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Article (from earlier this year):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hobbyist-beekeepers-buzzing-reversing-america-212213119.html
This is actually not a good thing.
For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).
There's no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. "Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them."
The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article...
The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone's interested.
Come to uplifting news! We turn news that seems good and still make you feel horrible!
Can we please just celebrate partial wins? Please?
There is no partial win at all.