Are Honey Bees An Environmental Problem? Save Tke Honey Bees

摘要

In the 1970s the battle cry of environmental conservationists was "save the whales." Today it's "Save the honey bees." Honey bees benefit the environment through pollination and beekeepers have become heroes of nature conservation: at least that's thecommon perception of the public if the majority of press reports on honey bees and beekeeping are to be believed. However, there is another perspective that has been gaining traction which paints the honey bee and their keepers as an environmental problem that contributes to the serious loss of biodiversity being observed among wild pollinators and plants. Keeping bees to save pollinators has been compared to farming chickens to save wild birds.