Here is a recent study (July 13, 2023) from Alberta showing no evidence of wild pollinator foraging pattern changes due to bees. This study was able to do a with and without honeybee comparison.
Note: the handling editor of the California study has published previous results showing detrimental impacts
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287332
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are widely used for honey production and crop pollination, raising concern for wild pollinators, as honey bees may compete with wild pollinators for floral resources. The first sign of competition, before changes appear in wild pollinator abundance or diversity, may be changes to wild pollinator interactions with plants. Such changes for a community can be measured by looking at changes to metrics of resource use overlap in plant-pollinator interaction networks. Studies of honey bee effects on plant-pollinator networks have usually not distinguished whether honey bees alter wild pollinator interactions, or if they merely alter total network structure by adding their own interactions. To test this question, we experimentally introduced honey bees to a Canadian grassland and measured plant-pollinator interactions at varying distances from the introduced hives. We found that honey bees increased the network metrics of pollinator and plant functional complementarity and decreased interaction evenness. However, in networks constructed from just wild pollinator interactions, honey bee abundance did not affect any of the metrics calculated. Thus, all network structural changes to the full network (including honey bee interactions) were due only to honey bee-plant interactions, and not to honey bees causing changes in wild pollinator-plant interactions. Given widespread and increasing use of honey bees, it is important to establish whether they affect wild pollinator communities. Our results suggest that honey bees did not alter wild pollinator foraging patterns in this system, even in a year that was drier than the 20-year average.
However, Magrach et al. [19] did not test with- versus without-honey bee networks for honey bee abundance effects on these metrics. Although their with-honey bee network results are similar to ours, we found that in our without-honey bees network, the effect of honey bee abundance disappeared, suggesting no effect of honey bees on wild plant-pollinator interactions.
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