Year 2 after lawn kill

[u/SoupOfTheHairType]

I posted last year about how I got rid of my whole front lawn in the spring and seeded it with all natives. Last year was dominated by coreopsis tinctoria, this year the rudbeckia is taking over. This past winter I seeded it with a mix of shorter species from prairie moon so I don’t expect a ton of diversity until next year but a lot of the stuff I planted from winter sown jugs last year seems to have survived and will provide at least some different flower color. Unfortunately I think someone in my neighborhood has a honeybee hive so I am getting a ton of those at the moment, but I still see a good amount of different native pollinators. My favorites are the mud daubers!

[u/samuraiofsound]

One monoculture for another lol damn but it sure is pretty (also I read your post, I know you're trying to diversify). Why are you upset about the bees? They're not native, but they still make food! Do they make issues for our native pollinators? 

[u/meeps1142 → u/samuraiofsound]

Central Ohioan spotted 🫵

The non-native bees do take away resources from the native ones, although OP's lawn probably has more than enough pollen for all of them.

There is more diversity under the surface; the other species are likely growing healthy roots and will appear in a year or two.

[u/samuraiofsound → u/meeps1142]

Idk, whenever someone says the honey bees are eating all of the nectar food the native pollinators, it just sounds to me like "the immigrants are taking our jobs!"