My problem is I want to save the bees. But I am always going to set out an upside down frisbee with some cheap schnapps to lure in the hornets and wasps. I don't get many bees. But I figure 30 wasps and hornets vs 2 bees is a fair trade.
I hate that ...well no I don't hate that the wasps and hornets die. They are attracted to the sweet smell in the frisbee and then they get drunk and fall in. A wasp stung me once when my ex and I were on a hike. We had real alcohol and some raspberry schnapps.(don't ask, we were in college.) She got pissed off and poured the schnapps into a frisbe and when we eventually crawled out of the tent, Dead wasps in the frisbee and drunk wasps flying around that couldn't even figure out howto sting.
"There is widespread concern about the global decline in pollinators and the associated loss of pollination services. This concern is understandable given the importance of pollinators for global food security; ∼75% of all globally important crops depend to some degree on pollination, and the additional yield due to pollination adds ∼9% to the global crop production (1). These services are delivered by a plethora of species, including more than 20,000 species of bees as well as butterflies, flies, and many species of vertebrates (1). Yet, concern has focused on one species above all: the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). This is unfortunate because research shows that managed honey bees can harm wild pollinator species, providing an urgent incentive to change honey bee management practices."
"Besides competing with wild species for resources (12), honey bees are linked to the spread of diseases to wild pollinators via shared flowers, an effect that is likely amplified by trade with and movement of honey bees (13). Honey bees can also have a negative impact on the reproductive success of wild plants (11) and even depress nonpollinator species—for example, the threatened Lear's Macaw in Brazil, which competes with honey bees for nest sites in rock cavities. The western honey bee thus unequivocally fits Geslin and colleagues' concept of a “massively introduced managed species,” which, regardless of whether they are native or not, can negatively affect their environment through sheer numbers (14)."
There was one time I was at the beach and I saw a bee just chillin by the boat launch and I thought it was dying of thirst so I brought it a shell with fresh water in it
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