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>The lesson here is "a rising tide floats all boats". Provide high quality and high frequency forage in the landscape and both native bees/pollinators and honey bees prosper. They are not really in direct competition, they can coexist, and the bulk of the problems for native bees and pollinators are man-made.
How true. We moved to our current home just over 6 years ago and keep 6 production colonies plus around a dozen 6-frame mating nucs on the one acre plot. Virtually all our planting has been pollinator friendly and we never use insecticides anywhere. We have a huge diversity of bumblebees, solitary bees and wasps, hornets, butterflies, moths, beetles etc. - the garden is alive with insects.
Best wishes
Peter
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W
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