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1/2 hr west of Green Bay | If that was news to you, wait til you hear that we only have 1 of the 4 species of honey bees here in America, there's actually I think 3 more species of honey bees, mostly in Asia.
Like someone else said, there's probably several hundred species of native bees in America, bumblebees, Mason bees, carpenter bees, yellow jackets, etc. They and butterflies, moths, and birds pollinated everything before honey bees were introduced by Europeans. Honey bees get a lot of the press since hive numbers actually get tracked, and they do a majority of the commercial pollination. Almonds, apples, citrus, berries, watermelons, grain seed crops and dozens of other crops all rely on honey bee pollination, those fees provide as much money as honey production for some beekeepers. | |
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Learned something new about honey bees
