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That might be true if you focus on honeybees; but e.g. bumblebees only have 20 to 200 animals per colony and are also the much better pollinators than honey bee
by Rochus 5y ago
That might be true if you focus on honeybees; but e.g. bumblebees only have 20 to 200 animals per colony and are also the much better pollinators than honey bees; bumblebees also work in bad weather and collect on more plant types (many agricultural plants such as tomatoes are pollinated only by bumblebees); and honeybees - unlike bumblebees - usually have someone to take care of them and pour sugar water when they don't have enough to eat. So you may very well make a difference if the bumblebees find useful flowers in your garden at a time when everything else is mowed down. The referenced site is in German, but it has also some English documents and tables, such as e.g. http://hummelgarten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Anleitung-Hummelparadies-EN.pdf http://hummelgarten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Anleitung-....