Wild bees

📅 10.11.2025🌐 Original language: English 📰 Source: theconversation.com

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This wild ground bee, *Andrena nothoscordi*, is typically found in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast and loves false garlic flowers. Sam Droege/USGS Bee Lab via Flickr

The accusations you might have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed up by evidence. In fact, there are plenty of ways bees make the world a better place.

It can be hard to distinguish between a wild and a managed honeybee. SanderMeertinsPhotography / shutterstock

The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.

A sunflower miner bee, a species considered vulnerable in Ontario. (Shutterstock)

Wild bees face risks from domesticated bees, habitat loss, and climate change. Supporting bee diversity in Ontario is an important component of promoting a healthy environment.

Solitary bees, including this Nomada goodeniana, often feed on nectar from specific flowers - in this case, white hawthorn. HWall/Shutterstock

The nutritional needs of bees are complex and monoculture crops aren’t providing a diverse diet. Introducing more diverse wildflower meadows and green spaces could benefit wild pollinators.

Feral honeybees have become a major problem in Australia. It’s time to develop effective and practical control measures.

Miles of bee highways are being linked up around the UK. Shutterstock

Miles of bee-friendly ‘highways’ are being linked up around the UK.

Celebrating the European honeybee is a misplaced opportunity to honour our forgotten native pollinators.

Asian giant hornets (*Vespa mandarinia japonica*) drinking sap from tree bark in Japan. Alpsdake/Wikipedia

Are ‘murder hornets’ from Asia invading North America? A Japanese entomologist who’s been stung by one and lived to tell the tale explains what’s true about these predatory insects.

A rich diversity of animals thrive in these rights-of-way.

Wild things thrive in transmission pathways that crisscross states.

A bumblebee sips nectar from a clover. Victoria MacPhail

Wild bees pollinate trees and shrubs that feed and shelter wildlife, provide flood control, prevent soil erosion and help regulate the climate.

Urban beekeepers trained in native bee stewardship and pollinator gardening can help fight the decline of native bees. (Shutterstock)

Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity, but so is the backlash against honey bees.

Honey bees on a beekeeper’s hive. Nick Wood/flickr

All too often the media buzz is centred around the managed honeybee, at the expense of other wild bee species.

Wild bumble bees provide natural pollination for blueberries in North America. John Flannery

Honeybees receive a lot of attention, but the first North American bee to be listed as an endangered species is a wild bumble bee. Wild bees are vital pollinators, and some are declining rapidly.