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Here in Southern California, its all European Honeybee. So many of them, hives are everywhere, any irrigation box that isn't fully closed will be a new home f
by adrr 2y ago
Here in Southern California, its all European Honeybee. So many of them, hives are everywhere, any irrigation box that isn't fully closed will be a new home for the bees. They are constant annoyance at picnics trying to get anything sweet like BBQ sauce/Ketchup or your drink. Remember one trip to Legoland, the garbage cans were filled with honeybees that where feeding on the bbq sauce on discarded plates. Makes me think twice about eating local honey.
Don't see many wild bees though i do see an occasional tarantula hawk who like to grab a drink from the pool. I wonder how much pressure European Honeybee puts on the local wild bee population.
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- _heimdall 2y agoI always get a kick out of anecdotal experiences like this (in a good way). I can't count how many modelling studies and news articles I've seen over the years claiming that honey bees were going extinct, murder hornets were going to wipe them all out, etc. Nature just isn't that simple, and attempting to model it and claim specific predictions of the future is insanely difficult if not impossible. It would be terrible for the entire ecosystem if honey bees disappeared, don't get me wrong. But eventually we have to start taking ecological modelling for what it is, an attempt at boiling the entire planet to a simplified mathematical equation that results in a final answer.
- bratwurst3000 2y agothe problem with „ bee goes extinct“ is it is not honeybees. they are well. its all other bees. but yes most articles focus wrongly on honeybees.
- adrr 2y agoEveryone conflates bees with the honeybee. In California, half the wild bee species have gone extinct or endangered. One bee we don't see any more is the California Bumblebee, i haven't seen one in a couple years. 20 years ago, i would see them all the time in our backyard.