We Need to Talk About Honeybees

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To help ensure healthy ecosystems and successful harvests, pollinator conservation is essential. For many people, pollinator conservation is synonymous with the honey bee and beekeeping, but the story is bigger than that; much, much bigger than that. As we work to conserve pollinators, we need to ensure that our efforts are best directed where they are needed most, and not just at what is easiest to accomplish. While honey bees are important for our current agricultural systems, their role in our natural areas, and even in our urban and suburban areas, is more complicated. Join Xerces Society Senior Conservation Biologist Rich Hatfield for an honest conversation about the unseen consequences that a focus on honey bees can have, and how we can focus our actions in ways that will create positive change, for all pollinators.
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Resources:
Alfalfa leafcutter bees:
   • This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower'...  
Buzz Pollination:
   • This Bee Gets Punched by Flowers for Your ...  
Xerces Plant Lists (Bee Needs and Solutions):
https://xerces.org/publications/plant...
Bee nesting resources (bee needs and solutions):
https://xerces.org/pollinator-conserv...
Reducing pesticide exposure (Bee Needs and Solutions):
https://xerces.org/pesticides/risks-p...
Winter habitat maintenance (Bee Needs and Solutions):
https://xerces.org/leave-the-leaves
Bug Life Guidance (Beekeeping is a wonderful hobby):
https://www.buglife.org.uk/blog/save-...
Xerces Natural Areas HB Statement/Lit review
https://xerces.org/publications/guide...
Xerces urban/park habitat assessment guide:
https://www.xerces.org/sites/default/...