While individual domestic honeybee colonies are vulnerable to collapse due to a combination of poor nutrition, pesticides and pathogens, the insects are not at risk of dying out. For some wild bees, however, the threats may be existential. And studies have shown that native bees are in many cases essential to flourishing ecosystems and farms, even where honeybees are abundant. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2023/underappreciated-benefits-wild-bees
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Bees
These are the bees in my back yard. A friend put a hive here because of all the wild native flowers around here. I have been monitoring the bees that I see and I'm getting tons of different species all over my yard this year.
