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I'd ban them base on just noise alone

I'd gladly suffer the indignity of stepping on a few leaves if I didn't have to listen to an hour of blaring leaf-blower every Tuesday morning.

Leaf litter is also where juvenile lightning bugs live. Less leaf litter = less lightning bugs.

Is that a worse problem than hours of leaf blower noise?

I googled and apparently it's another name for fireflies and on my list of insects that cause problems, fireflies don't make the list.

Insect populations are dying out and it’s a huge problem we don’t talk enough about.

People are calling out fireflys because they are (were) very visible but it’s a problem for every species. We are replacing native plants with low pile outdoor carpet in the suburbs, and dousing everything else in pesticide

I mean to discourage people from blowing away their leaves.

Less leaf blowing may also result in more lightning bugs / fireflies, which many people enjoy.

> Leaf litter is also where juvenile lightning bugs live

Also various species of bumblebee and fledgling birds, from magpies to owls.

Then you'll have to bad electric ones too. Because they are also loud as shit.

Both systems essentially rotate a fan and that noise will never go away

But if you are trying to equate the noise of a few 4-stroke gas engines with that of brushless electric motors then I don’t think you are acting in good faith

Leaf blowers are normally 2 stroke which are noisier than 4 stroke and they generate more pollution

Electric leaf blowers are still loud, but there's a 10-20 dB difference.

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