[gerdesj]

Quite. Also its way more complicated than that. I'm not an apiarist per se but I am interested in them - an interested amateur if you like.

To me there are roughly three classes of bee: There are honey bees, which are the ones that are farmed by humans ie domesticated. They live in colonies of around 50,000 in mostly man made hives. There are wild bees that naturally form colonies. Bumblebees for example, live in colonies of around 20 to 2000 individuals. Finally we have the solitary bees. These do not form colonies at all.

What is happening is that various species of really useful insects are being wiped out. This isn't just in the US but everywhere.

This is perhaps the situation in the UK: https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0619/ feel free to grab the report and read it. It's not pretty reading.