— I don't know what the deal is, but they published most of their ideas in this journal, minus the part about "stunning impact."

> Travis DJ, Kohn JR. 2023 Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate. Proc. R. Soc. B 290: 20230967. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0967

> In San Diego County (USA), non-native, feral, honeybees dominate the pollinator community that visits native plants. Many of these native plant species are self-compatible, so if honeybees generally transfer pollen that reduces the fitness of offspring there could be many ecological consequences. We speculate on just three. ... To the degree that individual species become more inbred due to honeybee pollination, their evolutionary future might be compromised.

— Having lived in San Diego County from 1960 to 1991, I would suggest that human development is by far the greater threat to native plant communities than honey bees.


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