Posted on 03/22/2017 6:10:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
Cheerios cereal brand is under fire for sending out billions of potentially disease-spreading seeds in an attempt to help save bees from extinction.
The brand recently announced that it would mail out free wildflower seeds as part of its "Save the Bees" campaign.
The seeds, once planted, were meant to provide more nectar for the declining bee population.
As of Friday, Cheerios had sent out 1.5 billion seeds, according to General Mills, which owns the cereal brand.
There's one problem with Cheerios' charitable effort, however: some of the wildflower species included in the packet of seeds can do serious damage to various ecosystems across the US, reports Lifehacker.
The packets contain more than 15 species of seeds, including some that are banned in certain states because they can "take up all the space and use up all the resources" and "spread disease" that could be detrimental to plants and humans, an ecologist told Lifehacker.
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I dislike JC as much as anyone but kudzu was here long before Carter.
African bees dont like the cold. Go figure. They dwindle out fast about Dallas/Albq line heading north.
Interesting that they list Kudzu. I remember seeing it when I was a kid living in the south but I’ve never seen it in this part of the country.
My only close dealings with bees recently has been on my raspberry bushes which were still blooming when the early berries were ready for picking. All the bees on the flowers were bumblebees. I didn’t see any boney bees on it last year (although their pollination time may not have matched my picking time).
In Westport, WA they’re as big as trees. And our lovely highway department plants them along freeways. Their seeds can be broadcast thirty feet. In the fall you can hear their seed pods popping like miniature firecrackers. l
This was first identified as Cheerios. Then it became apparent that it was General Mills, and I have slowly identified the pervert enabler products one at a time, and deleting them from our lives.
The latest... I've discovered that regular store brands of frozen waffles are indistinguishable from EGGO (GM).
Remember... back in the late 70s all the perverts whined for was a "little understanding?"; not total social domination.
Time to push back ya think?
Time to get serious about ridding ourselves of the human(?) kudzu?
I stand corrected. Carter just increased our national supply, he did not introduce us.
I think she is on welfare living in Brooklyn somewhere...
Really?
Trash is trash flowers or not. Live and let live and take your diseased doped out militant selves back in the closet!
But the real need is pollination.
I believe the largest factor affecting honey bee health is varoa mites, which come from Asia. It is like a small tick, does terrible things to my bees.
There.
Fixed it.
I thought I read that a major problem with the bees was crowding the frames in the hives too close together. Trying to raise honey production.
Remember the libs crazy idea a few yrs. ago of planting animal friendly food plants along the grassy areas on the interstate hwys.
Yeah, just what is needed, food chain fights along a stream of speeding cars.
What could go wrong? /s
Go away.
Please.
Quit spraying.
Yes, but varroa mites require a host so lots of hives in close proximity spread the disease more readily than isolated hives.
"Feed me, sucka!"
That is strange. I was thinking of similarities in misguided environmental do-gooders...never noticed the shapes were the same.
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