Save the local bee species, please, not the commercial ones.
How about we stop adding extra conditions that just make things more complicated and make people not want to put in the effort to care if there are constant additions.
I don’t actually know if this is true, so somebody jump in if I’m wrong, but the answer is, because it doesn’t actually help, and may even make the underlying problem worse.
Trends don’t always operate with the level of nuance needed to be an actual solution, but the problem still requires what it requires to be solved, whether or not somebody’s heart is in the right place.
At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I did notice them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).
I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.
That’s a great idea. Hopefully, while adopting the most recent understanding that the overwinter huddling behavior is due to the insufficient design of artificial hives, not typical behavior. They should be cozy, too.
Temperatures here rarely go below 0°C, and when it does it’s often just for the night, so huddling isn’t a concern. What could be a concern would be summer overheating, but they actually put some thought on where to install those bee houses, they’re mostly shadowed by trees.
Pic related. Mind you, this is urban perimeter, around a gov building.
