"Bees" vs. "honeybees"
Last night, coincidentally, I attended a talk on pollinators by our local agricultural entomologist. Two of his points were that 1) many if not most honeybee-decline alarmists don't know what they're talking about and are just ideologues going for newspaper headlines and 2) a common mistake is equating "bee" and "honeybee." In America, the latter is actually a non-native invader and the importance of native bees to both agriculture and native plants is not often appreciated.
Read more here:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110301/NEWS04/703019959/Native-bees-have-impact-in-county
Biting the hand that feeds IT
