Comment on stupid sexy apples

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah I’m in the UK where they are native pollinators

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That doesn’t mean that introducing them in unnatural numbers isn’t harmful to biodiversity and other native pollinators

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s not what we’re talking about though, we have a declining bee population problem that needs intervention to save

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That was exactly what I was talking about. Honey bees are just one very specific type of bees, and they’re replacing the other ones.

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      • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes. Every type of bee except honeybees is declining. In part because humans are constantly favouring honeybees.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    still not healthy for them to be 85% of what’s pollinating crops, though

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Prime wherever you are that’s not the UK defaultism to assume that honeybees are not native pollinators.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Breeding a native species in unnatural numbers is also a way of that species outcompeting other native species and harming biodiversity

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can narrow it down to just the Americas. The European honey bee (and subspecies) are native all across Europe, Asia, and Africa I believe.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here in Europe, the European Honeybee is, not surprisingly, completely native.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That doesn’t mean that introducing them in unnaturally large numbers isn’t harmful to biodiversity

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, them artificially displacing solitary bees is still bad

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Agreed! But I don’t really get what point you were trying to make in the first comment then?

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