A Burlington homeowner is fighting charges over her “naturalized garden” of native plants in her front and back yards. The city is taking Karen Barnes to Provincial Offences Court, seeking up to $400,000 in fines for violating a bylaw order to cut it down.
No idea what might compete with carpenter bees, but se seem to have killed most of them off along with all the other insects.
As to fire ants, they’re invasive, no natural predators I know of, and I have zero issue annihilating them. The destruction is unreal. They can take a patch of soil and turn it onto straight desert in a week or three. It’s hard to overstate how bad they are down here.