So chop and drop green mulch seems to keep them happy. Or kitchen scraps.
This will be my first year of (knowingly -- since I have always done this to weeds and prunings and just thought I was being lazy) using chop and drop. I hope you're right! I'll try burying kitchen scraps right in the walkways between the beds to see if that distracts them, too.
I didn't like the taste of tongue and it didn't like the taste of me. I will now try this tiny ad:
building a better world rather than being angry at bad guys