• Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    24·
    4 days ago

    I planted an assortment of things which means I can now see bees in my garden while we still have bees

    • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 days ago

      This has always been strange to me. I’m assuming you live in North America. The honey bee is not native here. They are therefore an invasive species, but one that even environmentalists are fine with.

      I don’t know enough about the whole thing to have an opinion different than the norm, so I support you providing a habitat for honey bees. It just confuses me.

      All honey bees are nectarivorous pollinators native to mainland Afro-Eurasia,[13][14] but human migrations and colonizations to the New World since the Age of Discovery have been responsible for the introduction of multiple subspecies of the western honey bee into South America (early 16th century), North America (early 17th century) and Australia (early 19th century), resulting in the current cosmopolitan distribution of honey bees in all continents except Antarctica.[13]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

      • puffball@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        the criteria for invasiveness is not just being non-native, a species is considered invasive when it starts to outcompete everything else and cause destruction. aside from the fact we have a myriad of native bees in the states, as well

      • SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net
        11·
        3 days ago

        There are Native Bees to North America. They just dont generally make honey.

        Bumble Bees, Squash Bees, Blueberry Bees. There’s literally 1000’s of them Native to North America.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        Not North American and this is to attract any type of bee that is interested. Not exactly a bee expert but I have seen different varieties of them on flowers.

        • tpyo@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          If you take that approach, trying to attract natives, you’ll also see natural pest control move in. It’s so exciting seeing nature strike a balance

          I did have to intervene and pressure wash the enormous herd of aphids off one of my plants because too many were hidden too deep in the new shoote

          • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Depends, my garden is small and surrounded by walls so I will never attract hedgehogs. Mainly just insets.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 days ago

    You don’t need to solve the problems of the world. You are just one person. What you need to do is to solve your contribution to the world’s problems, plus a little extra. Unless they’re someone of high power and influence, an individuals doesn’t need to solve the problems that are the result of the actions of millions. But millions of individuals acting together for the common good? That can move mountains.