| In terms of pollinating food plants, the 4,000 species of native North American bees do a much better job over a longer season than European honeybees do. But they produce neither honey nor bees wax, both of which are very good things. And of course, the entrepreneurial little native bees just show up, quietly pollinating and multiplying, instead of being controlled by bee keepers, providing no one but themselves an income, as it were. But if a key issue is inbreeding, how hard can it be to import some queens from Europe to replenish the hives? As for why the president of the United States of America is working on honeybees instead of, say, ISIS' conquest of Ramadi, really, what need be said? |