Trending on Reddit: ''Small city' Cedar Rapids a friend to the bees

It's fairly unusual that anything Iowa related finds itself at the top of Reddit's churning turnstyle of interest, but Cedar Rapids looks to have done just that.https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ is a link titled "A small city in Iowa is devoting 1,000 acres of land to America's vanishing bees." 

Clocking in at roughly 20,500 upvotes on Reddit (that's a lot) in the 

The small city in question is Cedar Rapids (we'll let the small part of the description slide for the moment), and the article it links to is actually about the pollinator habit that Cedar Rapids is planning to set aside for many pollinators, such as monarch butterflies.

This development was detailed by our former reporter Orlan Love in this story: Monarch Moonshot: Officials hope to make Linn County center of butterfly production and habitat and this story Linn County to create better habitat for the butterflies, other pollinators, both of which focus more on butterflies than bees.

But, you know, bees are cool, too. And as the decline of bees (although the trend may be slowly reversing) have captivated the hopes and fears of the nation, they tend to take top billing over the less conspicuous monarch.they donated $200,000 anonymously in his honor to further the pollination project.

And although we're totally not jealous of all the traffic that other story is probably getting right now (once they get their link fixed), and we're sure Mr. Love would hate us for this, we should point out that a reader was so moved by the project and Love's reporting that

Don't need Reddit to find that uplifting. +1 to Orlan Love.

To read more about Linn County's pollination zones, go here.