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Maybe peak solarpunk: An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels. (www.ecoportal.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by artifex@piefed.zip to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers, and it is working. I had never come across solar beekeeping before, but it's an awesome synergy of nature and green energy tech!

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[–] SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, unfortunately the best thing they could have done for native bees is plant native flowers under the panels and keep no honeybees.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well the article explains they did plant native flowers. But what's wrong with honey bees?

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

European honeybees protected by human beekeepers outcompete native pollinators for the nectar and pollen that these plants grow, so that the native pollinators struggle to get enough food.