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CarolineScott said:And all that lawn in USA and also Canada contributes to the population problem of the bees and other pollinators. There are lots of alternative lawn seed mixtures which would be better.

and monoculture lawns are a great breeding ground for japanese beetles, or so I've read. I've also read that back in the 50s, people expected to have clover as part of their lawns, but the broadleaf herbicide companies started convincing ppl that clover was bad, because they couldn't keep their herbicides from killing it. So they had to make it undesirable so folks wouldn't mind that their crabgrass killer was also killing their clover.