>Granted that honeybees are non-indigenous species, can you then say that honeybees, a “foreign species,” “have adversely affected the habitats economically, environmentally, and ecologically?”
possibly:
"The results of this study demonstrate that, while both honey bee and
bumble bee trypanosomatids are host specific at the genus level, at least
C.bombi has the potential to be vectored by a second 'host' taxon(Apis mellifera)"
From:
Honey bee and bumblebee trypanosomatids: specificity and potential
for transmission, Mario Ruiz et. al, Ecological Entomology (2006),31,616-622
Kathy Kellison
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