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

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: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:04PM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:04PM (#485113) Homepage

    Now I want some stingless bees for my backyard although I doubt they would survive a Minnesota winter. That said the bumble bees around here have stingers but are extremely docile and it takes a lot for them to sting you. Last summer my oldest (8 years old) was stung by one and insisted that they are mean. I later came to find out that he was stung by it when he stepped on it on the beach which seems like a perfectly valid situation for a bee to sting you.

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