[bombcar]

A thousand years of effort might be able to "domesticate" the bumblebee and make it produce something akin to usable amounts of honey - but unlikely to be worth it.

[gus_massa]

Someone domesticated foxes in 20 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox , so perhaps it's possible to domesticate bumblebee in a few decades - but unlikely to be worth it.

[t-3]

Bumblebees are being "domesticated" to some extent, for pollinating greenhouses, but they're used as labor animals rather than food.