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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I planted an assortment of things which means I can now see bees in my garden while we still have bees

[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is GOOD news

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This has always been strange to me. I'm assuming you live in North America. The honey bee is not native here. They are therefore an invasive species, but one that even environmentalists are fine with.

I don't know enough about the whole thing to have an opinion different than the norm, so I support you providing a habitat for honey bees. It just confuses me.

All honey bees are nectarivorous pollinators native to mainland Afro-Eurasia,[13][14] but human migrations and colonizations to the New World since the Age of Discovery have been responsible for the introduction of multiple subspecies of the western honey bee into South America (early 16th century), North America (early 17th century) and Australia (early 19th century), resulting in the current cosmopolitan distribution of honey bees in all continents except Antarctica.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

[–] SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are Native Bees to North America. They just dont generally make honey.

Bumble Bees, Squash Bees, Blueberry Bees. There's literally 1000's of them Native to North America.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have native bees here! They're much smaller than bumble bees. Very cute! Love them.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

I had a very confused Red Belted bumblebee buzzing around my living room lamp once. No idea how she got inside, but she got escorted back out.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not North American and this is to attract any type of bee that is interested. Not exactly a bee expert but I have seen different varieties of them on flowers.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you take that approach, trying to attract natives, you'll also see natural pest control move in. It's so exciting seeing nature strike a balance

I did have to intervene and pressure wash the enormous herd of aphids off one of my plants because too many were hidden too deep in the new shoote

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Depends, my garden is small and surrounded by walls so I will never attract hedgehogs. Mainly just insets.

[–] puffball@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the criteria for invasiveness is not just being non-native, a species is considered invasive when it starts to outcompete everything else and cause destruction. aside from the fact we have a myriad of native bees in the states, as well