Think honey bees are disappearing? Or that the more hives we have the better? Think again. Here's why they're the bad boys of the bee world, and what we should be focusing on instead.

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Read More (Links): 

Pollinator assessment  
https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/pdf/2017_pollination_full_report_book_v12_pages.pdf 
Wild bees and pollination 
https://www.fibl.org/fileadmin/documents/shop/1645-wild-bees.pdf 
Pollination in the almond fields in the US 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe 
Crop production hurt by lack of pollinators 
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.0922 
Wild bee numbers declining 
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdfExtended/S2590-3322(20)30651-5 
Honeybees threaten wild bees, preserving both 
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00060/full 

Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner 
Video editors: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Frederik Willmann 
Supervising editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk