Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025

• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Friend or foe you reckon?

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well western/European honeybees are kept for farming and pollination, but they do have feral hives in the bush. Hard to know if it was part of a commercial hive or feral, but I lean to feral.

    While they do push out our native species, they also pollinate our native plants too, so it’s a grey area.

    I try to avoid killing any bees, as a personal rule, because without them we’d all starve, and the global bee population is endangered

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I’d usually leave them alone too but this one was on my curtain inside my house so I figure it’s fair game. Next time I’ll try and catch and release it. Thanks for all the info.

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