[DrFunke]

I wish it were possible grow a hive of native bees the way that we grow honeybees. I've put in local pollinating plants, set up bee hotels etc, but this only seem to attract commercial honeybees and not the natives.

[mythrwy]

There's a non old world honeybee the Maya kept. They still do. Not closely related to old world honeybees. But it produces a fraction of the honey.

https://www.thoughtco.com/ancient-maya-beekeeping-169364