> Figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations underscore the point. The number of beehives around the world has risen by 21 percent in the last decade, to 102 million from 81 million.
Still, the save-the-bees narrative persists. Its longevity stems from confusion about what kind of bees actually need to be rescued. There are more than 20,000 species of wild bees in the world, and many people don’t realize they exist. That’s because they don’t produce honey and live all but invisibly, in ground nests and cavities like hollow tree trunks. But they are indispensable pollinators of plants, flowers and crops.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/beekeeping-companies-colony-collapse.html
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