Comment on stupid sexy apples

• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes and no. Yes, they compete with the other ones and due to domestication have very high population, but also the same factors endangering honey bees (insecticides, monocultures) also endanger other bee species. So while “give the honey bees more sugar water so they survive” would be horrible foe ecological diversity, actually adressing the underlying factors would largely also benefit other species.

        I wouldn’t even be surprised if that still applied to places where they’re invasive tbh

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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