bee populations are declining rapidly due to habitat loss, pesticides, parasites, and climate change.
Not sure why habitat loss is listed since honeybees are invasive in the U.S. We should be focusing harder on saving native pollinators.
Any tech to save pollinators and especially honey bees is a major major global win. The honey market has been long since adultered with mass amounts of fake products. Bee colonies are declining at unprecedented rates. Pollinators as a whole are a mere fraction of what they used to be. Look at the science. It’s atrocious.
We can help on a very small scale by planting a variety of native plants and not using pesticide or herbicide. I don’t know much about the risks of fertilizer on a small scale, but it’s generally not needed for native plants anyways.
Honeybees are not the bee population that needs to be saved.
And more specifically, it’s pollinators in general that need help, honeybees excluded.
And the honeybee populations least in need of saving are the big commercial operations.