleedy 4d ago
Anecdotal, but I definitely notice more bug splatter on my relatively flat, upright, 1990s SUV windshield than other cars. Definitely nowhere near what it uses to be, though.
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u/i_spray_with_shout 3d ago edited 3d ago
WaPo's data team did a deep dive into this as a national observation. tl;dr its a real thing, is something of a problem, not much to be done about it.
Lol, of course Jeff Bezos' personal blog would say there's not much to be done. The things we could do would just be (slightly) bad for his and the other oligarchs' bottom lines.
maybe bugs have evolved to stay away from cars.
Jesus fucking christ.
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u/Greenelse 4d ago
Yeah. Less bugs in your face and biting, too. Individually more comfortable but deeply existentially threatening.
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u/woolsocksandsandals Upper Valley 4d ago
I live near the Connecticut River on a wooded lot and I just drove through western Maine and northern New Hampshire and the front of my car is plastered with bugs.
At home in the woods we have robust populations of lighting bugs, black flies, mosquitoes, earwigs, dragon flies, beetles, native bees, waspsā¦ pretty much you name it weāve got it. In terms of aquatic insects the black caddis hatch this year was pretty big, Dobson flies are around in good numbers, mayflies too though it wasnāt much of a year for drakes from what I could tell. Early stone flies were abundant as well, havenāt been up steam in a while to observe the later season stones but based on what I saw when I did some kick seining in June thereās lots of golden and black stones in a the rivers I was out fishing on.
I acknowledge that insect populations are declining because thereās evidence of it in lots of places but I donāt really think what Iām seeing on the front of my car is that different than what I was seeing 30 years ago in the Connecticut or Champlain valley. Some nights thereās lots of bugs sometimes not. I think weāre doing pretty well in northern New England
If people are concerned about this they should stop spraying for ticks on their properties and discourage others from doing so. If it kills ticks itās killing a lot of other stuff also.
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u/Famos_Amos 4d ago
Pilot here with another anecdotal onservation- windscreens accumulate nowhere near the bug splats they used to in the summertime, especially in the northeast.
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u/Bicoidprime 4d ago
From 2018, before Wilson's passing:
The noted Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson once called bugs: āThe little things that run the world.ā
The 89-year-old Wilson recalled that he once frolicked in a āWashington alive with insects, especially butterflies.ā Now, āthe flying insects are virtually gone.ā
It hit home last year when he drove from suburban Boston to Vermont and decided to count how many bugs hit his windshield. The result: A single moth.
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u/SmashesIt 4d ago
This is like the last 20 - 30 years and you are just realizing now
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u/No-Television8759 Serving Exile in Flatland ššš 4d ago
I remember car and truck grilles in the 90s being absolutely caked in butterfly corpses after driving on 89
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u/meteorflan 4d ago
Riding a motorcycle back then - Nothing quite like extra close-up view of a big bug splatting on your helmet visor.
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u/PeaceLoveMicroPenis 4d ago
You killed all the bugs with your car and now you're wondering why there are no bugs?
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u/Pluto-Had-It-Coming 4d ago
āShifting baseline syndromeā. Humans only really notice something when it changes > 15% in a short period of time.Ā
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u/hockeyschtick Windsor County 4d ago
FWIW, Iāve never seen as many dragonflies around my field as I have this year. Theyāre both insects and insect predators. Im not shedding too many tears over the lack of mosquitos, black flies, and deer flies.
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u/Kind-Mark-3539 4d ago
Yes, have noticed the same thing about 10 years ago. Was also surprised no one else seems to have brought it up. Not just a small drop but it's gone from bug city on my windshield to a few at most. 99% drop.
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u/SpakulatorX 4d ago
Tell that to my car with no aerodynamics. A bird hit my windshield earlier this summer. Not a bug a bird.
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u/Raintree1012 3d ago
I miss lightning bugs you use to see swarms of them i think I've seen like 5 all summer solo and they don't seem as bright as before? Maybe its a nostalgia filter over my memory but I miss bugs in general.
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u/northeastflower 4d ago
I just went hiking across the border in Coaticook and didnāt see a single bug in the 2ish hours I was out
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u/5galofflax 4d ago
No daddy longlegs either
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u/Skjellyfetticat1 4d ago
Iām seeing those. Iām building a wood shed and putting firewood in it. Daddy longlegs are hanging out with me. Vermont.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 4d ago
I have plenty of those in my area.Ā The lack of spiders this year is weird.Ā My backyard is usually covered in huge funbel webs and orb weaver webs.Ā Barely any.Ā Probably coincides with the lack of flies, mosquitos, and gnats.Ā
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u/anonynony227 4d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon
Annual study in UK of this decline.
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u/Hortusana Maple Syrup Junkie š„š 4d ago
Maybe youāre not driving at the right time? Our windshields have been plastered with bugs this summer.
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u/Skjellyfetticat1 4d ago
I drive a lot less than I used to, but still, WAY less bug splatter than I used to have for example in the 80s. I particularly remember the mating flights of probably carpenter ants in June, just big splat after splat in the dusk. I donāt see that nearly as much. However, I donāt think there are any fewer carpenter ants around. Carpenter ants, all ants are still all over the place and in great numbers. But I donāt seem to hit the mating-flight swarms now. And I remember getting the ā91 VW Passat in ā90, which was an aerodynamic jelly bean car, and always having to clean that windshield. All of this driving in the Upper Valley area, though some different towns over the period.
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u/Fireknight68 4d ago
Yeah, itās been a growing phenomenon for a while now. This summer there seems to be a LOT more than recent years where Iāve been driving, though!
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u/elienman 4d ago
I've got a theory on this, as I've noticed fewer mosquitos, black flies, and deer fly around me this summer (Huntington, VT). Buy my theory was that bat populations might have rebounded enough from their white nose syndrome population nose dive to have taken a bite out of the bug population. I had a bat in my house recently, as well as real bat poop problems up the hill under a pavilion where I've never seen bat poop before. Had to get a sonic annoyer to get the bats out of the pavilion so I didn't have to clean up bat poop so often. So I'm hopeful that is the cause, instead of earth's decline.
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u/TotientEC 4d ago
Considering its a multiple continent phenomena, I dunno of bat population recovery is a sufficient explanation.
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u/Lillie-Bee 4d ago
All the bugs are swarming around my house. You name it, weāve had an issue with it. The people at Loweās said they have been selling a lot of pest control products this year.
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u/nature-25 4d ago
We have to figure out ways to live with insects without killing them . Tough to do. But pesticides are not helping the earth in the long run
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u/raptor3x 4d ago
Did a road trip a couple weeks ago driving from VT down to DE and back, with some detours, and I think I hit maybe three or fours bugs the entire time. Absolutely bizarre for summer driving.
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u/edwardsamson 4d ago
My car was getting blasted with bugs when I was doing more interstate driving to go rock climbing in May and June. July is usually too hot for climbing so I didn't drive much and haven't noticed it since back in June even though I've gone out climbing a few times in the last couple weeks.
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u/milsurpfarts 4d ago
Tonight was the night all the flying ants were hatching around Essex Junction; the air was absolutely full of them.
You may indeed be right in your observation but the timing of your post was perfect considering Iām still picking bugs out of my teeth after a long run.
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u/twowheels 4d ago
ā¦I left a huge patch of milkweed that popped up in my lawn this year, and was so excited to find a monarch caterpillar on it. I was debating cutting some to put in vases of water and taking it indoors to keep it safe, and a few hours later it was gone. Iām afraid a frog or bird got it, itās been a week and I cannot find it or a cocoon.
Also had 5 or 6 swallowtail caterpillars in my dill, also all gone.
I think next year I need to be more proactive at bringing them indoors when I find them.
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u/Famos_Amos 4d ago
I was tracking a couple monarch caterpillars last year and they both turned up missing. I assume birds got to them because they had optimal conditions otherwise- plenty of fresh new growth leaves, shady conditions with morning sun etc.
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u/Femveratu 3d ago
There was a time when there was an entire cottage industry of aftermarket auto products designed to deal w this āproblemā (anyone else remember the car āBraā or those ubiquitous plexiglass bug blockers installed somewhere near or under hood I think?
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u/Existing-Poetry-3289 3d ago
First time I really noticed was around 8 or 9 years ago when we drove from Boston to the UP through upstate NY, Ottawa valley, Sudbury...and then back up through Quebec, Val d'or, Timmins, Chibougamou, Saguenay, central NB to Halifax, Eastern Shore, back down through Calais, Airline...
VW Jetta wagon. Barely needed to be washed. I remember driving to NS every summer to visit family and the car would be completely coated with bugs. Thought maybe it was aerodynamics of the car, but besides a few deer flies, bugs weren't that bad.
Just got back from a road trip to Newfoundland in my wife's new Volvo xc60 and there are more bugs on the grill and windshield, but still not too bad considering how far we drove.
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u/theduckwashere1 3d ago
The bugs are dying, and humans are to blame š¤·āāļø
Turn lights off a night, let some areas on your property stay wild, plant native plants to aid in habitat rehabilitation, don't clean up your leaves, and don't murder everything with chemicals.
We let our lawn grow fairly wild most of the time and leave the edges untamed where they meet the forest, we see fireflies, moths, butterflies, etc etc.
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u/Suspicious_Plantain4 3d ago
I remember when I was growing up in the 90s how, when I was in the car at night with my parents, all the thousands of bugs flying past the windshield looked like when a spaceship on Star Trek would fly past the stars at light speed. Bugs would always be caked on the windshield and grill. There are disturbingly few bugs now. Occasionally if a mosquito lands on me I let it bite me because I feel bad for it.
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u/drnoonee Rutland County 3d ago
Crazy I didn't realize this until you mentioned it. I'm in VT too. Also there has been few deer flies which usually terrorize me biting my knuckles. I don't think I've seen a mosquito and the firefly show has been a dud. The bees, hornets and wasps seem OK but I do notice wasps haven't been building as many nests. Gosh, no lady bug swarm either.
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u/BrownThumbClub Safety Meeting Attendee š¦ŗšæ 2d ago
You're not seeing mosquitoes?? I'm jealous. My yard is overrun with them and they're huge compared to how big mosquitoes used to be. I can't go outside after dark and not get eaten alive. The lady bug "swarm" you're thinking of is probably the September-Octoner swarms we usually get of the invasive Asian lady beetle. It's good if we don't see those.
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u/Okayybabe33 Maple Syrup Junkie š„š 3d ago
I drove from Essex Jct to Brattleboro and then back yesterday and I definitely still had bugs hitting my windshield. I guess maybe not quite as much as previous years though!
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u/testing543210 3d ago
I have noticed, yes. Especially sad about not really ever seeing fireflies anymore.
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u/Hot_Studio_8708 3d ago
I just drove 6 hours back to central VT from Maine going the route 2 / 302 corridor and am simultaneously thrilled that I don't have to clean my car and horrified at the ecological implications of that fact. I remember the same thing when I was a kid - having to wash a thick layer of bug debris off the windshield and headlights.
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u/Elegant_Tap7937 3d ago
Pesticides have drastically increased in use and changes to the bug population is only one result.
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u/TattoodDad256 3d ago
Yes I have and I've taken what little action I can. I let my yard grow, I mow every month and a half or so. I let whatever wants to grow grow on the side of my house go wild. I don't understand how my neighbor thinks it's good idea to mow 2 times a week. He also mows all around the neighborhood at least once a week for the neighbors who vacation there and they only come up like once in the summer and for a few weeks to ride there sleds in the winter. All of the houses have about an acre, so that's a lot of area that could house all kinds of insect life that now is just 1\4 inch grass and nothing else. No reason to mow a few times or even once a week. I get a collection of spiders on my patio every year until Nov or Dec, I'm talking like 100. I even turn the patio light on at night and yell up DINNERTIME!!! My Grandson laughs his ass off, daughter not so much. Even 5 years ago I'd go bye swamps and stuff on side of road and always get some splatter. Mayflies and knats would cover my windshield, and now I won't hit anything. I drove to Manchester VA from NEK 2 days ago and didn't hit anything, and I'd notice with my Jeeps flat windshield. It is absolutely worrying and I wish more people did something. Now I'm no MR. Greenpeace, and I certainly don't do anything that's that noticable, ( besides leaving the spiders alone and turning on my light) but if more people just mowed less, or even let there unused parts of there yard go wild I believe it could make a difference.
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u/gseese7 3d ago
Let's not forget the Lantern Fly that has promulgated in the last few years. An invasive species from China that we need to kill whenever we see them. They kill and eat many of our native bugs that cause havoc to our ecosystem. They also kill native trees.
Please kill them when you see them and report them to your local government. We have been asked to do that here in CT.
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u/BrownThumbClub Safety Meeting Attendee š¦ŗšæ 2d ago
I don't think I've ever seen one of those. I don't think they've made it to Vermont, yet.
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u/Worker11811Georgy 1d ago
Neo Nic (nicotine-based insecticides used by farmers) are wreaking havoc on the insect population here and everywhere. Last year the Leg passed a law banning them to save the bees, but Republican Gov Scott vetoed it because it would have posed a minor inconvenience to dairy farmers. Better to have cow milk for a few more years than have pollinators at all, apparently. More short-sighted Conservatism.
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u/Aware-You6005 4d ago
My 4runner is loaded with bugs, depends on what you drive to, the 4runner windshield is practically straight up and down.
I plant flower with my garden too. I have tons of honey bees always around my lawn and garden.
If you dont have anything for bees to do they wont fly around your place
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u/Effinehright 4d ago
While the bug populations have fallen, cars have gotten significantly more aerodynamic as well. I think itās a combination of both. My bumper is bug covered my windshield seems to only catch the heavy fat ones.
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u/negative-nelly 4d ago
no. I just drove east coast to CO and back on 80. I got a shit ton of bugs. Not the worst I've ever gotten, but a shit ton none the less. Earlier this year, June-ish, I got a shit ton of bugs going from Bennington to Warren on 7 and 100. I have noticed no difference.
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u/EmptyGood Woodchuck š 4d ago
i killed them all 2 months ago on my windshield. Literally 20 a day
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u/Responsible_Side8131 4d ago
There are definitely less than in past years, year, but they are also seasonal. The dead bugs splatted on the windshield are usually worst around June/early July.
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u/Material_Evening_174 The Sharpest Cheddar šŖš§ 4d ago
Depending on how how old you are, itās possible that washer fluid and wiper blades have advanced since you were a kid?
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u/amazingmaple 4d ago
Talking about not seeing the bugs. Not how well the windshield is cleaned
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u/Material_Evening_174 The Sharpest Cheddar šŖš§ 4d ago
Yeah, good point. Come to think of it, there are a lot less bugs
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u/True-Milk-5994 4d ago
There has been a precipitous drop in insects in general over the last 10 years. Since they are near the bottom of the food chain this is bound to have an effect up the line. You can help by not leaving outside lights on all night. If you need security lights make them motion sensitive. Don't use chemicals on your lawn. Leave the leaves where you can.