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Planting wildflowers in the medians of roadways
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:15 am
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:15 am
A death trap for pollinators? The flowers attract pollinators who try and cross busy roadways to get to the flowers only to get smashed by automobiles.
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:16 am to weagle1999
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A death trap for pollinators? The flowers attract pollinators who try and cross busy roadways and then get smashed by automobiles.
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:18 am to weagle1999
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Planting wildflowers
If you plant them then they can't really be wildflowers right?
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:20 am to weagle1999
A commie post with a commie picture of people driving on the left side of the road in the UK.
ETA: Thanks for editing to a picture from somewhere God pays attention.
ETA: Thanks for editing to a picture from somewhere God pays attention.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:21 am to weagle1999
Roads are death traps for many things: butterflies, cyclists, baws, dodge trucks, etc. 
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:24 am to White Bear
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Roads are death traps for many things: butterflies, cyclists, baws, dodge trucks, etc.
Motorcyclists and deer tend to agree with the above. Hit a deer at highway speed on a motorcycle and it's almost a guarantee someone or something is going to die.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:26 am to weagle1999
Spring time in Texas with all of the bluebonnets is one of my favorite things in life.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:31 am to weagle1999
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attract pollinators who try and cross busy roadways to get to the flowers and then get smashed by automobiles.
need to learn to bee very careful.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:32 am to weagle1999
You belong out there according to Tom Petty..
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:32 am to weagle1999
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Planting wildflowers in the medians of roadways
A death trap for pollinators?
I just looked at my spreadsheet where I list the top 1,000 things I worry about and your problem AIN'T on it...
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:33 am to weagle1999
More likely, it's a death trap for the citizens' dollars that are going to be wasted with that planting.
Ask the good now-poorer people of North Carolina who a decade or so ago went into roadside beautification of their interstates. The first year, acres of blooms.
The wildflowers should have reseeded and been self perpetuating. They weren't. There are a few coreopsis in a scattered amonst the weeds near an abandoned weighing station on I-40 west of Asheville. That's it for now.
The spaces have been better filled (IMO) with big shrubs that act as crash supressors. (But not R. multiflora which was supposed to fill that niche but which can die from Rose rosette disease which spreads to cultivated roses.)
Ask the good now-poorer people of North Carolina who a decade or so ago went into roadside beautification of their interstates. The first year, acres of blooms.
The wildflowers should have reseeded and been self perpetuating. They weren't. There are a few coreopsis in a scattered amonst the weeds near an abandoned weighing station on I-40 west of Asheville. That's it for now.
The spaces have been better filled (IMO) with big shrubs that act as crash supressors. (But not R. multiflora which was supposed to fill that niche but which can die from Rose rosette disease which spreads to cultivated roses.)
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:42 am to LSURussian
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I just looked at my spreadsheet where I list the top 1,000 things I worry about and your problem AIN'T on it...
Thanks. Keep me posted.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 11:04 am to weagle1999
frick dem bees
Posted on 8/27/25 at 11:41 am to gumbo2176
quote:I've never seen a deer at highway speed on a motorcycle.
Hit a deer at highway speed on a motorcycle
Posted on 8/27/25 at 11:53 am to weagle1999
Louisiana prefers litter
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:49 pm to Salviati
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I've never seen a deer at highway speed on a motorcycle.
Clever, clever.....
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:53 pm to weagle1999
IDK about that deathtrap stuff, but there's kind of a hippy-run city near me that's decided to take the "wildflower garden" approach to landscaping some oversize sidewalks they recently built, and it's pretty scraggly-looking.
More importantly, they carved out space for those new sidewalks by getting rid of left turn lanes, and this is on a pretty major thoroughfare. I get the "pedestrian friendly" goal, but these hippies have taken it so far as to be more "car hostile" instead. If they think a street is too busy, they just close down a lane and put bollards or "planters" there. Total frickin' insanity.
More importantly, they carved out space for those new sidewalks by getting rid of left turn lanes, and this is on a pretty major thoroughfare. I get the "pedestrian friendly" goal, but these hippies have taken it so far as to be more "car hostile" instead. If they think a street is too busy, they just close down a lane and put bollards or "planters" there. Total frickin' insanity.
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 12:55 pm
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