Yes they are. People keep conflating the ability of commercial bee keepers to keep up with colony collapse with the ability of wild bee populations to survive.

Yes they are. People keep conflating the ability of commercial bee keepers to keep up with colony collapse with the ability of wild bee populations to survive. They are not the same thing. I don't know about the Netherlands specifically but iirc neonicotinoid pesticides are banned throughout the EU. Maybe wild bees are doing better there. But overall things are not getting better.