Rise in city beekeeping could also be crowding out native bee species

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

By Brian Owens

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

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

The general bee variety within the metropolis additionally dropped for the reason that survey was final executed in 2013, earlier than an …