In the Minnesota Daily article, The buzz around bees moves to public spaces, Natalie Rademacher reports this shocking news:
University of Minnesota graduate student Hannah Ramer spent a summer in parks around the Twin Cities, surveying visitors about their perception of lawns scattered with bee-friendly flowers.
Ramer found that around 95 percent of people surveyed favor having flowers that are good for bees in public spaces. Researchers involved with the project said these results are shocking because they said surveyors rarely find so much support for anything.
Apparently, there's little polarization about bees:
The research around flowering bee lawns is funded by a grant through the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources.
Previous research suggests that many people are afraid of bees and have a preference toward a uniform green lawn, Ramer said. But, she found that flowering bee lawns are “extremely popular.”
Many people surveyed were not sure what a flowering bee lawn was but were supportive of the spaces after learning that they help support bee populations.
That's got to sting with the pollinator haters like Steve Drazkowski, whose disdain for bees was noted in our post from the spring, Omnibuzz: pollinator hater Draz derides effort to name rusty patched bumble bee state bee.
Thee research is funded by a grant through the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources.
Photo: The Rusty Patched Bumblebee. Image via the FWS.
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