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Don’t Plant Those “Bee-Friendly” Wildflowers Cheerios Is Giving Away

posted by on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the marketing-gimmick dept.

"exec" writes:

Bee populations are in decline, and Cheerios wants to help. So far, so good. But they are sending free packets of wildflower seeds to people all over the country—and some of the flowers included are invasive species that, in some areas, you should probably not plant.

Forget-me-not (listed above but, the seed packager told me on 3/21/2017, not included in the seed mix) is banned as a noxious weed in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for example. The California poppy is nice in California, but listed as an "invasive exotic pest plant" in southeastern states. And many of the flowers on this list are not native to anywhere in the US, so they are not necessarily good matches for our local bees.

http://lifehacker.com/don-t-plant-those-bee-friendly-wildflowers-cheerios-i-1793370883

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:29AM (8 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:29AM (#484986) Journal

    This is what happens when you hire a marketing agency full of hipster idiots.

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:42AM (5 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:42AM (#484992) Homepage Journal

    Is there a word for funny and sad at the same time?

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    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:06AM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:06AM (#485002)

      Fad or Sunny

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:26AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:26AM (#485005) Journal

      Is there a word for funny and sad at the same time?

      "soblol" as reaction, based on a "reversed" second urbandict interpretation of lolsob [urbandictionary.com] (as in "LOL, SoB - An expression of bitter anger over something funny") - likely "Stupid SoB-es, so clueless it would be laughable if it wasn't sad"

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:10PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:10PM (#485250)

        "soblol"

        Subtract one and branch on LOL?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:18PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:18PM (#485122) Journal

      jassasin:

      "WHO ARE YOU?"
      (said in weird, husky voice): "I'm Batman jassasin."

      funny, yet sad that i will die soon.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @07:08PM (#485402)

      Irony

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:35AM

    by driverless (4770) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:35AM (#485089)

    In any case unless people stop using bee-genociding neonic insecticides, planting all the flowers in the world won't help. It could even make things worse if the flowers lure bees into areas contaminated with neonics.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:37PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:37PM (#485550) Journal

    This is what happens when you hire a marketing agency full of hipster idiots.

    Wait, are you talking about Cheerios or Lifehacker.com?