The other bees are either "there" or they aren't.  They are the stuff of
folklore and small-scale studies by pointy-headed escapees from the ivory
tower who have never even cut an understory

The first part is true. Native pollinators cannot be depended on, being highly variable from year to year.

The second part is flat out rude. I know the people working on these studies and they spend hundreds of hours in the field. To refer to them as pointy headed ivory tower on and on, is BS

PLB

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