[PCA] NEWS:You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/

You're Worrying About the Wrong Bees
Gwen Pearson
Date of Publication: 04.29.15.

"Save the Bees!" is a common refrain these days, and it's great to see
people interested in the little animals critical for our food supply around
the globe. But I have one quibble: you're talking about the wrong bees.

Honey bees will be fine. They are a globally distributed, domesticated
animal. Apis mellifera will not go extinct, and the species is not remotely
threatened with extinction.

The bees you should be concerned about are the 3,999 other bee species
living in North America, most of which are solitary, stingless,
ground-nesting bees you've never heard of. Incredible losses in native bee
diversity are already happening.

See the link above for the full article text.
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