Growing up in NJ honey bees were everywhere in huge numbers and bumblebees were rare. You only see honey bees occasionally now. The last couple seasons I noticed huge quantities of little indigenous wasps, bees and shocking amounts of bumblebees. My garden yields have consistently been great so pollination doesn’t seem like an issue. Interestingly, prior to the Europeans settling here and bringing along honey bees, bumblebees were the main indigenous pollinator. It’s actually kind of nice seeing them make a comeback.
I suspect the only kind of farms that are worried are the enormous corporate farms that plant hundreds of acres of only one crop and who depend on traveling bee hives, fertilize the hell out of the barren and depleted soil, keep their crops on life support with synthetic pesticides or plant Monsanto’s evil GMO’s.
Moral of the story…only buy and support REAL organic or all-natural non-GMO food (ex. Trader Joe’s), support small local farms, heirloom crops and species diversity, ‘pick-your-own’s’ and farmers, petition government to force food companies to label if their product contains GMO’s and don’t buy any that do, stay away from processed food with labels of ingredients you can’t pronounce, grow your own garden.
Only the bees know...
...only the bees.