Army of pest-munching ducks keep South African vineyard blooming

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Flocks of white, black and brown ducks hunt for snails and bugs as they patrol the grapevines at a vineyard in South Africa's winemaking town of Stellenbosch, helping the owners steer clear of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers.

Around 500 Indian runner ducks work as a natural pest control at the Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate, but also entertain wine-quaffing tourists.

Ducks are at the heart of the winery's regenerative agriculture practices, and specifically Indian runner ducks, which have long legs and an upright posture, meaning they are able to reach for snails between the leaves.

 

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A natural Biological control. Pretty quacky.

.shouldhaveaduck ⬆️⬆️🦆

Total quackers!

They really look like a group of soldiers. How come? 🤯🤯🤯

Nature always provides...

Anas platyrhynchos aka Schneckenente or „Stockente“. Its old as Time 😉

I like this but I absolutely hate Reuters.

They use this technique in SE Asia. Pest control and fertilizer all in the same package

Guess what, ? If there's an ad playing as I scroll past your tweet, I'm going to keep scrolling. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Clever approach to a significant problem - anything to reduce pesticides use has to be good!

🌻 Can we please have more good news? Please? 🤗

StacyMichelleB Omg My dad just told me about this today and here it is! 🤣 wild coincidence!

Cool this is an exelent solution.

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Ces canards coureur Indien COUREURINDIEN

That's beautiful, mother nature is wonderful.

Taking notes

reuterspictures The can’t live forever so Peking duck is king!

reuterspictures What about the duck poop?

Love 🦆🤩

Thailand had did these since over decaded ago.

This is choosing a caveman approach over science & technology.

that place is ducked up

They mainly keep the pests at bay by doing this look:

Now I'm going to have to fit 'pest-munching ducks' into a sentence today.

With their poop obviously

'pest-munching ducks', yaaaay!!👏😍 'Army of pest-munching ducks keep South African vineyard blooming'

TheLooseH timoconnorbl perhaps this is what Will Skelton sized ducks could be used for. Only need 1 of them then and not an army

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