honey bees are INVASIVE in north america!
i keep seeing a lot of misinformation and it hurts my soul. :( keeping native wildflowers is good for native pollinators to your area, and if you live in north america (or many other parts of the world) honeybees are non-native, invasive, and harmful to native pollinators.
honeybees are generally brought in for large-scale agriculture - mainly monocultures where native pollinators are unable to complete pollination for many reasons.
honeybee hive collapse is so common in north america because they are not meant to live here - our environs do not permit good quality of life for them (esp in the north)
saving pollinators is so important but i want to cry when i see a canadian or american posting about saving the honeybees because they are honestly so harmful to our native bees and other pollinators it makes me want to cry :( also fuck cheerios for being one of the worst misinformation spreaders btw
TLDR: honeybees are invasive in many areas around the world and are brought to those areas as part of the agricultural system, especially in unhealthy monoculture farms