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It is very poor reporting to not at least fact-check claims on the person's own website, but the New York Times has become a mere shadow of its former self, and clearly cannot bother fact-checking anything but the claims of politicians.
The posturing and posing of the Cote fellow in the article, saying "The population is already overwhelming the finite floral resources We don’t need more honey bees here.” Is directly contradicted by his own web page where he is still hawking packages driven up from the southeastern USA every spring to anyone with money:
http://www.bees.nyc/bee-packages
He also sells "be a beekeeper in two easy lessons" for $250 a head. I'm not kidding here, check it out - 2 classes, 10 total hours of classroom instruction, zero hands-on with actual hives.
http://www.bees.nyc/classes
So he plainly DOES want you to buy more bees, and from HIM!
The problem facing the 20,000 species of wild bees is the same one facing the plants that they prefer to forage upon, and the same problem facing everything from coral reefs to polar bears to penguins - habitat loss due to rapidly accelerating climate change. The number of honey bee beekeepers has as much to do with the decline of any other species as the number of microwave ovens has to do with the number of Llamas.
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