Rise in urban beekeeping may be crowding out native bee species

In Montreal, Canada, the range of untamed bee species has fallen in areas the place honeybee colonies have proliferated

By Brian Owens

Efforts to “save the bees” by encouraging city beekeeping over the previous decade could have been good for honeybees, however wild, native bees seem like paying the value.

Researchers in Montreal, Canada, surveyed wild bee populations throughout town in 2020 and located that the range of species of untamed bees was decrease in areas with greater concentrations of honeybee hives.

The general bee range within the metropolis additionally dropped because the survey was final executed in 2013, earlier than an …