Honey bees outcompete native bees, removing most pollen and threatening wild ecosystems in Southern California.

The way in which honey bees pollinate can also create problems for native plant ecosystems. That’s because honey bees often ...

The problem: While honey bees are extremely important for agricultural activity — like growing food — they’re also pollen ...

Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California ...

Brought over to North America partially because of their effectiveness, populations of feral European honeybees have ...

Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) potentially reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees through a male-bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction. Frontiers in Bee Science ...

While honey bees might pollinate our crops, even more species of flowering plants — the native ones that make up our natural ecosystem — depend on pollination by native bees.

The study "Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction" is published in ...

The full study ‘Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction’ is ...