This is correct, thank you for making a post about it. Recent science has strongly associated , essentially proving the link showing how honey bees pass diseases to native bee populations. I have copied below from the article summarizing the study .
“The research team – three scientists from the University of Vermont and one from the University of Florida – explored 19 sites across Vermont. They discovered that two well-know RNA viruses found in honeybees – deformed wing virus and black queen cell virus – were higher in bumblebees collected less than 300 meters from commercial beehives. The scientists also discovered that active infections of the deformed wing virus were higher near these commercial apiaries but no deformed wing virus was found in the bumblebees they collected where foraging honeybees and apiaries were absent.Most impressive, the team detected viruses on 19% of the flowers they sampled from sites near apiaries. “I thought this was going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. What are the chances that you’re going to pick a flower and find a bee virus on it?” says Alger. “Finding this many was surprising.” In contrast, the scientists didn’t detect any bee viruses on flowers sampled more than one kilometer from commercial beehives.”
what also scared me was “ Alger – an expert beekeeper and researcher in UVM’s Department of Plant & Soil Science and Gund Institute for Environment – is deeply concerned about the long-distance transport of large numbers of honeybees for commercial pollination. “Big operators put hives on flatbed trucks and move them to California to pollinate almonds and then onto Texas for another crop,” she says – carrying their diseases wherever they go. And between bouts of work on monoculture farm fields, commercial bees are often taken to more pristine natural habitats “to rest and recover, where there is diverse, better forage,” says Alger.”
University of Vermont. “Honeybees infect wild bumblebees through shared flowers: Domestic beehives linked to spike in viral infections in nearby bumblebee populations.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 26 June 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626160339.htm>.
Samantha A. Alger, P. Alexander Burnham, Humberto F. Boncristiani, Alison K. Brody. RNA virus spillover from managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) to wild bumblebees (Bombus spp.). PLOS ONE, 2019; 14 (6): e0217822 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217822
other articles supporting new research Micha is talking about -
Are Honey Bees Bad for Wild Bees? on JSTOR
This article is about specific species affected by honeybees. The only area they don’t seem to hurt native bees too much is in their own native habitat in Europe. Everywhere else, they can become a problem based on the science.
https://daily.jstor.org/are-honey-bees-bad-for-wild-bees/
“How the Honeybee Buzz Hurts Wild Bees“
“But honeybees are at no risk of dying off. While disease, parasites, and other threats are certainly real problems for beekeepers, the total number of managed honeybees worldwide has risen by 45 percent over the last half century.“Honeybees are not going to go extinct,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society. “We have more honeybee hives than we’ve ever had and that’s simply because we manage honeybees. Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds.””
“Contrary to public perception, die-offs in honeybee colonies are an agricultural problem, not a conservation issue. First domesticated about 9,000 years ago, honeybees are not all that different from livestock. They are also not native to the United States; they were imported from Europe to help pollinate crops around 1622.Meanwhile, native bees—of which there are over 20,000 species varying in size, shape, and color—are experiencing incredible losses. Of the nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States alone, four native bumblebee species have declined 96 percent in the last 20 years, and three others are believed to have gone extinct. In the last 100 years, 50 percent of Midwestern native bee species disappeared from their historic ranges.”
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-honeybee-buzz-hurts-wild-bees
“ Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don’t Help the Environment “ on National Geographic
This Nat Geo page has info on how to build a native bee house.
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/29/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment/
“ Those honeybees you’re so worried about? They’re killing off wild bee species. “
https://grist.org/article/those-honeybees-youre-so-worried-about-theyre-killing-off-wild-bee-species/
“ Native bees are better pollinators, more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist “
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/native-bees-are-better-pollinators-honeybees
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985068/
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