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Yes thank you, we're supporting the wrong bees!
by micromacrofoot 1y ago
Yes thank you, we're supporting the wrong bees!
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> we're supporting the wrong bees Our farms don’t work with bumblebees. Honeybees are fine. The problem is thinking we only need honeybees. We need more bees of all kinds. And in some cases, yes, that may mean fewer honeybees.
- micromacrofoot 1y agothe non-native honeybees used in commercial farming are responsible for the diminishing numbers of native honeybees that co-evolved to pollinate native plant life https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81967-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81967-1 we've been screwing up the global ecosystem for hundreds of years at this point with farming techniques spread by european colonization