The genie is out of the bottle though. If all beekeeping stopped, honeybees would still be everywhere -- perhaps in smaller numbers, perhaps not. Are there an

The genie is out of the bottle though. If all beekeeping stopped, honeybees would still be everywhere -- perhaps in smaller numbers, perhaps not. Are there any proposals to ban beekeeping? It's possible that in Texas the property tax break incentive for beekeeping will be removed, because it's fairly new and because it's getting abused. But I seriously doubt that a ban on beekeeping will pass anywhere. There are non-native plants (like almond trees) in the North Americas that are mainly pollinated by non-native bees. We couldn't realistically outlaw even just commercial beekeeping, though politically it may be possible to outlaw amateur beekeeping (would that make a dent?).