> The ongoing Bee-L discussion is based on cherry picked confirmation biases.
True, but so is life.
To avoid cherry-picking, see the meta-analysis by Mallinger et al.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/), which was
mentioned by a previous commenter. It's from 2017 and it is considered
the gold standard because it statistically looks at all papers that
address "Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?" The
meta-analysis found 59 relevant papers.
As pointed out earlier, 53% of those studies claimed there is a
detrimental effect on wild bees due to honey bees, but the authors
conclude that "there is little evidence that this competition can lead
to wild bee population declines." [Note: European authors say 'wild
bees' rather than "native bees" because honey bees are a type of native
bee in Europe.]
There is a lack of consensus among the 59 published papers because
location and season affect results. Some parts of Germany sometimes
surely suggest some negative impacts. Other places and seasons do not.
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