Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators for pollen and nectar

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHoneybees are bumping into wild pollinators and chasing them away from flowers, and a surge in beekeepers is behind the extra honeybees, The Guardian reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNonsense. Bees are a cooperative. I keep a jar of honey by my bed, and it has never once filed a complaint.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers at Anglia Ruskin University recorded honeybees pushing bumblebees and other rival species away from flowers.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPushing? The fluffy ones?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhere honeybees were more concentrated, the study found them outcompeting wild pollinators for pollen and nectar by bumping into them and chasing them off.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo every new hobby beekeeper is a landlord.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd the bumblebees are left standing outside a flower with no breakfast and no rights, which is how every housing story ends.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report describes what happens at the flowers. It doesn't say anyone is doomed, Dale.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the ruling is myth. Bees do not all get along, and the honeybees are the bouncers.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFine. New belief: bumblebees need a lanyard and a lawyer, and the honeybees will still check both at the flower.