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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: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:47AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:47AM (#484995)

    In each box, place a queen bee and a hundred worker bees. This is a lot easier for people to deal with because there is no need to plant anything. All you have to do is open the box, which you were going to do anyway, and the bees come out.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:53AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:53AM (#484997)

    Oh no, I'm not falling for that one again. They made the same pitch when I bought my mail order bride, damn thing was dead by the time the crate arrived.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:40AM (#485038)
      Consider yourself lucky!

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:21PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:21PM (#485126) Journal

      But if you pose the body with the legs apart and the hands folded across her breasts, it could be quite the erotic mome..... uhhhh, yeah. Too bad.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:04PM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:04PM (#485114) Journal

    That would be a record amount of product in a cheerios box. Heart healthy? You bet! Just crush a bowl full of cheerios into dust and watch it only consume a few cm2. No wonder it's so good for you. There's nothing in the box but air with some grain in it.

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:43PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:43PM (#485136) Homepage Journal

      LOL crushing cheerios into a few square centimetres. No volume at all!

      • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:01PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:01PM (#485244) Journal

        Doh! Always proof read. Though, to be fair, they barely have any volume to begin with.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:01PM (#485149)

    Instead of cereal package contained killer bees. Would not buy again. A---------

    Alternatively: Not the bees!!!!!!