• chetradley@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yeah it kind of blew my mind when I started looking into it. Pretty much everyone assumes that beekeeping is beneficial to the environment. There’s a rather famous quote among ecologists, “Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds.”