I 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

I 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.