MINNESOTA IS ASKING HOMEOWNERS TO TURN
THEIR LAWNS INTO PRAIRIE TO HELP BRING
BACK THE BEES
Minnesota just allocated nearly a million dollars in incentives
for people to transform their lawns into bee-friendly wildflowers,
clover and native grasses. The state is asking citizens to stop
spraying herbicide, stop mowing so often, and let their lawns
re-wild into a more natural state.
The goal is to provide “food sources for pollinators of all kinds,
but will specifically aim at saving the rusty patched bumblebee,
a fat and fuzzy species on the brink of extinction that seems to
be making its final stand in the cities of the Upper Midwest,”
the Star Tribune reports.
for people to transform their lawns into bee-friendly wildflowers,
clover and native grasses. The state is asking citizens to stop
spraying herbicide, stop mowing so often, and let their lawns
re-wild into a more natural state.
The goal is to provide “food sources for pollinators of all kinds,
but will specifically aim at saving the rusty patched bumblebee,
a fat and fuzzy species on the brink of extinction that seems to
be making its final stand in the cities of the Upper Midwest,”
the Star Tribune reports.
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