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

posted by on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:25AM   
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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• Re:they should try again (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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