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Most of the flowers the honeybees pollinate are also not native. Native bees can not pollinate these introduced species, and honeybees can't pollinate native s
by bregma 7y ago
Most of the flowers the honeybees pollinate are also not native. Native bees can not pollinate these introduced species, and honeybees can't pollinate native species. They can, however, transfer varroa and nosemea and AFB and other diseases between native and introduced pollinator species. Some of these diseases come as spores in the bulk imports of Asian industrial honey.
You'd think we learned lessons from the black plague in Europe. Seems we did, just the wrong ones.