The Social impact of honey bees: the problem with problems

摘要

No one owns honey bee pollination. As with almost anything in a highly specialized society, a commercial beekeeper owns her bees but not the means of making the inputs or outputs of bee pollination. She doesn't own the land or the crops and flowers that her bees depend on for forage, that is to say, for food. She relies on farmers and other surrounding landowners to feed her bees. Nor does she own the distributors and stores that bring the crops and flowers her bees pollinate to market. This specialization has wonderfully increased the production and distribution of food.