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My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity
14 October 2026

My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity

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Many British garden designers, and their admirers in the United States claim that plant biodiversity is the key to supporting the most diverse insect populations, and that introduced plant species are as effective or better than locally native ones.  A garden up the block from me in Connecticut suggests the fallacy of that claim.