Decline in Native Bee Diversity: Beyond the Honey Bee

Introduction

Think about human health for a moment. Compared to 1724, or even 1824, Americans live cushy lives. We inhabit modern homes, work sedentary jobs, and get little physical exercise. In addition, we breathe nanoplastic particles, eat ultra-processed foods, drink forever chemicals, and absorb digital signals daily. Yet many so-called health experts insist salt is the true culprit, and consuming fewer milligrams per day would save us all from certain doom. But you cannot change dozens of environmental factors, then choose just one to take the fall for negative outcomes. Perhaps you can compare one factor against another, but it’s difficult or impossible to evaluate how much damage any single change causes within an aggregate of changes. It’s a statistical nightmare.