Increase in urban beekeeping may be excluding native bee species

In Montreal, Canada, the range of untamed bee species has decreased in areas the place honeybee colonies have proliferated.

With Brian Owens

Efforts to “save the bees” by selling city beekeeping over the previous decade could have been good for honeybees, however wild, native bees appear to be paying the value.

Researchers in Montreal, Canada, surveyed town’s wild bee populations in 2020 and located that the range of untamed bee species was decrease in areas with larger concentrations of honeybee hives.

The general bee range within the metropolis has additionally declined for the reason that survey was final performed in 2013.