As they report in the journal Science, even when beekeepers installed plenty of hives in a field, yields usually got a boost when wild, native insects, such as bumblebees or carpenter bees, also showed up.
And what is not good for these bees that come in and help?
” … one of the biggest problems for wild bees is the agricultural specialization that has produced huge fields of just one crop.”
Planting just one crop. Nature just isn’t made to work this way.
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Wild Bees Are Good For Crops, But Crops Are Bad For Bees via NPR’s The Salt