WeedWhackers vs. Nature

Think twice before you get your weedwhacker out and get carried away cleaning up your property.
These machines may be useful in making your property look like the suburbs but they can do alot of damage to nature. If you live in the country, do you really want your property to become sterile?
An example of this problem relates to a plant known as the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) which grows along your fields and back roads. This plant produces very sweet smelling, nice looking, pink flowers and is the sole source of food for the monarch butterfly's larvae.
It seems to me, that there is no point to planting the popular butterfly bushes and in your garden to attract butterflies and then whacking down their reproductive food chain, in the name of a tidy yard.
All in all, weedwhackers are bad for the environment and property owners will miss out on many interesting local plants. If you feel the need to use weedwhackers, please be thoughtful when you use them.